I actually don't think they do this on purpose... i think they totally do not see it this way and probably wouldn't understand why anybody does not think their characters are absolutely great and wonderful. They probably feel they're totally doing these characters full justice by fleshing them out, expanding their stories and making them more human and so more easily relatable to people i mean, nobodys perfect, so why Gil-Galad?
So! I finally caught up to the show and... I'm still figuring out my thoughts. I've continued to take notes and I am starting to get the complaint of the show being too slow. Here were the notes I took as I watched Episodes 4/5/6View attachment 4559View attachment 4560View attachment 4561
. Why does Arondir know Quenya?Or the Stranger?
I do not understand the Southlands plot, neither how they put Halbrand on his throne -what throne? Where? Where is his retinue? Or his lands? Why does nobody know or recognize him? How did they know where they had to go and how did they get there in time? How could they know about Tirharad or even the Orcs had marched onn Ostirith? How do they put a guy on a nonexisting throne in a nonexisting land with few scattered villages with an army of but 500 men? The entire key-sword-volcano thing was weird... who build the mechanism, and why? Sauron? When? And... whay or how.. and for what and why a key for a dam for a volcano? And if Annatar is altaedy in contact wirh Celebrimbor...then why does all of this happen off-screen and why do the elves believe such obviously false fabrications..they would know better than accepting Elves and balrogs turning tree-roots into mithril or silmarils inntrees on top the Hithaeglir. So many things that seem illogical to me, do not fit alltogether or make me ask why and get me all but confused.
Sure, the stranger COULD at some point have been to Valinor and learned quenya.It still wouldn't be his first language and why would he talk in it to Probbits? Arondir... well sure, if he fought alongside Noldor he might have catched up some Quenya, still it wasn't their colloquial language, that ought to have been sindarin. I get the impression that all elvish is the same and Valarin and elvish is also the same and all elves are the same. That might seem like nitpickyness now but... such things bother me.
Giving Galadriel a growth arc where she starts out like....this, and winds up like the character we meet in Lord of the Rings makes some sense. I am fine with them giving her some opportunities to grow past or out of the situation they started her in. By episode 5, she is able to recognize her own flaws and obsession, at least, and I am *hoping* that that is the start of shifting her in a different direction. But we'll be seeing her for all 5 seasons, so it makes sense that season 5 Galadriel may be quite different from season 1 Galadriel.
I love that our fandom now has these two songs in it
Galadriel would never become the Lady of Light we know from LOTR. Redemption in elves never seems to go as far and complete as in humans, see Maglor and Maedhros or even the book Celebrimbor - once overshadowed elves do never recover fully - once personally fallen book elves always seem to stay quite vulnerable to evil. So as evil a Galadriel as she is now in the series she could not later preserve Lothlorien from corruption - even after having a future "turn of heart" - as she would always corrupt it by her mere presence. Having character flaws is a different matter than chosing to do bad things and having dark potential a diferent matter to actually having chosen darkness - and she has crossed this line in the series.
I'm thinking of elves who did different. The most "evil" elves we ever met , apart from Eol and Maeglin, are Feanor and his sons...
Galadriel is quite like them in the tv show, but... i don't know... more psychopathic... that smile of joy when she did imprison those Numenorean guards, or when she humiliated the recruits instead of training them, or the unecessary stunts she did while slayi gbthe snowtroll or duringbthe Tirharad skirmish instead of fighting effeicently.. she did that seemingly to brag and because she really enjoyed the kill and showing the superior skill of killing. Adar was right... that is very much like an Uruk.