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Eärendil became the leader of the people who lived there, and married Elwing, the half-elven daughter of Dior and the Sindar elf-maid Nimloth. Another alliance between Man and Elf, the hero Beren and his Elvish bride Lúthien, were Elwing's paternal grandparents. Eärendil and Elwing had two sons, Elrond and Elros. [T 4]
The Phial of Galadriel is a small crystal bottle filled with water from Galadriel's fountain. It contains the light of Eärendil's star. [T 1] The mariner Eärendil is the holder of one of the three Silmarils preserving the light of the Two Trees of Valinor, and he travels the skies like a star aboard his ship, the Vingilot.
Galadriel came forth and "threw down its walls and laid bare its pits". [T 2] She travelled to Minas Tirith for the wedding of her granddaughter Arwen to King Aragorn Elessar after the end of the war. Galadriel passed over the Great Sea with Elrond, Gandalf, and the Ring-bearers Bilbo and Frodo, marking the end of the Third Age.
One Silmaril is buried in the Earth, one is lost in the Sea, one sails in the Sky as Eärendil's Star. Third Age: Galadriel collects light of Eärendil's Star reflected in her fountain mirror. A little of that light is captured in the Phial of Galadriel. Hobbits Frodo Baggins and Sam Gamgee use the Phial to defeat the giant spider Shelob.
[T 26] [T 27] Eärendil's Star denotes the light of a Silmaril, set on Eärendil's ship Vingilot as it flew across the sky, identified as the planet Venus. The English use of the word "earendel" in the Old English poem Christ I was found by 19th century philologists to be some sort of bright star, and from 1914 Tolkien took this to mean the ...
Further, Burns suggests, Galadriel is an Elf from Valinor "in the Blessed Realm", [11] bringing Varda's influence with her to Middle-earth. This is seen in the phial of light that she gives to Frodo , and that Sam uses to defeat the evil giant spider Shelob : Sam invokes Elbereth when he uses the phial.
One of Tolkien's drawings of emblems, for Lúthien Tinúviel, was used on the front cover of The Silmarillion, and another five (for Fingolfin, Eärendil, Idril Celebrindal, Elwë, and Fëanor) were used on the back cover. [T 2]
Gil-galad was an Elf of a royal house of Beleriand; beyond that, accounts of his birth vary.According to The Silmarillion, he was born into the house of Finwë as a son of Fingon sometime in the First Age, and as a child, he was sent away during the Siege of Angband for safekeeping with Cirdan the shipwright in the Falas.