I had a big detailed thinky response typed up but then my browser crashed and lost it. I'm so mad I could spit nails. :-(
But somehow the visual of seeing her winded on the dirty ground upsets me since she usually seems so untouchable.
For me, that's part of what shows how high the stakes are. We know Galadriel's a major league power, and seeing how much it took for her to do what she did, and how willing she was to drain herself to the point of death to throw back Sauron and the Nine and keep them from gaining an early foothold pushes home what a threat they are. I also get the impression that she may still be recovering from that on some level when the Fellowship meets her in Lothlorien in LOTR.
I went back to see it tonight with family and caught more of the implications that the area the fight takes place in is basically an evil-radiation zone that's sucking the life out of her and Gandalf, just from them being there, which goes a long way to explain why Gandalf was so badly off, and why he was only fighting with his staff and sword later at Dale. I have the head-canon that it didn't seem to affect Elrond and Saruman as much when they fought because they were fighting primarily physically rather than with magic (can Elrond do magic? I forget) and therefore not opening their *handwave* magical/spiritual self as much to the area's effect, and also that Saruman was being influenced by it, but less overtly, by nudging him towards the dark side.
I know there were other things I had in the original lost comment, but arg. *smacks web browser*
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Date: 2014-12-25 06:20 am (UTC)But somehow the visual of seeing her winded on the dirty ground upsets me since she usually seems so untouchable.
For me, that's part of what shows how high the stakes are. We know Galadriel's a major league power, and seeing how much it took for her to do what she did, and how willing she was to drain herself to the point of death to throw back Sauron and the Nine and keep them from gaining an early foothold pushes home what a threat they are. I also get the impression that she may still be recovering from that on some level when the Fellowship meets her in Lothlorien in LOTR.
I went back to see it tonight with family and caught more of the implications that the area the fight takes place in is basically an evil-radiation zone that's sucking the life out of her and Gandalf, just from them being there, which goes a long way to explain why Gandalf was so badly off, and why he was only fighting with his staff and sword later at Dale. I have the head-canon that it didn't seem to affect Elrond and Saruman as much when they fought because they were fighting primarily physically rather than with magic (can Elrond do magic? I forget) and therefore not opening their *handwave* magical/spiritual self as much to the area's effect, and also that Saruman was being influenced by it, but less overtly, by nudging him towards the dark side.
I know there were other things I had in the original lost comment, but arg. *smacks web browser*