Frankly, I can see that many people in Middle-earth -- Elrond, Galadriel, Cirdan, Thranduil, etc. -- would have personal reasons for wanting vengeance against Sauron. That Galadriel is a woman is, I think, not an issue; after all, the saying "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" came about for a reason. There may be more men fighting wars because more men are in positions of power, but put a woman there, and often the very qualities which brought her to that position and kept her there make her capable of being as ruthless as any man. I suspect it was with good reason that many Men of Middle-earth feared the Sorceress of the Golden Wood. Galadriel would have more reasons than what happened with Finrod to want revenge against Sauron. It was Sauron, after all, who decimated Eregion and the Gwaith-i-Mirdain. Even if she did not return Celebrimbor's love (another person Sauron tortured and killed quite heinously), she accepted the ring of power he gave her, and we do know that she strongly desired a way to preserve her own realm in Middle-earth. Sauron's betrayal in forging the One Ring at first made her unable to use the gift she was given; only after he lost the One was she able to use Nenya, and then cautiously, since there was no certainty that Sauron was gone and that the One would not be found again. If the One had never been made, how much more would she and the bearers of the Three have been able to accomplish, preserving and enhancing Middle-earth? I'd say she has some mighty strong grounds for wanting vengeance -- and given what Frodo saw in her in the moments before she refused the One (not to mention her defense of Lorien during the war and her cleansing of Dol Guldur afterward), I think her wrath and her revenge would have been as terrible as any man's, if she had had the means to take it.
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