Yes I think that to,
Galadriel was supposed to reach to Alqualonde when it was already too late and the battle was over.
Well, this seems a far cry from your initial:
"Galadriel fought in Alqualonde in all versions written by JRR himself."
Here you appear to agree that (again, in this phase of writing) the Finarfinians arrived too late, and:
"Thus the folk of Finrod [Finarfin] had no part in the dreadful deed that then was done" (QS, LQS1), or from the opening to
Concerning Galadriel and Celeborn " . . . because the people of Finarfin had had no part in the Kinslaying of Alqualonde."
Annals of
Aman is Annals of Aman.
Yet some distinctions matter, as
the one I made earlier. And at least arguably . . .
That Annals of Aman was Christopher's source and he scrapped away that note about Galadriel part in the Kinslaying completely. ( . . . ) JRR
Tolkien: look how my son massacred my girls!
And I would also not have included this idea, as I said, at least as an editor of an actual book. And that decision has nothing to do with Galadriel being a woman, but rather with avoiding a (at least possibly) false textual pairing.
Obviously you may disagree with even that choice. I happen to think it was the right one, if conservative, as Christopher Tolkien
could not know (for certain) if these later ideas were simply to be absorbed into the "
Doriath scenes" . . .
or if they might have altered them in some measure.
In the later note to the typescript to AAM, Tolkien
added Finrod to the fighting at Swanhaven as well, along with Galadriel . . .
. . . Finrod being a
male Elf of course. Christopher Tolkien left this out of the constructed Silmarillion too.
And as you appear to agree, Galadriel's discussion with
Melian, Finrod's reaction to
Thingol's words, Angrod's argument, were,
in any case, all written when Tolkien imagined that these characters were not at the Kinslaying.