Brian Dimmick
Active Member
Well thats how the article at tolkien gateway summarizes it. So what does galadriel think? She's not completely with feanor , she rejects to give him a lock of her hair thrice. On the other hand she is moved by his words and he seems to have his influence on her despite her opposition. Plus she wants freedom, adventure and - let's face this - power and a dominion on her own. She joins her brothers, but still has a vision and goal on her own apart from her brothers intentions... I also still like the short account in unfinished tales in which she and celeborn fought at alqualonde on behalf of the teleri. Of course celeborn is absent in our version, but we still can have galadriel be there and intervent, but fail to stop the noldor and teleri in all the chaos and confusion.
She could personally dislike Feanor and oppose his dominance, but still want to go to Middle-Earth. We could show her opposing Feanor but nonetheless echoing a lot of his arguments for going, in the same way that Feanor opposes Melkor but still fills his speech with Melkor's lies. At Alqualonde, she could enter on the side of the Noldor but be so shocked by the bloodshed that she switches sides and tries to protect the Teleri. Afterward she can struggle with what happened and whether she still wants to go to Middle-Earth.
What was alqualonde like? The noldor agressively demanding ships, the teleri aggressively denying, the noldor trying to seize, the teleri stepping in the way, a brawl, guards mistaking the situation from afar, one arrow shot, a dead noldo, noldor grapping their blades, teleri grapping their spears, chaos, confusion, bloodshet, more moldor appearing seeing nothing but battle and joining the others, more teleri joining the fight...
This might be getting ahead of schedule a little, but I would show it starting as a miscalculation by Feanor. He hatches a plan to take the ships to Middle-Earth, and assumes the Teleri will join the Noldor--why wouldn't they? Don't they understand they are being imprisoned by the Valar? He goes to the Teleri, and they refuse. He gets angry and makes a plan to seize the ships, but believes that he and his sons with a small group of loyal Noldor can rush in and seize the ships, because he doesn't believe the Teleri are capable of fighting back. The Noldor don't go in looking for a fight, and the TEleri aren't planning a defense, but a battle develops and spirals out of control.
Are we going to show Feanor going to Alqualonde to speak to the Teleri this episode? I think it would make a great episode closing scene to show Olwe refusing him and telling him to be gone, and Feanor striding out looking wrathful. But it might be too much material for the first episode.