Galadriel "turns dark" as a manifestation of the temptation from the One Ring, revealing her potential to become a tyrannical ruler if she accepted it, a vision shown in the movies to highlight the Ring's corrupting power and her choice to reject absolute power for a more humble path. While the books describe her growing tall and radiant in wrath, the films visually portray this as a shadowy, negative-toned "dark form" to emphasize the terrible power she could wield, a power she wisely chooses to forgo.
Rather than cast magic at Sauron, Galadriel opts to challenge him on the spiritual plane; she resorts to her Wrath form to penetrate Sauron's mind and break his will. She obviously succeeds, as Sauron audibly cries aloud as he flees.
Since the One Ring was designed to be wielded by a Maiar, hobbits are about the furthest away from that that existed. Hence they would be the least affected by it. Secondly, the Ring was subversive. It tempted people to claim it by offering them the power to achieve whatever it was they wanted.
She is described as "the mightiest and fairest of all the Elves that remained in Middle-earth", and the "greatest of Elven women". Throughout the Third Age it was unknown who wielded the Three Rings, but during the War of the Ring, Galadriel revealed to Frodo Baggins that she was the bearer of Nenya.
Sauron had his first major emotional breakthrough with Galadriel because the antidote to toxic shame is empathy and belonging. It's what Galadriel brought this back into his life. Because of Galadriel, Sauron gets a taste of the antidote.
Could he carry the ring for a short time? Yes. But like all other elves his good intentions would be twisted and corrupted by the ring's influence, and he would not want to be parted from it.
Tolkien's description of Gollum conforms to a Catholic – and Thomistic – account of envy, which is a “sadness of the soul”; and it is Gollum's unbearable sadness and his unquenchable desire for the one Ring that marks his character.
Instead, we have to consider that Sauron, the original owner, is not human, but has a quasi-divine status. Therefore ownership of the Ring is subject to Divine Law. With this precedent in mind, many of the ambiguities clear up nicely. After numerous transfers by violence and trickery, Frodo is the true owner.
If Gandalf had stayed dead after his sacrifice in The Fellowship of the Ring, then his demise would be the saddest in the trilogy, but since he came back, the saddest single death scene of all three movies goes to Boromir's.
His task was to do the bidding of his masters and so when he proved unfaithful in doing that task his masters stripped him of his robes and gave them to one who would do their bidding. Gandalf is now the White, Saruman as he should have been.
On 27 October 1916, as his battalion attacked Regina Trench, Tolkien contracted trench fever.
The main reason is just that The Hobbit was written first and Legolas was not conceived until LOTR was being written. There was a character named Legolas Greenleaf in the older versions of The Fall of Gondolin but that's a case of a different character having the same name as a later one.
Why did Fili and Kili have to die? There are a few different theories as to why Tolkien had Fili and Kili die at the end of The Hobbit. One theory is that he was emphasizing the important and loyal role that Fili and Kili had as sister-sons of Thorin, an important relationship in medieval literature.
The Posttraumatic Stress Disorder of Frodo Baggins
J.R.R. Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings accurately portrayed the signs and symptoms of what is currently labeled Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Frodo's condition logically follows his experiences of less than a year in the War of the Ring.
Merry and Pippin both died decades BEFORE Aragorn died. Merry and Pippin died in FA 63, while Aragorn died in FA 120 - and it was after this that Legolas and Gimli sailed to the Undying Lands. All of this is made patently clear in Tolkien's own timelines.
The clearest same-sex relationship in the novel, in the eyes of scholars, is that of the ringbearer Frodo Baggins and his servant, originally his gardener, Sam. Tolkien described their relationship as like that of an officer in the British Army and his military servant or batman.
It's possible that Gollum's prolonged search for the ring allowed it to maintain a significant power over him, suspending his aging process. In contrast, Bilbo's exposure to the ring's influence waned after he willingly (mostly) relinquished it, allowing his aging to resume more noticeably.
As a Maia, Gandalf was an angelic being in human form, in service to the Creator (Eru Ilúvatar) and the Creator's 'Secret Fire'. He took on the specific form of an old man as a sign of his humility. His role was to advise but never to attempt to match Sauron's strength.
Tolkien's Legolas is extremely introverted. He just doesn't have much to say directly to anyone, perhaps because he's thousands of years old. His odd relationship with Gimli draws him out in a way the hobbits never do, and that's mostly after Frodo and Sam leave the Fellowship.
Tolkien called Sam the "chief hero" of the saga, adding: "I think the simple 'rustic' love of Sam and his Rosie (nowhere elaborated) is absolutely essential to the study of his (the chief hero's) character, and to the theme of the relation of ordinary life (breathing, eating, working, begetting) and quests, sacrifice, ...
Is the Necromancer actually Sauron? Yes, the Necromancer in Dol Guldur is Sauron. He disguised himself as the Necromancer so that he might build up his forces and power and once again try to overtake Middle Earth. He needed to hide his identity from the Elves as long as possible to gather his power.
Melkor is the most powerful of the Valar but he turns to darkness and is renamed Morgoth, the primary antagonist of Arda. All evil in the world of Middle-earth ultimately stems from him.