The writers couldn’t have made anything good out of what little they were licensed to use, IMO.
But the main complaint online, that Galadriel is abrasive and bossy, doesn’t gel with me because that’s literally part of her character growth. I’m too lazy to look up the exact passage in the Silmarillion, but the reason she joined the Noldor’s exodus out of Aman was to set herself up as a ruler. By the time the Fellowship meets her in LOTR she’s thousands of years wiser.
The writers couldn’t have made anything good out of what little they were licensed to use, IMO.
But the main complaint online, that Galadriel is abrasive and bossy, doesn’t gel with me because that’s literally part of her character growth. I’m too lazy to look up the exact passage in the Silmarillion, but the reason she joined the Noldor’s exodus out of Aman was to set herself up as a ruler. By the time the Fellowship meets her in LOTR she’s thousands of years wiser.