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Galadriel was a great elven being. She was not technically a goddess (Vala) nor a near-goddess (Maia); but within her elven power she eventually became almost as powerful as a Maia. She was a knowledge warrior, not a battle warrior. (I've read the main books many times and also the Silmarillion etc). Even way back when Tolkien wrote it all, he tried to introduce what feminism he could. Certainly Eowyn was the Xena of her time. He did write the Vala as balanced in power with male and female. That being said, I think that if Tolkien were writing today, he would have written Númenor to be more evenly balanced with women of power, or at least indicated that the women deserved to be in power at times. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis were writing buddies and used to have coffee and discuss what they were writing. CS Lewis wrote that "Númenor is Atlantis" but Lewis misspelled it as "Numinor". I don't really know what the role of women was in Númenor, but it's interesting that it was destroyed by the ambitions of power-hungry men. I think the High-Elves (Eldar who once lived in the Undying Lands) were more evolved about women's roles. Galadriel in her youth had craved power, but then renounced all attachment to power by the time of the Lord of the Rings. This is a very short summary of a very long life: https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Galadriel
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By dragonflies · Posted
Right? She went all in on this one, she really cut her toe off! -
By DaytimeFan · Posted
Thank you for posting. Anna was the first person to come to mind as they were so close.
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