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Raynor, youre back!!! Great to see you here again, hope you'll stay for some time.
Secondly, I agree with the two posts before me and first want to add a quotation showing her desire for a land to rule on her own take from a "late and philological essay" as CT says:
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She was proud, strong, and selfwilled, as were all the descendants of Finwë save Finarfin; and like her brother Finrod, of all her kin the nearest to her heart, she had dreams of far lands and dominions that might be her own to order as she would without tutelage.
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Also interesting is the fact that in the last note the Professor ever wrote on M-e, he showed Galadriel's desire of new lands in a better light:
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...she did indeed wish to depart from Valinor and to go into the wide world of Middle-earth for the exercise of her talents
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In the years after they did not join in the war against Angband, which they judged to be hopeless under the ban of the Valar and without their aid; and their counsel was to withdraw from Beleriand and to build up a power to the eastward (whence they feared that Morgoth would draw reinforcement), befriending and teaching the Dark Elves and Men of those regions.
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This story, withdrawing Galadriel from all association with the rebellion of Fëanor, even to the extent of giving her a separate departure (with Celeborn) from Aman, is profoundly at variance with all that is said elsewhere. It arose from "philosophical" (rather than "historical") considerations, concerning the precise nature of Galadriel's disobedience in Valinor on the one hand, and her status and power in Middle-earth on the other. That it would have entailed a good deal of alteration in the narrative of The Silmarillion is evident; but that my father doubtless intended to do.
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Still, I think all in all the change wouldn't have been that great. Galadriel does seem to appear as more of a teacher than a ruler coming to M-e, but surely Tolkien never intended to also change the text in LotR. So perhaps her desire to rule wouldn't be so clear within the Silmarillion, but would develop until the time of LotR.