The White Ring... principal of the Three=? UT

[the phantom]

Elrond can be considered as a sort of half-breed (if you pardon my saying so, I don't mean it as an insult), and so, his "powers" would definitely be lesser than Galadriel's.

Why? I'm not remembering anyplace where anything was mentioned that might in any way lead one to believe that.

Luthien was a half-breed too, and that certainly didn't make her lesser.

Or are you saying Elrond is lesser because he has man's blood and not all elf blood?

Well, number one, if man's blood automatically makes one inferior, then Maia blood must automatically make one superior, so it would balance out, right?

Secondly, that really doesn't matter because man's blood doesn't automatically make one inferior. Turin was a man, and yet he practically ruled over Nargothrond (an elf kingdom) after he got there.

But he is still Half-elven, whereas Galadriel is of the House of Finarfin, and a full-blooded Elf.

Look at who Elrond's mortal forefathers were- Beren and Tuor, two of the greatest men ever. Some of his other ancestors were Finwe, Thingol, Melian, Fingolfin, Turgon, Luthien, and Earendil, so who cares that Galadriel is "of the House of Finarfin". Elrond was the descendant of the ruling houses of the Noldor and the Sindar, and of the three houses of the Edain (and he had Maia blood).

As Legolas pointed out before, Tolkien basically stated that 'if Galadriel could, Elrond *certainly* could'.

Elrond was a beast.