I don't get the part in the Lord of the Rings where the elf queen goes wierd!


Question: and frodo offers her the ring, and she goes 'MORE POWERFULL THAN YOU COULD EVER IMAGIEN' ...you know the bit? then she says she's passed some kind of a test and she's going to dissapperate to the east, what the hell is going on in this bit?
what test? what west? is she going to die or something?


Answers: and frodo offers her the ring, and she goes 'MORE POWERFULL THAN YOU COULD EVER IMAGIEN' ...you know the bit? then she says she's passed some kind of a test and she's going to dissapperate to the east, what the hell is going on in this bit?
what test? what west? is she going to die or something?

You mean Galadriel, the Elf queen of Lothlorien.

Let me tell you a short summary of her history:
The west that she is talking about is Valinor: a land of eternal beauty. She came from that land but she was banished along with her brothers because they do against the Valar. They went to Middle Earth to search a stolen artifact but Galadriel seems to be not interested with the quest. She stayed in Dolion Meriath with Melian (a Maiar, like a valar but lesser). She dreamed a land of her own to rule. Then some time later she went to different places until she found Lothlorien and there she became the queen.

If Galadriel took the ring from frodo then she will have enough power to overthro sauron and become the new dark lord. When she resisted power, the ban on her was lifted. Now sshe can go back to Valinor...

She passed the test of the temptation of the Ring (she rejected the offer to take it instead of becoming the dark, scary, crazy queen she turned into for those moments).

She's going into the West (Valinor), or out of middle earth and to a different land, to leave this world for the dominion of men.

She was tempted by the Ring of Power, she wanted it but she knew she couldn't take it. I suppose she gave in for that brief moment.

She looked sooo hot when she freaked out like that. Meow!

Intellectually we can say "I would not do that, even if they paid me enough", but if the situation really came up, how cheap would we sell ourselves for?
What if it was not money? Power? Sex? Love? Drugs?

The queen had decided intellectually that the ring was death in the end to anyone that wielded it, but like heroin to a former addict the temptation is sometimes stronger than the will to live.
She had already passed the first test: having Frodo in her power (unconscious) and she did not steal the ring from him.

Now he was offering it to her willingly...
Maybe she could USE it for GOOD; maybe she was STRONG enough to fight the urge to become corrupted. Maybe it was her DESTINY to be come QUEEN of the whole world and FORCE them all to be HAPPY.

But she overcame the self-justifying temptations and resisted the addiction.

PS: In some ways I actually prefer the animated movie Wizards (Ralph Batchi) and its story of good versus evil.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0076929/

She wanted it as she thought she may have had the power to use it for good. You see her kinda debating with herself over the matter and decide that it is an evil ring and no good could come of using it. With the ring and the power she already has she would become a "queen, stronger than the foundations of the Earth".

That was her final test, the reason she is still where she is. Her part to play in the war of the ring, so to speak. She could now journey into the west where all of the other elves are going, to leave Middle Earth in the hands of mortal men. She will remain Galadriel, who she already is, and not the all powerful queen she could have become.

She is displaying to Frodo what would happen if she took possession of the ring. He was trying to give it to her rather than carrying it himself.

The West is the Undying Lands where the Elves are heading since their time on Earth is drawing to a close, similar to heaven. Elves are immortal unless killed in battle so she won't die.

She is really very old. Some thousands years ago she was one of the leaders of rebellious elves who wanted to leave Valinor to rule mortal lands. The sea elves though refused to transport them to the East, and the rebellious elves killed them and took the ships by force. So, Galadriel committed one of the worst crimes in Valinor because of her hunger for power.

She is the bearer of one of the great rings of power. As such, she is more in tune with the influence of the ring. The ring offers you the things you desire most in the world (Galadriel wanted to be loved by everyone, Sam wanted to make the shire a garden, Gollum was to be King Gollum and eat fish everyday). To resist this power and remain the person that she is was the test. She knew she had the strength to take and use the ring. But the greater strength was not to take it and to retain her own identity.



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