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Tree dwellings of the Elves. Flets were wooden platforms set among the branches of trees. Some flets were simple, with no walls or rails and only a light screen to block the wind. Houses were built on other flets, like the hall of Galadriel and Celeborn in Caras Galadhon, a city that was a complex network of flets in the trees.

Flets came into use among the Elves of Lothlorien, where building materials were scarce and the threat from Moria and Dol Guldur made living in the relative safety of the trees desirable. Flets were originally used as refuges or outlook posts, but eventually they were used as dwellings as well. Because of this, the Elves of Lothlorien came to be called the Galadhrim, or Tree-people.

It is not certain who originated the idea of living on flets. It may have been King Amroth of Lorien, who built a house in the trees of Cerin Amroth, but he may have gotten the idea from his lover Nimrodel, who was said to have lived in the trees near the stream that was named after her.

Amroth's flet was once the highest in Lothlorien and was used to keep watch on Dol Guldur across the Anduin. Later, the highest flet was in Caras Galadhon.

When the Fellowship came to Lothlorien in January of 3019, they spent their first night in a flet used by Haldir as a guard post on the northern borders of the forest. The next day they came to Cerin Amroth, and Frodo and Sam climbed to the white flet that had replaced King Amroth's house there. They were then brought to Caras Galadhon, the City of the Trees. There in an oval-shaped hall built on a wide flet around the trunk of a mallorn they met Galadriel and Celeborn.

Description
Tree dwellings of the Elves. Flets were wooden platforms set among the branches of trees. Some flets were simple, with no walls or rails and only a light screen to block the wind. Houses were built on other flets, like the hall of Galadriel and Celeborn in Caras Galadhon, a city that was a complex network of flets in the trees.

Flets came into use among the Elves of Lothlorien, where building materials were scarce and the threat from Moria and Dol Guldur made living in the relative safety of the trees desirable. Flets were originally used as refuges or outlook posts, but eventually they were used as dwellings as well. Because of this, the Elves of Lothlorien came to be called the Galadhrim, or Tree-people.

It is not certain who originated the idea of living on flets. It may have been King Amroth of Lorien, who built a house in the trees of Cerin Amroth, but he may have gotten the idea from his lover Nimrodel, who was said to have lived in the trees near the stream that was named after her.

Amroth's flet was once the highest in Lothlorien and was used to keep watch on Dol Guldur across the Anduin. Later, the highest flet was in Caras Galadhon.

When the Fellowship came to Lothlorien in January of 3019, they spent their first night in a flet used by Haldir as a guard post on the northern borders of the forest. The next day they came to Cerin Amroth, and Frodo and Sam climbed to the white flet that had replaced King Amroth's house there. They were then brought to Caras Galadhon, the City of the Trees. There in an oval-shaped hall built on a wide flet around the trunk of a mallorn they met Galadriel and Celeborn.