Andrew Barber connects Tolkien’s elves to the Christian life. “This place, once so full of life and sustained by the Lady of Light, Galadriel… has become a glorious ruin. For Galadriel, like the rest of her kin, has left the world to the rule of man; the elves, in all their splendor, have reached their end. [She says,]’. . . together through ages of the world we have fought the long defeat.'”