How is Galadriel related to Gil-galad?

The elder Tolkien always intended to make Gil-galad of the House of Finarfin as the son of Orodreth, Galadriel's second oldest brother. This would make him more closely related as a nephew, according to the updated information in The History of Middle-earth, Vol.
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What is the relationship between Gil-galad and Galadriel?

Gil-galad is the GRANDSON of Galadriel's brother, Angrod. So Galadriel is Gil-galad's Great-great aunt. Her hair shine with the light of the Two Trees of Valinor which where destroyed more than a millenium and a half before his own birth.
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Is Galadriel the aunt of Gil-galad?

Galadriel is Gil Galad grand aunt. She is several hundred years old than him. Yet in terms of human age she looks half his age. Gil Galad looks mid 40's in human years.
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Who is Gil-galad and Galadriel family tree?

Gil-galad was also the original wielder of the Ring of Power Vilya, though he passed the ring on to Elrond before his death. To trace Gil-galad's family tree to Galadriel, we can see his father was Orodreth, son of Angrod, one of Galadriel's older brothers. So Galadriel is his Great Aunt.
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Who are older Gil-galad and Galadriel?

If you use Tolkien's metric that one year of the trees lasted 144 solar years she is @12,600 years older than he, give or take.
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Why is Gil-galad King and not Galadriel?

In the official text of The Silmarillion, Gil-galad receives the kingship as he is the son of Fingon, who in turn is the son of Fingolfin.
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Who is more powerful Gil-galad or Galadriel?

Based on Galadriel's age, exposure to the trees, her deeper connection to the Ainur and Tolkien's descriptions, she most likely possessed greater power than Gil-Galad in terms of magical, otherworldly, fearsome presence. Leading an army or engaging in a physical fight, Gil-Galad may fare better.
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How is Elrond related to Gil-galad?

Elrond served as Gil-galad's herald, and he and Círdan were entrusted with the two Elven Rings that Gil-galad held. Elrond and Círdan were the only ones to stand with Gil-galad when he fell.
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Why did Gil-galad send Galadriel to Valinor?

Early in the season, Elrond was trying to convince Galadriel to go to Valinor, and he made two things clear. It was an honor that Gil-galad had deemed her worthy to go to Valinor, and it was a one-time opportunity.
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Who is the father of Gil-galad?

Tolkien considered several different parentages for Gil-galad in different draft texts, including making him the son of Orodreth. In the second version of The Fall of Númenor, he is called a descendant of Fëanor, who made the Silmarils. Then Tolkien treated him as a son of Finrod Felagund.
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Is Arwen related to Galadriel?

Through her great-grandmother, Idril, Arwen was a descendant of King Turgon of the Noldor. Through her mother, she was the granddaughter of the Elf-queen Galadriel of Lothlórien. Through both of her parents, Arwen was a direct descendant of the ancient Elven House of Finwë.
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Who is the elven king after Gil-galad?

Gil-galad was the last High King; after his time the title is never used. In order of succession, the Kingship would presumably have fallen on Turgon's descendants; Eärendil (who was in the West and could not exercise it) or his eldest son Elrond (who never made claim to the Kingship).
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Who does Galadriel have a child with?

Celeborn and Galadriel had a daughter, Celebrían, who married Elrond Half-elven of Rivendell.
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Were Elendil and Gil-galad friends?

It is one of J.R.R. Tolkien's merciful acts of consolation that Elendil is then claimed as the friend of Gil-galad, who not only welcomes him, but who reputedly builds for him the three great towers from which the bereft man can look out to the familiar sea when he is most homesick for lost Númenor.
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Is Sauron Gil a Galad?

In the lore, we know Sauron changed his form into an elf - GIL GALAD, not Halbrand or the Stranger.
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Who is Galadriel Elf husband?

Celeborn was the Lord of Lothlórien and husband of Galadriel, Lady of the Golden Wood. He was said to be one of the wisest Elves in Middle-earth at the end of the Third Age.
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How much older is Galadriel than Gil-galad?

Two, Galadriel is the first cousin of his father Fingon, a previous High King, and is thousands of years older than Gil-galad.
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Why did they make Galadriel so unlikeable?

The longer answer is that the writers either didn't understand the character at all or didn't care. Either way they substituted Tolkien's wise and powerful queen with a young warrior woman who was obsessed with revenge on Sauron.
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Why did Gil-galad give Vilya to Elrond?

I think Gil-galad gave Vilya to Elrond because he had an inkling that he wouldn't survive the War of the Last Alliance. As to why Elrond and not someone else, Gil-galad must have considered him the best choice and up to the task.
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Is Gil-galad stronger than Galadriel?

Is Galadriel more powerful than Gil-galad according to Tolkien? Yes she is more powerful than Gil-Galad was. She fought Feanor in the kinslaying. And she stood tall alone among Feanor's sons.
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Who killed Morgoth?

He will fight in the Last Battle against the Valar and their allies, but will ultimately be slain by Túrin Turambar, the Man he cursed. By finally defeating Morgoth, Túrin will avenge not only himself, but all members of the race of Men.
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What relation is Legolas to Elrond?

Legolas was the son of Thranduil, and therefore a prince of the woodland realm - an important elf that Elrond would have known of, even if they had never met before. If it was somehow the first time that Legolas had arrived in Rivendell, he certainly would have introduced himself to Elrond.
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Did Galadriel ever hunt Sauron?

If you are a purist and only the written words that were published by JRR Tolkien himself are used, then, no, Galadriel does not wield a sword nor go on a hunt for Sauron (I hesitate to call it a witch hunt when by most definitions, Sauron is indeed a witch).
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Is Elrond higher than Galadriel?

Galadriel is much greater than Elrond. Elves who have seen the light of the Two Trees of Valinor are greater than Elves who have not. Galadriel's hair itself had ensnared the light of the Two Trees. And the Eldar said it was a light unmatched.
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Who is more powerful lady Galadriel or Sauron?

In The Lord of the Rings, it is said that had Galadriel chosen to use her powers for evil instead of good, she would have been even more destructive and terrifying than Sauron himself. Galadriel was the greatest and most powerful of all Elves in Middle Earth in the Third Age.
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