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Originally Posted by Bb
Perhaps the satan is sent to help people avoid worse harm.
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This is a very ancient symbolic role, certainly - it crops up in Tarot, with the figure of the Devil/The Guardian, but I don't see Galadriel manifesting that Archetype in the context of this chapter - She does manifest Justice, The High Priestess, The Empress & Strength particularly.
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It is stunning, I think, that Tolkien turns this around on her with Frodo's offer of the Ring.
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Yes, but I also think that Galadriel's 'temptation' scene is also a test of Frodo - he is being confronted with what would happen if he surrendered the Ring to anyone - even someone apparently good, powerful & trustworthy. So
her test is also
his.
As to Brocelliande, I can't help wondering how much of an influence Williams'Taliesin poems had on Tolkien.