Galadriel

He's an elf, and dying is complicated, but we're not going to get into that now.

Finrod's sister, Galadriel, has taken up his search and finds a frozen keep in the northern wastelands with Sauron's mark on it, where it looks like he was doing some power over the flesh experiments.

But Gil-Galid, the High King of the Elves, is uninterested and tries to retire Galadriel to Valinor, the Undying Lands, which is complicated, but we're not going to get into that now.

Galadriel rebels and jumps ship and is rescued by a raft of human Southlanders who are quickly killed by a sea monster, except for...

Halbrand, very attractive, very attractive man, is there on the boat, raft.

He and Galadriel are picked up by Elendil and brought to Numenor, where they don't like elves like they used to.

Galadriel wants to charter a ship back to Middle-earth, but Queen Regent Muriel says no. Rewind back in the Southlands, where humans are still reeling from the wars of other beings and where the elves have pulled back from leaving just an old watchtower and an elf named Erandir.

Erandir has an elf crush on a human healer, Bronwyn, who is raising a son named Theo, whose hair miraculously is always covering the tops of his ears.

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yes! Or perhaps the Galadriel form? You would have a queen! And just the pale, fluttering, you know, otherworldly, ethereal kind of thing.

Seeing them in the spirit realm? Or are you more of like, no, I'm just a void of energy in a female form?

no on more the she's glowing with necromantic energy sort of Galadriel kind of hot necromancer dialed up to 11

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Oh, yeah.

And Galadriel appears to be exception to this pattern because she also saw the great wave.

But unless the showrunners are making some massive changes, she will not be overwhelmed by it herself.

Earin also touched the Palantir, but we don't know what she saw yet.

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this, Sara? I do hope that they don't have Galadriel on Numenor when the Great Wave comes.

That would just make zero sense.

And these elves, they don't trust Muriel.

They see them talking to Galadriel.

So we not only have the tension between the elves and the men that's starting to build, but between the citizens of Numenor and their royalty.

They don't find them worth their time.

That was a great choice.

I don't know if I can top this, but I have to, this is the character that most defines the series, both for the choices made for how the The writers took a bland, boring, lifeless character that we'd seen before and changed it into a courageous, relational, young warrior that clearly we all love.

And that, of course, everybody, that, of course, is Galadriel.

And I think that her... impact on the show can't be measured by just um people who watch it right i mean it's measured by how much they changed her from from who we know because as we said before we move forward we get better and so i the four four things about her that that's by the

You see Sauron shaping the ring.

You get a little tease of Galadriel and Celeborn, their reunion, which you'll see them when they're older in Lord of the Rings.

You see Durin being crowned.

You see the transformation of Gandalf.

You see Sauron shaping the ring.

You get a little tease of Galadriel and Celeborn, their reunion, which you'll see them when they're older in Lord of the Rings.

You see Durin being crowned.

You see the transformation of Gandalf.

And so I'm re-watching it.

And the first words out of his mouth when he meets Galadriel, you know what they are? Looks can be deceiving.

And I'm watching this show and I'm like, how did I miss this? How did I miss this gun on the counter? But now I have eyes to see and I'm watching this show and I'm seeing all of it.

I'm like, how did I miss that? And how did I miss that? You see, what all this leads to for us is this, and this is kind of the message in a sentence, if you will, is that the cross makes sense when Jesus teaches us the story that made it necessary.

or rather a way to approach life differently.

At the end of the book, you'll be more Aragorn and more Galadriel and more Frodo and more Sam and more Gandalf.

They flesh out the gospel in an imaginative way.

That's why it's the greatest Catholic story of all time, I'd argue.