Galadriel; Lady of the Woods of Lothlórien

I like to think she doesn't wear anything that can be confused with a crown in the third age, both because she doesn't want to be the high king and because I think she thinks she´s not worth it. Not going back to Valinor after the war of wrath was her way to cut ties with the royal family in a way, because she´s too restless and ambitious for Valinor. Also, she´s just not interested.

She goes back to the Noldor braiding system somewhere in the third age after having loose hair like the Sindarin for the first and second.

Second Version;

I didn´t know which I liked best so here is another version of the same drawing

I think this one fits more with the woods since they are called "the golden woods" I just also think the first one has her pop out more., idk

Also a quick one without the halo cuz why not

Galadriel by  Alex Chen

What I find fascinating about Galadriel's story, the story of the rebel Noldo who dreamed of ruling a land of her own, actually survived to rule her own land until the end of the third age, and all the while dreamed of home is that it's the story of someone taking all the risks, paying all the price, forgoing everything she had, going all the way, and getting what she wanted only to find out that that was not actually what she wanted. Only to want to go back to where she was at the beginning. Only to want to go home. Maybe it was as glorious as she imagined, but it wasn't worth the price. Maybe it was exactly what she had in mind, but she's got it years after she's wished for it & her wishes had changed since then. Maybe she was actually good at it, but "there's no place like home".

which is your favorite lotr or silmarillion character?

Galadriel (artwork by Matt Stewart)

Galadriel

For this series of chara-designs i only do lineart and flat colors so i can’t do justice to her hair (i’ll have to make full illustrations to paint her perfect hair adequately)

House of Finwë

Tolkien’s ghost: *goes in and slaps Jeff Bezos for buying the rights to LOTR*

Bezos: Mr. Tolkien, I’m so sorry… I knew we shouldn’t have casted actors of color for this series…

Tolkien’s ghost: What? No, I don’t care about that, you racist piece of orc filth! I was considered anti-racist for my time.

Bezos: Then what…

Tolkien’s ghost: YOU GAVE MY ELVES SHORT HAIR! YOU HAVE DESTROYED THE VERY ESSENCE OF THE ELDAR! Do not even get me started on how you treated Nerwen…

Bezos: *nervously taking notes* Uhm, we can change all of that… who is Nerwen

Tolkien’s ghost: AND YOU BUTCHERED ANNATAR! YOU GAVE HIM A MORTAL FORM! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHO MAIRON THE ADMIRABLE WAS?!?

Bezos: No… we fired our Tolkien expert

Tolkien’s ghost: *summons his dragons* Ancalagon, Smaug, Glaurung, meat is back on the menu boys. EAT THE RICH!

Sauron could graze his lips down Galadriel's neck while she'd contemplate whether he was pretty enough to live (for now)

"Very tall [Galadriel and Celeborn] were, and the Lady no less tall than the Lord; and they were grave and beautiful. They were clad wholly in white; and the hair of the Lady was of deep gold… but no sign of age was upon them, unless it were in the depths of their eyes; for these were keen as lances in the starlight, and yet profound, the wells of deep memory."― , JRR Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, "The Mirror of Galadriel"

The Ringbearers pt 2: Galadriel and Nenya, the Ring of Water

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Media: watercolor and sepia ink on paper. click for better quality ! 

Today I learned…

After digging around, I found a blog post calling out Amazon for fucking up Galadriel’s name. How did they manage that?

Her birth name is actually Artanis, her Quenyan father-name. Her Quenyan mother-name is Nerwen. (Does this mean her full name was Artanis Nerwen?)

After coming of age and marrying Celeborn, he gave her a Telerin after-name: Alatáriel. The cognate of that in Sindarin is Galadriel, which she adopted and we all know and love.

Amazon’s fuck up: Galadriel only exists after she marries Celeborn in the First Age. So, she abandoned her husband in the Second Age to join the army and avenge her brother? Also, when the other kids were dunking her boat, she was Galadriel. Does this mean that the this bullied child was already married? 🤔

Anyone got a better answer?

fellas, which is gayer: being gay, or whatever it is that alatariël and alia-aenor have got going on-

I know this isn't actually the New York Times, but it made me chuckle.

Anyway, go have a read here if you like the idea of Daryl as an artist and Carol as a life model, and of course the ensuing smut 😉

Galadriel by  Huseyin Sonmezay

Hi hi hi hello! For your most recent ask game, numbers 1 and 34? :D

who is/are your comfort character(s)?

pretty much any member of the oak-garcia family and hermie unworthy. i guarantee as soon as i get into something new that will change lol

34. is there a song you know every word to by heart?

i was a theater kid in high school, so still all of hamilton, deh, bmc, heathers, next to normal, and a bunch of other musicals. also some crane wives songs like "never love an anchor" and "nobody" and some will wood songs like "becoming the lastnames" "your body my temple" "tomcat disposables" "marsha thankk you for the dialectics" and "skeleton appreciation day". also "marineers revenge" by the decemberists. it is GREAT

thank you so much for the ask!

The real difference.

Gimme a head with hair, Long beautiful hair Shining, gleaming, Streaming, flaxen, waxen🎶

You're not a real millennial if you don't have war flashback of guys walking buy surrounded in clouds of Axe cologne.

Also as a curly person I can assure you that there's always a particular kind of horror when I hear people saying that they use 2 in 1 shampoos and nothing else. Horror and envy.

Thank you @ndostairlyrium for the idea, and Alatariel (on Instagram) for a similar prompt, here's your friendly neighbourhood shitposter-gal.

I'm aware some of this is later versions of canon, but Celeborn and Galadriel giving each other pet names is adorable and I LIVE for it!

Celeborn names her "maiden crowned with a garland of bright radiance":

Thus the name Alatariel, which, according to the late version of the story of their relationship (p. 231), was given to Galadriel by Celeborn [...] which she chose to use in Middle-earth, rendered into Sindarin as Galadriel, rather than her 'father-name' Artanis, or her 'mother-name' Nerwen.

then in LoTR, Galadriel calls him "the Wise":

If our folk had been exiled long and far from Lothlo´rien, who of the Galadhrim, even Celeborn the Wise, would pass nigh and would not wish to look upon their ancient home, though it had become an abode of dragons?

and everyone around them is obliged to accept these pet names as their default names without question.

ROMANCE GOALS BABES