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Spoilers Lord of the Rings TV series

A harridan is a "strict, bossy, or belligerent old woman", according to the dictionary. This Galadriel is all of those. She needs taking down a peg or twelve. Perhaps when she creates her mirror, she'll discover that Finrod is alive in Valinor and that she could have been reunited with him, her parents Finarfin and Eärwen, and Finrod's betroathed Amarië if she hadn't jumped overboard hundreds of years earlier. Her real reason for jumping ship should be that she wanted to have her own realm in Middle-earth but this series gives her different motivations from the Galadriel in the book and that Galadriel never took that voyage anyway. Becoming a powerful sorceress isn't indicated at all yet. I expect she has yet to meet the people who will form that ambition within her.
Women aren't supposed to be strict or bossy or belligerent, that's men stuff. This is a derailing point, anyway. I just find it a needlessly sexist descriptor.
 
Did anyone else raise an eyebrow when Galadriel simply jumped overboard and started swimming the entire sea back towards M.E.?

Talk about galactically stupid writing / plotting...
 
Did anyone else raise an eyebrow when Galadriel simply jumped overboard and started swimming the entire sea back towards M.E.?

Talk about galactically stupid writing / plotting...

In what way? She knew she could make the swim easily being an Elf. She felt the call of the evilness. There was no other choice.

And for those that say she wouldn't be able to, I remind you, a Man, Aragorn, a Dwarf, Gimli, and an Elf, Legolas ran for 3 days non-stop without eating.

This is Middle-Earth, not Earth.
 
Did anyone else raise an eyebrow when Galadriel simply jumped overboard and started swimming the entire sea back towards M.E.?

Talk about galactically stupid writing / plotting...

I'm not 100% up on my Tolkien lore, but since Elves literally cannot die, was she in any real danger by doing this?
 
Women aren't supposed to be strict or bossy or belligerent, that's men stuff. This is a derailing point, anyway. I just find it a needlessly sexist descriptor.

I'm not sure there's a male equivalent for harridan, or shrewish. Women are bossy, men are just assertive after all. Galadriel is acting no different to plenty of revenge obsessed male fictional characters over the years, and lest we forget, she's clearly right.

Anyhoo I'm not the biggest LOTR fans in the world, never read the books (have read The Hobbit) and enjoyed the films though haven't re-watched any of them in a long time. For me I want to see more Galadriel (Clark is a fine actor) more Elrond, and definitely more dwarves. I could do with fewer Fairhaven hobbits however.
 
I'm not sure there's a male equivalent for harridan, or shrewish. Women are bossy, men are just assertive after all. Galadriel is acting no different to plenty of revenge obsessed male fictional characters over the years, and lest we forget, she's clearly right.
Exactly. She's a driven character-period.

For me I want to see more Galadriel (Clark is a fine actor) more Elrond, and definitely more dwarves. I could do with fewer Fairhaven hobbits however.
Galadriel is fine. Definitely more Elrond, and surprising myself, I want more Dwarves. I hated Gimli in the original films and did not care for the Dwarves in the books, but the Hobbit films warmed me up to the Dwarves as a whole. Elrond and Durin and family is more than justifying the price of admission for the series already.

Yes to less Hobbits.
 
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But I wuvs them.

I am hoping Nori is going to be a big part of the show. In my opinion, Markella Kavenagh and Morfydd Clark have done the nest acting jobs so far. But seriously, everyone has been fine.
I will be seriously reserved on the Hobbits until Meteor Man is revealed. It could go either way but I am not personally taken by them. The acting is fine and works just fine in terms of characters. I just find the Hobbits less interesting right now. Could change.
 
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