is she an angel?
Not exactly - The Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey comments that Galadriel is not a fallen angel. Galadriel has been expelled from a kind of Heaven, the Deathless land of Valinor, and has been forbidden to return.
Galadriel
Shippey also considers the Christian Middle English attitude of the "South English Legendary", a hagiographic work which he supposes Tolkien must have read, that elves were angels. In Shippey's view, Tolkien's elves are much like fallen angels, above Men but below the angelic Maiar and the godlike Valar. He comments at once that Galadriel is in one way certainly not "fallen", as the elves avoided the war on Melkor in the First Age; but all the same, "Galadriel has been expelled from a kind of Heaven, the Deathless land of Valinor, and has been forbidden to return." Shippey suggests that the Men of Middle-earth might have thought the fall of Melkor and the expulsion of Galadriel added up to a similar fallen status; and he praises Tolkien for taking both sides of the story of elves into account.
who plays the elf lady in lord of the rings Galadriel who is this? She is a character created by J.R.R. Tolkien. She appears in 'The Lord of the Rings', 'The Silmarillion', and 'Unfinished Tales'. She was a royal Elf of both the Noldor and the Teleri, being a grandchild of both King Finwë and King Olwë. what type of character she has? She is described as being 'the mightiest and fairest of all the Elves that remained in Middle-earth' and the 'greatest of elven women'. what is she in the second age? and the "greatest of elven women".
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Galadriel [SEP] Angelic being
Shippey also considers the Christian Middle English attitude of the "South English Legendary", a hagiographic work which he supposes Tolkien must have read, that elves were angels. In Shippey's view, Tolkien's elves are much like fallen angels, above Men but below the angelic Maiar and the godlike Valar. He comments at once that Galadriel is in one way certainly not "fallen", as the elves avoided the war on Melkor in the First Age; but all the same, "Galadriel has been expelled from a kind of Heaven, the Deathless land of Valinor, and has been forbidden to return." Shippey suggests that the Men of Middle-earth might have thought the fall of Melkor and the expulsion of Galadriel added up to a similar fallen status; and he praises Tolkien for taking both sides of the story of elves into account.