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But he also doesn’t intuit how critical Merry and Pippin would prove to the Quest to destroy the Ring. And that’s true.įor example, his concern for welfare of The Shire is not at all misplaced. I could see some pointing out that Elrond also has a mighty foresight. So … it’s probably not the destruction of the Two Trees. Yet he also clearly believes that Galadriel had always possessed a native foresight of her own. Scholar Michael Martinez suggests that - at that point - Galadriel’s reach may have been increased since she was able to use the Ring of Adamant, Nenya freely. Do you wish to look?” The Mirror of Galadriel, The Lord of the Rings

But which it is that he sees, even the wisest cannot always tell. For it shows things that were, and things that are, things that yet may be.

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What you will see, if you leave the Mirror free to work, I cannot tell. But the Mirror will also show things unbidden, and those are often stranger and more profitable than things which we wish to behold.

“Many things I can command the Mirror to reveal,” she answered, “and to some I can show what they desire to see. This, after all, is how Sam is able to see a vision of The Shire getting, let us say, redeveloped. Here, fellow-staffer Garfeimao cleverly suggests that we should keep in mind that Galadriel has powers of foresight. Perhaps it’s some Second Age event around or during timeline that The Rings of Power covers. If it’s not something in Galadriel’s (distant) past, what is it then? Key teaser image 2: Galadriel seemingly gazes on this scene. Further, whatever Galadriel is looking on seems to centre on something that looks like a tower, or a fortress. There’s a the red-hued background, flickering embers pass behind Galadriel, and there are bodies that seem to hang in space. That’s very unlike what we see in the Rings of Power trailer scene. The assault causes a vast, ever-expanding gloom and darkness, and it is entirely unexpected and unanticipated. The Silmarillion describes that Laurelin and Telperion wither as Ungoliant drains them of life. I broached this with fellow staffers, suggesting that only one thing in Galadriel’s history is truly incomparable: the destruction of the Two Trees by Morgoth and Ungoliant.īut, generally, we agree that the description of that event given in The Silmarillion is a poor match for the imagery from the scenes that Galadriel’s voice-over cuts across in the trailer. Even were you to place Galadriel at the Nirnaeth Arnoediad (I wouldn’t), or the Dagor Bragollach (a big stretch, but I do wonder if the showrunners might), it’s just not comparable. Let’s say your preferred canon is that Galadriel remained in Doriath into the later stages of the First Age (one option CJRT outlines in Unfinished Tales), the sacking of Menegroth doesn’t remotely meet that benchmark. It is, quite literally, a world-changing event. Later, an entire sub-continent sinks as a result. A dragon falls on and destroys a mountain chain. And yet not so many, nor so fair, as when Thangorodrim was broken…” The Council of Elrond, The Lord of the RingsĪrguably that’s the defining event of the First Age (even if it’s the most-sketchily recorded). “It recalled to me the glory of the Elder Days and the hosts of Beleriand, so many great princes and captains were assembled. “I remember well the splendour of their banners,” he said. Elrond declares “I have seen my share” … with some justification. It’s implicit in his statement during the Council of Elrond when he speaks of the Last Alliance. It’s also likely that Elrond was involved in the The War of Wrath and present at Thangorodrim for the defeat of Morgoth at the conclusion of the First Age. So you wouldn’t think that Galadriel means something similar, like that one time at Aqualondë when Fëanor decided to requisition some boats (or, later, when he decided to use said boats for tinder on the beach at Losgar). This is some Grave of the Fireflies-scale trauma. Sometime later, said kin, seemingly, abandon him in favour of some shiny gems. Well, even by the first year of the Second Age, Elrond had seen and endured quite a bit: extended parental absences and the wholly unwarranted slaughter of family and friends by kinfolk who subsequently adopt him (and his twin brother). Key teaser discussion image 1: Galadriel gazes on something. Right now, nothing about our shiny, new Rings of Power trailer is exercising my mind more than Galadriel’s statement to Elrond “You’ve not seen what I’ve seen”.

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