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To be a writer is to be a lover. You fall in love hard and fast, with the Muse, first and foremost. No other lover gets you the same way, no
How writers hear their characters in their heads.
Uh, guys? Don't confuse your crappy televised fanfic for the story that Tolkien actually wrote.
Galadriel was never "under Sauron's thrall." That's something ROP made up. In Unfinished Tales, she was the only one in Eregion who suspected that Annatar was lying about being an emissary of the Valar. Celebrimbor was deceived by him. She was not. She was certainly not "under his thrall." No, not even because she had Nenya.
Yes, when Frodo offered her the One Ring, she was tempted. It could have given her the power to prevent the fading of LothlĂłrien. But when she makes this speech in the book, and in the Peter Jackson movies, it's her own thought, she's not repeating something that Sauron said to her once:
âYou will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!â
These are Galadriel's words. Her words. Not Sauron's. And she was tempted by the One Ring because she could have been a more powerful queen, not Sauron's queen. Like, you guys really took one of the most powerful and complex female characters in Tolkien's works and you made her story all about a man and his power over her and his manipulation of her. Fuck off.
And stop tagging ROP as Lord of the Rings.
"Galadriel, the greatest of the Eldar surviving in Middle-earth, was potent mainly in wisdom and goodness, as a director or counsellor in the struggle, unconquerable in resistance (especially in mind and spirit) but incapable of punitive action."
Unfinished Tales. The Istari.
"From her earliest years she had a marvellous gift of insight into the minds of others, but judged them with mercy and understanding, and she withheld her goodwill from none save only Fëanor. In him she perceived a darkness that she hated and feared, though she did not perceive that the shadow of the same evil had fallen upon the minds of all the Noldor, and upon her own."
Unfinished Tales, The History of Galadriel and Celeborn and of Amroth King of LĂłrien.
âShe was proud, strong, and self-willed, as were all the descendants of FinwĂ« save Finarfin; and like her brother Finrod, of all her kin the nearest to her heart, she had dreams of far lands and dominions that might be her own to order as she would without tutelage.â Â
Unfinished Tales. The History of Galadriel and Celeborn and of Amroth King of LĂłrien.
In Eregion Sauron posed as an emissary of the Valar, sent by them to Middle-earth (âthus anticipating the Istariâ) or ordered by them to remain there to give aid to the Elves. He perceived at once that Galadriel would be his chief adversary and obstacle, and he endeavoured therefore to placate her, bearing her scorn with outward patience and courtesy.
Unfinished Tales. The History of Galadriel and Celeborn: Concerning Galadriel and Celeborn.
"Galadriel was not deceived, saying that this Aulendil was not in the train of AulĂ« in Valinor; âbut this is not decisive, since AulĂ« existed before the âBuilding of Ardaâ... Sauron was in fact one of the AulĂ«an Maiar... [But] In the beginning of Arda Melkor seduced him to his allegiance."
Unfinished Tales. The History of Galadriel and Celeborn and of Amroth King of LĂłrien.
Legolas in The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
J.R.R. Tolkien writing Elvish, 1968.
Oh, Lord, I made a mistake, didnât I?
You really think, J.R.R., that anyone would notice if you made a mistake? Except for the Elves, of course?
#I love it when he talked about elves as if he didnât make them up
Bold of you to assume J.R.R. Tolkien wasnât the sole mortal granted forbidden elven knowledge
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how it feels "trusting the process" as a writer/artist
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) dir. Peter JacksonÂ
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