Voice of Nature

theastrayandfound

“Once upon a time there was a little hobbit who dreamed of a house under a hill. And because the ground was as hard as stone from the frost and he was only 10 years old and therefore a little young to be planning to build a house, he built it without further ado with his sister from the abundant snow.❄
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Since then he has somewhat outgrown the hobbit proportions, only the hairy feet, the sparse beard growth and the insatiable appetite have remained - and of course the dream of a house under a hill, with a round door, low ceilings and quaint rooms. And because the time for planning a house still had not yet come and the snow was deep again, he built a hobbit house from snow again - only this time with his hobbit lady.❤”

middle-earth-mythopoeia:

middle-earth-mythopoeia:
Uh, guys? Don’t confuse your crappy televised fanfic for the story that Tolkien actually wrote.
Galadriel was never “under Sauron’s thrall.” That’s something ROP made up. In Unfinished Tales, she was the only one in Eregion who suspected that Annatar was lying about being an emissary of the Valar. Celebrimbor was deceived by him. She was not. She was certainly not “under his thrall.” No, not even because she had Nenya.
Yes, when Frodo offered her the One Ring, she was tempted. It could have given her the power to prevent the fading of Lothlórien. But when she makes this speech in the book, and in the Peter Jackson movies, it’s her own thought, she’s not repeating something that Sauron said to her once:
“You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!”
These are Galadriel’s words. Her words. Not Sauron’s. And she was tempted by the One Ring because she could have been a more powerful queen, not Sauron’s queen. Like, you guys really took one of the most powerful and complex female characters in Tolkien’s works and you made her story all about a man and his power over her and his manipulation of her. Fuck off.
And stop tagging ROP as Lord of the Rings.
Your tags passed peer review. And yes that is EXACTLY what Amazon did, they tried to make Galadriel’s speech where she overcomes the ultimate temptation about that wet cat of a man. ROP had a scene where he asks her to be his queen (never mind that Sauron would never share power) and says he’ll make her stronger than the foundations of the earth, etc., retroactively making it seem like her speech in FOTR is a callback to that. The loathing I feel for the Amazon writers is unparalleled.