@russingon-week day two | gifts | the green stone of fëanor
A new page in the QS manuscript begins with the opening of this paragraph, and at the top of the page my father pencilled: ‘The Green Stone of Fëanor given by Maidros to Fingon.’ This can hardly be other than a reference to the Elessar that came in the end to Aragorn; cf. the note given under §88 above referring to Fëanor's gift at his death of the Green Stone to Maidros. It is clear, I think, that my father was at this time pondering the previous history of the Elessar, which had emerged in The Lord of the Rings...
—The War of the Jewels, “The Later Quenta Silmarillion” (editorial note by C. Tolkien on a chapter entitled “Of the Siege of Angband”)
Among the Noldor also it was a custom that the bride’s mother should give to the bridegroom a jewel upon a chain or collar; and the bridegroom’s father should give a like gift to the bride. These gifts were sometimes given before the feast. (Thus the gift of Galadriel to Aragorn, since she was in place of Arwen’s mother, was in part a bridal gift and earnest of the wedding that was later accomplished.)
—Morgoth’s Ring, “Of the Laws and Customs among the Eldar pertaining to marriage and other matters related thereto”
