Tom Bombadil

@@andybrennand1576 damn beat me to it. I love the idea how the ring has no power on him because he is his own master

Dain ironfoot

Fingolfin, High King of the Noldor

Glorfindel

Gosh i had the same WOW watching that exact scene. I believe, the thrill partly attributed by the fact that, that's the first time we die-hard-LOTR fans see her in The Hobbit Unexpected Journey, after almost 10 years seeing her departing for Valinor at the end of Return of the King.

The way she says "Mithrandir" just after turning. Just wow. Cate Blanchett is a goddess ❤️

I could not agree more.

She just cast a spell on you without weaving a sign. Will u obey her command now?

I hate this but I can’t get it to work lol lol I I

Here for it🙌🏾

Waiting for the lotr series

Yes, but let’s wait another decade. I feel like story expansions are complete garbage nowadays. Star Wars is a great example. Another is Jurassic Park.

@@joetheperformer if we wait too long, Cate Blanchett may be too old to play her. I have trouble picturing anyone else but Cate Blanchett playing her.

@@darthvader0219 Good point. Even those new "deepfake" tricks they have won't do her justice.

She had her own reasons

Gimli asked nicely. Thanks for pointing this out, it puts a whole different level of meaning that someone watching the movies or reading only LOTR would miss.

Feanor was a dickhead tho.

I'm pretty sure Galadriel sensed he was up to no good and distrusted Fëanor

@@OldiesMusicLover100 She was said to be wiser and of equal power. She also had all the knowedge of the Velar which no other had claim to.

I did. And I wish the same too.

That like wishing more people were into hard sci-fi... ...most people just don't geek or nerd out to fiction like that.

@@yeelawnmask6771 Ditto.

@@chell272Hm.. I know. Tht doesn't stop me wishing for it. Its like climate change. I know it won't stop. . But stil,l I don't stop wishing for it to end. . I make an effort to do what I can for the climate and also make an effort to introduce LOTR to my friends. And the silmallirion afterwards. Till date I have gotten 7 people to become fans of LOTR and out of them 2 have started the Silmallirion. It may not be anything! But it's a start!

Hello :) In all the books from Tolkien, in what order us it meant to be read?

In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees and the voices of those who stand looking ...

And a new day will dawn for those who stand long And the forests will echo with laughter

Bro I’m crying

To be a rock, and not to roll.

It would have been easier for him steal her hair in her sleep than forging Silmarils

Thank you Anh Le, I was hoping someone made this comment. I can't believe this crucial detail was overlooked in the making of this video. Feanor's interest in Galadriel's hair got the whole Silmaril thing started. And it helps to know exactly why her gift to Gimli was significant: it brought her personal story full circle.

I am enamored by immortality. Imagine the knowledge we would acquire, the depth character would reach, and the works we would all finish.

@@joetheperformer No. Typical nature of anything living is the more you have the more you waste.

I was just thinking the same thing

Yes same here

And again, and again, and again :)

do yourself a favor and read the books instead. You'll get much more and better information..

I think I must read Silmarilion again after more than Ten years In fact I must ask my son to lend it to me !!!

I remember his unlimited supply of rapid-fire arrows.

I would live to see a story within in it. He was kicking ass!

What I like about the Elves is that they never looked like the stereotype we are used to...very small, such as the ones that reside at the North Pole and assist Saint Nicholas.

The light stride over the snow is an excellent touch, without being explicitly noted, too. More obvious, but an impressive display of his elvish agility is his slide down the oliphaunt's trunk as it collapses from his deathshot to its nape! Smooth!

I finally go through it by listening to it "on tape." Yeah, tape, I know. One way to do it.

He fucked up with all this heavy fantasy. Deal with it

Hmmm.. I wonder where my copy has ended up. I'm pretty sure I didn't finish it back 26 years ago

don't worry woke hollywood's got this :))

@@arkasengupta1370 Yeah, he really fucked up, having literally hundreds of millions of readers and one of the most widely-published non-scripture books in all of human history. But I suppose you've done something more noteworthy?

Lol maybe

Defiantly agree lol GOT ending sucks

There really is no comparison

got is trash and rips of LOTR

Tolkien made a cover of Christianity when he wrote the Silmarillion (the elven bible), Martin made a cover of the European monarchy. Both works are extremely good but they aim for different goals. Martin's work is not finished yet, the TV Show's ending was not his own, so we have to wait for the books... if he ever finishes them. Tolkien wrote a fantastic end for the Lord of the Rings, but his core work was always the Silmarillion, and he was never able to finish it during his life. The Published Silmarillion was the best effort of Tolkien's son to compile and edit most of what his father wrote and pretended to put into this masterpiece.

@Jeremy Marsh yes, the 2010’s and 2020’s is the age of ‘Shows’

Celebrian would have been born before the War of the Elves and Sauron likely in Eregion or perhaps earlier in Evendim which Galadriel ruled for a time. Elves have children during times of peace. The end of Second Age has far too much strife. Also in the History of Galadriel and Celeborn, it states Celebrian left Eregion in 1350 of the Second Age and met Elrond in Rivendell in 1701 of the Second Age. So she was at least born before 1350.

@@christiancividino455 Your right and I am wrong. I was getting her confused with Arwen, who was born in the beginning of the third age.

Aragorn is also distantly related to her through his own lineage. The royal family of Numenor are descendants of Elros, Elrond's brother who chose to be mortal, all half elven children must choose whether to be mortal or immortal. Elros and Elrond were the sons of Earendil.

@@KenS1267 i think Elrond and Elros are King Turgon's of Gondolin great-grandchildren. Turgon is Galadriels cousin. Shes old as hell.

@@MC-or3oi and the fun part is that her parents, her maternal grandparents and paternal grandmother are still alive. Her eldest brother was reembodied too.

That's 6000 years of extra knowledge. She knows what happened, when she refused Feanor his request...and wouldn't dare that happening again. LOL

Lesson learned, for sure. Lol.

@@LaFaJe Well, no, that's not it at all. The point is she could read people. She refused Faenor, but gives Gimli three. This is a not her trying to avoid anything bad, but it illustrates her disapproval of Faenor and her approval of Gimli. This is further shown when she, successfully, requests to allow Gimli access.

He did not forge them in jealousy, but in mastery of his own craftsmanship and the love of his invention.

@@Tanstaafl_74 she did not disapprove of Feanor, in fact she loved her cousin very much, which is why she willingly traveled in the host with him back to Middleearth; and she gave Gimli her hair because she saw that he worships her in love unspoken.

That's because the rings of Power by amazon, is a big bucket of elephant piss

Amazon's series is a big budget fanfic

i’m really enjoying their portrayal of the show. it’s much different, but still very enjoyable. i’m loving the characters.

I love both Galadriel ❤️⚔️🧝‍♀️

It was a mutual love of respect and admiration I believe.

The romantic interpretation of that was only in The Hobbit movies. Elves marry for (immortal) life, and they don’t cheat on their spouses.

the interactions were ambiguous but she definitely doesn't have that kind of relationship with Gandalf

I got that feeling

I'd settle for a movie as close as possible to 'The Silmarillion'. I doubt I'll see it in my lifetime though. I'm much too old.

Morgoth: “Help! I’m fallen and I can’t get up!”

The events of the first age and music of the ainur would be too hard to put on a screen

@@hazbojangles2681 We would have to join the god of Howard Shore with Hans Zimmer to compose the music of the ainur😂

@@hazbojangles2681 I think some of the tales could be filmed, like Beren and Luthien or the Children of Húrin. The latter would make a very dark movie, though.

i can see the horror in your eyes, what devilry have you witness my child 😅😁

Galadriel in Rings of power is awful.

@@amberlambert7040 actually watching this video after the show so far has put her character into deeper perspective for me. It didn't ruin anything by comparison it actually made it better lmao

@@amberlambert7040 Yes the writing is absolutely awful. The version of Galadriel in Rings of Power is terrible

@@blain147 Why? I think she is fine. She could be written a little better though.

Well said

the writers of the show care not for canon at all. Source material is a joke for these hacks. This new Galadriel is awful. It literally ruins the whole show.

Yup. It's unwatchable.

The Rings of Power aren’t able to use the Silmarillion, they can only use the LOTR and it’s appendices to create their stories, so it’s not going to fit exactly how Tolkien wrote everything unfortunately. They did mention Celeborn however and will be doing more with their relationship as the story goes on. I think Cate Blanchett does a better Galadriel for sure but it’s not the worst show I’ve seen.

Thousands* of years’ old mate. She’s supposedly 5,000 yrs old in the series which makes even less sense since she acts like she’s only 30 in the series

Tolkien was just not capable of writing a female hero though. He gave more time to Shelob than any other female in all his stuff.

A large faction of Elves decide to reject the protection of the *Valar* (plural). The group of Elves isn’t rejecting its own protection

@@ethanquirk28 By gum, you're right. That's what happens when I use videographs as background to other doings. Uphold the Friends of the Gerund!

@@ribos2762 I will shamelessly borrow words from your comments, "behold the lady of Lothlorien, the protector of the golden woods, the scourge of Orcs and Trolls, Galadriel the Barbarian!"

Tolkien described her young version as very proud and rebellious. I guess you haven't read the original work either

@@khristinas2117 thanks for correcting me, you’re right, I have only read TLOTR, The Hobbit and The Children of Hurin, Ill do it again with more attention I just felt a big disconnection with the cinema’s Galadriels and I get a little confused with elven ages, how old is “still young” for an elf?

@@khristinas2117 yes in VALINOR DAYS… The Amazon galadriel took place in 2nd age and she was thousands of years old already. Even in valinor days she was insightful and wise much wiser than feanor.

@@khristinas2117 Her young version BEFORE returning to Middle-earth was proud and rebellious. Like all of the few Noldor who survived the war with Morgoth, she learned a lot and was much changed by that war, and not in the way RoP portrays. As this video notes, she left Beleriand before the end of the war because she wanted nothing more to do with the war or with the sons of Fëanor.

@@khristinas2117 you are exquisitely incorrect as in the show, she is not young anymore. Also, her behavior isn't rebellious or proud. She is arrogant, crass, petulant, rude, disrespectful, childish, immature, and sooo many more terribly pathetic traits. The writers have butchered her and the entire show is a flop. a billion dollar dumpster fire.

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Lmao 🤣

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He would have deleted his amazon account and will go back to his coffin

@@mriganmasaikka1497 😂🤣👍️

He did with LotR mostly. Unfortunately, he had Faramir try to take Frodo and the Ring to Minas Tirith, just like his brother because he thought it made him more interesting. In the book, he had no interest in the Ring, which Tolkien wrote to contrast him with Boromir. Just one example, but for the most part, yeah. At least with LotR. With The Hobbit, he went full on Melkor in the Song of the Ainur.

So you're a racist? You *sound* like a racist.

The only thing the two elven women share is their name. Rings of Power is about a elven warrior Mary Sue who sometimes acts like a Karen, and Tolkien's Galadriel, who is a wise and powerful mage strong enough to bring down Dol Guldur's castle walls by herself!

Same. After checking, it seems Amazon's version not only doesn't use the primary source (the Silmarillion), but they've intentionally compressed the ages together and changed Galadriel's role in history. It's...unfortunate =/

The Amazon abortion is basically fan fiction by this point.

@@SD78 I wouldn't call Amazon's version a fan fiction because if a fan who has read and loves the Silmarillion and the LOTR trilogy would not have come up with the Amazon's version of Galadriel.

I never found her creepy. Only enthralling :)

I like how the elves and magic are mysterious and arcane in The Lord of The Rings. I think Peter Jackson's Galadriel helps a lot with that

To me she seemed scary powerful. Like you were either in awe or terrified of her. In the films I feel all the elven kingdom's were other worldly and I love that. I wish this new series would show some of that.

I don't think she was creepy at all

I'm pretty sure this came out way before ROP, also Amazon screwed the lore it seems

@@lazaf3848 yes. But the books came out way before any movies or cartoons it tv shows. I’m ok with people picking up the ball and running with it and taking the story further. Creating content that fills in gaps. As long as current information isn’t contradicted. There are moments in the books that might speak of moments and memories and incidences that mention Aragorns childhood. But it doesn’t speak of his everyday adventures. You could write a tv series on Aragorn. You could invent all kinds of stories and adventures. You could fill in that entire gap of unspoken moments. AS LONG ….. as your stories do not contradict what is already written. I’m no Tolkien expert. But I’m under the impression. More than just gaps are being filled. Thing are being changed. And to me ….. that is a no no. If your going to be successful while riding another coat tail. Don’t cut and mend the coat tail.

Modern feminism.

@@AppleManiagaming I think you're mistaking the importance of feminism with the mis-telling of a tale told by the men who pay for the show who have only Marvel and DC to show them what a truly powerful female really is. Leaving aside that feminism was likely the furthest thing from Tolkien's mind during the writing of his histories, and that its import it has on the lives of half the people on the planet , what goes wrong here isn't just the story and how badly it's handled but OUR perception of it as well. That said, Galadriel at the time of TROP is thousands of years younger than her LOTR self. By comparison, I'm 74 and a very different person from who I was at 30. Try to imagine that multiplied by hundreds of human generations. Assuming Elves mature at the same rate that they age and the many millennia of Galadriel's life takes on an entirely new perspective.

The funny thing is there was an Elf in Tolkien's works who was that driven, that rash, that proud.. it was Fëanor. Galadriel had a bit of that in her youth, then spent most of her life trying NOT to be like him.

@@brucetucker4847 Good observation.

@@DannyJane. But they don't mature at the same rate they age. This isn't the same galadriel from the books, this is a new character with her name slapped on.

that was a bad dream she had when she was a child

We watch the same show? She got picked up by a boat. Twice

@@Ren-hw4ne you know how many people get lost in the sea and we never find them again? a tiny teeny boat finding a woman in the middle of the ocean top writing

@@eastbow6053 it's fiction. How many elves do you know?

​@@Ren-hw4ne you're right! treat yourself to a cookie!

She and Nienna and Yavanna revive the two trees together.

It was. Ungoliant was a monster of unspecified nature, although it is strongly implied to be of a spider like form. It poisoned the trees and fled to Middle Earth with Morgoth where it then tried to kill him, it almost bested Morgoth until he called upon a host of Balrogs who helped him drive it off. Both Shelob and the giant spiders in Mirkwood are descended from it so Bilbo getting Sting in the troll horde was very fortuitous.

I thought Ungoliant ate the light of Telperin and Laurelin.

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yep, he came back from the dead and is about as old as galadriel

He appears in return of the King, but he’s in a Background shot. Pretty much my only gripe about Jackson’s movies. Would have loved to have seen more from him.

And I think Cirdan the Shipwright was also part of this council; the oldest Elf in Middle Earth.

I think movie viewers would have had a harder time understanding why such a mighty Elf warrior wasn't included in the Fellowship.

Granted, that’s her 8,000 years younger- and purportedly “athletic”

@@jennabaram6223 yes, but High elf is chanted with magical being, even if she is younger age should show us she kill the troll using her magic + sword skill and not Super Mario jump. also her face no expressions at all fighting such creature, try watch LOTR fellowship, they are scare, exhausted, and put alot effort to take down cave troll, while Legolas is in Anxious and Panic when his companions almost get slap by the troll, but Gimlin still busy whacking goblin avenging Moria, that funny as heck.

Who gives a crap.

@@carlosgarciasanchez people who immerse themselves in a fantasy world care a great deal because lore is important and things like this are “lore breaking” and take you out of the world. The lore breaking in Disney Star Wars has killed my interest in the Star Wars universe

@@gary36yo8313 well it is fantasy after all so chill out...

Like when she fought against Faenor in defense of the Teleri? Or when she defended Eregion? Her near single handed defense of Lothlorien during the third attack? Commanding forces of the Battle of Dul Guldur where she personally destroyed the walls and struck the death knell? Tolkein did nothing for Galadriel's story over time if not to expand her might.

Said lore directly contradict's Tolkien's book detailing the second age though, so Amazon's story is more just fanfiction put into a show format.

@@norrecvizharan1177 how so?

@@chell272 There's kinda too many things that were changed for me to put into one comment, but it's little things like how Galadriel's Brother was killed by a werewolf instead of by orcs, or even how black elves can't exist because elves are immune to weather and sunlight in general (therefore cannot tan and get darker skintones). Basically it's the equivalent of saying there can be human sized dwarves: just doesn't make sense based on how the race itself functions. Apparently they even glossed over the instigating incident behind the way by just mentioning Morgoth's destruction of the trees, forgetting to add in that the reason the elves sailed out to war was because they also stole other incredibly important things and killed one of the high kings of the elves. Basically though, the people behind the show just for whatever reason decided not to even get the rights to the Silmarillion (Tolkien's book on the second age), and have in interviews stated "they're making something from nothing", which all points to them just ignoring pre-established lore and coming up with their own stuff on a whim. And I mean, sure, I personally wouldn't have too much issue with it if things were written well, but dang, they decided to both portray the elves as idiots (immortal beings thinking a threat is gone just because they haven't seen it in a long while?) while also deciding to go out and call original fans racists and hateful for whatever reason. Also sorry for the rant, just irks me when a series is blatantly treated with disrespect.

​@@norrecvizharan1177 ​ no apology needed, though I disagree with your view that the source material was treated disrespectfully. The S.A. is Tolkein's least detailed age. The Silmarillion barely covers it, and his later works don't really _detail_ a lot of the personal stories and action of the age. I would imagine this is partially why the age was chosen in regard to 'Amazon doing their own thing.' Beyond that, every media so far (including and especially the Jackson movies) has taken a great deal of liberty with the source material. This show follows in Jackson's footsteps and tells these stories as action-adventure with a keen eye trained on the anticipated audience... *...there is plenty of reason why someone would really hate the show for its lack of loyalty to the source, but to not hate the movie for the same reasons is suspect.* .... Galadriel's brother's death didn't bother me (I wonder if it will be expanded on), black skin doesn't bother me because it's a nitpick (why even assume elf melanin is the same as human melanin? Arondir is an ethereally beautiful man - precisely what I'd imagine a black elven ranger looking like), a human sized dwarf wouldn't bother me either as long as it's a relatively short human - Thorin was over 5', the (pre-)F.A. was only briefly mentioned so far so I personally focus more on what is said than what is not said. And ftr, the elves _did_ disregard the threat of evil. Galadriel _was_ one of the only elves to believe there was still a viable threat and she was the only(?) elf that distrusted the creation of the rings (Celebrimbor being the craftsman has a certain irony Tolkein was more than aware of, right?) ...tbh, I'm quite in love with this idea of Galadriel as 'Cassandra' - what it looked like, what the consequences were, how it plays out as Elven glory goes from great heights thru a kind of dark age as Middle Earth heads toward the War of the Ring, and how she went from that to being a ring bearer whose power awed even the Maia and whose counsel would never be pushed aside. Two episodes in, I think _that_ story started by Tolkein is being respected. If you are a literary purist, that's one thing (these arguments were a thing in 2000 and beyond too) --- if you were able to put aside loyalty to Tolkein for the movies though, why not the show?

Still more accurate than what's in the Rings of Power show though, but yea, fair point.

@@norrecvizharan1177 They actually show exactly that. She migrates to Middle Earth in the first episode.

@Torsar It's in the Appendix, I forget where exactly. It's at the end of the yearly chronicle, I believe. Legolas and Gimli build a ship and travel to Valinor, where Galadriel uses her influence to get Gimli in.

yEP, after LoTR main story, Elessar (Aragorn and Arewn have kids, and eventually Elessar dies at 200 years or something.. In the meantime GImli took some of his people to Helm's Deep and settled in the caves there he discovered during that battle. Aglarond, I believe the name is. Later when Legolas finally gets suckered by the call of the sea, He goes back and grabs GImli and they sail away to Valinor. There's also some dispute over whether Samwise eventually took a ship for Valinor, as the very last of the Ringbearers in ME. If so, that was truly the last elven ship to leave ME. THe remainiing elves in the woodland areas never had the call to go.

@@mordechai- The Tale of Years.

Feanor only asked her for 1 she refused but she gave gimli 3 when he only asked her for 1 which is amazing

They can't for legal reasons.

Well that was wishful thinking

@@carlosgarciasanchez wait really? Why? I didnt know that

Yes. They should follow this. Because this wouldn't get them into a billion dollar lawsuit, genius.

@@MaxxSeemov whyyy

The ban was against all the Noldor, regardless of their part. Galadriel actually did NOT take part in the Kinslaying at Alqualondë and in fact loathed Feänor and his sons for it. The Elves slain there were of the Teleri which was the kin of her mother.

@@fogeltje And? I mean what does it change? The facts are: 1) she was one of the leaders thus making her responsible even though she did not took part in it herself nor though that she loathed Feanor afterwards.... 2) She was a very active and vocal leader and thus the ban was more strict for her than for the Noldor in general. Basically it was like "If you leave, you will be banned from returning", "We are leaving, we do not want to return, we can do it better,...." So I think that it would be nice to mention that she was in Middle Earth de facto in exile and it is fair to say that she was co-responsible for all the bad things that happen because of the Noldor leaving the Valinor...

@@radekhladik7895 the ban ended after the War of Wrath when the Valar forgave all the remaining Noldor. It had nothing to do with the actions of any one person proving themselves. Galadriel just happened to be the one leader of the Noldor who CHOSE to stay. Now there is the Lament of Lorien that you are talking about in which she thinks she can not go back but that is in my opinion her own personal matter with herself. Tolkien wrote conflicting things about this so we can argue all day about it. I would prefer to use common sense and ask why she would be banned when she did not take part in the kinslaying and was not one of Feanors kin who swore the Oath. It was all self imposed and could have ended anytime. Rejecting the ring is just what made her realize her reason for leaving was over.

@@radekhladik7895 She probably could have been allowed to go back, since her father Arafinwe or Finarfin and his host turned, but his children (finrod, aegnor, angrod, and galadriel) did not. It was her own choice to stay through all the ages

She didn't took part on those atrocities

It is Ring of BULLSHIT IS NON-CANNON

@@grimreaper3576 rings of diversity*

T series isnt cannon

The series is some made up bullshit

It's confirmed that the new series doesn't even have the rights to the Silmarillion, which was Tolkien's book detailing the second age, so essentially the Rings of Power is basically just a poorly written fanfiction put into show form.

I’m no lord of the rings expert, but makes sense. Gotta have a love story -so they gassed the hubby. Lol

@@norrecvizharan1177 silmarillion was the first and second age.

I mean, which version? The whole family tree changed around a lot over the course of Tolkien's life. IIRC Finrod was originally the name of the character who became Finarfin and her older brother was simply named Felagund.

And that Galadriel was second only to Feanor in power among the elves. She was mighty indeed, yet did not seek power.

I think the mightiest is Fingolfin while Feanor is the greatest craftman and Galadriel is the wisest.

@@artilleryjunky5737 Feanor is the mightiest Elf in all things to ever live. This has been stated in several different ways,

@@integritymatters5114 i'm pretty sure she followed feanor cause she wanted a kingdom of her own

@@TerroristNeutralizer Yea, Tolkien wrote Feaonor was strongest in hand mind and work of craft. He solo'd balrogs :O and only died when Gothmeg with a small army of balrogs surrounded him.

Yeah, she looks more like the shield maiden Lagertha in Vikings than an elf.

A friend is watching it and she keeps me updated & I get so annoyed my catchphrase has become "that didn't happen!"