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TOKEN FLAW/WEAKNESS (which proves that your character is NOT, repeat NOT, a Mary Sue!): Well, she's blind.
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And she has absolutely no problem whatsoever seeing better than anyone else in Middle-earth, right?
There is a certainly quality that harkens back to the very first Mary Sue (who was of Star Trek fanfic in origin, and provided the name, as she was Lieutenant Mary Sue) that should not be forgotten, I think: Everyone, even the people who hated her, still loved her. Mary Sue, of course, was not necessarily aware of this, but all men loved her (openly or secretly; she left a trail of broken hearts behind her, which she would have healed had she but known) and even the women who envied her beauty, skill, wit, charm, etc. and should have hated her loved her anyway. Now, that the Sue might be unaware of this immense outpouring of love toward her... oh, the angst, the tragedy...!
Eonwe, perhaps it should be an albino half-orc. It seems that most Sues in Middle-earth are half-something (half-witted, no, though that could be said of many Sue writers). And perhaps a shape-shifter. Sues seem to love that ability.