<P> During the Second Age, when the Rings of Power were forged, Galadriel distrusted Annatar, the loremaster who taught the craft of the Rings to Celebrimbor and the other Noldor of Eregion . According to some accounts, Celebrimbor rebelled against her view and seized power in Eregion, so Galadriel departed to Lórien via the gates of Moria, though Celeborn stayed behind as he refused to enter the dwarves' stronghold . Her distrust was justified, for Annatar was revealed as Sauron pretending to be an emissary from the Vala Aulë . When Sauron attacked Eregion, Celebrimbor entrusted Galadriel with one of the Three Rings of the Elves, Nenya, the Ring of Water or the Ring of Adamant . Celeborn joined up with Elrond, whose force was unable to relieve Eregion but managed to escape back to Imladris . Celeborn was reunited with Galadriel after the war ended; according to one text, after some years in Imladris (during which Elrond first saw and fell in love with Celebrían) Galadriel's sea - longing became so strong that the couple removed to Belfalas and lived at the place later called Dol Amroth . </P> <P> With the fall of Gil - galad in the War of the Last Alliance, Galadriel, Elrond, and Círdan became the most prominent of the rulers among the elves in Middle - earth, and Galadriel the foremost of the remaining Exiles . </P> <P> Conscious of Sauron's power and wishing to thwart it, she did not use her Ring so long as the One Ring was in Sauron's hands . However, during the Third Age, when the One Ring was lost, she put hers to use in making Lothlórien a fair refuge for the Nandor . In the years after the departure and loss of Amroth and Nimrodel, Galadriel maintained constant vigilance against Sauron and often strove with him in thought . Sauron was said to have great desire to see into her mind, but could not so long as he did not have the One Ring . During the latter part of the Third Age, when Lothlórien was closed to outsiders, the Lord and Lady of the Galadhrim maintained communication with Imladris, but less so with the Silvan Elves of Mirkwood . She was the original convenor of the White Council . </P> <P> J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring </P>

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