Who is Galadriel’s husband in The Rings of Power?
Like Theo, that rambunctious Middle-earth scamp, a lot of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power viewers are a little taken aback from one key revelation in episode 7 of the Amazon series: Galadriel has a husband? Like a real, exchanged vows, signed the papers, emergency contact of a spouse?
You can be forgiven for not knowing about his existence, or even knowing that he’d be around (somewhere, like so many people in Rings of Power’s narrative) during the events of the show. Celeborn doesn’t do much in J.R.R. Tolkien’s history. He’s a character who is so boring that Tolkien basically forgot to write him.
Galadriel met him after she left Valinor; they fell in love, got married, and stayed the hell out of drama for the entire First Age. There’s no canonical basis for him going to war — mostly he and Galadriel just traveled around leading different groups of elves and eventually settled in Lothlórien until after the War of the Ring.
That’s it! That’s the whole bit of his lore. And while it’s absolutely possible that The Rings of Power might bring Celeborn on screen to be more of a character, Polygon is simply not content to let him exist as an enigma. He deserves to be known for what he is — Mr. Galadriel — and also some goofy ideas about how he earned the moniker.
Later in life Tolkien experimented with a big retcon that would have made Celeborn into a Noldorin elf like Galadriel — another shiny high elf born in heaven. But I like Celeborn’s origins as they made it into The Silmarillion: He’s just some wood elf (OK, he’s related to some important people or whatever) that Galadriel decided was hers now. He never does anything in canon, except the occasional diplomatic mission outside of Lothlórien. In modern times he’s
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