The Two Towers

by

J.R.R. Tolkien

Galadriel Character Analysis

The beautiful Lady of Lothlórien, Galadriel is an elf and an ally of Gandalf and the Fellowship. After healing Gandalf, she sends him with messages of warning for Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli. Her gift to Frodo as they left Lothlórien, a phial of starlight, saves the lives of Sam and Frodo when they’re trapped in Shelob’s lair. Men, who often hear stories about the dangers of Lothlórien, mistrust Galadriel and are surprised to hear that the Fellowship left her forest unscathed.

Galadriel Quotes in The Two Towers

The The Two Towers quotes below are all either spoken by Galadriel or refer to Galadriel. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Decline and Decay  Theme Icon
).
Book 3, Chapter 2 Quotes

‘It is hard to be sure of anything among so many marvels. The world is all grown strange. Elf and dwarf in company walk in our daily fields; and folk speak with the Lady of the Wood and yet live; and the Sword comes back to war that was broken in the long ages ere the fathers of our fathers rode into the Mark! How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’

‘As he has ever judged,’ said Aragorn. ‘Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear; nor are they one thing among Elves and Dwarves and another among Men. It is a man’s part to discern them, as much in the Golden Wood as in his own house.’

Related Characters: Aragorn (speaker), Éomer (speaker), Gimli, Legolas, Galadriel
Page Number: 33
Explanation and Analysis:
Book 4, Chapter 8 Quotes

‘All is lost. Even if my errand is performed, no one will ever know. There will be no one I can tell. It will be in vain.’ Overcome with weakness he wept. And still the host of Morgul crossed the bridge.

Then, at a great distance, as if it came out of memories of the Shire, some sunlit early morning, when the day called and the doors were opening, he heard Sam’s voice speaking. ‘Wake up, Mr. Frodo! Wake up!’

[…]

Frodo raised his head, and then stood up. Despair had not left him, but the weakness had passed. He even smiled grimly, feeling now as clearly as a moment before he had felt the opposite, that what he had to do, he had to do, if he could, and that whether Faramir or Aragorn or Elrond or Galadriel or Gandalf or anyone else ever knew about it was beside the purpose.

Related Characters: Frodo Baggins (speaker), Samwise “Sam” Gamgee (speaker), Aragorn, Gandalf, Faramir, Galadriel, The Wraith-king, Elrond
Related Symbols: The Ring
Page Number: 357-358
Explanation and Analysis:
Book 4, Chapter 10 Quotes

Even as Sam himself crouched, looking at her, seeing his death in her eyes, a thought came to him, as if some remote voice had spoken, and he fumbled in his breast with his left hand, and found what he sought: cold and hard and solid it seemed to his touch in a phantom world of horror, the Phial of Galadriel.

[…]

As if his indomitable spirit had set its potency in motion, the glass blazed suddenly like a white torch in his hand.

Related Characters: Samwise “Sam” Gamgee, Shelob, Galadriel
Related Symbols: The Phial
Page Number: 382-383
Explanation and Analysis:
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Galadriel Quotes in The Two Towers

The The Two Towers quotes below are all either spoken by Galadriel or refer to Galadriel. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Decline and Decay  Theme Icon
).
Book 3, Chapter 2 Quotes

‘It is hard to be sure of anything among so many marvels. The world is all grown strange. Elf and dwarf in company walk in our daily fields; and folk speak with the Lady of the Wood and yet live; and the Sword comes back to war that was broken in the long ages ere the fathers of our fathers rode into the Mark! How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’

‘As he has ever judged,’ said Aragorn. ‘Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear; nor are they one thing among Elves and Dwarves and another among Men. It is a man’s part to discern them, as much in the Golden Wood as in his own house.’

Related Characters: Aragorn (speaker), Éomer (speaker), Gimli, Legolas, Galadriel
Page Number: 33
Explanation and Analysis:
Book 4, Chapter 8 Quotes

‘All is lost. Even if my errand is performed, no one will ever know. There will be no one I can tell. It will be in vain.’ Overcome with weakness he wept. And still the host of Morgul crossed the bridge.

Then, at a great distance, as if it came out of memories of the Shire, some sunlit early morning, when the day called and the doors were opening, he heard Sam’s voice speaking. ‘Wake up, Mr. Frodo! Wake up!’

[…]

Frodo raised his head, and then stood up. Despair had not left him, but the weakness had passed. He even smiled grimly, feeling now as clearly as a moment before he had felt the opposite, that what he had to do, he had to do, if he could, and that whether Faramir or Aragorn or Elrond or Galadriel or Gandalf or anyone else ever knew about it was beside the purpose.

Related Characters: Frodo Baggins (speaker), Samwise “Sam” Gamgee (speaker), Aragorn, Gandalf, Faramir, Galadriel, The Wraith-king, Elrond
Related Symbols: The Ring
Page Number: 357-358
Explanation and Analysis:
Book 4, Chapter 10 Quotes

Even as Sam himself crouched, looking at her, seeing his death in her eyes, a thought came to him, as if some remote voice had spoken, and he fumbled in his breast with his left hand, and found what he sought: cold and hard and solid it seemed to his touch in a phantom world of horror, the Phial of Galadriel.

[…]

As if his indomitable spirit had set its potency in motion, the glass blazed suddenly like a white torch in his hand.

Related Characters: Samwise “Sam” Gamgee, Shelob, Galadriel
Related Symbols: The Phial
Page Number: 382-383
Explanation and Analysis: