Why Galadriel turns dark

Why does Galadriel turn dark? Why does Galadriel freak out? Here is the proper explanation.

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[LoreOfTheRingsYT]

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[yassawter]

Poor Frodo... He proposed with the most powerful ring but she rejected him...

[Skarrz]

Her dark form eventually took over and thus....Hela was created.

[alfredoprime]

I may be remembering this wrong, but I think that Galadriel was one of the few Noldor that were banned from returning to Valinor after the final battle against Melkor/Morgoth. Rejecting the ring was what convinced the Valar that she had mastered her arrogance and pride and ended her exile.

[RoastCDuck]

Galadriel is so gorgeous when she goes negative filter it always makes me laugh.

[alpborakirte]

God ı wished to see Galadriel possesses the one ring in movies. By the way in the game Battle for Middle Earth; if you take Galadriel as a hero and capture the ring. She transforms dark form.

[jkdbuck]

My wife took that very same dark form when I left the toilet seat up one night and she took a midnight swim.

[Dawnlighter]

1:47 - 2:11 ...Galadriel transformed to a Chipmunk :D That voice! HAHAHAHAHAA!

[TheJetstream]

This is one of the issues with The Hobbit movies--when Galadriel helps to remove Sauron from Gul Dulgur--she appears "dark" and malevolent but this is not her power and it was a poor choice on Peter Jackson's part because you would think that one who has lived among the Gods and the Two Trees of Light would use "light" not darkness to meet darkness. Yet, the films show her as malevolent instead of radiant. A poor imagination from the Jackson team and one not in the books.

[CarlyJ]

I love the use of oxymoron 'all shall love me and despair.' It makes me imagine what would happen if she failed the task. Middle earth falling into a trance, easily manipulated and blinded by her beauty and power. The idea of her ruling and love being easily mistaken with toxic, trance like admiration is possibly more terrifying than Sauron trying to rule through fear. I feel as if she really could skew the idea of love into her own idea, and that really would be a land that has lost hope.

[Mekratrig]

Don’t recall, me, Galadriel speaking with a Chimpmonk voice.

[Ama-Elaini]

The dark form is more of a movie depiction than anything. She was highly ambitious in her youth just like the rest of the Noldor in their dramatic past. Even though she didn't personally take part in the kinslayings it doesn't mean they don't affect her too. Still, in the book she doesn't turn visibly "evil, " she mainly does a jest on the matter, possibly imagining what would happen if she turned dark. Then she said no.

[rjr]

This scared the absolute SHIT out of me when I watched this movie as a kid.

[alanm]

Galadriel’s scene gave me goosebumps when I saw it the first time.

[jacobkachel]

Galadriel was truly one of the great powers in Middle-Earth. She was one of the Noldor that returned. Her majesty with the ring would unquestionably be of both beauty and horror, a dark queen just as stated. Great video and nice explanation.

[thenuherniofataramus]

In the books, Galadriel's metamorphosis was "a light that left all else dark.... terrible and worshipful." Galadriel's metamorphosis is "not" peaceful or comfortable. It's beautiful beyond enduring because it's supposed to be terrible and frightening to inferiors. The misconception of Galadriel's power comes from human senses. She is an Elf, a High Elf, and one of the most powerful few. Elven beauty is not human beauty so we can't justify Galadriel with what a powerful human queen would be because Galadriel is an Elven queen, not human.

[corporateturtle]

@1:46 So she temporarily turns into a muppet when offered the One Ring? lol.

[Kinderlieder-Kindergeschichte]

The elven rings were made solely by celebrimbor without any support from sauron, why are they still dependant on the one?

[sonu-pror]

Her Dark form was from before the third age arc.. In the prequel The Hobbit The banishing of Necromancer/Sauron was done by her black form.

So don't misdirect it at that.

[PolishBerserker]

Dude this was awesome. Thank you so much for making it.