[Glenethor]

And,<P>The portrayal of Galadriel and the controversy surrounding it stirred my memory of the first time I read the book, nigh on 25 years ago. Lothlorien seemed spooky, menacing, from the reticence of Gimli and Boromir to enter, to their being blindfolded, to being told that they could not go back, to Celeborn angrily suggesting that they should never have allowed the Fellowship into Lorien, to Galadriel's testing of the Fellowship, and in particular Sam and Frodo. I didn't know if they had made a mistake by entering Lorien or not. Up to that point, the Fellowship's choices regarding their path were largely bungled. So, the somewhat truncated trip through Lorien jibed with my memory of the first time I read the book.