Luthien weilding Vilya

[Belegorn]

Originally Posted by Mithalwen

it wasn't something she trained for as Elrond would have been.

Maybe or maybe not. She could certainly have been trained and I think she was schooled to some degree as a warrior. I'm not quite sure what you mean by "as Elrond would have been".

[Mithalwen]

Galadriel was born into the peace of Aman with no need of learning weaponcraft and itvwas only when Melkor stirred up the diatrust and rivalry between the noldorin princes that they started making them so at the point of the kinslaying none of the noldor had real battle experience or training and thecteleri only had light bows. So Galadriel may well have fought bravely and used her native strength but I doubt she would have been trained..who would have had the skill to pass on. Elrond born into was wouldchave been trained in warcraft from an early age and would have fought in the War of Wrath and been experienced enough to have command of the force sent to Eregion and to be second only to Gilgalad and arguably Cirdan during the last alliance. Now whilee Galadriel had thecsame level of experience as her cousins and brothers at alqualonde they fought in the battles of middle earth while she simly did not. So Galadriel was very useful in a pinch but not a warrior in the way they became.

[Belegorn]

Okay that makes sense. Apparently she was not a warrior at all and had no need to be. I was reading into it. That's my fault.

[Mithalwen]

Don't worry about it..it was more interesting to me than the original topic and I hadn't noticed that loremaater reference before so to find that the Noldor were renaissance princes was fascinating. Anything that provokes reexamination of the texts and brings new insight is worthwhile.