#GALADRIEL

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"Nine were given to Men, who above all desire power."

Oh, that's rich coming from the woman who came to Middle Earth to rule a kingdom. Like,yeah, Galadriel mellowed out over the millennia, but we all remember why she and Finrod even wanted to venture out of Valinor, right?

(Don't get me wrong, I like Galadriel and Finrod as characters. I just don't think powerlust is a better motivation than, say, vengeance like their cousins.)

[istaricelebelasse]

In the Third Age of the world, in Gondor, there is a trend to use names from the First Age as curses.

This has an effect that no one could have predicted:

1) Boromir trips over in front of the Lady of Lothlorien, (supposed) last Grandchild of Finwë, Survivor of the First Age… and curses using Orodreth’s name.

Galadriel is Not Impressed.

Celeborn finds it really, really difficult not to laugh.

2) Legolas, who spends a not inconsiderable amount of time in Gondor, arrives in Valinor whereupon there are a fair number of said figures from the First Age.

He swears using their names - in front of them - on more than one occasion.

It is Galadriel’s turn to struggle not to laugh.

[thranduilofsmirkwood]

❃☾⋆Ϯнє Lθⲅδ θƒ τнє Γίπgϛ Ⲙєϻєϛ ⋆☽❃

❧❦❧ 𝛩𝜄𝛿𝑖𝜀𝑠 𝛽𝜇𝜏 𝐺𝜃𝜃𝛿𝑖𝜀𝑠 ❧❦❧

[buffyfan145]

Just saw this speculation article about season 2 of "Rings of Power" from ScreenRant and it goes into a likely storyline between Galadriel and Sauron we'll see on screen as the show goes on and it's their psychic connection. Even proves in this that it is accurate to the books and the movies and that season 1 with him pretending to be Halbrand and form this bond with her helped create this connection between them and their minds. They, like others and myself, noticed that in the s2 trailer that it looks like Galadriel is seeing Sauron at some point either in her mind/dreams when it goes all red and she's screaming. As the books/movies mentioned that Sauron does try to get into her mind all the time but she learned how to block him. Where we're at in the show she hasn't learned this skill yet. However, this article also points out that she ends up learning too how to get into his mind, especially once he creates the One Ring and their rings are connected. We already had Morfydd confirm that Galadriel will learn how to use Nenya and start training her new abilities too. This article even speculates if Galadriel will be able to see Sauron's past when she's in his mind too. The best part about this article too is it isn't shippy in any way but as a Haladriel shipper I can see this totally coming across that way too, so I'm even more excited to see this play out as the show goes on.

[braxix]

Elrond: Watch and learn!

Galadriel: Elrond you can't fight the undead alone!

Elrond: That's why I have you here!

[letthefairyinyoufly]

GALADRIEL appreciation 03/∞

[blcodyhell]

Random Galadriel moments: 69/?

[ringsreforged]

Guys, hi!

Popping in to quickly announce we are recording TOMORROW (May 30th, Thursday) and we are beyond excited to get back in the proverbial saddle even if we’re also half convinced we’ve entirely forgotten how one podcasts. 😅 But regardless, we’re doing it, ha!

Just a reminder: we’re sticking to the plan that got the most votes in that poll we made ages ago. So, REFORGED ALLOYED will be split into two parts. One part is non-Eregion events and the other is all Eregion.

We also plan on discussing the teaser trailer because DUH.

If you have any questions at all you’d like us to try and answer, please message or comment.

Love,

Pau & Nat

[hedgehogoftime]

Rereading the Lord of the Rings series recently, and it's so fascinating to me how much the series is a denial of the typical juvenile power-fantasy that is associated with the fantasy genre.

Like, the power-fantasy is the temptation the Ring uses against people It tempts Boromir with becoming the "one true king" that could save his people with fantastic power. It tempts Sam with being the savior of Middle Earth and turning the ruin that is Mordor into a great garden. It tempts Gandalf and Galadriel with being the messianic figure of legend who brings salvation to Middle Earth and great glory to herself.

The things the Ring tempts people with are becoming the typical protagonists of fantasy stories that we expect to see. and over and over we see that accepting that role, that fantasy of being the benevolent all-powerful hero, is a bad thing. LotR is about how power, even power wielded with benevolent intent, is corrupting.

And its so fascinating how so much of modern fantasy buys into the very fantasy LotR denies. Most modern fantasy is about being that Heroic power-fantasy. About good amassing power to rival evil. But LotR dares not to. It dares to be honest that there is no world where anyone amasses that power and remains good.

I guess that's one of the reasons its so compelling.

[autistook]

Craig Parker on the set of Fellowship of the Ring

[buck1eys]

gimli loves galadriel... yes true but !!!! have you ever heard a gay man of a certain age talk about madonna

[animentality]

[glorf1ndel]

Just some of my favorite BTS photos from The Hobbit and LOTR!

[chechula]

One more try to draw something with colored pencils. I found out that elves in colored pencils look extra kitschy.

[eowyn-igneelcheshire]

One of my favorite things in the LOTR books is Sam being obsessed with Elven magic and wanting to see it and when Galadriel finds out she basically tells Sam "I don't know what the fuck magic is but I can show you the future in this bowl of water if you want" as if that's just a normal ass thing to be able to do.

[hacked-wtsdz]

Every time I read or watch Lord of the Rings I can’t help but think about how Tolkien had survived one of the bloodiest, most cruel, most dirtiest and darkest wars in human history, came back and wrote this:

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

And this:

"'I wish it need not have happened in my time,' said Frodo.

'So do I,' said Gandalf, 'and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.'"

And this:

"I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend."

And this:

“Many that live deserve death and some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be so eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the wise cannot see all ends."

And this:

“True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.”

And clearly they were all written partly because he survived the war, because of what he’d seen and done and learned. But at the same time the unwillingness to lose faith, the courage and strength that this man had to believe in these things after going through hell! It makes the nihilists look so cheap, so uninteresting! People who’ve went through concentration camps and wars believe in humanity anyway, isn’t that proof that hope and love exist? And many, many, many of them did not return or returned broken and cruel and traumatised to the point when no faith in others was possible for them, and nobody can blame them. But there were many who refused to lose faith and hope. They have seen some of the worst that life has to offer and came back believing that we shouldn’t be eager to deal out death in judgement and should love only that which the sword defends.

No matter how many people say that humanity is horrible and undeserving of love, and life is dark and worthless, and love doesn’t exist I remember this and have hope anyway. Because there were people who have actually had all reason to believe in the worst and still believed in the good, so the good must be real. The good is real, even despite the evil, and we must trust in it.