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Old 04-12-2004, 09:39 AM   #19
Lyta_Underhill
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To me it says that Galadriel did not went with the Noldor and their rebelion ( thus being unstained, because she didn't rebel against the Valar, her 'masters' ), but she went shortly after it, and reached ME alone.
This is part of the 'canon' problem associated with the multiple histories of Galadriel. I believe she is also said to have met Celeborn alternately in the West (in the house of Olwë) and in Doriath. In the Silmarillion she is classed with the rebellious and crossed the Helcaraxë with the Host of Fingolfin as the other Noldor who took part in the rebellion did; in the UT, she is drawn in active opposition to Fëanor and comes to Middle Earth independently( I think through the auspices of the Teleri). I do not have my sources handy at the moment, but it appears that, as time wore on, Tolkien redrew Galadriel as less and less stained by the Noldoran rebellion and more pure. However, the Valar would have forgiven her, just as they forgave all after the War of Wrath, and the later drawings of her as less involved with the Fëanorians would seem to indicate her as even more eligible for forgiveness if it were to be in question. I think she is voluntarily fighting the "Long Defeat" and the test of the One Ring is her own test of herself.

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