Somewhat scary

[Glirdan]

I didn't get the feeling of it having a dark quality. I had that mysterious feeling that you get when you go somewhere and where you expect the unexpected (which is odd, because if you're expecting the unexpected, doesn't that make the unexpected expected?? ). That's the sense I got from Lothlorien in general. Galadriel, I had that feeling of power, majesty and mystery all combined in one and I wasn't dissapointed after reading that chapter.

[radagastly]

As I recall from the last time I read that chapter, the Galadrim did give the sense of distance, or seperateness. I think that was deliberate. They were shown that way to illustrate the consequences of seperateness, of neutrality. It was meant to present the position of the naive, who think that things will go on, as they are, simply by doing nothing, as long as they defend their own borders and don't get involved in the movements of the world outside. Galadriel was "eccentric" because she knew better. She was one of the oldest and wisest of all the 'living' creatures in Middle Earth. She understood the ties that her world had to the happenings outside of Lorien's borders. She led her people against Dol Guldur, and eventually was triumphant, despite her obvious forknowledge of what would happen to Lorien, regardless of the outcome.

It is not enough to simply not be evil. One must fight against evil, to oppose it, to be moral.

This is ultimately, after all, a moral tale.