Olympus), before even the creation of the sun and moon, and she is the last of this high race of elves in Middle-earth. In Tolkien’s mythic history, Galadriel was born in Valinor, the “Undying Lands” (a sort of Asgard or Mt. Galadriel might well be considered the Witch-Queen of Lórien.Īpart from the hobbits themselves, whose goodness in Tolkien’s world derives mainly from their simplicity, Galadriel probably represents the most supremely “good” character in The Lord of the Rings. Gimli is referring, of course, to Galadriel, who is described in Tolkien’s writings as “the greatest of the elven women” and “the mightiest and fairest of all the Elves that remained in Middle-earth.” Contrary to the prevailing view, Gimli’s initial description of her contains a good deal of truth. The dwarf Gimli warns the hobbits to “stay close,” explaining: “They say that a great sorceress lives in these woods, an Elf-Witch of terrible power.” The scene doesn’t appear exactly that way in the book, but the general atmosphere of the eldritch or otherworldly does pervade the description of Lothlórian. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, the company of heroes rush into a dense forest, where suddenly everything seems weirdly calm and still. AT A MEMORABLE moment in The Fellowship of the Ring, Peter Jackson’s 2001 film adaptation of the first part of J.
