#the phial of galadriel

[winwin17]

Life tip: Using your phone's flashlight becomes much more interesting when you imagine you're using the phial of Galadriel.

#lol #lotr #life tip #lord of the rings #galadriel #the phial of galadriel #lotr humor

[silmarillion-ways-to-die]

Stolen from Pinterest.

#Phial of Galadriel #my mom is a bird #my dad is a planet #earendil #tolkien #jrr tolkien #lord of the rings #silmarillion #lotr #lotr rop #lotr trop #fantasy #lotr memes #tolkien memes

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Phial of Galadriel

"May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out."

Artist: Andrea Piparo TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

#mtg #magic the gathering #tcg #$0.87 #andrea piparo #phial of galadriel #the lord of the rings: tales of middle-earth #legendary #artifact

[art-of-firefly]

Galadriel

For this series of chara-designs i only do lineart and flat colors so i can’t do justice to her hair (i’ll have to make full illustrations to paint her perfect hair adequately)

House of Finwë

#the phial is the light of Earendil #galadriel #arafinweans #silmarillion fanart #lotr fanart #house of finwe #house of finarfin #my art #artanis #nerwen #alatariel #rings of power

[anghraine]

Sometimes it's interesting to be a firm agnostic but also to feel a strong attraction to the concept of the sacred and/or mystical. I'm not sure attraction is even the right word—but art that leans into a sense of sanctity or mysticism is intensely appealing to me in a very fundamental way, especially when coupled with a sense of grandeur or glory. And ritual, I love a good religious ritual.

My family's religious background is Mormon, Catholic, and Greek Orthodox, so it's not really surprising. But it's like, despite the standard religious damage, and despite being deeply skeptical of anything smacking of the supernatural, I love entering the headspace of characters with a strong religious sensibility, I love visual art caught up in the sacred, I love fiction that can give you a sense of the mystical in ritual, I love when I'm expected to believe there's something sanctified in a building or relic or rock (real or not), I love visual or narrative art that can truly evoke a sense of the divine.

At the same time, I don't believe it. Nor do I wholly disbelieve it, I'm just like ... eh, idk, this is not in the realm of knowable information. But damn do I feel the appeal of religious conviction.

(This whole train of thought got started because I was thinking about how much I love playing clerics, lol. Anyway)

#that led quickly to thinking about how it affects how i read tolkien who can evoke evil or sanctity or mysticism /so/ satisfyingly #when people dismiss the silmarils as shiny rocks i'm like 'but they're SACRED shiny rocks. that's DIFFERENT.' #their light is divine and they were hallowed after that!! that's special. like the light of elwing's silmaril in the phial of galadriel? #there's a whole spiritual dimension to that! and the spontaneous aiya eärendil elenion ancalima... #i eat up that shit with a spoon tbh #but it's not real to me irl. it's... tropes and imagery that itches something in my brain the way conlangs do #which does feel weird coming from a deeply religious family background #anghraine babbles #cw religion #anghraine's tropes

[almostlookedhuman]

#universes beyond #mtg #lotr #phial of galadriel #frodo baggins #arda #piparo

[rotationalsymmetry]

"Tolkien does not write conventional heroes and the Lord of the Rings is a powerful statement about how all power corrupts" is a decent first order approximation, and it's certainly closer to that than a generic power fantasy action movie.

It's not fully accurate though. The Ring does not represent all power -- powerful items in the wider Legendarium are generally dangerous, but not necessarily uncomplicatedly bad things, and some powerful things like the two trees are uncomplicatedly good things. The Ring is a specific powerful item made by a vicious Maia that causes harm because that Maia crafted it with his ill intent and will to dominate. It doesn't represent power in general.

But there is a very strong general theme of wanting power over others -- mastery -- being a bad thing. While acting out of pity, in the sense of being moved to act towards the common good, is elevated as a good and important thing. Basically, "I don't know how to explain to you that you should care about other people", except on the form of several books trying to explain just that. (And I'll count the hobbit in that -- it's a simpler adventure story, but not without a great big "hey maybe you can put aside your greed-based petty squabbles with basically good people in order to deal with the real enemy for a minute?" at the end.)

But there's also just a whole lot of people being messy. Feanor sucked and his oath was a terrible idea, and obviously the downstream effects of the oath were morally heinous and pragmatically disasterous -- except that the oath and Feanor wanting his special gems back is the only reason the Noldor were in Belariad in the first place, and the Noldor were the only ones mounting an effective resistance against Morgoth that wasn't just holing up in a walled kingdom and everyone outside your borders (including all the humans) fends for themselves. If they weren't there, presumably Morgoth would have ended up dominating the continent much sooner and enslaving and torturing more people. Whereas the sensible elves that stayed behind got to enjoy, effectively, their gated community while the world outside burned. So. It's complicated.

#...maybe I should have actually talked about you know #the lord of the rings rather than #saying I was going to talk about lotr #and then going off about the Silmarillion #but ok even in lotr #you get things like the phial of elendil #that Galadriel gives to Frodo #that are just good #are lembas and mithril and the elven cloaks #not items of power? #does Gandalf the White not come back with more power than he left with? #I mean yeah he didn't seek it out #but he does get it

[velvet4510]

“May it be a light for you in dark places when all other lights go out.”

Galadriel wasn’t describing the Light of Earendil. What does it do when Frodo tries to use it in Shelob’s lair? It blinds Shelob temporarily but doesn’t stop her. Frodo still would’ve met his doom … if it weren’t for his REAL light in that dark place when all other lights went out:

Sam.

Guys, Frodo’s ‘light in dark places when all other lights go out’ isn’t the Phial. It’s Sam.

(I do not take credit for this discovery. It’s been made and discussed before. But it is such an unbelievably essential detail that I’m echoing it.)

#samfro #lotr #jrr tolkien #frodo x sam #frodo baggins #lotr books #samwise gamgee #galadriel #light of earendil #phial of galadriel #shelob #sam and frodo

[ausefulblogforputtingthingsin]

I got a new lamp

#lotr #normally i hate bluish white LEDs but in this case it's prefect #phial of galadriel

[gil-galadhwen]

'In this phial,' she said, 'is caught the light of Eärendil's star, set amid the waters of my fountain. It will shine still brighter when night is about you. May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out."

So stoked with my stunning Phial of Galadriel tattoo done by Brooklyn Bee at Fable Tattoo in Brisbane, Australia ✨️

#phial of galadriel #galadriel #lotr tattoo #tattoo #lotr #tolkien #brooklyn bee #fable tattoo #personal

[wendydeglee]

~ Galadriel ~

"And you, Ring-bearer,' she said, turning to Frodo. 'I come to you last who are not last in my thoughts. For you I have prepared this.' She held up a small crystal phial: it glittered as she moved it, and rays of white light sprang from her hand. 'In this phial,' she said, 'is caught the light of Eärendil's star, set amid the waters of my fountain. It will shine still brighter when night is about you. May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out."

#galadriel #lord of the rings #lotr elves #tolkien #elves #middle earth #the silmarillion #Galadriel's phial #earendil #lightofearendil

[aspenrockymountainhigh]

Light of Eärendil, also known as Galadriel's Phial, was a crystal phial filled with water from Galadriel's fountain which held the light of Eärendil's star - the light of the Two Trees as preserved in a Silmaril.

The phial was a gift given by the Elf-queen to Frodo Baggins upon the Fellowship's departure from Lothlórien, as a light to use in dark places.

~Hope

#galadriel #galadriels phial #light of Earendil

[mystery-of-arkham-asylum]

I made this health potion a few months ago due to boredom and because I was playing a lot of Skyrim.

I was going to make a poison one but had a better idea. I have made one that glows in the dark. Lord of the Rings has been on my mind alot so decided to make something like the Phial of Galadriel.

I already love it sooooo much! (I adore glow in the dark things a lot.)

#mysteryofarkhamasylum #[REDACTED] Speaks #lord of the rings #lotr #galadriel #phial of Galadriel #health potion #skyrim #glow in the dark

[ccgscans]

Lord of the Rings: Phial of Galadriel

#card #Lord of the Rings #Phial of Galadriel #2002 #tcg #ccg

[autailome]

frodo's fragmentation and the phial of galadriel

from splintered light by verlyn flieger

#e #tolkien #splintered light #verlyn flieger #tolkien studies #frodo #jrr tolkien #lotr #lord of the rings #phial of galadriel

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Sam had just enough wits left to thrust the phial back into his breast.

"The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" - J.R.R. Tolkien

#book quotes #lotr #lord of the rings #jrr tolkien #trotk #the return of the king #samwise gamgee #hobbits #mordor #escape #phial of galadriel