Tell me, where is Celeborn? For I much desire to see him in The Rings of Power
Morfydd Clark's Galadriel made an immediate impact in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power – a battle-hardened warrior on a vengeful quest to rid Middle-earth of the terrifying Sauron. And yet, with her introduction, Tolkien scholars around the world are asking: where is Celeborn, her husband and the originator of the meme "Tell me, where is Gandalf, for I much desire to speak with him (opens in new tab)"?
In J.R.R. Tolkien's writing, Galadriel and Celeborn marry in the First Age, thousands of years before the events of The Rings of Power. It would make sense, then, for Galadriel to have met with her partner in Lindon after she spent years away hunting Sauron, especially as their relationship is described as a good one in Tolkien's work.
However, even if we take the source material as bible, there are reasons Celeborn may not have appeared in The Rings of Power yet, though we expect him, and their daughter, to make an appearance soon. But first, a disclaimer from Christopher Tolkien, the son of J.R.R. and the editor of many of his father's posthumous works.
"There is no part of the history of Middle-earth more full of problems than the story of Galadriel and Celeborn," Christopher noted in Unfinished Tales, a collection of unfinished stories released after J.R.R.'s death. "It must be admitted that there are severe inconsistencies 'embedded in the traditions'; or, to look at the matter from another point of view, that the role and importance of Galadriel only emerged slowly, and that her story underwent continual refashionings."
The inconsistencies start almost immediately when it comes to Celeborn. In The Silmarillion, a history of Middle-earth that mainly concerns the First Age (and that Amazon does not have the
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