Middle-Earth Tours

Tour 1: The People of Middle-Earth

Galadriel
She lifted up her hand and from the ring that she wore there issued a great light that illumined her alone and left all else dark. She stood before Frodo seeming now tall beyond measurement, and beautiful beyond enduring, terrible and worshipful. Then she let her hand fall, and the light faded, and suddenly she laughed again, and lo! she was shrunken: a slender elf-woman, clad in simple white, whose gentle voice was soft and sad. --FotR, "The Mirror of Galadriel"

They turned a sharp bend in the river, and there, sailing proudly down the stream toward them, they saw a swan of great size....[S]uddenly they perceived that it was a ship.... In the midst of the vessel sat Celeborn, and behind him stood Galadriel, tall and white; a circlet of golden flowers was in her hair, and in her hand she held a harp, and she sang. Sad and sweet was the sound of her voice in the cool clear air. --FotR, "Farewell to Lorien"


detail of Galadriel, by Alan Lee

detail of Galadriel, by Ted Nasmith
Galadriel's Mirror, by Ted Nasmith
detail of Galadriel, by David Wyatt

Left: Cate Blanchett as Galadriel, from the Cannes film booklet on the official movie site. Center: an image from lotr.wz.cz. Right: another image from the official movie site.


If you'd like to know more about Galadriel, visit the Lorien page or the specialty tour The Journey of Galadriel.

Full-size versions of these pictures are on display at Rolozo Tolkien, the official LotR movie site, and theonering.net.