in reply to Adanadhel's question: the quote is right at the beginning (about the 3rd page) of the History of Galadriel and Celeborn section of UT (p. 241 of my book).
I think that's a really neat quote as well--once you read it it puts an apparently small event in LOTR in a whole new light.
As for why Gimli got Galadriel's hair and Fëanor didn´t...
In addition to the reasons pointed out already, another factor was that Galadriel was much wiser by the time she met Gimli. She had just refused Frodo's offer of the Ring, which as Tolkien points out in the same essay, would have been impossible in her youth. Perhaps Galadriel had realized that snubbing Fëanor had only provoked his worst tendencies, and that her gift to Gimli might do much to repair the rift between elves and dwarves. (Not to imply that Gimli was undeserving!) [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
BTW, there is a Fanfiction "Tales of Tol Eressëa" which I greatly enjoyed, which among other things deals with the whole Galadriel-Fëanor hair incident.
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