'You are wise and fearless and fair, Lady Galadriel,' said Frodo. 'I will give you the One Ring, if you ask for it. It is too great a matter for me.' Galadriel laughed with a sudden clear laugh. 'Wise the Lady Galadriel may be,' she said, 'yet here she has met her match in courtesy.
Gently you are revenged for my testing of your heart at our first meeting. You begin to see with a keen eye. I do not deny that my heart has greatly desired to ask what you offer.
For many long years I had pondered what I might do, should the Great Ring come into my hand, and behold! It was brought within my grasp.
Galadriel All Shall Love Me And Despair
The evil that was devised long ago works on in many ways, whether Sauron himself stands or falls. Would not that have been a noble deed to set to the credit of his Ring, if I had taken it by force or fear from my guest?' And now at last it comes. 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!'
She lifted up her hand and from the ring that she wore there issued a great light that illuminated her alone and left all else dark. She stood before Frodo seeming now tall beyond measurement, and beautiful beyond enduring, terrible and worshipful. Then she let her hand fall, and the light faded, and suddenly she laughed again, and lo! She was shrunken: a slender elf-woman, clad in simple white, whose gentle voice was soft and sad.' I pass the test,' she said.
'I will diminish, and go into the West, and remain Galadriel.' QUOTE=Valar;n146813'You are wise and fearless and fair, Lady Galadriel,' said Frodo.
'I will give you the One Ring, if you ask for it. It is too great a matter for me.' Galadriel laughed with a sudden clear laugh. 'Wise the Lady Galadriel may be,' she said, 'yet here she has met her match in courtesy. Gently you are revenged for my testing of your heart at our first meeting.
You begin to see with a keen eye. I do not deny that my heart has greatly desired to ask what you offer.
For many long years I had pondered what I might do, should the Great Ring come into my hand, and behold! It was brought within my grasp. The evil that was devised long ago works on in many ways, whether Sauron himself stands or falls.
Would not that have been a noble deed to set to the credit of his Ring, if I had taken it by force or fear from my guest?' And now at last it comes.
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!' She lifted up her hand and from the ring that she wore there issued a great light that illuminated her alone and left all else dark. She stood before Frodo seeming now tall beyond measurement, and beautiful beyond enduring, terrible and worshipful.
Then she let her hand fall, and the light faded, and suddenly she laughed again, and lo! She was shrunken: a slender elf-woman, clad in simple white, whose gentle voice was soft and sad.' I pass the test,' she said. 'I will diminish, and go into the West, and remain Galadriel.' Frodo stared forlornly at Galadadriel and said in a voice tinged with sadness 'Really? So I offer you this WMD that you lot helped to make and you say you don't want it and are going to bugger off and leave us to it? Bloody Elves.Thanks for that!
'After a moment though he calmed down and asked 'You haven't got a light I could borrow have you?' QUOTEI always liked the full version.
Galadriel: from prologue It all began with the forging of the Great Rings. Three were given to the Elves; immortal, wisest and fairest of all beings. Seven, to the Dwarf Lords, great miners and craftsmen of the mountain halls. And nine, nine rings were gifted to the race of Men, who above all else desire power.
For within these rings was bound the strength and the will to govern over each race. But they were all of them deceived, for another ring was made. In the land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron forged in secret, a master ring, to control all others. And into this ring he poured all his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all life. One ring to rule them all.
One by one, the free peoples of Middle Earth fell to the power of the Ring. But there were some who resisted. A last alliance of men and elves marched against the armies of Mordor, and on the very slopes of Mount Doom, they fought for the freedom of Middle-Earth.
Victory was near, but the power of the ring could not be undone. It was in this moment, when all hope had faded, that Isildur, son of the king, took up his father's sword. And Sauron, enemy of the free peoples of Middle-Earth, was defeated. The Ring passed to Isildur, who had this one chance to destroy evil forever, but the hearts of men are easily corrupted. And the ring of power has a will of its own. It betrayed Isildur, to his death. And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost.
History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge. Until, when chance came, the ring ensnared a new bearer. The ring came to the creature Gollum, who took it deep into the tunnels under the Misty Mountains, and there it consumed him. The ring gave to Gollum unnatural long life. For five hundred years it poisoned his mind; and in the gloom of Gollum's cave, it waited.
Darkness crept back into the forests of the world. Rumor grew of a shadow in the East, whispers of a nameless fear, and the Ring of Power perceived. Its time had now come. It abandoned Gollum.
But then something happened that the Ring did not intend. It was picked up by the most unlikely creature imaginable. A Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, of the Shire. For the time will soon come when Hobbits will shape the fortunes of all. Arwen: Do you remember when we first met?Aragorn: I thought I had wandered into a dream.Arwen: Long years have passed. You did not have the cares you carry now.
Do you remember what I told you?Aragorn: You said you'd bind yourself to me, forsaking the immortal life of your people.Arwen: And to that I hold. I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.hands him her pendantArwen: I choose a mortal life.Aragorn: You cannot give me this.Arwen: It is mine to give to whom I will. Like my heart. first linesGaladriel: The world is changed. I feel it in the water.
I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it. It began with the forging of the Great Rings. Three were given to the Elves, immortal, wisest and fairest of all beings. Seven to the Dwarf lords, great miners and craftsmen of the mountain halls. And nine, nine rings were gifted to the race of Men, who, above all else, desire power.
But they were, all of them, deceived, for another ring was made. In the land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron forged in secret a Master Ring, to control all others. And into this ring he poured his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all life. One Ring to rule them all! Elrond: His strength returns.Gandalf: That wound will never fully heal.
He will carry it the rest of his life.Elrond: And yet, to have come so far, still bearing the Ring, the Hobbit has shown extraordinary resilience to its evil.Gandalf: It is a burden he should never have had to bear. We can ask no more of Frodo.Elrond: Gandalf, the enemy is moving. Sauron's forces are massing in the East; his eye is fixed on Rivendell. And Saruman, you tell me, has betrayed us.
Our list of allies grows thin.Gandalf: His treachery runs deeper than you know. By foul craft, Saruman has crossed Orcs with goblin men. He's breeding an army in the caverns of Isengard. An army that can move in sunlight and cover great distance at speed. Saruman is coming for the Ring.Elrond: This evil cannot be concealed by the power of the Elves. We do not have the strength to withstand both Mordor and Isengard.
Gandalf, the Ring cannot stay here. This evil belongs to all of Middle-Earth. They must decide now how to end it. The time of the Elves is over, my people are leaving these shores.
Who will you look to when we've gone? They toil away in caverns, seeking riches. They care nothing for the troubles of others.Gandalf: It is in Men that we must place our hope.Elrond: Men?
Men are weak. The Blood of Numenor is all but spent, its pride and dignity forgotten. It is because of Men the Ring survives. I was there, Gandalf. I was there three thousand years ago.
I was there the day the strength of Men failed.Elrond: scene switches to a flashback of Elrond and Isildur Isildur, hurry, follow me.Elrond: voiceover I led Isildur deep into the fires of Mount Doom, where the Ring was forged, the one place it could be destroyed.Elrond: Cast it into the fire! Destroy it!Isildur: No.walks awayElrond: Isildur!cuts back to presentElrond: Isildur kept the Ring.
It should have ended that day, but evil was allowed to endure. There's no strength left in the world of Men. They're scattered, divided, leaderless.Gandalf: There is one who could unite them.
One who could reclaim the throne of Gondor.Elrond: He turned from that path a long time ago. He has chosen exile. holding the Ring out to Frodo after dropping it in the fireGandalf: Hold out your hand, Frodo. It's quite cool.Drops the Ring into Frodo's palmGandalf: What do you see? Can you see anything?Frodo: Nothing. There's nothing.Gandalf sighs in reliefFrodo: Wait.
There are markings. It's some form of Elvish, I can't read it.Gandalf: There are few who can. The language is the that of Mordor, which I will not utter here.Frodo: Mordor?Gandalf: In the common tongue it reads 'One Ring to Rule Them All. One Ring to Find Them. One Ring to Bring Them All and In The Darkness Bind Them.' Galadriel: I know what it is you saw, for it is also in my mind.telepathicallyGaladriel: It is what will come to pass, If you should fail.
The Fellowship is breaking, it has already begun. He will try to take the Ring, you know of whom I speak. One by one, it will destroy them.Frodo: telepathically If you ask it of me, I will give you the One Ring.Galadriel: You offer it to me freely? I do not deny that my heart has greatly desired this.starts to grow darkGaladriel: In the place of a Dark Lord you would have a Queen! Not dark but beautiful and terrible as the Morn!
Treacherous as the Seas! Stronger than the foundations of the Earth! All shall love me and despair!she stopsGaladriel: I have passed the test. I will diminish, and go into the West, and remain Galadriel.Frodo: I cannot do this alone.Galadriel: You are a Ring-bearer, Frodo. To bear a Ring of Power is to be alone.pulls out her handGaladriel: This is Nenya, the Ring of Adamant. And I am it's keeper. This task was appointed to you, and if you do not find a way, no one will.Frodo: I know what I must do, it's just that.
I'm afraid to do it.Galadriel: Even the smallest person can change the course of the future. Gandalf: There is one other who knew Bilbo had the Ring. I looked everywhere for the creature Gollum, but the enemy found him first. I don't know how long they tortured him, but through the endless screams and inane babble, they discerned two words:Gollum: SHIRE! BAGGINS!Frodo: Shire? But that would lead them here!Cuts to a Ringwraith cutting off a Hobbit's headFrodo: holding out the Ring Take it Gandalf!Gandalf backs awayFrodo: Take it!Gandalf: No, Frodo.Frodo: You must take it!Gandalf: You cannot offer me this ring!Frodo: I'm giving it to you!Gandalf: Don't.
Tempt me Frodo! I dare not take it. Not even to keep it safe. Understand, Frodo.
I would use this ring from a desire to do good. But through me, it would wield a power too great and terrible to imagine.
Boromir: My father is a noble man, but his rule is failing, and our people lose faith. He looks to me to make things right and I would do it.
I would see the glory of Gondor restored. Have you ever seen it, Aragorn? The White Tower of Ecthelion, glimmering like a spike of pearl and silver, its banners caught high in the morning breeze.
Have you ever been called home by the clear ringing of silver trumpets?Aragorn: I have seen the White City, long ago.Boromir: One day, our paths will lead us there. And the tower guard shall take up the call: 'The Lords of Gondor have returned.' Gandalf snatches Sam, who was sneaking aroundGandalf: Confound it all, Samwise Gamgee. Have you been eavesdropping?Sam: I ain't been droppin' no eaves sir, honest. I was just cutting the grass under the window there, if you'll follow me.Gandalf: A little late for trimming the verge, don't you think?Sam: I heard raised voices.Gandalf: What did you hear? Speak.Sam: N-nothing important.
That is, I heard a good deal about a ring, and a Dark Lord, and something about the end of the world, but. Gandalf, sir, don't hurt me. Don't turn me into anything. Elrond: Strangers from distant lands, friends of old, you have been summoned here to answer the threat of Mordor. Middle Earth stands upon the brink of destruction; none can escape it.
Star wars old republic movie. You will unite or you will fall. Each race is bound to this fate, this one doom. Bring forth the ring, Frodo.Boromir: Frodo puts the ring on a stand for all to see So it is true.
In a dream, I saw the Eastern sky grow dark. But in the West, a pale light lingered. A voice was crying, 'The doom is near at hand, Isildur's Bane is found.' reaches for the RingBoromir: Isildur's Bane.Aragorn: Boromir!Gandalf: speaking the words engraved on the Ring Ash Nazg Durbatuluk, Ash Nazg Gimbatul, Ash Nazg Thrakatuluk, Agh Burzum-ishi Krimpatul.the light darkens and the air rumbles; Boromir backs away from the RingElrond: Never before has anyone dared utter words of that tongue here, in Imladris.Gandalf: I do not ask for pardon, Master Elrond, for the Black Speech of Mordor may yet be heard in every corner of the West! The Ring is altogether evil.Boromir: is a gift. A gift to the foes of Mordor. Why not use this ring?
Long has my father, the Steward of Gondor, kept the forces of Mordor at bay. By the blood of our people are your lands kept safe. Give Gondor the weapon of the enemy. Let us use it against him.Aragorn: You cannot wield it.
None of us can. The One Ring answers to Sauron alone. It has no other master.Boromir: And what would a Ranger know of this matter?Legolas: This is no mere Ranger. He is Aragorn, son of Arathorn. You owe him your allegiance.Boromir: Aragorn? This is Isildur's heir?Legolas: And heir to the throne of GondorAragorn: Elvish Sit down, Legolas.Boromir: Gondor has no King.
Gondor needs no King.Gandalf: Aragorn is right. We cannot use it.Elrond: You have only one choice. The Ring must be destroyed.Gimli: Then what are we waiting for?He strikes the ring with his axe; the axe breaks, leaving the ring intactElrond: The ring cannot be destroyed, Gimli, son of Gloin, by any craft that we here possess. The ring was made in the fires of Mount Doom. Only there can it be unmade. The ring must be taken deep into Mordor and cast back into the fiery chasm from whence it came. One of you must do this.Boromir: One does not simply walk into Mordor.
Its black gates are guarded by more than just Orcs. There is evil there that does not sleep. The great Eye is ever watchful. It is a barren wasteland, riddled with fire, ash, and dust. The very air you breathe is a poisonous fume. Not with ten-thousand men could you do this. It is folly.Legolas: Have you heard nothing Lord Elrond has said?
The ring must be destroyed!Gimli: And I suppose you think you're the one to do it?Boromir: And if we fail, what then? What happens when Sauron takes back what is his?Gimli: I will be dead before I see the Ring in the hands of an Elf! Never trust an Elf!
Gandalf: I think you should leave the ring behind, Bilbo. Is that so hard?Bilbo: Well, no.frowningBilbo.and yes. Now it comes to it, I don't feel like parting with it. It's mine, I found it.
It came to me!Gandalf: There's no need to get angry.Bilbo: Well, if I'm angry, it's your fault.to himselfBilbo.it's mine. My precious.Gandalf: Precious? It's been called that before, but not by you.Bilbo: Oh, what business is it of yours what I do with my own things?Gandalf: I think you've had that ring quite long enough.Bilbo: You want it for yourself!Gandalf: BILBO BAGGINS! Do not take me for some conjuror of cheap tricks! I am not trying to rob you. I'm trying to help you.
Galadriel All Shall Love Me And Despair
Frodo wanders in the woods. Boromir comes up behind him, gathering woodBoromir: None of us should wander alone, you least of all. I know you suffer, I see it day by day. Are you sure you do not suffer needlessly?
There are other ways, Frodo, other paths we might take.Frodo: I know what you would say, and it would seem like wisdom, but for the warning in my heart.Boromir: Warning? Against what? We are all afraid, Frodo. But to let that fear drive us to destroy what hope we have. Don't you see?
That is madness!Frodo: There is no other way.Boromir: I ask only for the strength to defend my people!approaches FrodoBoromir: If you would but lend me the Ring.Frodo: backs away No!Boromir: Why do you recoil? I am no thief.Frodo: You are not yourself.Boromir: What chance do you think you have?
They will find you. They will take the Ring. And you will beg for death before the end! Gandalf: For sixty years, the Ring lay quiet in Bilbo's keeping, prolonging his life, delaying old age.
But no longer, Frodo. Evil is stirring in Mordor. The Ring has awoken. It's heard its Master's call.Frodo: But he was destroyed.
Sauron was destroyed.Gandalf: No, Frodo. The spirit of Sauron endured. His life force is bound to the Ring and the Ring survived. Sauron has returned. His Orcs have multiplied. His fortress of Barad-Dur is rebuilt in the land of Mordor. Sauron needs only this Ring to cover all the lands with a second darkness.
He is seeking it, seeking it, all his thought is bent on it. The Ring yearns to go home, to return to the hand of its Master. They are one, the Ring and the Dark Lord. Frodo, he must never find it.
“On two chairs beneath the bole of the tree and canopied by a living bough there sat, side by side, Celeborn and Galadriel. Very tall they were, and the Lady no less tall than the Lord; and they were grave and beautiful. They were clad wholly in white; and the hair of the Lady was of deep gold, and the hair of the Lord Celeborn was of silver long and bright; but no sign of age was upon them, unless it were in the depths of their eyes; for these were keen as lances in the starlight, and yet profound, the wells of deep memory.”―J.R.R.
“It is said that the skill of the Dwarves is in their hands rather than in their tongues,’ she said; ‘yet that is not true of Gimli. For none have ever made to me a request so bold and yet so courteous.
And how shall I refuse, since I commanded him to speak? But tell me, what would you do with such a gift?’‘Treasure it, Lady,’ he answered, ‘in memory of your words to me at our first meeting. And if ever I return to the smithies of my home, it shall be set in imperishable crystal to be an heirloom of my house, and a pledge of good will between the Mountain and the Wood until the end of days.”―J.R.R.
Besides being one of the most beautifully shot scenes I've seen in the last 20 years, the transformation of Galadriel into the Drowned Elf is hauntingly beautiful an the final line Cate Blanchette delivers is sublime. “All shall love me and despair.” As I interpreted it, she would not had bowed to the will of Sauron but would had claimed the power herself and ruled over Middle Earth. I based this on the fact the one ring seems to have a will of its own and even Sauron is extremely jealous of powerful beings possibly getting it. Now this may be on my incorrect interpretation that the ring servers the ruler of MORDOR, not Sauron. And Galadriel, as powerful as she is (She destroyed a fortress on her own for instance) would had been able to take Mordor if she was in possession of the one ring. (Again, the one ring can make a weak fool invisible, but a truly higher being invincible, even if it has a corrupting influence). So am I wrong in thinking that her being the 2nd or 3rd most powerful being in Middle Earth, she could had wielded the ring “Successfully” and not fallen to the corruption?Also she has one of the elf rings, and has resisted its corruption since the 2nd age.
The Ring corrupts. Even Gandalf, a Maia, didn't trust himself to use it properly although his intentions were good.It serves Sauron because he poured a lot of his own power into it, and so its going to be tied to his will. Maybe Galadriel can use it to overthrow Sauron and maybe she can take his place on the throne, but the Ring would still eventually, somewhere down the line, convert her to Sauron's way of thinking. Saruman was corrupted and he never even saw the thing. Since we're talking hypothetically, maybe she has a chance to use it for good and good only, but even in the best of circumstances that chance is incredibly slim. I just don't see it happening.There's also the matter of Sauron being alive as long as the Ring exists, so he'd still be able to cause a mess of problems.
He doesn't need the Ring on his finger to command the Nazgul or the orc legions, for instance.Also, as a small point, the three elven rings were completely free of corruption, since Sauron had no hand in their making, so Galadriel wasn't resisting any corruption by wearing her ring. Cried Gandalf, springing to his feet. 'With that power I should have power too great and terrible.
And over me the Ring would gain a power still greater and more deadly.' His eyes flashed and his face was lit as by a fire within. 'Do not tempt me!
For I do not wish to become like the Dark Lord himself. Yet the way of the Ring to my heart is by pity, pity for weakness and the desire of strengh to do good. Do not tempt me! I dare not take it, not even to keep it safe, unused.
The wish to wield it would be to great for my strength. I shall have such need of it.
Great perils lie before me.' Nah she'd just become Hela lol.Seriously though, of course not. The whole point of Lord of the Rings is that pursuit of power leads to failure. There's a line in The Hobbit, one of the few good things about that series of films that shouldn't have been made, about how you shouldn't really fight strength with strength, and that it's the little things, the small everyday kindnesses that keep the forces of evil at bay. That's what's at the heart of LotR, and that entire universe.If you can stomach the Silmarillion, you see that the elves and man and the dwarves waste millenia trying to take down Morgoth and failing miserably.
The only time war was ever successful was when the Valar (the gods, essentially) came and stopped him. Otherwise attempts at war just led to strife among the people, death, and ultimately defeat at the hands of whoever was the main dark lord at the time.
That's why the important mission was Frodo, not Aragorn.Edit: The Tom Bombadil solution btw was always stupid. Do remember the Ring had a weird way of always finding its way in the hands of someone that would abuse it.
I can't lie, I find the way many LOTR fans approach it to be both fascinating and kinda weird.Sorry for being 'that guy', but this is a book, a work of fiction, if Tolkien wanted her to wield it then yeah, she could. Even if you take the reductive view of world consistency and nothing else, the ring and its powers is so vaguely defined that you can write pretty much anything and keep the internal logic of the world. But the whole point of that scene is that she can't, like, that's the whole reason why it's there, to justify the fact that this is a burden for Frodo to bear. So yeah, I guess she could, but you would have had a very different story if she did.