The High Council · Keepers of the Three

The Seat of Nenya

Nenya, the Ring of Adamant

Nenya, the Ring of Water, was made of mithril and set with a white stone, and Galadriel kept it in Lothlórien. Through it the Golden Wood stayed untouched by time and shadow while the world outside darkened. It was kept so secret that even at the Council of Elrond no one said where the Three were. Then Frodo saw it on her hand. "This is Nenya, the Ring of Adamant," she told him, "and I am its keeper." Then Frodo offered her the One Ring, the thing she had long wondered about, and she weighed it and refused. "I pass the test," she said. "I will diminish, and go into the West, and remain Galadriel." "I it was who first summoned the White Council," she told him, and had her plans not gone amiss, Gandalf would have led it, not Saruman. This seat honours that kind of wisdom - knowing a great deal, guarding it faithfully, and being trusted precisely because power has been offered and turned down.

Sources: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Mirror of Galadriel; The Silmarillion, Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age.