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Gil-galad is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, the last high king of the Noldor, one of the main divisions of Elves.He is mentioned in The Lord of the Rings, where the hobbit Sam Gamgee recites a fragment of a poem about him, and The Silmarillion.
Celebrimbor attempts to escape with the nine rings and is captured by his soldiers. Galadriel finds them and convinces the soldiers that Celebrimbor has been telling the truth. He gives her the nine rings and takes the soldiers to delay Sauron. Elrond, Arondir, and Gil-galad kill the Hill-troll Damrod. As the sun rises, a small number of Elves ...
Elrond returns to Lindon and warns Gil-galad that Adar's Orc army are marching to Eregion. Gil-galad realizes that Sauron has been manipulating them and believes the Elves cannot defeat him and Adar alone. As the Orcs arrive at the city, Adar proposes an alliance between himself and his prisoner, Galadriel.
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for Season 2, Episode 7 of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,” now streaming on Prime Video. It’s all-out war in Middle-earth, with ...
Gil-galad has also been having visions since putting on his Ring of Power, but refuses to send Galadriel alone due to her already having been deceived by Sauron. She asks Elrond to accompany her. He initially refuses due to her decision to wear one of the rings, but Círdan convinces Elrond that it would be better for him to help guide his ...
Gil-galad introduces Elrond to Celebrimbor, a great Elven-smith, who is beginning an important project that Gil-galad wants Elrond to help with. Word that the war is over reaches a group of Elves in the Southlands of Middle-earth who have been watching over Tirharad, a village of Men descended from allies of Morgoth.
Tolkien describes Galadriel as "the mightiest and fairest of all the Elves that remained in Middle-earth" (after the death of Gil-galad) [T 1] and the "greatest of elven women". [T 2] The Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey has written that Galadriel represented Tolkien's attempt to re-create the kind of elf hinted at by surviving references in Old ...
He was the Elf-king Gil-galad's herald at the end of the Second Age, saw Gil-galad and king Elendil fight the dark lord Sauron for the One Ring, and saw Elendil's son Isildur take it rather than destroy it. He is introduced in The Hobbit, where he plays a supporting role, as he does in The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion. Scholars have ...