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Lord of the Rings: debunking the backlash against non-white actors in Amazon’s new adaption (2022, University of Glasgow) (theconversation.com)
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The show is poorly written and has lots of other problems besides, but Galadriel was pretty headstrong and adventurous in her "younger" years and so it's not unreasonable. Honestly I think her character was one of the better parts of a pretty mediocre adaptation.

The costumes were pretty great, though. The scene in S2 where they sing to the stone to open up new tunnels was also a good extrapolation.