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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6106341" data-attributes="member: 4937">Which is a 2nd level spell  As I said, there is nothing that she did that suggests she is above 9th or 10th level at the most.   Nondetection, divination, clairvoyance, locate object, etc.  These are all low levels spells.  In D&D terms I'd probably stat her out as a Cleric3/Sorcerer3/Mystic Theurge4 or something of the sort.  Much of Galadriel's perceptiveness could simply be having quite a few ranks in Sense Motive, and an above average wisdom.  Plus she's got that magic ring on her hand which probably helps out some.  Keep in mind that the main ability of the rings of power is it boosts the wearer's racial abilities.  She's wearing an elf lords ring, containing within it the essense of the elvish race.  So, it's rather natural that everything that a Tolkien elf is good at, she is but only more so.  Compare with her spouse the almost equally old and almost equally noble Celeborn, who doesn't have her numinous aura.  Other than boosting her racial abilities, Nenya's main ability seems to be to slow the effects of time in a wide radius around it (things decay more slowly), which in D&D terms is almost flavor text, plus possibly some sort of domain wide 'protection from evil' effect. You don't have to.  I've read the book 16 times.  I've read the Similrillion 5 times.  Lost Tales, Morgoth's Ring, The Lost Road, etc.   Yes, but in the Middle Earth 'magic' - or what we would recognize as magic - seems to be mostly limited to elves and the Istari and a few Numenoreans.  The magic of the Dwarves seems limited to animating small objects, strengthening materials, and other things related to craft and skill - much of which might actually be technology as we understand it.  You don't find in Wizard classed Hobbits, so of course anyone that can cast magic seems enormously powerful and wonderful to a hobbit.  Part of this is that in the Middle Earth, anyone who was born when the world was young has a superior attribute array.  In Middle Earth, they just don't make them like they used to.  But again, I don't see how age and experience isn't an indicator of increased level in D&D terms.</blockquote>

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