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'The Rings of Power' Episode 7 Deep Dive | House of R

The Ringer-Verse

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The Lay of Luthien by Vigo Mortensen

Galadriel's straight up married her husband's name is Kelleborn she says Kelleborn was his name we met in a glade of flowers I was dancing he saw me there the war seems so far away then this is a huge thing because the meeting and then she basically says he went off to fight I haven't seen him since. This is a story from Tolkien's own love story with his wife Edith that in 1917 when he was he got like trench fever whole thing World War I he was in in a hole not the most idyllic spot in all of England but he has this memory of her dancing in a hamlock grove. He later wrote to his son

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