gurguliare:

my favorite thing about galadriel’s tangled revision history is how the whole “did the valar ban her from returning west or did she refuse their explicit invitation” makes a huge difference to how you interpret the story… unless you’re galadriel, in which case it’s like, hey, oh, what was the question, did i stay in middle-earth of my own free will or was i trapped there by the consequences of past hubris? great question! the answer is fuck you