La Storia di Galadriel – Parte 6

di Benedetto Ardini

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Gli scritti filologici (1968-1969)

TESTI TRATTATI IN QUESTA SEZIONE

(* anno indicativo   ? elemento non chiaro    – elemento non presente nel testo)

CONCETTI CHIAVE: Le abilità e caratteristiche fisiche e mentali di Galadriel vengono amplificate ed enfatizzate. Viene introdotta la sua contrapposizione a Fëanor

Nel periodo della fine degli anni ’60 abbiamo gli scritti a cui Christopher Tolkien si riferisce come i testi filologici⁹². Tra questi sicuramente il più importante è quello chiamato The Shibboleth of Fëanor databile al 1968⁹³. Si tratta di un saggio di carattere linguistico che, come riportato nel volume 12 della History of Middle-earth⁹⁴, racconta del caso del cambiamento nella lingua elfica Quenya del suono þ in s (il testo è presentato in una forma ridotta anche in Unfinished Tales⁹⁵ in cui viene chiamato ‘saggio molto tardo e principalmente filologico’). In questo saggio abbiamo delle informazioni fondamentali sul personaggio di Galadriel quando era ancora nel Reame Beato nella Prima Era:

• Viene introdotta una contrapposizione tra Galadriel e Fëanor tanto che la prima, pur di differenziarsi dal secondo che era radicato all’usanza di þ, si dimostra favorevole all’utilizzo del suono s⁹⁶
•  Questa contrapposizione è tale da far combattere Galadriel contro Feanor durante il Fratricidio di Alqualondë e l’odio per Feanor sembrerebbe essere il motivo principale per cui Galadriel decide di seguirlo nel Beleriand⁹⁷
•  Viene detto che Galadriel e Fëanor sono i più grandi Eldar di Valinor⁹⁸ e principale argomento delle storie degli Elfi insieme a Lúthien Tinúviel⁹⁹ a rimarcare la sempre più crescente importanza data a Galadriel (nonostante quest’ultima sia stata introdotta da Tolkien nella sua mitologia praticamente un ventennio dopo rispetto a Fëanor e Lúthien)
•  le capacità mentali e fisiche di Galadriel sono tanto spiccate da competere sia con i sapienti che con gli atleti¹⁰⁰ e da leggere nelle menti altrui¹⁰¹
• i capelli di Galadriel vengono ritenuti dagli Eldar come se avessero catturato un po’ della luce dei Due Alberi di Valinor e ispirato Fëanor per la creazione dei Silmarilli¹⁰²
•  Fëanor chiede tre volte una treccia dei capelli di Galadriel ma questa rifiuta 
• Galadriel percepisce un’ombra in Fëanor che odia e teme (anche se non si rende conto che questa oscurità grava su tutti i Noldor e su sé stessa)
• Galadriel è il nome datole da Celeborn (il quale in questo testo non è più un Sinda ma uno dei Teleri) nel Reame Beato e che significa ‘fanciulla coronata con una ghirlanda di chiara radianza’¹⁰³
• Il vero nome di Galadriel, datole dal padre, è  Artanis (‘nobile donna’), quello datole dalla madre è Nerwen (‘uomo-donna’)¹⁰⁴
• il fratello Finrod è quello più vicino al cuore di Galadriel e condivide con lei il desiderio di terre lontane e domini propri senza il controllo dei Valar¹⁰⁵
• Alla fine della Prima Era Galadriel decide di rimanere nella Terra di Mezzo rifiutando il perdono dei Valar¹⁰⁶ (quindi il concetto del divieto introdotto da Tolkien in The Road Goes Ever On è sparito)
• Galadriel e Celeborn si sposano nel Beleriand¹⁰⁷ (questo è il primo testo in cui viene specificato il luogo in cui avviene il matrimonio e, dato che il Beleriand viene inabissato con la Caduta di Morgoth, potremmo considerare che ciò avvenga durante la Prima Era). 

L’ultimo punto, in accordo con quanto si legge nel Silmarillion pubblicato, ci permette di affermare che molto probabilmente fu proprio lo Shibboleth of Fëanor la fonte utilizzata da Christopher Tolkien per il riferimento al matrimonio di Galadriel e Celeborn nel capitolo 22 Sulla Rovina del Doriath¹⁰⁸. Da sottolineare la frase nel testo che afferma che l’Anello del Potere rappresentava tutto ciò che Galadriel desiderava nella giovinezza. Se questa affermazione segue quanto scritto da Tolkien in Elvish Ages & Númenórean circa 3 anni prima, la ‘giovinezza’ qui scritta è da intendersi riferita anche alla Galadriel della Terza Era dato che, in accordo con i conti e le considerazioni di Tolkien, alla conclusione di tale periodo l’Elfa dovrebbe essere appena entrata nella “maturità”.

Sempre del periodo attorno al 1968 c’è il testo The Names Galadriel, Celeborn & Lórien riportato da Carl Hostetter in The Nature of Middle-earth¹⁰⁹ e parafrasato da Christopher Tolkien in Unfinished Tales¹¹⁰. In questo testo vengono dati elementi di carattere prettamente filologico associati a Galadriel:

• il significato del suo nome come ‘signora dalla corona scintillante’ (significato molto simile a quello indicato nello Shibboleth of Fëanor)
• la ragione precisa di tale significato sta nel fatto che da giovane Galadriel raccoglieva i suoi capelli in tre lunghe trecce delle quali quella centrale avvolta intorno alla sua testa¹¹¹
• il nome Lórien nella Terra di Mezzo è, molto probabilmente, un’alterazione di un nome precedente (Lórinand) dovuta proprio alla Signora Elfica¹¹²

Dello stesso anno abbiamo il testo Nomenclature – Silvan Elvish (SE), and names recorded as being derived from (dialects of) that language sempre riportato in The Nature of Middle-earth¹¹³ e citato in Unfinished Tales¹¹⁴. Questo testo mostra molti punti in comune con una parte del materiale Concerning Galadriel and Celeborn che abbiamo visto in precedenza:

• Galadriel e Celeborn si insediano a Lórien già nella Seconda Era (anche se non in modo permanente)
• Prendono Lórien come dimora definitiva solo nel 1981 della Terza Era¹¹⁵

L’elemento innovativo di questo lavoro è l’inserimento di due momenti in cui Galadriel e Celeborn vanno a Lórien prima dell’Ultima Alleanza¹¹⁶ infatti in Concerning Galadriel and Celeborn era specificato solo un momento in cui Galadriel stava a Lórien nella Seconda Era: quando l’Eregion viene saccheggiato da Sauron nella Guerra tra il Nemico e gli Elfi.

Lo scritto The Sindarin Princes of the Silvan Elves¹¹⁷ (del 1969 circa) è in accordo con l’intrusione di Galadriel e Celeborn a Lórien già nella Seconda Era¹¹⁸. 

Vi è un altro scritto databile attorno al 1969 che riguarda la leggenda di Amroth¹¹⁹. Come afferma lo stesso Christopher nell’analisi, in questo lavoro le relazioni tra Galadriel e Celeborn con Eregion e Lórien cambiano rispetto al testo Concerning Galadriel and Celeborn e ci sono altre importanti modifiche. Per quanto concerne la Seconda Era risaltano questi elementi:

• Celeborn va a Lórien dopo la caduta di Eregion guidando una migrazione degli elfi Noldor mentre Galadriel va nel Lindon da Gil-galad¹²⁰ (questo aspetto differisce da tutti i precedenti testi in cui o solo Galadriel o tutti e due andavano a Lórien)
• la migrazione a Lórien dei Noldor di Eregion è una conseguenza della caduta del loro regno per mano di Sauron (e non un fenomeno precedente alla guerra degli elfi contro l’Oscuro Signore come avveniva in Concerning Galadriel and Celeborn¹²¹)
• Amroth in questo scritto è figlio di Amdír, il precedente Re di Lórien morto nella Battaglia di Dagorlad verso la fine della Seconda Era, e non di Galadriel e Celeborn¹²² (Celebrían invece viene sempre supposta essere loro figlia)

Per quanto riguarda la Terza Era sono questi i punti salienti:

• Galadriel e Celeborn vanno a Lórien per apprendere notizie su Dol Guldur 
• intraprendono numerosi viaggi nel Rhovanion, a Gondor, nei confini di Mordor e da Thranduil nel Nord prima di stabilirsi da Elrond ad Imladris per molti anni¹²³
• ritornano a Lórien solo a partire dal 1981 della Terza Era¹²⁴ (coerentemente con quanto veniva detto nel testo Nomenclature – Silvan Elvish (SE), and names recorded as being derived from (dialects of) that language)
• Galadriel e Celeborn a Lórien non prendono il titolo di Regina e Re ma solo di guardiani¹²⁵ (fatto in accordo con la lettera del 1958 vista in precedenza in cui Tolkien correggeva l’attributo di ‘Regina’ dato a Galadriel

Chiudiamo questa sezione menzionando una nota sull’altezza di Galadriel detta essere di 6 piedi e 9 pollici¹²⁶ (ovvero circa 1 metro e 90 centimetri) indicata in un testo sempre di questo periodo: questa specificazione dell’imponente statura di Galadriel è assolutamente in linea con lo Shibboleth of Fëanor nella tendenza di stressare le doti fisiche (e mentali) del personaggio che vedremo ulteriormente enfatizzate nell’ultimo periodo di Tolkien.

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⁹²I testi che presentiamo in questa sezione sono quelli che Christopher Tolkien ha inserito o citato/parafrasato nel capitolo sulla Storia di Galadriel e Celeborn in Unfinished Tales. A questi Tolkien si riferisce come saggi filosofici: “[…] philological essays excerpted in ‘The History of Galadriel and Celeborn’ […]” (Unfinished Tales, Introduction, pag.11, Edition 1998).

⁹³“It has no title, but I have called it The Shibboleth of Fëanor, since my father himself used that word in the course of the essay” (The History of Middle-earth, vol.12, The Peoples of Middle-earth, Part Two: Late Writings, ch. XI The Shibboleth of Fëanor, pag.472, Ebook Edition © December 2022 ISBN: 9780007348299). Per la datazione temporale si veda la frase: “[…] it was written (composed in typescript throughout) on paper supplied by Allen and Unwin, in this case mostly copies of a publication note of February 1968 […]” (The History of Middle-earth, vol.12, The Peoples of Middle-earth, Part Two: Late Writings, ch. XI The Shibboleth of Fëanor, pag.472, Ebook Edition © December 2022 ISBN: 9780007348299).

⁹⁴Il testo esordisce nel seguente modo: “The history of the Eldar is now fixed and the adoption of Sindarin by the Exiled Ñoldor cannot be altered. Since Sindarin made great use of þ, the change þ > s must have occurred in Noldorin Quenya in Valinor before the rebellion and exile of the Ñoldor […]” (The History of Middle-earth, vol.12, The Peoples of Middle-earth, Part Two: Late Writings, ch. XI The Shibboleth of Fëanor, pag.473, Ebook Edition © December 2022 ISBN: 9780007348299).

⁹⁵“In a very late and primarily philological essay, certainly written after the publication of The Road Goes Ever On […]” (Unfinished Tales, Part Two, ch. IV The History of Galadriel and Celeborn, pag.221, Edition 1998). Si confrontino i testi The History of Middle-earth, vol.12, The Peoples of Middle-earth, Part Two: Late Writings, ch. XI The Shibboleth of Fëanor, pag.479-481, Ebook Edition © December 2022 ISBN: 9780007348299 e Unfinished Tales, Part Two, ch. IV The History of Galadriel and Celeborn, pag.221-222, Edition 1998. Si veda anche quello che afferma Christopher Tolkien: “The second, which I have called The Shibboleth of Fëanor, is of a very different nature, as will be seen, and from this only a passage on Galadriel was used in Unfinished Tales […]” (The History of Middle-earth, vol.12, The Peoples of Middle-earth, Part Two: Late Writings, pag.424, Ebook Edition © December 2022 ISBN: 9780007348299).

⁹⁶“The change to s had become general among the Ñoldor long before the birth of Galadriel and no doubt was familiar to her. Her father Finarfin, however, loved the Vanyar (his mother’s people) and the Teleri, and in his house þ was used, Finarfin being moved by Fëanor neither one way or the other but doing as he wished. It is clear nonetheless that opposition to Fëanor soon became a dominant motive with Galadriel, while her pride did not take the form of wishing to be different from her own people. So while she knew well the history of their tongue and all the reasons of the loremasters, she certainly used s in her own daily speech.” (The History of Middle-earth, vol.12, The Peoples of Middle-earth, Part Two: Late Writings, ch. XI The Shibboleth of Fëanor, pag.481, Ebook Edition © December 2022 ISBN: 9780007348299).

⁹⁷“Even after the merciless assault upon the Teleri and the rape of their ships, though she fought fiercely against Fëanor in defence of her mother’s kin, she did not turn back. Her pride was unwilling to return, a defeated suppliant for pardon; but now she burned with desire to follow Fëanor with her anger to whatever lands he might come, and to thwart him in all ways that she could.” (The History of Middle-earth, vol.12, The Peoples of Middle-earth, Part Two: Late Writings, ch. XI The Shibboleth of Fëanor, pag.481, Ebook Edition © December 2022 ISBN: 9780007348299).

⁹⁸“These two kinsfolk, the greatest of the Eldar of Valinor, were unfriends for ever.” (The History of Middle-earth, vol.12, The Peoples of Middle-earth, Part Two: Late Writings, ch. XI The Shibboleth of Fëanor, pag.480, Ebook Edition © December 2022 ISBN: 9780007348299).

⁹⁹“Who together with the greatest of all the Eldar, Lúthien Tinúviel, daughter of Elu Thingol, are the chief matter of the legends and histories of the Elves.” (The History of Middle-earth, vol.12, The Peoples of Middle-earth, Part Two: Late Writings, ch. XI The Shibboleth of Fëanor, pag.480, note 14, Ebook Edition © December 2022 ISBN: 9780007348299).

¹⁰⁰“[…] she was strong of body, mind, and will, a match for both the loremasters and the athletes of the Eldar in the days of their youth.” (The History of Middle-earth, vol.12, The Peoples of Middle-earth, Part Two: Late Writings, ch. XI The Shibboleth of Fëanor, pag.480, note 14, Ebook Edition © December 2022 ISBN: 9780007348299).

¹⁰¹“From her earliest years she had a marvellous gift of insight into the minds of others, but judged them with mercy and understanding, and she withheld her good will from none save only Fëanor.” (The History of Middle-earth, vol.12, The Peoples of Middle-earth, Part Two: Late Writings, ch. XI The Shibboleth of Fëanor, pag.480, note 14, Ebook Edition © December 2022 ISBN: 9780007348299).

¹⁰²“[…] the Eldar said that the light of the Two Trees, Laurelin and Telperion, had been snared in her tresses. Many thought that this saying first gave to Fëanor the thought of imprisoning and blending the light of the Trees that later took shape in his hands as the Silmarils.” (The History of Middle-earth, vol.12, The Peoples of Middle-earth, Part Two: Late Writings, ch. XI The Shibboleth of Fëanor, pag.480, Ebook Edition © December 2022 ISBN: 9780007348299).

¹⁰³“The name was derived from the Common Eldarin stem ÑAL ‘shine by reflection’; *ñalatā ‘radiance, glittering reflection’ (from jewels, glass or polished metals, or water) > Quenya ñalta, Telerin alata, Sindarin galad, + the Common Eldarin stem RIG ‘twine, wreathe’, *rīgā ‘wreath, garland’; Quenya, Telerin ría, Sindarin rî, Quenya, Telerin riellë, – ríel ‘a maiden crowned with a festival garland’. The whole, = ‘maiden crowned with a garland of bright radiance’, was given in reference to Galadriel’s hair.” (The History of Middle-earth, vol.12, The Peoples of Middle-earth, Part Two: Late Writings, ch. XI The Shibboleth of Fëanor, pag.493, Ebook Edition © December 2022 ISBN: 9780007348299).

¹⁰⁴“Galadriel was chosen by Artanis (‘noble woman’) to be her Sindarin name; for it was the most beautiful of her names, and, though as an epessë, had been given to her by her lover, Teleporno of the Teleri, whom she wedded later in Beleriand. As he gave it in Telerin form it was Alatāriel(lë).” (The History of Middle-earth, vol.12, The Peoples of Middle-earth, Part Two: Late Writings, ch. XI The Shibboleth of Fëanor, pag.492, Ebook Edition © December 2022 ISBN: 9780007348299). “Her mother-name was Nerwen ‘man-maiden’ […]” (The History of Middle-earth, vol.12, The Peoples of Middle-earth, Part Two: Late Writings, ch. XI The Shibboleth of Fëanor, pag.480, Ebook Edition © December 2022 ISBN: 9780007348299).

¹⁰⁵“[…] like her brother Finrod, of all her kin the nearest to her heart, she had dreams of far lands and dominions that might be her own to order as she would without tutelage.” (The History of Middle-earth, vol.12, The Peoples of Middle-earth, Part Two: Late Writings, ch. XI The Shibboleth of Fëanor, pag.480, Ebook Edition © December 2022 ISBN: 9780007348299).

¹⁰⁶“Pride still moved her when, at the end of the Elder Days after the final overthrow of Morgoth, she refused the pardon of the Valar for all who had fought against him, and remained in Middle-earth.” (The History of Middle-earth, vol.12, The Peoples of Middle-earth, Part Two: Late Writings, ch. XI The Shibboleth of Fëanor, pag.481, Ebook Edition © December 2022 ISBN: 9780007348299).

¹⁰⁷“[…] Teleporno of the Teleri, whom she wedded later in Beleriand.” (The History of Middle-earth, vol.12, The Peoples of Middle-earth, Part Two: Late Writings, ch. XI The Shibboleth of Fëanor, pag.492, Ebook Edition © December 2022 ISBN: 9780007348299).

¹⁰⁸L’utilizzo dello Shibboleth of Fëanor da parte di Christopher Tolkien nella costruzione del Silmarillion è stato dichiarato esplicitamente: “The second, which I have called The Shibboleth of Fëanor, is of a very different nature, as will be seen, and from this only a passage on Galadriel was used in Unfinished Tales; I have included also a long excursus on the names of the descendants of Finwë, King of the Ñoldor, which was my father’s final, or at any rate last, statement on many of the great names of Elvish legend, and which I used in the published Silmarillion.” (The History of Middle-earth, vol.12, The Peoples of Middle-earth, Part Two: Late Writings, pag.424, Ebook Edition © December 2022 ISBN: 9780007348299). Nel Silmarillion è riportato il passaggio in cui si suppone che Celeborn e Galadriel siano già sposati nella Prima Era: “At that time Beren and Lúthien yet dwelt in Tol Galen, the Green Isle, in the River Adurant, southernmost of the streams that falling from Ered Lindon flowed down to join with Gelion; and their son Dior Eluchíl had to wife Nimloth, kinswoman of Celeborn, prince of Doriath, who was wedded to the Lady Galadriel.” (The Silmarillion, Quenta Silmarillion, ch.22 Of The Ruin of Doriath, pag.282, Ebook Edition © FEBRUARY 2011 ISBN: 9780007322565)

¹⁰⁹“2) a late typescript on printed sheets containing the 1968 radio script of The Hobbit (see TCG I:760).” (The Nature of Middle-earth, Part Three: The World, Its Lands, and Its Inhabitants, ch. XVI Galadriel and Celeborn, pag.347, Ebook Edition © September 2021 ISBN: 9780008387938)

¹¹⁰“Parts of this typescript were quoted (pp. 256–7, 267) or paraphrased (e.g. pp. 253, 266–7) in Unfinished Tales.” (The Nature of Middle-earth, Part Three: The World, Its Lands, and Its Inhabitants, ch. XVI Galadriel and Celeborn, pag.347, Ebook Edition © September 2021 ISBN: 9780008387938). In Unfinished Tales lo si trova specialmente nell’Appendice E nel capitolo riguardante la Storia di Galadriel e Celeborn (Unfinished Tales, Part Two, ch. IV The History of Galadriel and Celeborn, Appendix E, pag.255, Edition 1998).

¹¹¹“The name Galadriel is in this form Sindarin. Its original meaning was ‘lady of the glittering coronal’, referring to the brilliant sheen of her golden hair, which in her youth she wore in three long braids, the middle one being wound about her head.” (The Nature of Middle-earth, Part Three: The World, Its Lands, and Its Inhabitants, ch. XVI Galadriel and Celeborn, pag.350, note 8, Ebook Edition © September 2021 ISBN: 9780008387938)

¹¹²“Lórien is probably an alteration of an older name now lost. It is actually the Quenya name of a region in Valinor, often also used as the name of the Vala to whom it belonged: it was a place of rest and shadowy trees and fountains, a retreat from cares and griefs. The resemblance cannot be accidental. The alteration of the older name may well have been due to Galadriel herself.” (The Nature of Middle-earth, Part Three: The World, Its Lands, and Its Inhabitants, ch. XVI Galadriel and Celeborn, pag.351, Ebook Edition © September 2021 ISBN: 9780008387938)

¹¹³“The two texts presented here are both late typescripts, occupying sides (six and six, respectively) of printed Allen & Unwin notices dated 1968.” (The Nature of Middle-earth, Part Three: The World, Its Lands, and Its Inhabitants, ch. XVII Silvan Elves and Silvan Elvish, pag.357, Ebook Edition © September 2021 ISBN: 9780008387938)

¹¹⁴Carl Hostetter nota che il passaggio in questo testo riguardante Galadriel è uno di quelli citati da Christopher Tolkien in Unfinished Tales e che il testo è in accordo con Concerning Galadriel and Celeborn: “The opening of this footnote was previously published at UT:259. “LR III 363” = LR:1082. “Thither they returned twice before the Last Alliance”: in the contemporary History of Galadriel and Celeborn, upon the revolt in Eregion of the Mírdain at the instigation of Sauron, Galadriel alone passed through Khazad-dûm to Lórinand (UT:237), took up rule, and remained there until she departed to seek Celeborn at Imladris, prior to the Council there (UT:240). At some point after the Council, Galadriel and Celeborn departed to dwell in what later came to be Dol Amroth until, upon the disaster in Khazad-dûm in T.A. 1981, Galadriel took up rule in Lórinand again, and Celeborn joined her (ibid.).” (The Nature of Middle-earth, Part Three: The World, Its Lands, and Its Inhabitants, ch. XVII Silvan Elves and Silvan Elvish, pag.359, note 9, Ebook Edition© September 2021 ISBN: 9780008387938). Un altro passaggio citato da Christopher Tolkien in Unfinished Tales è questo: “[…] elsewhere, in a writing contemporary with this, it is said explicitly that they both at that time ‘passed through Moria with a considerable following of Noldorin exiles and dwelt for many years in Lórien’.” (Unfinished Tales, Part Two, ch. IV The History of Galadriel and Celeborn, Amroth and Nimrodel, pag.234, Edition 1998)

¹¹⁵“Nonetheless, it was not until the disaster in Moria, when by means beyond the foresight of Galadriel Sauron’s power actually crossed the Anduin and Lórien was in great peril, its king lost, its people fleeing and likely to leave it deserted to be occupied by Orks, that Celeborn and Galadriel took up their permanent abode in Lórien, and its government. But they took no title of King or Queen, and were the guardians that in the event brought it unviolated through the War of the Ring.” (The Nature of Middle-earth, Part Three: The World, Its Lands, and Its Inhabitants, ch. XVII Silvan Elves and Silvan Elvish, pag.359, fn 7, Ebook Edition© September 2021 ISBN: 9780008387938).

Il disastro di Moria nel Tale of Years è collocato nel 1981 della Terza Era: “1981 Náin I slain. The Dwarves flee from Moria. Many of the Silvan Elves of Lórien flee south. Amroth and Nimrodel are lost.” (J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B The Tale of Years, pag.1086, Ebook Edition © August 2022 ISBN: 9780007322596)

¹¹⁶“Thus already in the Second Age Oropher had withdrawn northward beyond the confluence of the Gladden and Anduin: to be free from the power and encroachments of the Dwarves of Moria, and still more, after the fall of Eregion, from the “domination” of Celeborn and Galadriel. They had passed through Moria with a considerable following of Noldorin Exiles and dwelt for many years in Lórien. Thither they returned twice before the Last Alliance and the end of the Second Age; and in the Third Age, when the Shadow of Sauron’s recovery arose, they dwelt there again for a long time. In her wisdom Galadriel foresaw that Lórien would be a stronghold and point of power to prevent the Shadow from crossing the Anduin in the war that must inevitably come before it was again defeated (if that were possible); but that it needed a rule of greater wisdom and strength than the Silvan folk possessed. Nonetheless, it was not until the disaster in Moria, when by means beyond the foresight of Galadriel Sauron’s power actually crossed the Anduin and Lórien was in great peril, its king lost, its people fleeing and likely to leave it deserted to be occupied by Orks, that Celeborn and Galadriel took up their permanent abode in Lórien, and its government. But they took no title of King or Queen, and were the guardians that in the event brought it unviolated through the War of the Ring.” (The Nature of Middle-earth, Part Three: The World, Its Lands, and Its Inhabitants, ch. XVII Silvan Elves and Silvan Elvish, pag.359, fn.7, Ebook Edition © September 2021 ISBN: 9780008387938)

¹¹⁷L’anno 1969 è solo indicativo infatti non ci sono riferimenti precisi. Il testo in questione viene introdotto in Unfinished Tales come uno degli scritti filologici tardi: “Something more of the history of these Sindarin princes of the Silvan Elves is found in my father’s late philological writings. Thus in one essay Thranduil’s realm is said to have […]” (Unfinished Tales, Part Two, ch. IV The History of Galadriel and Celeborn, Appendix B The Sindarin Princes of the Silvan Elves, pag.247, Edition 1998). Nell’introduzione degli Unfinished Tales leggiamo che i testi filologici tardi sono all’incirca contemporanei al testo ‘the Drúedain’: “This is a ‘late’ narrative – by which I mean no more, in the absence of any indication of precise date, than that it belongs in the final period of my father’s writing on Middle-earth, together with ‘Cirion and Eorl’, ‘The Battles of the Fords of Isen’, ‘the Drúedain’, and the philological essays excerpted in ‘The History of Galadriel and Celeborn’ […]” (Unfinished Tales, Introduction, pag.11, Edition 1998). Nel volume 12 della History of Middle-earth Christopher Tolkien riporta ‘settembre 1969’ come data scritta sui fogli del testo ‘the Drúedain’: “It was written on printed papers supplied by Allen and Unwin, of which the latest date is September 1969. A portion of the work was printed in Unfinished Tales, Part Four, Section 1, The Drúedain, but otherwise little use of it was made in that book.” (The History of Middle-earth, vol.12, The Peoples of Middle-earth, Part Two Late Writings, ch. X Of Dwarves and Men, pag.426, Ebook Edition © December 2022 ISBN: 9780007348299)

¹¹⁸“In the Second Age their king, Oropher [the father of Thranduil, father of Legolas], had withdrawn northward beyond the Gladden Fields. This he did to be free from the power and encroachments of the Dwarves of Moria, which had grown to be the greatest of the mansions of the Dwarves recorded in history; and also he resented the intrusions of Celeborn and Galadriel into Lórien.” (Unfinished Tales, Part Two, ch. IV The History of Galadriel and Celeborn, Appendix B The Sindarin Princes of the Silvan Elves, pag.247, Edition 1998)

¹¹⁹L’introduzione di Christopher Tolkien al testo è la seguente: “I give next a short tale (dating from 1969 or later) entitled ‘Part of the Legend of Amroth and Nimrodel recounted in brief’ .” (Unfinished Tales, Part Two, ch. IV The History of Galadriel and Celeborn, Amroth and Nimrodel, pag.231, Edition 1998)

¹²⁰“The implication of the extract just given is that after Eregion’s fall Celeborn led this migration to Lórien, while Galadriel joined Gil-galad in Lindon […]” (Unfinished Tales, Part Two, ch. IV The History of Galadriel and Celeborn, Amroth and Nimrodel, pag.234, Edition 1998)

¹²¹“[…] we learn here that many Noldorin Elves passed through Moria to Lórien after the destruction of Eregion. In the earlier account there is no suggestion of this, and the movement of ‘Beleriandic’ Elves into Lórien took place under peaceful conditions many years before” (Unfinished Tales, Part Two, ch. IV The History of Galadriel and Celeborn, Amroth and Nimrodel, pag.234, Edition 1998)

¹²²“Amroth was King of Lórien, after his father Amdír was slain in the Battle of Dagorlad […]” (Unfinished Tales, Part Two, ch. IV The History of Galadriel and Celeborn, Amroth and Nimrodel, pag.231, Edition 1998)

¹²³“[…] after long journeys of enquiry in Rhovanion, from Gondor and the borders of Mordor to Thranduil in the north, Celeborn and Galadriel passed over the mountains to Imladris, and there dwelt for many years; for Elrond was their kinsman, since he had early in the Third Age [in the year 109, according to the Tale of Years] wedded their daughter Celebrían.” (Unfinished Tales, Part Two, ch. IV The History of Galadriel and Celeborn, Amroth and Nimrodel, pag.235, Edition 1998)

¹²⁴“After the disaster in Moria [in the year 1980] and the sorrows of Lórien, which was now left without a ruler (for Amroth was drowned in the sea in the Bay of Belfalas and left no heir), Celeborn and Galadriel returned to Lórien, and were welcomed by the people.” (Unfinished Tales, Part Two, ch. IV The History of Galadriel and Celeborn, Amroth and Nimrodel, pag.235, Edition 1998)

¹²⁵“There they dwelt while the Third Age lasted, but they took no title of King or Queen; for they said that they were only guardians of this small but fair realm, the last eastward outpost of the Elves.” (Unfinished Tales, Part Two, ch. IV The History of Galadriel and Celeborn, Amroth and Nimrodel, pag.235, Edition 1998)

¹²⁶“Galadriel, ‘the tallest of all the women of the Eldar of whom tales tell’, was said to be man-high, but it is noted ‘according to the measure of the Dúnedain and the men of old’, indicating a height of about six feet four inches.” (Unfinished Tales, Part Three, ch. I The Disaster of the Gladden Fields, Númenórean Linear Measures, pag.273, Edition 1998)