This is for the best.

amber-and-ice:

lotrconfessions:

The only thing I don’t like of The Lord of the Rings movie is Galadriel. In the book Galadriel is one of my favourite characters, she’s kind and nice, in the movie, sometimes, Galadriel looks dangerous. Galadriel shoud be like the Galadriel of the book, and I would choose another actress as Galadriel.

Galadriel is dangerous. She may be kind, but she is unmistakably dangerous.

She is the second oldest Elf in Middle-earth. She was born in Valinor under the light of the Two Trees but took the Ban of the Noldor on herself and traversed the Helcaraxë because she wished to seek her own domains. She survived the First Age and the War of Wrath. She was Queen of Eregion and carries one of the Three Rings (the only Elven Ringbearer to have always done so, both Gandalf and Elrond being the second bearers of theirs). She tears down the walls of Dol Guldur with the power of her mind (and I am so hoping they put that in The Hobbit films!!!). She has foresight and reads minds.

Galadriel seems ‘nice’ in the book because the book is written from Hobbit perspective, and the Hobbits were unaware of her history and who exactly she was. They saw only an Elf-queen with a bit of “magic”, though Frodo had some sense of her true nature. Galadriel in the Silmarillion and other writings is more how Cate Blanchett played her: a good and kind creature, but one with a latent hunger for power and someone you do not want to cross.

I like her complicated. Where’s the interest in a good, sweet, Mary Sue elf queen? One does not live that long without being a little dangerous.