Tolkienism Saturday

Galadriel

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!”

Now in this age of terrible power, the power to ban those who dissent, censor everyday men and women asking honest questions, and unperson those who don’t think the same as tyrants do, to destroy their lives, hopes, and freedoms and demand they love you… or else, now I understand the brilliance of this stunning speech, and the quiet wisdom of the elf queen.

“I pass the test”, she said. “I will diminish, and go into the West and remain Galadriel.”