Galadriel is a Psychopath

Galadriel is a supreme villain of pure, concentrated evil. Amazon have flipped the 'hero's journey' on its head and delivered one of the most riveting villains in TV history.
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[@kurooaisu]

Despite being a terribly written character on a bad series, Galadriel might unironically teach me a lesson on how to write a good villain

[@nightenday687]

That’s what I was thinking!

[@CS-pl8fc]

Idk a 5'2" 95lb woman doesn't sound all that menacing to me

[@solan7978]

@@CS-pl8fc Ever see the movie "The Bad Seed"?

[@ericvulgate7091]

Tiny people can be villains too. In my experience most of them are tiny.

[@crowmanmoonlight946]

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[@Nopeasaurus]

"The idea of entering heaven is so repellent to this demonness that she would rather die than go to a realm of supreme love where the light of God shines eternal." I cried.

[@saymyname2417]

Valinor was not God's Heaven but "heaven on Earth", a different dimension reserved for Tolkien's self-centered fallen angels. But like the Watchers they were deceived to be wanting more...

[@scottr2706]

Jesus, it is just a fantasy. And really, "realm of supreme love"! God help us.

[@gainthailand]

@@saymyname2417 What are you talking about? "Heaven on Earth" does have in the Bible. Valinor is a realm of light in Tolkien works there's nothing to do with fallen angels.

[@sgt_slobber.7628]

To her it’s better to be FIRST IN HELL than second in Heaven!!!!!!

[@DespotofAntrim]

Better to reign in Hell than serve in heaven.

[@Nopeasaurus]

I applaud the brave soldiers who formed a mutiny against Galadriel and her coldblooded tyranny. May they rest well in Valinor.

[@DespotofAntrim]

Hallowed be their name.

[@82dorrin]

Galadriel in RoP is the kind of military commander who would be in danger of suffering a fatal "friendly fire" accident.

[@sidvyas8549]

Sic semper tyrannis

[@dumbidea1007]

The rest is well earned

[@ms1535]

I wouldn’t follow that psycho across a dirt trail.

[@Lalle524]

It's scary how accurate this "satire" is. Galadriel comes off as a complete psycho, both in acting and writing. Fantastic work.

[@lordsathariel4384]

legit i watched rings of power with some friends two of us are massive lotr fans the others liked the movies but by the end 3 of us said nearly on cue why is galadriel a socipath she is manipulative unhinged and wants to commit genocide in a specific way just to torture one uruk she is clearly unhinged no wander they wanted her to see the maiar in valinor for therapy

[@ZodoLeeka]

Couldn't have said it better, you took the thoughts out of my head and put them into words. Honestly the show writers would've ended up with a more entertaining product if they just admitted to wanting to erase our heroes and made Galadriel the villain.

[@captainLoknar]

Disney, if you value your product at all, hire this man!

[@MrQuidy]

What satire?

[@BIGESTblade]

This is unironically a better story than the actual show.

[@billybadass3056]

this IS the story.... it's just buried underneath the mountain of stupidity and trash of untalented writers/creators but either way those UNTALENTED writers/creators are still windows into darkness that WILL SHINE THRU When ever it has the chance.... the best way to put it is, was this message intentional? NO, but corrupt ppl produce corrupt content because that's just how it works you just have to be able to see if for what it is..

[@peterpirate8163]

Satirical and accurate at the same time. Whether the showrunners intended to write Galadriel as a psychopath is unknown.

[@DespotofAntrim]

I don't think much is known at all about what exactly the showrunners intended to write. I doubt even they know.

[@peterpirate8163]

@@DespotofAntrim The channel Disparu also has a video about Galadriel being a psychopath. He thinks it's because the two showrunners are psychopaths as well. I'm wondering that they may turn out to be misogynists.

[@nadinefeiler9204]

@@peterpirate8163 if we look at the way this two wrote the Harfoots, who are supposed to be be a group of people with big hearts and strong bonds with each other and turned out to be absolutely callous, i don't think this assumption is a stretch.

[@garethlewis1984]

Deliberately writing her as a psychopath lends credence to the showrunners' ability to create actual characters that they simply don't have.

[@justachannel8600]

I don't think they do it intentional. I don't even think they are conscious about it. The writers are probably highly narcissistic. This complete lack of understanding has been quite visible in this sphere for a while now.

[@maryokeeffe3528]

I had no idea the showrunners were so subtle and cunning in what they did! Cleverly misleading us as to who the villain might be, while parading the real monster in front of us all the time!

[@chaiam]

It’s because they are degenerate, obviously raised in a culture of moral relativism and the worst ideologies of hollywoke. They can’t even hunk clearly, if anyone should be deplatformed it’s them. Of course I’m not suggesting that they be censored or cancelled - but to be given such a large platform for such garbage is telling of the age we live in.

[@virgilxavier1]

My fan theory is that galadriel is actually sauron.

[@jasonmilton]

After watching the show, I am now on Team Sauron (Halbrand)...

[@Melodyofthesea78]

@@virgilxavier1 My fan theory is that Sauron is somehow pretending to be Gladriel without her knowledge or....Sauron killed Celeborn Gladriel's husband then killed and skinned Gladriel and is wearing a weird skin suit of Gladriel then somehow went unnoticed of his deeds. Lol

[@user-io7fp5jv5i]

Just one question: what does it have to do with the LOTR?

[@swiftstrike4044]

So Sauron turned his mark from a symbol of fear and bloodshed during his time heroically defending the orc's land into a symbol of safety and hope when he sadly couldn't stop the invasion. He's leaving them behind for any orcs who weren't apart of the mass exodus so that they too can reach the promise land where they can live in peace. His love and compassion for the innocent is awe inspiring.

[@DespotofAntrim]

Sauron-Moses is a beacon of light in the darkness.

[@finnymathew6400]

Sauron is an inspiration to us all

[@vardiganxpl1698]

Sauron is actually moses confirmed

[@RoninDave]

Fortunately, the later episodes course-corrected her character and made her more likeable and relatable. NAH, they doubled down and 3 episodes later after this video posted they had Galadriel threatening to torture a captured Adar by exterminating all his children then telling him so before she plunged a knife into his heart. What a hero!

[@DespotofAntrim]

A true inspiration to all who fight on the side of light.

[@yoruemiya9196]

You know I did find it weird that the scene introducing Sauron has the light from the sun hitting him in a very heroic looking way but now I know who the true hero’s of the story are

[@DespotofAntrim]

You couldn't make him look more heroic in that scene if you tried.

[@rhysproudmourne1646]

This is both hilarious and completely accurate.

[@DespotofAntrim]

Thank you!

[@rhysproudmourne1646]

@@DespotofAntrim Shared it with my siblings. They loved it too. Great job. My sister in particular is a college trained editor and English major, so here’s what she texted me verbatim: “I love this so much! His analysis is totally spot on and the evidence for his interpretation is present. If this were the writers' intention I would say they were doing a decent job with their use of foreshadowing and symbolism!”

[@sundogfarseer6070]

I'm sad that I can only give one thumbs-up for this video and comment. I'd give at least 10 for both, this is hilarious due to it's insightfulness.

[@tomfromtartu9706]

Perfect. Now we need an @Auralnauts remake of it all, starring Guyladriel the Elven Psycho in her quest for revenge

[@FreedomAndPeaceOnly]

It's so funny how the Orcs are portrayed as *'not'* being pure evil, when in the lore it is state that the "Tolkien Orcs" *ARE* super evil. Not complete - but overall... *90%* and this is by design. Sauron is not a saviour, he was the designer who made them like that. 😏 They are not a normal race. They are a race *'made'* to be violent, installed to feel a desire for violent domination and when the Orcs have no other humanoid Races to fight, they torment each other like no tomorrow and treat each other like trash. 😎 Orcs from other fantasy universes are not the same as the "Tolkien Orcs". Tolkien Orcs are a lost cause, a race complete conquered by evil to such an extend, that they can never live in "normal peace". For those Orcs of course, being able to live in eternal violence, murder and rule of the strongest - this *IS* their peace. But yeah. They are the result of dark magic & intentions and they can never break free of that. Just how a Human can never live longer than maybe one century and the Tolkien Elfs are immortal until they themself decide they want to be mortal as well. Race plays a huge part in the Tolkien universe. It literally decides your fate and shows that people are different. No one is equal, no one is the same - *just like in real life* as well. 😌 People are different, unequal and it will always be like that. And that is good. Because it is the differences which make the whole globe so interesting. TRIBES should all live in their own lands. And multiculti should be abolished cause it will never cease to create conflicts, hatred, envy or repulsion. 👏😇 The foreign is only interesting and positive, as long as it is not in your face constantly. And this is why "multicultural" countrys are the most racist and dehumanizing of all.

[@centurion8446]

Rather ironic, they desperately tried to make her badass and likeable but made her cringe and insufferable

[@dennisdouglas5941]

Have to be careful with people who strive for POWER... All the great villains in all the stories strive for total Power. Next up Snow (not so ) White and the 7 crackheads. Her great search for total Power, because sure, that will make her happy, right? right?... Cause all Girl bosses are so happy!

[@bayraktarx1386]

Just like all other woke girl boss a$$hole characters. Just shows what the writers actually are.

[@ArvelDreth]

It's also interesting to note that when her brother clearly tries to tell Galadriel, through analogy, how to avoid sinking into darkness and amorality, her response that the stars are reflected in the darkness of the water as they are in the sky, essentially implying that she doesn't know right from wrong.

[@donweatherwax9318]

That's brilliant. (I don't mean what she said. I mean what you said.)

[@ArvelDreth]

@@donweatherwax9318 thank you!

[@devorhel4950]

I was so blind the whole time. You opened my eyes to this masterpiece. I thought it was boring and badly written. But seeing Galadriel as the Villain that she is makes so much sense now. That Sauron is the hero makes the whole thing actually interesting. Thank you

[@DespotofAntrim]

You're welcome.

[@jojosg414]

The screen writers of this train wreck clearly only saw the "all shall love me and despair" scene of LOTR as Galadriel's character build and called themselves 'experts' for it. It's specially unnerving, bc when I think of Galadriel the scenes that come to me are the ones when Gimli asks for a strand of her hair, and she gives him three, or when Frodo falls into the spider's lair and Galadriel picks him up with the most pure, tender, loving, patient and shining smile I've ever seen on screen. Love, patience, empathy, wisdom, tenderness, insight, gentleness, and yet strenght, authority. Gentle authority. Galadriel in two words is Gentle Authority This was character assassination and either the people responsible have mental impairment or they did this on purpose.

[@dennisdouglas5941]

ON Purpose, cause she has to be the girl boss!

[@Mestifi]

I wonder, is love/patience/wisdom blablabla what only she did after many years

[@steviegilliam5685]

She always had this unhinged look about her when things don't go her way

[@82dorrin]

Galadriel in RoP is the kind of military commander who would be in danger of suffering a fatal "friendly fire" accident.

[@kragary]

Kinda puts her troops' willingness to stand aside and watch her fight the troll on her own into perspective, doesn't it?

[@shayla106]

@@kragaryYep, either way they still would have to deal with a monster afterwards.

[@Wolffur]

The first Elven commander to suffer multiple arrows in the back.

[@TheGuardingDark_]

I managed to keep a straight face through most of this but hearing Galadriel be described as an “envoy of satan.” Finally got me to crack.

[@AS-fu1kd]

They made Galadriel this polar opposite of who she really is in the books

[@DespotofAntrim]

They didn't read the books.

[@yagamifire7861]

Honestly could have just written "they didn't read"

[@AS-fu1kd]

@@DespotofAntrim I think they flipped the books open, chose the first 6 names they found, and made a show with them

[@verdifine]

she has another 3,000 years to figure out. the timelines in tolkien are absurd. 8,000 years old. thats 2.2 million days.

[@jasonmilton]

After watching the show, I am now on Team Sauron (Halbrand)...

[@cyberpunkdarren]

This video is both disturbing and brilliant. The disturbing part is it probably reveals that the author(s) are themselves psycho sociopaths. They subconsciously revealed it in galadriel thinking that she is good and just.

[@cosmicmuffin322]

I don't think it's that deep. It's shitty writing - which also looks much deeper than it really is. They are probably mildly narcissistic hacks who thought they were writing a Stunning And Brave female character (because they can't understand and write people, and therefore can't write female characters). But they made her a brutal Lara Croft badass because that's a caricature of a strong woman, and hollow caricatures are the only things bad writers can create. When we watch bad writing we try to find meaning in it, even meaning the writers didn't mean to give. Our brains are wired that way. But bad writing has no meaning, it's utterly hollow, all facade, no depth or substance.

[@TolmanCotton]

@@cosmicmuffin322 yes, shitty writing - but also a serious lack of understanding real feelings and human bonds. A character in the tv miniseries "Nurenberg" said that evil is lack of empathy. Well, the writers of RoP showed that they can't even understand what empathy means. So, either thay are really, really bad at writing, or narcissistic sociopaths - or both.

[@jasonmilton]

After watching the show, I am now on Team Sauron (Halbrand)...

[@billybadass3056]

@@TolmanCotton to confirm the last part of your comment.. I'll tell you that they are both because they are liberal and that's just how they work... Cosmic is correct on a base lvl but unfortunately he can't see the Forrest thru the trees and satan uses dummy's to relay his messages ALL the time whether ppl know what they are doing or not, The Message STILL Comes Thru... and just so we're clear i'm referring to the show runners and writers of this puke..

[@user-fo1ni8wz7f]

Beautiful, hope Sauron-Moses doesn't fall prey to this psycho

[@DespotofAntrim]

The oppressed tribes of Mordor shall rise under the banner of Sauron-Moses!

[@davidfrancisco3502]

According to Tolkien's works the elves and the dwarves are older than the sun itself when Galadriel was born the sun didn't existed yet. Her brother shouldn't even mention the sun in that metaphore.

[@DespotofAntrim]

They have treated Tolkien's lore like a buffet, took they wanted, left the rest, threw in a side of McDonald's fries and a soda. ROP demonstrates why you can't pick and choose when it comes to lore.

[@davidfrancisco3502]

@@DespotofAntrim Anyone who keeps believing feminism has done anything good for humanity and only now is radical and toxic is either a propagandized ignorant, a mindless useful idiot or a malicious demagogue.

[@graphixvizion]

ROP 💍👑? more like RIP 🪦 🤦‍♂️

[@bosozoku1000]

@@DespotofAntrim You forget that Amazon was only allowed to use a tiny fraction of Tolkiens lore.

[@robertagren9360]

The elves created the dwarves and the orcs which is why Galadriel says their kind was a mistake. They had similiar thought about the dwarves but the dwarves were able to stand on their own.

[@happytravelling]

This reminds me of Jar Jar uncovered as a Sith Lord, advancing the cause of the Sith. Wonderful take on Galadriel.

[@DespotofAntrim]

Jar Jar should have been the main villain in Episode VII.

[@sayonaradesu1087]

@@DespotofAntrim the fact that Jar Jar might be a Sith Lord all along makes me so angry. But the fault is not in Jar Jar, no. The fault is mine because Jar Jar tricked me so well...

[@swiftstrike4044]

No not Jar Jar! He was the hero we needed even tho by all rights we didn't deserve him! 😢

[@jasonmilton]

After watching the show, I am now on Team Sauron (Halbrand)...

[@alesksander]

@@jasonmilton Go go Sauron kill them all.

[@Tina93_]

This is indeed a horror story of a sociopath - Galadriel

[@herrsachse6759]

Watched it 10 times now and still have tears in my eyes. "This execution, this cold blooded murder of a new mother in her own home is to Galadriel mere sport" HAHAHAHAH

[@charlesw5919]

Galadriel's leadership style: "if he dies, he dies."

[@hereticsaint100]

This is pure genius.

[@chartreusecircle1546]

👏 DEFUND 👏 THE 👏 ELVES That ice troll literally did nothing wrong. The elves were trespassing and threatening her home. This genocide cannot continue.

[@DespotofAntrim]

The murder of the ice troll made me hate Guyladriel immediately.

[@thirdlegolas7415]

Rip paulson

[@robertagren9360]

Knife ears

[@underfire987]

Dont become the same thing you hate in them! ​@@robertagren9360

[@happylobsterpatatas]

I was laughing so much at the beginning of this video, but as it goes on, it became such an accurate analysis of her psychology. It is even more accurate that the later episodes until the end of season 1 keep showing how psychopathic she is in a manner more and more obvious as it goes on.

[@DespotofAntrim]

If they were trying to write her as a villain, they did a great job.

[@happylobsterpatatas]

@@DespotofAntrim Perhaps, they want her to fall down into the darkness until she finds a kind of redemption, then she can look up (like the stupid boat image they use in this 1st season). So they can make her progress as the show goes on. I even thought she would fall in love with Sauron in the season 1, and afterward Celeborn would come back and there would be some love triangle between Celeborn - Galadriel -Sauron. This would have been so stupid that I almost believe that would happen (as this show is so badly written) lol. But she's just unable to be in any kind of relationship (not only love, just create any kind of binding with another living being, if not by the hatred or the will of killing it) as you showed in your video.

[@jasonmilton]

After watching the show, I am now on Team Sauron (Halbrand)...

[@happylobsterpatatas]

@@jasonmilton I am Team Sauron and Team Adar 😁

[@bodricthered]

Yeah, this starts somewhat funny but I'm now thinking it's a good resource for my mate who teaches psychology at a level....

[@SilhouetteSE]

I couldn't understand at first why those other elf children would attack Galadriel. Never pictured elves as pointlessly agressive. But now I think I know why. The hated the little beast Galadriel!

[@user-ut8ed1mz3d]

It's typical reaction of people (especially children) on someone who is calm, dreamy and with slightly autistic character. And thus, little stupid shits pushes a peaceful one into the darkness, and after this, they hypocritically blaming him or her, calling "psychopath" or "sociopath". But yes, it's not suited for the story about elves and Galadriel.

[@abooga8]

​@@user-ut8ed1mz3d did you experience this yourself or read about this?

[@user-ut8ed1mz3d]

@@abooga8 I experienced this myself, saw others suffers, and read about this.

[@abooga8]

@@user-ut8ed1mz3d Can you recommend further reading, or hearing about others' similar experiences?

[@user-ut8ed1mz3d]

@@abooga8 lt was personal experience and random sources on Russian, not a single wise book on English.

[@englishlady9797]

The thing is, Amazon totally changed Tolkien's work when it came to the Elves leaving Valinor. In the book, the Noldor left Valinor because Melkor (the Satan figure) destroyed the two trees and then stole the Silmarils and murdered the King. They also left in defiance of the Valar who told them not to. Feanor, one of the sons of the King, slaughtered a load of other Elves who would not give him their boats, and many then went to pursue him. It was an act of rebellion against the semi-divine powers in Tolkien's work, almost like the Fall of man, not a heroic act of resistance like the series presents.

[@christopherbravo1813]

of course they changed it. here, Melkor is a justification by the Elves to enact their colonization of Middle-Earth and the destruction of Orc society.

[@ozmul5810]

A good point in the beginning, Sociopathic leaders don't strengthen their underlings. That way none of their underlings can challenge them, because if they could... They would!

[@khfan4life365]

When you make Galadriel the villain and Sauron the level-headed everyman, you know you f*cked up.

[@John-rn1nm]

Somehow Galadriel does sound and feel like an evil hero. Persuing the extinction of an already defeated enemy. While Sauron sounds and feels like a hero trying to save as many orcs as he can away from genocide.

[@pachuko5192]

This is utterly brilliant. There is something about this show that has resulted in a mini-golden age of social commentary, I can't remember the last time I've been exposed to so many new, small, independent and sometimes shockingly talented people, it has ironically brought out the best in so many.

[@DespotofAntrim]

I've seen the same thing. 'A little platoon' is one I've seen as a result of this show. And thank you!

[@barbarabaker1457]

I believe it started with Ghostbusters 2016 but each subsequent work brought deeper, braver poets to the table. So glad to have found this gem, almost worth the destruction of all my favorite works whether book or film.

[@albrechtvonwallenstein2952]

~ She is beauty and she is grace. She'll exterminate your entire race. She is Galadriel. ~

[@richardlafleur8389]

Grrrrladriel didn't just practice origami, she invented it.

[@NickOleksiakMusic]

Lingering on that heroic music with Sauron got me 🤣

[@chartreusecircle1546]

Galadriel makes Reinhard Heydrich look like Mister Rogers. She is the true “blonde beast”.

[@DespotofAntrim]

I may just have to steal that 'blonde beast' nickname for the part II video.

[@joebyrne9187]

Well played! Just finished ep 6, and for the first time I was feeling some empathy for characters. The Orcs and Adar. Really wanted them to win, they are simply a people whose land has been stolen unfairly. It's impossible to view it any other way.

[@DespotofAntrim]

The Orcs are the best thing about ROP. The show is very bad but, in fairness, it's not as bad as She Hulk, that show is one of the worst things I have ever seen in my life.

[@joebyrne9187]

@@DespotofAntrim Hah, I've avoided that one so far

[@jasonmilton]

After watching the show, I am now on Team Sauron (Halbrand)...

[@GD-os8mz]

Thank you! I wondered who this beast was, and how it dared to wear Tolkien’s Galadriel as a skin suit. You have offered us understand that would have otherwise eluded me, proving again how deceptive true evil is.

[@DespotofAntrim]

Amazon have bravely chosen the 'beautiful monster' villain. It shows a great deal of trust in their audience, refreshing in an age in which much media seems to be made for brain dead morons (Thanks Disney).

[@jessicamessica2271]

Galadriel is 1000s of years old. Personally I think its a great show. And anyone who takes this video seriously does not understand how distructive Morgoth was. That middle earth was largly peaceful and that Morgoth sought to enslave all peoples there with epic distruction and violence. Im not saying Galadriel doesnt have flaws but this video makes a lot of claims that are totally rediculous

[@TheresaMayPM]

You actually made Rings of Power seem like an interesting series.

[@annunakim525]

the way she kills the troll is like a vet shooting a cow in the head remorseless

[@thorkellkaemphon]

Amazon's be giving us evil Superman, now it's time for evil Galadriel

[@DespotofAntrim]

We need an evil Spiderman next, preferably played by a woman.

[@albertdeluxe8966]

They meant to write Galadriel, but ended up writing a somewhat competent Hillary Clinton.

[@PaulA-pg7jm]

I hate to say it but your analysis is correct. From being willing to abandon an injured elf soldier to her psychotic obsession with killing all orcs she makes Saroun seem a kindly and just reformer. Compare to the book and movie version. She is wise, empathetic, strong of will yet also has excellent people skills. God how I miss that version of Galadriel. And hate the abomination this show has thrust upon us.

[@GotoMaki4Micah]

i dont know if you are familiar with the tv show supernatural and dean winchester but i get that same feeling from him as well. his enemies call him a serial killer and revenge driven psychopath but his friends and fans see him as a hero. he has a psychotic obsession with killing ''monsters.'' he uses people as bait, tortures, kills, gets his friends killed. would never kill his bro if his bro ''went dark'' but would kill other 'monsters' while their families begged him not to. hes done just as bad or worse then what the ''monster'' has done and most of them are just trying to eat to live. i was hoping to a get bit of insight. is that an anti hero? i feel its a nazi like villain. I havent seen varying discussions about his character. most worship him. maybe because it was a WB show, fans just like him because he's hot.

[@PaulA-pg7jm]

Yes I have some familiarity with old Dean. The difference between Dean and Galadriel in

[@PaulA-pg7jm]

Sorry for the interruption. The difference between Dean and Galadriel is that we have an example of a better version of Galadriel. When I first heared that Galadriel was returning I was excited. This version of the character reminds me of a line from Shakespeare. She is full of sound and fury signifying nothing. At least with Dean Winchester you see flashes of humanity underneath the obsession to destroy monsters. Sometimes even regret for some of his actions. There is still a little bit of humanity left in Dean's character. And while I was a more casual viewer of Supernatural I recall that on rare occasions Dean occasionally seems to realize the moral price he has paid for his choices. But not Galadriel.She starts out as an obsessed butthead and ends the same. No regrets. No self doubts. Nothing at all.

[@rexesshadow8628]

Please continue this, I wan every episode covered in this way.

[@DespotofAntrim]

There's another one coming soon.

[@mr.s2005]

I would blame the brother for her being a psychopath, with those crappy analogies would drive anybody crazy. ....lets face it, they can claim all they want about this being a younger Galadriel, but at by the second age she was well past middle age and not a whiny teenager who either degrades or pulls daggers on people who don't immediately do what she says, she doesn't show an ounce of wisdom....other than the fact we all know she's going to turn out to be right about Sauron still being around.

[@DespotofAntrim]

The elves in this show suck. They're just men and women in white dresses with pointy ears, you get no sense that this is someone who's been around for hundreds of years and has aquired vast wisdom and beautiful personal comportment in that time.

[@aze0012]

@@DespotofAntrim by that time, galadriel's age was in the thousands a thousand year old bratty "elf" in the middle of her rebellious phase apparently

[@DespotofAntrim]

Girls will be girls.

[@behrens97]

@@DespotofAntrim I call them Elvish Presley

[@barbarabaker1457]

@@aze0012 Huh, wonder if they copied the Black/Wicked Lady arc from Sailor Moon Crystal? Easier than reading the source material I suppose. Long story short she was old (only 900 but still) no one knew why she couldn't stop being a bratty kid.

[@Sarcastic4300]

Robert Paulson didn't deserve that. She was just trying to chill on a Friday night 😭

[@IronDragon-2143]

It's scary when a video meant to be satire is so accurate in character analysis

[@thecaptain6730]

So I just discovered your channel, and I have to say that your videos are the funniest things I have ever seen and listened to in my life. This video in particular is so funny. Thank you so much for making it, I have gotten hours of pleasure from watching these videos. Keep up the great work!

[@DespotofAntrim]

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoy the videos. Welcome to the channel!

[@DarthSidian]

Holy shit. Never watched any videos of yours before, but this is an amazing perspective despite the obvious "satire". From the lens of a villain, she actually _is_ a great villain!

[@pyrrhusofepirus8491]

Honestly the story of a psychopath working for the forces of good or towards a good goal, is a great premise for a show. The problem is, she's not meant to be a psychopath.

[@Derok3]

dexter?

[@newhappythoughts1628]

@@Derok3 But he’s still considered mostly good at first because he’s stopping other criminals from hurting innocent people.

[@S.D.323]

@@Derok3 dexter isnt a psychopath

[@isabelguzmanmiranda5025]

Well, when people said she was unlikable, I thought "It's on purpose". When they criticized the actress, I thought "the character is meant to be dislikable, and she is". I always thought that if the nazis thought they were so superior to other human beings that they justified a genocide, Noldor elves who are really superior to everyone else might have similar ideas. Well, as of episode 6 I got my wish of seeing Noldo elves at their worst. It was on purpose from the beginning.

[@DespotofAntrim]

There are definitely Nazi parallels in episode 6, I will go into detail about them in the sequel video to this one.

[@cardenuovo]

I actually agree. I know the video is satire but it actually explains a lot. Tolkien’s work was done before the second world war and the lessons learned from that era. The writing still sucks but at least with this perspective I can assure myself I’m not crazy in thinking Galadriel is meant to appear genocidal. What they’ll do with Sauron will be interesting as I have no idea how they’ll be able to tie this mess together.

[@h0tsex0r]

Impressive. Very nice. Let’s see Doogie Elrond, MD’s card.

[@DespotofAntrim]

Elron: Isildur! Where are you going?! Cast it into the fire! Isildur: I have to return some videotapes.

[@henrykfu]

I would call her the "anti-Galadriel"

[@yourfanfictionhd]

The plot twist that we never expected. Now I understand Rings of Power, and it is much deeper than I thought. Thank you for giving meaning to it. P.S: this is the best Galadriel analysis that I have watched. I’m not even kidding. And I watched at least 20 by this time 😂

[@TheCapedWanderer]

“Choral singing is a communal ritual that celebrates beauty . . . the humbling of the self to a greater power.” My man, you are nailing this satiric essay to the _door._

[@spiritedwisent]

Damn, when you put it this way, thats a magnificent story.

[@patrickkanas3874]

More proof of how little she cares for anyone other than herself. When she first sees the troll, she stands there and does nothing. She waits until the troll hurts or kills at least three of her men to finally step in and doesn't even try to save them

[@jmace2424]

The part where she doesn’t join in the singing reminds me of Melkor (Morgoth) trying to mess up Eru Iluvatar’s song.

[@brockdavid]

Amazon = Melkor

[@underfire987]

​@@brockdavidyes

[@daniraevys6661]

Idk whether to laugh or cry. This is so damn funny and accurate at the same time. Looking forward for more analysis from you.

[@DespotofAntrim]

Thanks, part 2 is gonna be good.

[@picklerick.n.666]

@@DespotofAntrim part 3 maybe??? Please 😇😇😇😇🔊🔊🔊🔊😎😎😎😎😇😇😇😇

[@isomeme]

Excellent video. You get bonus points for a perfect use of Stravinsky. 🙂🎵

[@frozen1762]

It's so tragic how at the end of a season Sauron offers her love and redemption if she turns away from darkness but she rejects him.

[@alexthelizardking]

Sauron tried to make the ultimate sacrifice by marrying his worst enemy.

[@AliciatheCho]

@@alexthelizardking😂😂😂 That was a good one

[@misterpractical]

Bruh. Literally moments after the origami ship get sunk, there's a conversation between Finrod and Galadriel where she tells him she made it (the origami ship) just as he taught her.

[@DespotofAntrim]

Even after someone teaches you how to do something, much practice is required before it can be perfected.

[@josephjackson4312]

Funny thing about this is how true this all is for the character, and yet the writers believe they are writing a heroic character. Woke writers seem to be only capable of writing heros as if they are in their origin story of becoming villains, and then they like to make villains sympathetic, and they tend to do so enough that the villains are more sympathetic than the so-called heroes they wrote to fight them.

[@DespotofAntrim]

The probem with ROP is that they just never actually showed why Sauron is the villain. They just assumed the audience would know he's the bad guy from the movies. That's lazy. You have to give the audience a reason to root against the villain. It's almost unbelievable how badly written this show is.

[@Ilya.Pirogov]

@@DespotofAntrim Nowhere in the films is it revealed why Sauron is the antagonist. We are invited to simply accept this as a fact.

[@natereynolds2783]

@@Ilya.Pirogov right but he already descended into evil, we know it, while here he is just a noble dude trying to stop a genocide. Why should we assume he is a terrible person, when he has been one of the best the entire time? That is the difference, if you are trying to say that a noble character is evil, give them the traits that they disguise or foreshadowing of their fall, and not just do it out of no where.

[@user-hj8oh9kh7v]

​@@Ilya.Pirogov ... In this ring he poured his malice, his cruelty and his will do dominate all life- Galadriel

[@jasonfrost6947]

The writing in this video is obviously God tier, an to have it topped off with the background music truly makes it a masterful.

[@DespotofAntrim]

Thank you. The music is Bartók. Great composer.

[@channindusilva1555]

Wow. This explains a lot. How come this video doesn't have more views.

[@1uplink169]

Excellent work man, hilarious and thought provoking at the same time. Sooo biting but the sarcasm, earnestness, conviction, and actual valid points all mingling... makes you ponder like "oh shit he is going deep into the heart of the ocean, not just playing in the waves.... but why do I feel like he is just barely keeping a straight face?" Is he just taking the piss? And the clips, hammer in the point, while simultaneously making the viewer crack up. The part where she was folding the boat while you talked about her bending things to her will, and the repeat footage, sublime man! And that's just a case in point, you really didn't waste many words... the vocabulary made this elite. What puts it over the top for me is how the music choices coincide so in sync with the flow of words and ideas with the show footage. At some places you start to feel ethereal and atmospheric, like an Edgar Allen Poe poem.

[@DespotofAntrim]

Thanks for the wonderful feedback, I spent quite a lot of time finding the right music for this video.

[@khfan4life365]

On a related note, I don’t like how the Elves look in this show. In the LOTR movies, they looked ethereal and beautiful. In this show, they look like humans with pointy ears. There’s no otherworldliness or beauty to them.

[@DespotofAntrim]

Also Gil Galad looked like a meth junkie.

[@megan6867]

Agreed! I never once looked at Galadriel and thought "elf". She comes off no different than any other human on the show.

[@bligc8672]

Wow you just made this show interesting 👏

[@DespotofAntrim]

And it didn't cost me a billion dollars.

[@phillkilgore6154]

Your analysis is pure genius. I can’t thank you enough for your riveting insight, it has exposed the deepest meanings contained in the Rings of Power. I am truly moved.

[@blueelliss101]

Lol, I have seen this somewhere... There is a book called "The Last Ringbearer" by Kirill Eskov. This is an alternative view of the events of the War of the Ring from the side of Mordor. The positions of good and evil are reversed here. So the elves there are exactly like that - psychopaths and murderers with empty eyes.

[@DespotofAntrim]

I have made a note to check that book out, thanks!

[@dcbluenose1873]

Fantastic. This channel is criminally under-subbed.

[@wiiagent]

Holy shit... your right! This needs a million views! How did you even realize this? Lol... incredible...

[@DespotofAntrim]

Thanks very much! It's quite obvious when you just accept what Amazon is presenting. The show is mind bogglingly awful.

[@AlmostEthical]

The best humour is true, which is why this is so funny. Spot on! Sauron as a Moses-like figure, with the sweet, swelling music ... Galadriel, the behemoth of darkness ... song is the language of the soul, but Galadriel cannot sing, for Galadriel has no soul hahaha

[@nt13987]

This was amazing, awesome job making this! Envoy of Satan is going to be one of Guyladerial's best made up titles in her long list of bs titles

[@DespotofAntrim]

Thanks very much! 'Behemoth of Darkness' was my personal favourite.

[@DonovanAenslaed]

Oh dear Lord, you have completely and successfully demonized young Galadriel. I love it.

[@ms1535]

Wow! Interesting and well thought out perspective. This really opened my eyes. She is like Satan masquerading as an Angel of light.

[@DespotofAntrim]

Part II should be out this weekend.

[@lmc4964]

fantastic video , the other theory I heard was that she is an insertion of the show runners, 2 individuals with no prior credits so their personality is frustrated "why dont people listen to me" now that they got their chance they have projected this on to Galadriel. I prefer the psychopath explanation.

[@DespotofAntrim]

Fascinating, I'm sure there is a subconscious element of the 'why don't people listen to me' playing out in the script.

[@sphyre1196]

What a beautiful pisstake. Fitting for a poorly written Mary Sue. Thank for making my day.

[@DespotofAntrim]

You're very welcome.

[@GrimgoreIronhide]

Finding this video was very eerie. I have just returned from Iraq, from the city of Mosul where me and my archeological team spent the last year busy uncovering the secret library of Ashurbanipal, the last of the wicked kings of the Assyrians and their dark empire. As we were sifting through the rubble I broke through an ancient wall and lo there in the hidden chamber graven upon the stone was a magnificently carved fresco of a woman dressed in robes. She had long wavy hair, large horns which protruded from her mouth very pronounced neck bones and eyes that promised nothing but suffering to any who gazed into them. Under this relief was carved the words "Behold, the great destroyer. The she div, scourge of Ashur and Kush, Gal-ahd-rel, herald of contempt, she who hungers for the blood of every child." Further along the wall were detailed murals depicting in hieroglyphic and cuneiform scripts the battle of mighty gods to subdue this wyrm of destruction and chaos using such things as repel this crawling abomination of frenzied chaos; the tears of a mother holding her newborn son, the notes of a song composed for a man's true love, and a lock of hair taken from an orphan who has been adopted by a kindly family. Anyway, while we were there one of my bumbling interns knocked over a rack of Canopic jars. There was a rush of wind that filled the entire chamber, black bats with the tails of scorpions swarmed seemingly from nowhere and the earth cracked, I was really hoping we hadn't let anything bad out of its millennia long imprisonment but it after seeing this video and learning about Rings of Power it looks like I was wrong.

[@jmace2424]

The showrunners thought they were writing the story Tolkien never could. When actually, Rings of Power is the show Sauron would make to roast his enemies if he had a film studio.

[@TRivan-kx2bi]

The Rings of Power, an Annatar Studios production

[@chaiam]

Ah man, I wanna see when she’s in numenor, do the rest of the episodes please!

[@DespotofAntrim]

I will be doing a sequel video to this one.

[@TheGreatMalefic]

Thanks to you, I got unexpectantly interested into the Rings of Power, I just got amazon prime and watched the first four episodes from the point of view which you explored in your video! You are absolutely right, she is an insane, obsessed and violent psychopath, posing as the savior and white knight. I might add, she is a narcissist too. Also, I ship Halbrand & Galadriel, haha!

[@DespotofAntrim]

The writers have achieved the complete opposite of everything they aimed for. It is a reflection in media of how leftist policies effect the real world.

[@chaiam]

Indeed, it’s like they read Eric Blaire aka George Orwell 1984 and thought, unconsciously ‘this is the world I want to live in, up is down, ignorance is bliss and into the memory hole anything that stands for objective morality’ 😢

[@DespotofAntrim]

George Orwell was a prophet

[@PS4sos21]

When the king said that she was gonna be the reason why evil rises which is true. She is actually the reason why Saron came to middle earth even tho he was quite content in forging swords on the island kingdom. She is the reason why the rings were made. She is the reason why the nazguls were created which was because of the corruption of the rings. She has brought doom to middle earth because of her lust for vengeance and genocide.

[@DespotofAntrim]

True, but what the fuck was Sauron even doing on that boat near Valinor? Galadriel is the supreme villain.

[@PS4sos21]

@@DespotofAntrim yeh. The writers suggested that Amazaron engineered this whole encounter and then every proceeding event just so the ring's can get made. They try to say that he is like Satan who's in the ear all the time for criminals. But its spirit verse flesh. Spirit will always win out.

[@TankHunter678]

@@DespotofAntrim My headcanon? Halbrand was trying to sail to Numenor, got caught in a storm which caused the ship to go off course towards Valinor, and since Men are not supposed to sail westward beyond Numenor the sea guardian attempted to eliminate them. They only get away because the raft was floating in the direction of Numenor. If we got by your interpretation then Halbrand planned to work his way up the social ladder and establish peace between his people and the Numenorians, only to be dragged down the path of evil by the manipulations of Galadriel because he could not reveal himself.

[@maxmagnus3793]

Wow this video is a work of art. The funny part is that so much of "Daemoness Galadriel" is present in the show. Alone and violent from childhood. No soul, no beauty, no compassion, no light. And yes Morgoth and the orcs are never shown and established as actual villains in the show. Not Sauron either

[@DespotofAntrim]

I know they should have done the Morgoth story.

[@nsgcommando2861]

Even assuming everything upto Morgoth's fall and expulsion into the void did happen as in canon, since the show never cements Sauron as a villain, we can just say that after he ran away from Eönwë at the thought of punishment by 14 valar, he didn't build a powerbase to continue Morgoth's work, instead just tried to help the people created by Morgoth, aka the orcs. Which results in him being chosen to be their king equivalent, which pissed off some of the noldor elves, including Guyladriel

[@ahighhorseman]

This is amazing. Many people have demolished The Rings of Power and the inept culture that created it. This goes deeper, to reveal the dark heart of that creative bankruptcy.

[@Left4Coragem]

OMG! I let myself be lead by those clickbaiter youtubers saying this was crap, but it's the most masterful subversion of them all. Thank you kind sir, for showing me the error of my ways!

[@floydffrogfloydffrog7453]

And here I thought Rings Of Power was just some shameless, transparent attempt to parley a beloved book into a platform for profit and ideological promulgation. But now I see how a story of a psychopath run a muck is a pleasant, life-affirming tale of obsession and destruction in comparison. Thank you, Despot, for redeeming what otherwise would have been a soul crushing experience for me.

[@DespotofAntrim]

You're welcome Frog.

[@mr.sophistication3232]

She’s exactly the kind of character I’d expect Amazon to cast as a hero. Female Jeff Bezos.

[@jmrios942]

Great video keep them coming, this is far more interesting insite than the original. Crazy how this makes more sense about her character.

[@DespotofAntrim]

Thank you. This is the only way to make sense of the show.

[@jarthkebil]

It's like the writers read Paradise Lost and unironically believed Satan was the actual selfless hero.

[@miversen2674]

Brilliant!! The show runners/writers need to see this!

[@DespotofAntrim]

Maybe Amazon will see it and hire me as Showrunner for Season 2.

[@Chubby-chinZamboni]

Good video! This is a solid bit of entertainment. Seems like you have your own style. Well done, keep up the good work.

[@DespotofAntrim]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@kiriavatar123]

This was amazing. Would rather watch you deconstruct each episode like this then watch ROP. Incredible work

[@DespotofAntrim]

Thanks very much. I will be doing a LOTR and ROP comparison next month. I may also do a 'Sauron was right' video.

[@user-kb2no8yg1o]

This video is a prime example how bad writing, terrible casting and thereby, acting in some parts may lead to creativity in good members of humankind. Bravo, it was great fun, thank you!

[@briantisdale4491]

Wow and they thought that she was a good character

[@DespotofAntrim]

Incompetency turns to delusion when it gets praised for long enough.

[@maclunkey7275]

This video is priceless. Nearly cried of laughter at work when I listened to this. I was recently recommended your channel by the all powerful algorithm, and for once I’m thankful for it. Subbed and watching all of your content. Keep it up man, best of luck to you in developing this channel. Will definitely be sticking around for more. Cheers

[@DespotofAntrim]

Thank you for the sub and I'm glad you're enjoying the videos.

[@username901000]

'Elrond thinks he's her friend' - genius

[@catgirl2747]

Brilliant. Thank you for this.