And she was a contemporary of Feanor! In Galadriel you have a being who had been alive virtually since the dawn of time, and seen the whole of the history of Middle Earth unfold. Far older than Elrond, she had seen Middle Earth before the Sun and Moon were created, and witnessed the destruction of the light of the Trees by Ungoliant.
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Thank you! I was hoping someone would solve that mystery. I assume that tidbit was in the HoME?
Even with Feanor, once he completed a work, whether it was the silmarils or the seeing stones, they functioned independently from him. Else at his death they would have ceased.
But the mirror depended upon Galadriel, was not invested with a power of its own.
So based on the way it functioned, similar to how the light of the elder days was preserved in Lorien in dependence upon Galadriel's wishes, I would say that she used the ring to create it.
That she was capable of creating the mirror without the ring... I'm not dismissing her abilities. But even among the elves talents such as Feanor's were singular. And it's talent, not greatness that is important here. Her interests and abilities seemed to follow different lines than the creation of magical things. Else in 7,000 years we would have seen more magical things created by her, and they would be important enough to her story to at least merit some mention.
-Maril
[ September 11, 2002: Message edited by: Marileangorifurnimaluim ]