Celebmar

Telpémar (S“House on the Hill of Silver Trees”), so named for the many silver birches which surrounded this secluded retreat, was an elegant, yet unpretentious mansion for the Noldorin Queen Galadriel and her husband Celeborn. Roofs with wide eaves gave the house a long, low profile, and the rough-hewn rock of the walls was uncharacteristic of Noldor architecture The place was almost Silvan in character, and perhaps foreshadowed Galadriel‘s disenchantment with the Deep Elven love of “High Style” design. Located 50 miles north-northeast of Ost-in-Edhil as the crow flew (nearly a hundred miles by road), Telpemar faced south. overlooking a conﬂuence of streams to the west. lt was surrounded by hundreds of acres of forest, dotted with small vineyards and fields, all tended by a resident contingent of Silvan Elves. The house itself, while not really fortified, was protected by a steep hill on the south and west, and dense wood constantly patrolled to the north and east. A long, winding drive entered from the south, passed through a garden courtyard, and departed through a gate in the eastern end. Galadriel and Celeborn traveled back and forth between here and Ost-in-Edhil either by horse-drawn carriage or simply on horseback.