Dance of Darkness and Light
AHHHHHH Haladriel! Causing much shipping and much hate. I’ve written about them before, while season 2 was still coming out. In that essay, I talked about how I believe they were never in love with each other, or at least not in the way most shippers want them to be. At the time, season 2 hadn’t concluded, but now that it has and I rewatched it several times, especially their confrontation, I wanted to talk about them again. As discussed in previous essays, Galadriel pinned a lot on Halbrand. He was a companion, the first she believed could understand a part of everything she had gone through, he provided her with a sense of purpose, and he made her feel something other than misery for the first time in about a thousand years. So obviously, she would be deeply attached to him. I still don’t believe she loved him romantically, though. People can be attached to one another without it being romantic. As for Halbrand, Galadriel made him believe he could be redeemed. But in a twisted way wh...