jrrtolkiennerd:“Even among the Eldar Galadriel was accounted beautiful, and her hair was held a ma
jrrtolkiennerd: “Even among the Eldar Galadriel was accounted beautiful, and her hair was held a marvel unmatched. It was golden like the hair of her father and of 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 imprisoning 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. He begged three times for a tress, but Galadriel would not give him even one hair. These two kinsfolk, the greatest of the Eldar of Valinor, were unfriends for ever.” - The Unfinished TalesThat moment where Galadriel gave something to a dwarf not even of direct royal lineage that she denied to her kinsman Fëanor, “the mightiest of the Noldor.” -- source link