![]() You have perceived my thought more clearly than many that are accounted wise. Yet even so, as Ring-bearer and as one that has borne it on finger and seen that which is hidden, your sight is grown keener. Did not Gandalf tell you that the rings give power according to the measure of each possessor? Before you could use that power you would need to become far stronger, and to train your will to the domination of others. 'Only thrice have you set the Ring upon your finger since you knew what you possessed. I am permitted to wear the One Ring: why cannot I see all the others and know the thoughts of those that wear them?' 'I would ask one thing before we go,' said Frodo, 'a thing which I often meant to ask Gandalf in Rivendell. 'In the morning you must depart for now we have chosen, and the tides of fate are flowing.' 'I will diminish, and go into the West and remain Galadriel.' Then she let her hand fall, and the light faded, and suddenly she laughed again, and lo! she was shrunken: a slender elf-woman, clad in simple white, whose gentle voice was soft and sad. She stood before Frodo seeming now tall beyond measurement, and beautiful beyond enduring, terrible and worshipful. She lifted up her hand and from the ring that she wore there issued a great light that illuminated her alone and left all else dark. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. Would not that have been a noble deed to set to the credit of his Ring, if I had taken it by force or fear from my guest? The evil that was devised long ago works on in many ways, whether Sauron himself stands or falls. For many long years I had pondered what I might do, should the Great Ring come into my hands, and behold! it was brought within my grasp. I do not deny that my heart has greatly desired to ask what you offer. Gently are you revenged for my testing of your heart at our first meeting. 'Wise the Lady Galadriel may be,' she said, 'yet here she has met her match in courtesy. Galadriel laughed with a sudden clear laugh. 'I will give you the One Ring, if you ask for it. 'You are wise and fearless and fair, Lady Galadriel,' said Frodo. Yet I could wish, were it of any avail, that the One Ring had never been wrought, or had remained for ever lost.' For the fate of Lothlórien you are not answerable but only for the doing of your own task. Yet they will cast all away rather than submit to Sauron: for they know him now. 'The love of the Elves for their land and their works is deeper than the deeps of the Sea, and their regret is undying and cannot ever wholly be assuaged. 'That what should be shall be,' she answered. We must depart into the West, or dwindle to a rustic folk of dell and cave, slowly to forget and to be forgotten.'įrodo bent his head. Yet if you succeed, then our power is diminished, and Lothlórien will fade, and the tides of Time will sweep it away. Do you not see now wherefore your coming is to us as the footstep of Doom? For if you fail, then we are laid bare to the Enemy. ' He suspects, but he does not know - not yet. This is Nenya, the Ring of Adamant, and I am its keeper. Verily it is in the land of Lórien upon the finger of Galadriel that one of the Three remains. But it cannot be hidden from the Ring-bearer, and one who has seen the Eye. 'Yes,' she said, divining his thought, 'it is not permitted to speak of it, and Elrond could not do so. Frodo gazed at the ring with awe for suddenly it seemed to him that he understood. Its rays glanced upon a ring about her finger it glittered like polished gold overlaid with silver light, and a white stone in it twinkled as if the Evenstar had come down to rest upon her hand. So bright was it that the figure of the Elven-lady cast a dim shadow on the ground. ![]() Eärendil, the Evening Star, most beloved of the Elves, shone clear above. She lifted up her white arms, and spread out her hands towards the East in a gesture of rejection and denial. And he gropes ever to see me and my thought. ![]() I say to you, Frodo, that even as I speak to you, I perceive the Dark Lord and know his mind, or all of his mind that concerns the Elves. Do not be afraid! But do not think that only by singing amid the trees, nor even by the slender arrows of elven-bows, is this land of Lothlórien maintained and defended against its Enemy. 'I know what it was that you last saw,' she said 'for that is also in my mind. Stepped back shaking all over and looked at the Lady.
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