Noldorianwa vanima Quimelli -- High Elven Fair Ladies
My heart cries out to thee! Ever since the First Age of Middle Earth the beauty of the Quendi (Elven Women) of the Noldor have been renown in songs, tales and legends. This page is a tribute to the most beautiful creatures in Middle Earth, who pale only in comparision to the Maia and the Valar. |
Galadriel - Lady of Lórien
Galadriel was the greatest of the Noldor, except Fëanor maybe, though she was wiser than he, and her wisdom increased with the long years.
"Her mother-name was Nerwen and she grew to be tall beyond the measure even of the women of the Noldor; she was strong of body, mind, and will, a match for both the loremasters and the athletes of the Eldar in the days of their youth. Even amoung the Eldar she was accounted beautiful, and her hair held a marvel unmatched. It was golden like the hair of her father and her foremother Indis, but richer and more radiant, for its gold was touched by some memory of the starlike silver of her mother; and the Eldar said that the light of the Two Trees, Laurelin and Telperion, had been snared in her tresses. Many thought that this saying first gave to Fëanor the thought of imprisioning and blending the light of the Trees that later took shape in his hands as the Silmarils. For Fëanor beheld the hair of Galadriel with wonder and delight."
-J.R.R. Tolkien Unfinished Tales p. 241.
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Lady Arwen Undómiel -- The Evenstar
"In the middle of the table, against the woven cloths upon the wall, there was a chair under a canopy, and there sat a lady fair to look upon, and so like was she in form of womanhood to Elrond that Frodo guessed that she was one of his close kindred. Young she was and yet not so. The braids of her dark hair were touched by no frost; her white arms and clear face were flawless and smooth, and the light of stars was in her bright eyes, grey as a cloudless night; yet queenly she looked, and thought and knowledge were in her glance, as of one who has know many things that the years bring. Above her brow her head was covered with a cap of silver lace netted with small gems, glittering white; but her soft raiment had no ornament save a girdle of leaves wrought in silver.
So it was that Frodo saw her whom few mortals had yet seen; Arwen, daughter of Elrond, in whom it was said that the likeness of Lúthien had come on earth again; and she was called Undómiel, for she was the Evenstar of her people."
-J.R.R. Tolkien LOTR: FOTR p. 221
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Lúthien Tinúviel – Daughter of Twilight
Although, Lúthien Tinúviel was not of the Noldor, she was the child of Elu Thingol and Melian the Maia. She wed Beren the mortal man, son of Barahir and gave birth to Eärendil, Halfelven father of Elrond and Elros.
She was considered the "fairest maiden that has ever been amoung all the children of this world. As the stars above the mists of the Northern lands was her loveliness, and in her face was a shining light."
-LOTR:FOTR p. 187
"The leaves were long, the grass was green,
As Beren looked into her eyes -J.R.R. Tolkien LOTR:FOTR p. 187-188. 
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