Silmarillion: What would you add/expand? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

littlemanpoet · 08-29-2002, 10:20 AM

I would like to see the conflict between Galadriel camp and the Feanor camp when the Noldor left Valinor.

It always bugged me that Galadriel spent thousands of years as a virtual handmaid in the court of Thingol and Melian. I'm sure she learned much wisdom there, but I wish she had been more active in the affairs of the Noldor. I'm sure this has to do with the fact that she grew out of LotR and that Tolkien had to write her into his history backward. To my memory, Galadriel's role throughout the history of Middle Earth was one of the primary things on Tolkien's mind in his last decade.

As to including the Athrabeth, I think it would be as good an appendix inclusion as is the story of Arwen and Aragorn in LotR. There is no conflict in the story of Andreth and Finrod with which to build enough of a story, imho.

08-29-2002, 10:20 AM	#15
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	I would like to see the conflict between Galadriel camp and the Feanor camp when the Noldor left Valinor. It always bugged me that Galadriel spent thousands of years as a virtual handmaid in the court of Thingol and Melian. I'm sure she learned much wisdom there, but I wish she had been more active in the affairs of the Noldor. I'm sure this has to do with the fact that she grew out of LotR and that Tolkien had to write her into his history backward. To my memory, Galadriel's role throughout the history of Middle Earth was one of the primary things on Tolkien's mind in his last decade. As to including the Athrabeth, I think it would be as good an appendix inclusion as is the story of Arwen and Aragorn in LotR. There is no conflict in the story of Andreth and Finrod with which to build enough of a story, imho.