The Mirror of Galadriel: The Choice That Saved Everything | Tolkien Explained

She has lived for seven thousand years. She crossed the grinding ice of the Helcaraxë, survived the First Age, built Lothlórien with the power of a ring she waited millennia to use. And when Frodo held out the One Ring and offered it to her, she was tempted — she admits it directly. Galadriel is not the wise and serene figure most people think she is. She is ambitious, proud, and powerful enough to have been a genuine threat if she had made a different choice. This is the full story of the mightiest elf in Middle-earth — where she came from, what she built, and why the choice she made at the Mirror is the most important refusal in the history of Tolkien's world.

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