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[Angelalex242]

Beauty of the Stars and Skill of the Eldar both have effects that go off when you roll a G rune on a common skill. Does that mean they both go off at once (making those High Elves really darn impressive 1 time in 12...)

[zedturtle]

I would say yes. It only can double-up during the interaction phase of an Encounter and does allow the High Elf to load up on those successes. But it only works that way for diplomacy, not anything else.

There's a reason Elrond was in charge of the council...

[Angelalex242]

Well, I'm pretty sure Lorien Elves use the same template as Rivendell elves. At least, similar enough that I'd use the same culture. Galadriel doesn't do anything all that different then Elrond.

[bluejay]

With the exception of Galadriel and Celeborn the Elves of Lorien are all Silvan and so fairly similar to Elves of Mirkwood.

[poosticks7]

Actually aren't quite a few of them Sindar elves?

[Terisonen]

From canon, nothing is said of the elves of Lorien other than Galadriel or Celeborn. Nor of their house when they moved from Eregion to Lorien. However, I consider that this kind of people wouldn't go alone in their trip and will have a small retinue.

[bluejay]

Actually aren't quite a few of them Sindar elves?

Not that I'm aware of. Any source for that?

[Falenthal]

Sindar and Silvan elves mixed in Lorien, and that's one of the reasons they're called Galadhrim, and not silvan or sindar.
Yes, I know about Galadhrim referring to "living in the trees" and such, but also that culture needed a new name because they weren't neither silvan nor sindar.
In Mirkwood, on the other hand, sindar did not intermarry with silvan. The few sinda (the royal family and maybe some nobles) adapted the ways of the silvan, but nowhere it is said that they mixed their blood with them, which was the case in Lórien.
As for Galadriel, she was a Noldo, and Celeborn was a Sinda (from Doriath, if I remember well).

[bluejay]

That's interesesting about the Sindar in Lorien. Do you have a reference for that? I don't remember anything saying they were anything but Silvan Elves (with the exception of Galadriel and Celeborn). As for Celeborn's background I think that's another one (like Celebrimbor) where Tolkien kept changing it. I've read at least a couple of references to him being Teleri.

[Falenthal]

Do you have a reference for that?

Not really
That's one of those things I remember having read somewhere, but not where. It might even be some info from a roleplaying game (MERP or Coda) that I have accepted as true. In the Robert Foster's Guide it says that the Galadhrim were "mainly silvan", but that there were sindar elves among them. Maybe they didn't intermingle, also.
I don't know, I like the idea of the Lorien elves being (mostly) a mixed breed of sinda and silvan, while the Mirkwood elves are silvan with Sinda leaders.