How old is Galadriel meant to be in Lord of the Rings: the Rings of Power?
How old is Galadriel in The Rings of Power? It's a fair question – after all, the Elf, played by Morfydd Clark, is one of the few characters to appear in both the Amazon series and in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy. In those movies, she was portrayed by Cate Blanchett as an ethereal Elven leader who welcomes the Fellowship to Lothlórien.
In The Rings of Power, we meet a much younger Galadriel, one who's a fierce warrior hellbent on avenging her fallen brother after he was murdered by Sauron's servants. But how much younger, exactly? And how many years are already behind her? It's a surprisingly difficult question to answer.
In the opening episode of The Rings of Power, we first meet Galadriel as a young girl living in Valinor. The series doesn’t stay here very long, charting the events of the First Age through the show’s prologue, before reuniting with Galadriel on her mission to locate Sauron.
By the time the show reaches its main story, she’s much older. And while we don’t have an exact age for the Elven warrior in the series, we can work it out based on her age at the time of her ascension to Valinor, many thousands of years later.
Galadriel leaves Middle-earth in TA (Third Age) 3021 when she is around 8,000 years old. Given that the events of The Rings of Power take place before the Third Age, she's around 5,000 years old in the show.
This is also corroborated by her birth date in Valinor of 1362 in the "Years of the Trees". She lived for around 138 years before this time came to an end – but time is measured differently during this period. In Tolkien’s notes to The Annals of Aman, he states that there are around 9.5 solar years in one Valinorian year.
The conversion would mean she lived in this
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