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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ART!" data-source="post: 8814373" data-attributes="member: 79926">I have a few thoughts, but please don't read this as nit-picking or attacking - I'm just proposing some polite counter-argumentsMy impression is that her decision to jump off the boat about to enter Valinor was really no decision at all - she simply could not face life in Valinor. I can't remember how Valinor works in this regard or if it's mentioned in the show, but regardless of whether you have to live eternally with what you take there, or if Valinor sweeps away all your worries, Galadriel found the prospect unbearable. Diving intot he wide ocean was not a rational decision - in her state of mind, it was the only option. The show lays out how messed-up she was, and she comes to realize it eventually, too.I think being found by Elendil fits into that Tolkienian pattern, although some bad things as well as good happen as a result - but then that's true of a lot of the Tokienien providence events. Plenty of terrible things happen as a result of Bilbo finding the Ring, but in the end it works out for the best. So, providence making sure Galadriel and Sauron meet at sea may not seem so great in the short term, but it begins a sequence of events that allows for Sauron's defeat.I'm leaving this for the show to answer. Given the structure of the storytelling thus far, I'm not 100% sure they'll fill us in, but I'll reserve judgement for now.But he's no longer a servant of the Great Enemy, and Sauron seems (not just in the show, but in the books) like someone who has learned from (some of) his former master's mistakes, or he just has a different approach to things.</blockquote>

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