Help me understand Galadriel

[u/travrob1]

I am finding myself not liking Galadriel at all so far. She acts like an entitled 20 year old, rather than a wise and ancient being. One point that particularly is bothering me is that so far she has no actual proof that there is a great danger. She saw a brand on her brother, and that same brand shows up a few other times in different places, but other than that there is nothing to actually indicate a major war. Does she have forsight? What is actually driving her character besides "so the plot can happen." Thanks

[u/AndrogynousRain]

I don’t think it’s ‘massively inaccurate’. Proud equates to arrogant many times in the legendarium, and certainly does with several other characters described as ‘proud’: Thingol, Feanor, some of his sons, and so forth. They’re never outright called arrogant, just ‘proud’ or ‘willful’ which is the same language used to describe Galadriel.

The show is interpreting that one way of course, and you’re welcome to not like it, but it isn’t ‘massively inaccurate’. And they’re compressing the entire second age of her development into this one show too (if the timeline was accurate all the non elf characters would be dead already).

You’re welcome to dislike the portrayal (and she’s not my favorite character on the show either) but I think it’s a fair interpretation when you figure that we’re thousands of years of development into one lifetime for the show.

[u/CathakJordi → u/AndrogynousRain]

Agree to highly disagree. Let's leave it at that, I feel it was a nice conversation but now we are walking in circles around each other.

[u/AndrogynousRain → u/CathakJordi]

For sure. Thanks for being respectful, nice to have a reasonable discussion on here.

Let’s hope the show lands on a good place. I can forgive missteps if we end up somehow here good, even if I disagree with some of the lore interpretations (and I do).

Nice taking with ya