Why LOTR Sucks: I Hate Galadriel

She’s not young, like an immortal elf should be, so bad casting. Her voice is creepy. The way she only talks to people inside their head is creepy. Everything about her is creepy. The scene adds nothing to the story, and does a lot to detract. It makes more sense to cut her out all together, unless you have the time to develop her character and make this scene mean something in the grand scheme of things.

Basically we get stuck with 15 minutes of an aging cougar with a raspy voice who has clearly has a thing for Frodo but doesn’t know how to go about seducing him, which makes for a horribly awkward flirtation.

Peter Jackson did manage to film the entire conversation between Frodo and Galadriel as close-ups, some of them in slow motion. Unfortunately, there was no actual crying. And we end the scene in Lothlórien with a montage as they receive their gifts and do some canoe camping in beautiful New Zealand.

Minutes Watched: 2:53.37

Number of Montages: 6

Number of slow motion close-ups of people crying: 21

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