“You kids have it so easy these days: just hop on a ship and cross the Sundering Sea. Back in my day we had to walk. Uphill. Through a blizzard. FOR YEARS.”
— Galadriel, on the Grey Havens (via incorrecttolkienquotes)
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The Lord of the Rings Meme | ten scenes (2/10)
Farewell to Lórien.
This is my favorite fucking scene.
If you’ve read the Silmarillion, you know who Fëanor was. If you don’t, Fëanor was the dickhead who created the Silmarils: three indescribably beautiful and magical jewels that contained the light and essence of the world before it became flawed. They were the catalyst for basically every important thing that happened in the First Age of Middle Earth.
It is thought that the inspiration for the Silmarils came to Fëanor from the sight of Galadriel’s shining, silver-gold hair.
He begged her three times for single strand of her beautiful hair. And every time, Galadriel refused him. Even when she was young, Galadriel’s ability to see into other’s hearts was very strong, and she knew that Fëanor was filled with nothing but fire and greed.
Fast forward to the end of the Third Age.
Gimli, visiting Lorien, is also struck by Galadriel’s beauty. During the scene where she’s passing out her parting gifts to the Fellowship, Galadriel stops empty-handed in front of Gimli, because she doesn’t know what to offer a Dwarf. Gimli tells her: no gold, no treasure… just a single strand of hair to remember her beauty by.
She gives him three. Three.
And this is why Gimli gets to be an Elf Friend, people. Because Galadriel looks at him and thinks he deserves what she refused the greatest Elf who ever lived—- and then twice that. And because he has no idea of the significance of what she’s just given him, but he’s going to treasure it the rest of his life anyway.
Just look at that smile on Legolas’s face in the last panel. He gets it. He knows the backstory. And I’m pretty sure this is the moment he reconsiders whether Elves and Dwarves can’t be friends after all.
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I don’t think most people realize how much of a badass Galadriel is. She endured and overcame tragedies worse than we see in Lord of the Rings before Elrond was even born. She is nearly as old as the whole race of Elves, and when all others of her generation had been killed or sailed away to Aman, she stayed behind to watch over Middle Earth and to remain queen of her own country.
be wary of people who sleep with their feet outside of the covers because they fear nothing and no one
You shall fear me for I am the Queen of Bare Feet at Night! Not dark but beautiful and terrible as the Morn! Treacherous as the Seas! Stronger than the foundations of the Earth! All shall love me and despair!
The Simarillion: The Movies
An idea for the next great Middle Earth movie: The Rise and Fall of Gondolin: the Hidden City. There are a couple of great female characters. Idril is awesome. Plus, there is a ton of room for whoever the director (Peter Jackson) is to use his artistic license. I might not even get mad about it. And if he wanted, he could easily turn it into a trilogy. I don’t know if the Tolkien Estate would ever give approval for such a thing, but I think it could be really awesome.
The Tale of Beren and Luthien would also be a great movie. Luthien kicks ass.
In either of these they would need a bit of backstory to explain Morgoth and why none of the places are the same as in LotR, but Galadriel would be very fitting for the voiceover. She was already fucking there. The Life of Galadriel would be an awesome fucking trilogy also. One could never fit her life into one movie.
GODDAMIT, NOW I WANT ALL THE MOVIES!!!