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Can't go wrong going back to the books. I'm not obsessed or anything lol



Honestly some of the film-criticisms mentioned above are quite valid, and I wouldn't exactly disagree, even if I'm still totally awash in good feelings about the show.

I mean this is coming from somebody who used to have to settle for stuff like Dragonslayer or half a Bakshi cartoon to get my rocks off, and now I got this?!

Like my pining inner-teenager would have to just slap myself if I came down on it too hard here.

I knew the show was going to be about Galadriel and a riff off the appendices more than the Silmarillion or the Middle-Earth Histories with those thousand year sweeps I adored so much. Galadriel is pretty major in the LotR, as one of the 3 women characters we get to read about in a virtual sea of men, but she gets only very selective mentions in the Silmarillion. Not making her out to be a Noldorin Smurfette here or anything, but compared to Melian or Luthien or Finduilas etc she's kind of a minor character there even among the Elven maids. Sure she crosses some grinding ice and gets in on the long line, but not exactly the biggest deal on the block there. I think Cate Blanchett cemented her more in the popular mind as the quintessential Eldar dame, and that's going to be hard to top. But I like how the Welsh gal played it, and where they're trying to take the concept. I'm pretty forgiving