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“In this phial,” she said, “is caught the light of Eärendil’s star, set amid the waters of my fountain. It will shine still brighter when night is about you. May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.”
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'It is by our own folly that the Enemy will defeat us,' cried Boromir. 'How it angers me! Fool! Obstinate fool! Running willfully to death and ruining our cause. If any mortals have claim to the Ring, it is the men of Númenor, and not Halflings. It is not yours save by unhappy chance. It might have been mine. It should be mine. Give it to me!'
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Isildur & Elendil — The Rings of Power (2022) & The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
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LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (2001) dir. Peter Jackson
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Map Of Middle Earth, 1969 (Barbara Remington)
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Three thousand years on from this, Galadriel will be the one at the head of a royal court, and the strange travellers before her will be four hobbits, two men, an elf and a dwarf, and it will be her own people who are murmuring with suspicion about why Gimli is standing before them when none of his people have been permitted to enter Lothlórien for many, many years.
When her husband loses his temper at the news they bring - when he declares that Gandalf fell into folly, when he tells Gimli that he would never have allowed the dwarf and all his companions beyond the northern borders if he'd known - she'll hold her hand out just like this to silence him.
Nenya the Ring of Water on her hand will whisper to her a memory of a throne-room in long-drowned Númenor and she'll think (as she always does): he never left us; he is always here; he haunts us, he plagues us, he is part of us, everything the two of us weave in memory or mending is darted through with the thread of this absent third.
A glint of gold will shine around Frodo's neck -
And then Celeborn will apologise to Gimli and welcome all their guests once again, and say he will do what he can to aid them; and she will call him a giver of gifts beyond the power of kings.
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JDP: That character was always Sauron from the very beginning. [It was] one of the initial sparks and ideas and in our...opinion...Galadriel talks about Sauron in the books in a way that indicates that she knew him maybe really well.
For instance, "I know the Dark Lord, I perceived the Dark Lord and know his mind, at least all of his mind, that concerns the Elves, and ever does he grope after me, and seek to know my mind as well. But still, the door is shut."
I'm paraphrasing a little bit, but that's effectively the quote. And the idea of "Still, the door is shut," that this has been a thing where he's been reaching after her for a long time and there's been this sense of back and forth between them. We found that...endlessly fascinating, and we said...there's an entire history between them. He's not just some eye in the sky who's looking at her from afar; there's a relationship. And so we said, How could you have a relationship between the Dark Lord and Galadriel, you know, in a way that was good, really let them get to an interesting place?
PM: And then there's the Tolkien idea of chance meetings. [...] The chance meetings are preordained in Middle-earth and that idea of like, [W]hat if Sauron is in a place where he's sort of repentant and lost and Galadriel is in a place where she's desperate and obsessed with a meeting? What might happen?
--J.D. Payne, Patrick McKay - Rings of Power [s1] ending explained (Radio Times)
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Sauron
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galadriel and elrond concept art
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His doubt will be growing, even as we speak here. His Eye is now straining towards us, blind almost to all else that is moving. So we must keep it. Therein lies all our hope. This, then, is my counsel. We have not the Ring. In wisdom or great folly it has been sent away to be destroyed, lest it destroy us. Without it we cannot by force defeat his force. But we must at all costs keep his Eye from his true peril. We cannot achieve victory by arms, but by arms we can give the Ring-bearer his only chance, frail though it be.
As Aragorn has begun, so we must go on. We must push Sauron to his last throw. We must call out his hidden strength, so that he shall empty his land. We must make ourselves the bait, though his jaws should close on us. He will take that bait, in hope and in greed, for he will think that in such rashness he sees the pride of the new Ringlord: and he will say: "So! he pushes out his neck too soon and too far. Let him come on, and behold I will have him in a trap from which he cannot escape. There I will crush him, and what he has taken in his insolence shall be again for ever.
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: Return of the King — 2003
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He never saw anything he loved that he didn't wanna kick it just to see if it would still come back. SUCCESSION — 3.08: Chiantishire
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Cat, what do you think Galadriel’s role will be from now on? I’ve heard so many disheartening opinions that she’ll just settle as the wise and distant and passive Galadriel from the movies. While I’m afraid of that and don’t really trust tv writers anymore, I can’t see them going down this route so soon. They showed already they’re not giving into the tolkien bros, I don’t see why she wouldn’t keep her role as commander.
I love this question! I have been thinking about this so much. My short answer is that I don't think they'll do that. My longer answer:
I've talked before about how I think people are mistaken about where Galadriel's canon story ends up, and a short version of why I don't think TROP Galadriel will end up as the 'lady of light [passive, retired]' figure people remember is that she never really existed; even for film Galadriel, people are remembering a version filtered by pop culture history of a story where she's a minor character. (As are all the other powerful elves of Middle-earth at this point - Glorfindel, Elrond, Círdan - it's not b/c they've settled down and got married now, it's b/c this is the hobbits' story we're seeing through the hobbits' eyes and the big mythological figures need to take a back seat.)
So here's my predictions for what they will do with her story:
She'll still be a main character. It's an ensemble show, but they have set up a main antagonist and main protagonist and built the whole idea off one of her lines in LOTR about him.
Her temptation will continue to be linked to Sauron. Partly as a convenience of visual TV storytelling (harder to have her do a speech to camera about how she desires power and realms to rule in the abstract); partly to tie into what the show has already established for two seasons; and partly because the show does so love visual callbacks to the films, in which we get this Galadriel:
recognise the dress?
(second one there is the official concept art by Julian Gauthier. We had a whole year of people saying "her hand is NOT on her stomach as if she was pregnant in that scene, you foolish Haladriels!" and then this came out and who's laughing now, eh? Who's laughing now. Anyway!)
She'll play a role in the Battle of the Last Alliance. They might put her on the battlefield - Tolkien doesn't say she was there, but on the other hand Tolkien doesn't specifically say she wasn't, soooo - but I think it's more likely they will bookend that conflict with some other kind of confrontation, like a mindbattle raft vision during the fight. My bet would be they will also do something with repeated images of water/the sea/Nenya/calling back to what Peter Jackson called the 'drowned Galadriel' look and that we'll see that s1 raft again - the showrunners do love mirroring and repeating and echoing.
They will make Celeborn and their marriage interesting. I am less confident about this one because they certainly don't have to and it's always possible that they'll just parachute him in at the last moment like "yay! husband back now :) well done :) off you go back to the forest" and God only knows I've been burned before on interesting 'female characters + marriage = boring, lesser, unimportant' on TV shows. However! I have a reasonable degree of confidence, like say maybe 65%, that they will make him and their marriage interesting.
Celeborn is probably another post so short version of why is: she is still the main protagonist and him being back gives the writers the opportunity to show more of her journey, not because husband = destination but because you can learn a lot about characters in how they relate to loved ones; and they've set him up in a way that introduces conflict (where's he been, how have they both changed from the younger idealised versions of themselves they remember) that makes for good storytelling.
They will link her back to Numenor somehow for that storyline: again I'm less confident on this one and I have no clear ideas on how they'd do it, but it feels like too good an opportunity to pass up when she's already been there once.
Her storyline will have something about learning compassion and pity - which I think people do not like the sound of if (like me!) they like her angry and violent, but it is such a Tolkien-y thing and it's already been set up in what we have seen. Note: I don't mean this in a "she'll be sweet and calm and exist to pat the male characters on the head" way; I mean it in the sense we already saw in s2 with Adar. And who else did she have a really angry, inflexible, "nothing you do will ever be enough to be forgiven" line with in season 1? hmmm...
Her getting and learning how to use her Mirror will be a big thing in some upcoming season. It's such an intriguing question mark in canon - we don't really know anything about where she got it from, how it works, even how she personally uses it - but we know it's important in the future. They will definitely do something with this.
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THE LORD OF THE RINGS — The Return of the King (2003)
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"Young she was and yet not so. The braids of her dark hair were touched by no frost; her white arms and clear face were flawless and smooth, and the light of stars was in her bright eyes, grey as a cloudless night; yet queenly she looked, and thought and knowledge were in her glance, as of one that has known many things that the years bring. Above her brow her head was covered with a cap of silver lace netted with small gems, glittering white; but her soft grey raiment had no ornament save a girdle of leaves wrought in silver."
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@lotrweek day 4: gifts, burdens and choices
"Mr. Frodo, he knows he’s got to find the Cracks of Doom, if he can. But he’s afraid. Now it’s come to the point, he’s just plain terrified. That’s what his trouble is. Of course he’s had a bit of schooling, so to speak – we all have – since we left home, or he’d be so terrified he’d just fling the Ring in the River and bolt. But he’s still too frightened to start. And he isn’t worrying about us either: whether we’ll go along with him or no. He knows we mean to. That’s another thing that’s bothering him. If he screws himself up to go, he’ll want to go alone. Mark my words! We’re going to have trouble when he comes back. For he’ll screw himself up all right, as sure as his name’s Baggins."
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THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (2001)