18 Facts About Celeborn

Celeborn's appears in The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, and Unfinished Tales.

Celeborn's was a royal Elf of both the Noldor and the Teleri, being a grandchild of both King Finwe and King Olwe.

Celeborn's was close kin of King Ingwe of the Vanyar through her grandmother Indis.

Celeborn has compared his elves to those in a Christian Middle English source, The Early South English Legendary, where the elves were angels.

Celeborn's was the only daughter and youngest child of Finarfin, prince of the Noldor, and of Earwen, daughter of Olwe and cousin to Luthien.

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Celeborn's had the ability to peer into the minds of others to judge them fairly.

Celeborn's had, however, long since parted ways with Feanor and his sons.

Celeborn's carried some dark secrets from those times; she told Melian part of the violent story of the Silmarils and Morgoth's killing of Finwe, but did not mention the kinslaying of elves by elves.

Galadriel and Celeborn travelled first to Lindon, where they ruled over a group of Elves, and were themselves ruled by Gil-galad.

Celeborn joined up with Elrond, whose force was unable to relieve Eregion but managed to escape back to Imladris.

Celeborn reunited with Galadriel when the war ended; according to one text, after some years in Imladris Galadriel's sea-longing became so strong that the couple removed to Belfalas and lived at the place later called Dol Amroth.

Celeborn's was in turn tested when Frodo Baggins offered to place the Ring in her keeping.

Celeborn's accepted that her own ring's power would fail, that her people would diminish and fade with the One Ring's destruction, and that her only escape from the fading of the Elves and the dominion of Men would be to return at last to Valinor.

Celeborn's travelled to Minas Tirith for the wedding of her granddaughter Arwen to King Aragorn Elessar after the end of the war.

Celeborn remained behind, and Tolkien writes that "there is no record of the day when at last he sought the Grey Havens".

Celeborn's had the pride and ambition of the Noldor, but in her they were tempered by the gentleness and insight of the Vanyar.

Celeborn's shared the latter virtues of character with her father Finarfin and her brother Finrod.

Celeborn's was proud, strong, and self-willed, as were all the descendants of Finwe save Finarfin; and 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.