September 2, 2003

Of Balrogs and Relatives
Galadriel

On the "Balrogs and Wings" debate, I have this to add! Look on page 1046 in LOTR (in Appendix A)and you will read..."Thus they roused from sleep a thing of terror that, flying from Thangorodrim, had lain hidden at the foundations of the earth since the coming of the Host of the West: a Balrog of Morgoth." Notice the word "flying"? Unless it was by some other kind of magic, I'm voting it was with wings. :)

Now about Galadriel...she is Arwen's grandmother. You can check it out on page 1060 of LOTR (in Appendix B). Elrond had married Celebrian, the daughter of Celeborn (and Galadriel was Celeborn's wife.) Then Arwen was born 132 years later. (wow, they had a human life-time of "couple time" first, didn't they!) So I hope that PJ does have Arwen's own grandmother at the wedding!

~Galadriel