[ SECRET POST #3398 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3398 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Count me as one of the people who hate Galadriel. I hated her when I first read the book. The things I didn't like were how she made herself at home in the Fellowship's heads without permission, and the fact that anyone who spoke against her was "obviously" wrong. I think Eomer had a reason to be wary but in the narrative, he's clearly in the wrong. It happens a few times and I hate that kind of heavy-handedness, especially as I didn't buy her being this perfect angelic can-do-no-wrong type of character when we actually meet her. She felt skeevy to me, but in a way that she wasn't intended to be by the author.

What cemented my hate for her was reading Unfinished Tales and how Tolkien was bending over backwards to give her special treatment so she's not a kinslayer. If Galadriel's arc is that she's a kinslayer who's still too prideful to bow to the Valar after the War of Wrath but finally learns humbleness by the end of the Third Age, then that's an interesting and awesome arc. It's not one I care for because I don't like the kinslayers but I do think it's objectively interesting and complex. Stripping that away is utter bullshit. It doesn't make sense with what's in the LOTR book, and it takes away from her final decision. The way she's singled out and Tolkien tries to twist the world to fit her in to be perfect irritates me to no-end. Not even Luthien (my fave!) gets that kind of bullshit treatment.

I hated her in the movies because they took the aggravating perfectness from the books and upped it to a billion. Galadriel has nuance in the book. In the movies, she can do no wrong. Plus, I don't think CB is that pretty. I liked that she had a low voice, but otherwise, she was nothing like I envisioned Galadriel.

So, I'm not telling anyone they can't like her or whatever. Just explaining where my hate comes from.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I think you hit the nail right on the head as to why people can dislike her. I particularly agree about the attempt to absolve her of any guilt in the Kinslaying, as I feel that at least gives her some sort of depth, even if I feel it's not quite enough.

She's made out to be too perfect and that can be annoying.

[(Anonymous)]

What cemented my hate for her was reading Unfinished Tales and how Tolkien was bending over backwards to give her special treatment so she's not a kinslayer.

That would make me hate her two, anon. I haven't read the books and now I'm kinda glad.