“She stood before Frodo seeming now tall beyond measurement, and beautiful beyond enduring, terrible and worshipful. Then she let her hand fall, and the light faded, and suddenly she laughed again, and lo! she was shrunken: a slender elf-woman, clad in simple white, whose gentle voice was soft and sad.”
There’s this quote that always makes me think of Galadriel: “For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still just able to endure,
and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.” I don’t recall who said it, or where, I just have it scribbled down in a notebook, but I love it a lot. “All shall love me and despair,” says terrible, beautiful Galadriel, and she serenely disdains to fail the test by annihilating Middle Earth.
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