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Snagged from

girly_curl_3.

This quiz result is genuinely surprising. Puzzling even.

Galadriel

Possessing a rare combination of wisdom and humility, while serenely dominating your environment you selflessly use your powers to care for others.

Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.

Gently is Frodo avenged for my testing of his heart....

Current Mood: sleepy

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From:

princessofg.livejournal.com

you are SO galadriel.

I tested as John Sheridan from Babylon 5, a show and a canon I know zip about, but the F list has informed me that this is a Good Thing.

hi!

editing is hard! did you know this?

From:

icarusancalion.livejournal.com

you are SO galadriel.

It's far too complimentary and makes me feel uncomfortable.

editing is hard! did you know this?

Are you editing now? Is this a sign from the heavens that I should take care to make my first drafts high quality since I'll hate editing them? Or a spate of randomness (which I fully support, naturally).

From:

sinick.livejournal.com

I got Wesley Crusher.

I feel dirty.

...And not in the fun way.

From:

icarusancalion.livejournal.com

Hmm. Maybe throw that quiz result back? These things are catch and release I understand.

From:

rabidfan.livejournal.com

Having watched the LOtR (much to my eternal shame) I am very surprised to also score as Galadriel. I thought she was a wuss...please tell me I'm not a wuss!!!!

From:

icarusancalion.livejournal.com

I love LotR, and I think the movies did an okay job of an impossible task. The first part was the best of the three.

Galadriel, a wuss? Hardly. Remember my first fandom was LotR (book fandom). She's the oldest living being in Middle Earth, having been alive since the dawn of time. When the other elves fled Middle Earth, she steadfastedly remained, changeless and strong. As the world outside grew darker and more bleak, she maintained a realm that was cut off from the dangers of the world outside, sort of a Shangri-la, using her own personal magic.

She tested the hearts of Frodo's companions, offering each one a chance to leave the quest, sussing out their inner temptations. To Sam she suggested that perhaps he might be able to go back to the Shire in peace, have his own house and a bit of garden to call his own. To Boromir she looked into his mind and suggested that he might be able to bring the ring to Gondor, and become a great king in his own right. To Frodo she intimated that maybe he could pass the ring over to someone better able to complete this quest, rather than bear the burden himself (that's my guess; the book doesn't say what she suggested to him).

Then Frodo, later, tested her heart, guessing her own secret desire: he offered her the ring. She laughed and said, "Gently are you revenged for my test of your heart."

She examined the idea and was genuinely tempted, because the ring could usher in a new golden era for her people. But she recognized that that was her own temptation and it would destroy her with power-hunger, even as she thought she was doing good. She accepted the demise of her people.

You see, she, Gandalf, and Elrond each wore one of the three Elvish rings of power. They were uncorrupted, but bound to the fate of the One ring. Once the One ring was destroyed, their magic would be no more. Rivendell, Lothlorien, and much of Gandalf's own magic would vanish.

WG got this:

(http://www.tk421.net/character/)

From:

rabidfan.livejournal.com

Things I have learned today...

1) never, ever pick on a favored character. It always ends up in bloodshed.

2) I must express myself better. My version of wuss? She had all this titanic power and didn't kill the hell out of the bad guys. I know, it wasn't the right thing to do...but it sure is what I wanted her to do. Your version? Probably much better as role model and story furtherance. My version the movie would have ended way early.

WG's character? Him I liked.

From:

icarusancalion.livejournal.com

Neither she nor Gandalf had the power to take on Sauron. Gandalf just barely won the bout with the Witch King of Angmar (the head of the Black Riders) who was Sauron's Lt. They were able to use the three rings because Sauron had never touched them, and didn't know they had them. But it was risky to use them at all.

None of those rings were fit for war. They were weren't designed for fighting.

The power of Gandalf's ring is one of knowledge. The power of Galadriel's ring is one of preservation. And the power of Elrond's ring is one of, I believe it was healing or something like that.

It's not like Dungeons & Dragons, or The Wheel of Time, where everything is a weapon.

From:

icarusancalion.livejournal.com

Where the powers of the rings were revealed was in the end, after the war of the rings, on the trip back to the Shire.

She didn't have titanic power and refuse to use it. Her power was of a specific type. The three rings were made in the days of Gondolin, when the dwarves and elves still got along (when Moria was still the main kingdom of the dwarves -- remember, "say 'friend' and enter" -- that door was for the elves). The elvish smith who was a friend of a dwarves made the three rings for the sake of peace.

Sauron befriended the elvish smith in order to learn the secrets of making these rings. They made seven rings for the dwarves which also were useless for war -- the magnetized wealth. Durin had it, and it became his downfall, although the Dwarvish rings themselves were not corrupting.

Then Sauron himself made the nine rings for human kings to make them immortal, but he couldn't give them more life, only stretch out their existing life. Finally, in secret, Sauron forged the One ring. But when he cast the final spell in its making, those who held the Three were instantly aware of him and his purposes. They hid the Three rings from him. Sauron was never able to bend "healing" and "preservation" and "wisdom" to his own ends.

From:

icarusancalion.livejournal.com

Galadriel's not a favorite character, but I am an utter canon fiend when it comes to that fandom. Chapter, book, verse, and quoting the Silmarillion to boot.

Finally made myself write the next scene of Out Of Bounds and it's winging its way to you today. I've enlisted Enname as ~~Teyla~~ kung-fu consultant on this part.