Reading the previous posts, something came to my mind.
Theres a BIG resemblance between Sauron's and Galadriel's power. Not in quantity (obviously, Sauron's was greater because he was a maia) but in terms of what it did.
Both of them read minds. Both of them searched for a man's weakness and laid it bare. Both of them got into their victim's mind and completely and utterly diminish them. Gandalf said that being a Sauron's captive was like having your mind puppeted and manipulated by a terrible Evil Mind. Sam, Boromir, etc., felt the same thing when they encountered Galadriel in Lothlorien: as if they had been deprived of all the barriers of their mind and were laid bare before her...
And, more to Galadriel's favour, she was able to see what Sauron thought, and with taht knowledge, she manipulated him (in some way).
The Lady of the Wood impresses me more and more...
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"In place of a Dark Lord you will have a Queen! Not dark but beatiful and terrible as the Dawn! Treacherous as the sea! Stronger than the foundations of the Earth! All shall love me and despair!"
--- Galadriel when tempted by the One Ring.
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