#log scene

[haladriel]

Galadriel stumbles from the boathouse, sorrow speared deep into her heart.

She has wounded him greatly, her friend. The hurt in Elrond's eyes as he bid her leave ran deep. But it pains her equally so that he should hold her closest truth in his gentlest of hands, and find her lacking. Like Nenya on her centre finger her heart weighs heavy, bearing the twin loss of a beloved friendship and of a— her—

Halbrand.

Simply Halbrand.

Lost to her forever, for he was never hers.

Only the great foe’s. His servant.

She hisses and wipes angrily at her tears as she passes the tree line. Why will this torment not leave her? Her chest is cavernous, cut and opened as it has been ever since Halbrand seemed to change before her very eyes. As his visage grew eternal. His laughing eyes cruel.

A sob forces itself from her.

Elrond has forsaken her, but really, she does not blame him. She asked for his help, but he has been wounded too many times to offer her his grace now. He acted in her interests, believing her unwell, and she has repaid him thus. She loathes that she has added to his sorrow.

The snap of heather and whisper of leaf that normally comfort her so grate like a sanding stone. She thumbs her ring in frantic brushes as she flees ever deeper into the forest. Returning to her escort in this state would cause concern. Talk.

Nothing has felt quite right among the elves since she returned from Eregion, troubled and regretful, and without the Man quickly and mercilessly rumoured to be her lover. For which other mortal Man would she ride day and night for the elven healers to save?

No, she will let herself flee.

This fresh devastation shall be kept private.

Hand on fallen bough she falls to the woodland floor, folding in two over her trembling knees. Her breaths rip themselves from her.

It is justifiable, Elrond’s reaction. Abhorrent, that she should feel something… intimate, for the dark lor— for—

She should be abhorred. She should abhor herself. And she does.

But it tears her very soul apart.

She lets out a throated cry into her cloak.

A whisper over her silver ring, warmth against chill—

A soft pressure as his lips meet Nenya— the power inside her shudders—

‘Galadriel.’

Her jagged breath catches on the feel of his lips around her name like lamb’s wool.

It is wrong, their bond. As wrong as the existence of orcs. Bound from the skeins of their fëa in a moment of madness, of deceit.

But it exists. Across distance, through the unseen world. And Elrond does not know, cannot see, what she saw in their time together. Will not ever see. If he were to, might he know a quart of her pain.

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— For the Peace of All (no archive warnings)

[90shaladriel]

I always think about this scene and this reminded me of that. With recent flashes of Halbrand we saw in the first four episodes of Season 2.

The flashbacks seem to be coming from Nenya. Elrond is certain these are deceptions of Sauron and his influence over the rings, I think Galadriel thinks that the rings are pure but that Sauron is attempting to deceive her again.

Is there another meaning to those visions?

What if neither of them are right, and the vision from the ring is showing her is the possibility of the redeemable side of Sauron? Log scene Halbrand in particular, from this scene. Sure, it looks like she is remembering her ex but the words they share aren't solely just about their infatuation or mutual attraction. No, he was confessing his crimes and hoping that he might still be able to save his soul. If there is any truth to the whole "higher purpose" and it's not simply just a stack of lies or a horribly unfortunate series of coincidences, I wonder could she be accessing a path that shows her the uncomfortable truth that Sauron wasn't completely false? Or at least doesn't have to be. Ultimately Sauron would choose to do the things he does, but maybe there's an element of the ROP story where his path isn't a straightforward as that?

part 2 ⸸ part 1

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