Clothing

by Numellote

SOURCE: ''UNFINISHED TALES''

Chapter: ''Of Tuor and his Coming to Gondolin''

Page: 28 - cloak

''Then he saw that they were grey-cloaked but mail-clad under; and he marvelled, for they were fairer and more fell to look upon, because of the light of their eyes, than any of the Elven-folk that he yet had known.''

Page: 41- cloak

''And Tuor looked down from the lowest terrace and saw, leaning against its wall among the stones and the sea-wrack, an Elf, clad in a grey cloak sodden with the sea.''

SOURCE: ''THE SILMARILLION''

Chapter: ''Of Eldamar and the Princes of the Eldalië

Page: 61 ­ colour of the clothes (Noldor, in V)

''Ar-Feiniel she was called, the White Lady of the Noldor, for she was pale, though her hair was dark, and she was never arrayed but in silver and white.''

Chapter: ''Of the Sindar''

Page: 106 ­ colour (Green Elves)

''After the battle some returned to Ossiriand, and their tidings filled the remnant of their people with great fear, so that thereafter they came never forth in open war, but kept themselves by wariness and secrecy, and they were called the Laiquendi, the Green-elves, because of the raiment of the colour of leaves.''

Chapter: ''Of Maeglin''

Page: 157 ­ colour

''Š; and Eöl saw from afar the white raiment of Aredhel, and marked which way she went, seeking the secret path into the mountains.''

SOURCE: ''THE LORD OF THE RINGS''

''THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING''

Chapter: ''Many Meetings''

Page: 239 ­ Arwen's clothes

''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.''

Chapter: ''The Council of Elrond''

Page: 253 - ''Legolas' clothes

''There was also a strange Elf clad in green and brown, Legolas, a messenger from his father, Thranduil, the King of the Elves of Northern Mirkwood.''

Chapter: ''The Ring goes South''

Page: 293 ­ clothes

''All were well furnished by Elrond with thick warm clothes, and they had jackets and cloaks lined with fur.''

Chapter: ''Lothlórien''

Page: 357 ­ cloaks

''They were clad in shadowy-grey, and could not be seen among the tree-stems, unless moved suddenly.''

Page: 358

''Then they wrapped themselves warmly, not only in the fur-cloaks of the Elves, but in their own blankets as well, and tried togo to sleep.''

Chapter: ''The Mirror of Galadriel''

Page: 365 ­ Galadriel and Celeborn's outfit

''They were clad wholly in white, and the hair of the LadyŠ..''

Chapter: ''Farewell to Lórien''

Page: 386 ­ cloaks

''The Elves next unwrapped and gave to each of the Company the clothes they had brought. For each they had provided a hood and cloak, made according to his size, of the light but warm silken stuff that the Galadhrim wove. It was hard to say of what colour they were: grey with the hue of twilight under the trees they seemed to be; and yet if they were moved, or set in another light, they were green as shadowed leaves, or brown as fallow fields by night, dusk-silver as water under the stars. Each cloak was fastened about the neck with a brooch like a green leaf veined with silver.

-Are these magic cloaks? ­asked Pippin, looking at them in wonder.

- I do not know what you mean by that, ''answered the leader of the Elves. ­They are fine garments, and the web is good, for it was made in this land. They are elvish certainly, if that is what you mean. Leaf and branch, water and stone: they have the hue and beauty of all these things under the twilight of Lórien that we love; for we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make.Yet they are garments, not armour, and they will not turn shaft or blade. But they should serve you well: they are light to wear, and warm enough or cool enough at need. And you will find them a great aid in keeping out of the sight of unfriendly eyes, whether you walk among the stones or the trees.''

RETURN OF THE KING

Chapter: ''The Passing of the Grey Company''
Page: 51 ­ cloaks

''So much alike were they, the sons of Elrond, that few could tell them apart: dark-haired, grey-eyed, and their faces elven­fair, clad alike in bright mail beneath cloaks of silver-grey.''

Chapter: ''The Grey Havens''

Page: 308 ­ colour of the clothes

''Elrond wore a mantle of grey and had a star upon his forehead, and a silver harp was in his hand, and upon his finger was a ring of gold with a great blue stone, Vilya, mightiest of the Three. But Galadriel sat upon a white palfray and was robed all in glimmering white, like clouds about the Moon; for she herself seemed to shine with a soft light.''

Appendix. A

Here follows a part of the tale of Aragorn and Arwen

Page: 338

''And behold! There Lúthien walked before his eyes in Rivendell, clad in a mantle of silver and blue, fair as the twilight in Elven-home..''
[Tinw supplement:

Elven hair-nets ("tressures")

"The meaning of Gilraen as a woman's name is not in doubt. It meant 'one adorned with a tressure set with small gems in its network', such as the tressure of Arwen described in L.R. I 239. It may have been a second name given to her after she had come to womanhood, which as often happened in legends had replaced her true name, no longer recorded. More likely, it was her true name, since it had become a name given to women of her people, the remnants of the Númenóreans of the North Kingdom of unmingled blood. The women of the Eldar were accustomed to wear such treasures [sic]; but among other peoples they were used only by women of high rank among the 'Rangers', descendants of Elros, as they claimed."

("The Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor", by J.R.R. Tolkien. Edited by Carl F. Hostetter) ]