AMZ claims that this story can be found from the LOTR Appendices A to F. The Story begins from a young girl Galandriel at the Undying Lands. The strangest thing is that they portray the Eldar kids being the same as humans. As if the High Elves has no different culture to men.
I get that their childhood might be a bit longer than humans. But then, and especially in the Galandriel's case, born around ~62 years later than his brother, they look young forever and as she did for almost 1600 years before she returned to the Undying Lands. In the LOTR she acts like a fierce but loving lady, with a certain majesty tied to her presence. I don't get that from the girl Galandriel.
Thing is, she goes to narrate, "We had no word for death..." and yet, they showed her portraying violence with the boat sinking episode. As if it is natural for them to gravitate towards the violence, rather than peace and harmony. When I read the Silmarillion, the violence was learned later on, when Morgoth stepped into the play with his "darkness."
In fact, it's in that point on that they show High Elves picking up the arms, while they condensed the First Age and its ending without explaining much about the Elvish culture. Instead, it's about Elves going to war, giving the audience an idea that the Elves are not much different to humans, even though Tolkien wanted them to be snobbish pacifists.
I hated that AMZ changed the past, skipped the Numenior, forgot about the Silmarillions and their light or their meaning to the High Elvish culture as Elves shipped themselves to Middle-Earth. Even the map doesn't show Numenor, while it should be there. Instead, they showed Elves coming to Middle-Earth as invaders, clashing against orkish forces, while the dragons fought with the Giant Eagles on the sky. Then they go and claimed that was the reason why the Arda looks so ruined.
*facepalm for the lost opportunity* I was ready to stop... for the AMZ muddling the whole lot of things about how the different races arrived to the Middle-Earth. Jackson at least had balls to show the reference for the Uruk-hai being dug up from the earth. It's what Tolkien told us, that they all one-by-one came from the ground, expect the elves.
There is no other reference to Valar than Morgoth. Instead, they jumped straight to the Sauron, forgetting a whole lot of things that makes Sauron as a successor of Morgoth so interesting. So we got Finrod getting slain by Sauron without explaining the match and Galandriel picking up a revenge mission instead of ruling in peace with her husband Celeborn for around a thousand years as she voices, "And there in the darkness, his voe became mine. And so, we hunted... to the ends of the Earth we hunted."
Finrod founded the original
Minas Tirith in the
Pass of Sirion. In around
FA 50, he and his friend Turgon, while journeying down the river
Sirion, encamped along its banks and were put to sleep by
Ulmo.
Finrod discovered the system of caves beneath the
Taur-en-Faroth, and with the help from the
Dwarves of the
Blue Mountains he started to build the city of Nargothrond and went on to found his own kingdom there.
[4][5] Finrod rewarded the Dwarves with many jewels from
Valinor. And in that time they made for him the Nauglamír and gave him the honorific Felagund meaning "Hewer of Caves".
One of the reasons why the Dwarven Kingdom's have Elven ruins is because Finrod forged a friendship with them and helped them. There is also another reason why the Elves doesn't have the Rings of Power as they all made them. Especially those who came from the Undying Lands and had seen the Silmarillions as Finrod's biography states:
During the
Dagor Bragollach,
Barahir of the
House of Bëor saved Finrod's life, and in friendship Finrod gave him his ring.
[7] This ring was later known as the
Ring of Barahir and was eventually handed down to
Aragorn when told of his true identity
Finrod, also known fully as Finrod Felagund, was a Ñoldorin Elf who was born in Aman, He was King of Nargothrond and the eldest son of Finarfin and Eärwen, and the brother of Galadriel, Angrod and Aegnor. Finrod was one of the noblest Elves of the House of Finarfin and a friend of Men. His...
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It goes on to say about Sauron,
Though disguised by the arts of Finrod, the twelve were captured by
Sauron and taken to
Tol-in-Gaurhoth, formerly Minas Tirith, the castle Felagund himself had built. Finrod and Sauron battled with songs of power but despite a great display of skill and power by the Elven prince, Sauron eventually caught him in a devious trap and prevailed. But Sauron could not discern who exactly they were, even though they were revealed to him. Sauron imprisoned them, seeking to learn their errand and identities, sending a werewolf to devour them one by one until they revealed their secret, yet none did. Sauron however perceived that Finrod was a High Elven Lord of great power, and purposed to save him for last. Eventually, when the wolf came for Beren, Finrod burst his chains and killed the wolf barehanded but was mortally wounded himself.
That's why he is scarred. But the interesting thing about the "Songs of Power" is that it's from Kalevala, that Tolkien studied for making the LOTR. It's what Väinämöinen did more than in one occasion, and his spells were powerful. It's what Valar did as well, with Finrod being one of the most powerful High Elves in the land.
Why Galandriel would spend "centuries" after Finrod's death on a hunt for Sauron and his orcs? I just don't get it. Even his "company" were questioning her motives. Hundreds of years, and "...nobody has found of anything."
The warrior princess Galandriel didn't care to listen to words of wisdom. Instead she pushed on like a bloodthirsty barbarian to "Frozen north"??? Man, wtf? Elves are not that effin stupid. But no, in this one they are. I hated seeing them wearing chainmail in a blizzard, some of them not even wearing hats, like idiots on a revenge.
I stopped at there...
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