Morfydd Clark as Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2024), Amazon MGM Studios
Morfydd Clark, the actress who plays Galadriel, claims that her character is cosmically connected to Sauron in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
Morfydd Clark as Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2024), Amazon MGM Studios
Speaking with Games Radar, Clark stated she agreed with Charlie Vickers’ assertion that Galadriel and Sauron share a psychic connection, “I’d agree with him, I think there is.”
“They’re both magical, powerful beings, and I think there is something lonely to existing in that kind of sphere that they both are in,” she elaborated. “But yeah, there is some sort of cosmic connection, which I’ve heard Charlie mention a few times.”
She added, “I was like ‘Nice, I like that’. Yeah, and it will go on for 1000s and 1000s of years.”
Morfydd Clark as Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2024), Amazon MGM Studios
Vickers, who plays Sauron, informed Games Radar at San Diego Comic-Con in July of this theory, “I think they’re connected, if not by proximity then by their psyche.”
He explained, “They’re higher beings so I’m sure it runs deeper than being in the same place together. I think the fact that when she turns him down at the end of season one, it pisses him off quite a bit. I’d be lying if I said there wasn’t a part of him that thinks, ‘I can get her, I can get to join me.”
Charlie Vickers as Annatar in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2024), Amazon MGM Studios
Clark expanded on the connection telling the outlet, “It’s terrible to have misjudged someone as Galadriel did with him.”
“So I think that also kind of binds her to him, because she doesn’t make mistakes like that, and he’ll forever be the person who deceived her and tricked her,” she asserted.
Morfydd Clark as Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2024), Amazon MGM Studios
Sam Hazeldine, who plays Adar in Season 2, also commented on the relationship between Galadriel and Sauron, “I think there’s something really interesting about the fact that even though she knows now that Halbrand is Sauron, there’s a sense of loss there.”
“She sort of has a hole where Halbrand once was even though she was deceived, it’s really kind of twisted and dark and interesting,” he said.
Sam Hazeldine as Adar; Morfydd Clark as Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2024), Prime Video
If the first season was not abundantly clear, this story clearly has nothing to do with The Lord of the Rings as it was written by J.R.R. Tolkien. The entire show is just using the name of The Lord of the Rings and the names of the characters to tell a completely different story.
In Tolkien’s legendarium, Galadriel is not deceived by Sauron and she certainly has no romantic feelings for him or even a cosmic connection to him. She is married to Celeborn and the two have a daughter, Celebrían.
Christopher Tolkien explained in Unfinished Tales: The Lost Lore of Middle-earth that a note from his father, J.R.R. Tolkien, stated, “Sauron endeavoured to keep distinct his two sides: enemy and tempter. When he came among the Noldor he adopted a specious fair form (a kind of simulated anticipation of the later Istari and a fair name: Artano ‘high-smith,’ or Aulendil, meaning one who is devoted to the service of the Vala Aulë. (In Of the Rings of Power, p. 287, the name that Sauron gave to himself at this time was Annatar, the Lord of Gifts; but that name is not mentioned here.) The note goes on to say that Galadriel was not deceived, saying that this Aulendil was not in the train of Aulë in Valinor, ‘but this is not decisive, since Aulë existed before the ‘Building of Arda,’ and the probability is that Sauron was in fact one of the Aulëan Maiar, corrupted ‘before Arda began’ by Melkor.’”
Elsewhere in Unfinished Tales, Tolkien wrote, “He perceived at once that Galadriel would be his chief adversary and obstacle, and he endeavoured therefore to placate her, bearing her scorn with outward patience and courtesy. [No explanation is offered in this rapid outline of why Galadriel scorned Sauron, unless she saw through his disguise, or of why, if she did perceive his true nature, she permitted him to remain in Eregion.]”
Marton Csokas as Celeborn and Cate Blanchett as Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Extended Edition (2001), New Line Cinema
In The Silmarillion, Tolkien made it abundantly clear that Celeborn and Galadriel fell in love and got married. He wrote, “Galadriel his sister went not with him to Nargothrond, for in Doriath dwelt Celeborn, kinsman of Thingol, and there was great love between them. Therefore she remained in the Hidden Kingdom, and abode with Melian, and of her learned great lore and wisdom concerning Middle-earth.”
Later, Tolkien wrote, “At that time Beren and Lúthien yet dwelt in Tol Galen, the Green Isle, in the River Adurant, southernmost of the streams that falling from Ered Lindon flowed down to join with Gelion; and their son Dior EluchÍl had to wife Nimloth, kinswoman of Celeborn, prince of Doriath, who was wedded to the Lady Galadriel.”
As for their daughter, Celebrían, she marries Elrond and the two have three children including Elladan, Elrohir, and Arwen, who eventually marries Aragorn II.
Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), Warner Bros. Pictures
As noted above, this show has nothing to do with Tolkien and his legendarium other than using the name for his story and the names of the characters he created. To elucidate that point even further, Vickers shared at San Diego Comic-Con that Sauron and Galadriel would be romantically involved.
Vickers alongside showrunners Patrick McKay and J.D. Payne, as well as Clark were asked if the show’s second season would feature more of the romance between Galadriel and Sauron that the first season showed.
Vickers responded, “I think there is hope. … What can we say?” McKay then encourages him, “Say it! Say it!”
Vickers then states, “Yeah, I think we will.”
Charlie Vickers answering a question on whether we will see anything more from the ‘Haladriel” ship in the future pic.twitter.com/wrutV3tu8F
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