#galathil

Aunrae Vandree and her family:

Driz’inil, her eldest daughter and favorite, and her bat pet Tath 🦇

Elk’gloth, her first son, who later join the Vhaeraunite in Mir after he managed to escape the failed raid in Tethyr

would you be able to at least make a sketch of Celeborn and Galathil? The two are brothers in the Silmarilion and there is only a handful of art that have both brothers.

My chara-designs for the Teleri Royalty : Part 6

Galadhon & Galathil

Here is some progress on my family tree project.

It is a shame we don't know the names of so many of the wives and mothers in these elven lines, but instead of neglecting them I usually draw them, just so we can see the traits passed down through time.

“Even in the past few months, I swear those boys have grown two inches. There is so much she will not see. She will never meet her many nieces and nephews.” He gave Celeborn a knowing look. “For in knowledge of how great the love between you and the lady Galadriel is, I’m sure it will result in many elflings for Elured, Elurin, and Elwing to play with.”

Celeborn glowered at him. “Perhaps their children. We are in no hurry.”

in patriarchal settings, when it comes to marriage there's an element of the woman being "given away" from her father's household to her husband's household; she joins her husband's family and is thus expected to act with his family's reputation and dignity -- as well as her own family's -- in mind. dior and nimloth though are already part of the same wider family, so like, nimloth in marrying him is being "given away" to... the same dynasty she already hails from. granted they're hardly the only couple in the tolkienverse with some habsburgism going on, but what adds an extra twist of flavor to me is that dior's connection to their dynasty -- the ancestry from thingol, and to a perhaps lesser extent, from olwe and elmo -- comes from his mother. by contrast, nimloth gets her connection to their dynasty from her father. dior is a man but he's thingol's descendant through a woman; nimloth is a woman but she's thingol's descendant through a man. there's not really a point i'm trying to make with this, it's just something that makes me think about what it might mean for their relationship. one can say that dior maybe doesn't have the best claim to doriath's throne -- after all the argument can be made from this patriarchal context that luthien has joined beren's family by marrying him, and thus what dior should be is the next head of the house of beor, not the next king of doriath. but then you look at his marriage with nimloth and you see how they're reuniting the diverging branches of their family tree...

on the other hand though -- under the assumption that thingol's children were considered next in line to the throne over his brothers or their descendants -- by having no other children besides luthien, a daughter, thingol and melian already set the expectation that thingol's line, the main branch of the dynasty, would inevitably continue from a woman. they've already -- i suppose rather anomalously considering as far as the elves go i can't think of a single instance of a woman being considered her father's heir -- broken the agnatic-cognatic succession. in which case dior's claim to the throne coming from his mother rather than his father would have had precedent to back it up and thus would have engendered less controversy. alternatively, if doriath had been viewing elmo's sons (galadhon and celeborn) as having a better claim than luthien due to her being a woman, that could have led to some disagreements about the next in line to the throne. which brings us back to where i started about the political implications of dior/nimloth -- reuniting the branches of their family tree through marriage. i do have to wonder where celeborn would fit into that though, as galadhon's brother and nimloth's uncle.