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Old 03-28-2005, 09:34 AM   #1
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White Tree Galadriel's intentions.

Something that's been puzzling me is what were Galadriel's intentions when she offered each member of the Fellowship something. She tested each member of the Fellowship, some we can pretty much tell what she offered, some we know, and others we have no clue. But what were her intentions in doing this?

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"I never thought of no such thing," answered Sam, in no mood for jest. "If you want to know, I felt as if I hadn't got nothing on, and I didn't like it. She seemed to be looking inside me and asking me what I would do if she gave me the chance of flying back home to the Shire to a nice little hole with- with a bit of garden of my own."
"That's funny," said Merry. "Almost exactly what I felt myself; only, only well, I don't think I'll say any more," he ended lamely.
All of them, it seemed, had fared alike: each had felt that he was offered a choice between a shadow full of fear that lady ahead, and something that he greatly desired: clear before his mind it lay, and to get it he had only to turn aside from the road and leave the Quest and the war against Sauron to others.
"And it seemed to me, too," said Gimli, "that my choice would remain secret and known only to myself."
"To me it seemed exceedingly strange," said Boromir. "Maybe it was only a test, and she thought to read our thoughts for her own good purpose; but almost I should have said that she was tempting us, and offering what she pretended to have the power to give. It need not be said that I refused to listen. The Men of Minas Tirith are true to their word." But what he thought that the Lady had offered him Boromir did not tell. And as for Frodo, he would not speak, but Boromir pressed him with questions.
Well, I think she was testing each member of the Fellowship, and each one she offered the "easy" way out. But what were her intentions? Since it seemed that she awoke in Boromir a sleeping giant, the confrontation of The Ring. She was well aware of Boromir's thoughts towards the ring, as Gandalf says in Fangorn.."Se told me he was in peril."

Was she trying to help them, by getting them to confront their problems and hopefully would make the right decision? Or a more sinical look, was she purposefully trying to break up the Fellowship? Realizing that it would destroy each and every one of them, and the sooner Frodo leaves the better. I also just think it would be neat to sort of speculate what she offered each one of the Fellowship, what vision she gave them as an "easy way out."
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