=My own experience with Lord Of The Rings=
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Chapter 47:
Galadriel's Mirror
I wandered around a while later, looking for Frodo and Sam. They had decided to take a walk around the city, and I wanted to go too, but was busy when they asked. Now I was hurrying, trying to catch up to them.
"Here is the Mirror of Galadriel." I heard the beautiful and soft voice of Galadriel. I turned the corner to see her standing with Frodo and Sam around a pedestal with a basin of water on it.
"I have brought you here so that you may look into it, if you will." She said.
"What's going on?" I interrupted, "And can I get in on it?"
"You may, if you choose." Galadriel answered. The air was still for a moment as everyone was silent.
"What shall we look for, and what shall we see?" asked Frodo after a minute.
"Many things I can command the mirror to reveal and to some I can show that they desire to see. But the Mirror will also show things unbidden, and those are often stranger and more profitable than things which we behold. What will you see, if you leave the Mirror free to work, I cannot tell. For it shows things that were, and things that are, and things that yet may be. But which it is that he sees, even the wisest cannot always tell. Do you wish to look?" She asked.
Frodo did not answer. I was too confused with the whole speech to answer.
"And you?" She asked to Sam, "For this is what your folk would call magic, I believe thought I do not understand clearly what they mean; and they seem to use the same word of the deceits of the Enemy. But this, if you will, is the magic of Galadriel. Did you not say that you wished to see Elf-magic?"
"Yes, my Lady. If you will allow it." Sam said. I just stood there, getting more and more confused by every word that came from Galadriel's mouth.
"Come, look and see, but do not touch the water." She smiled at Sam's eagerness. Sam stepped up and looked into Mirror. Sam stared for a while, and said some things which I did not understand. At least, I didn't know who he was talking about, so it didn't make sense to me. He stepped back and cried that he wished to go home.
"You cannot go back now. You did not wish to leave before, though you knew that evil may be happening in the Shire. The Mirror shows many things, some of which have not yet come to pass. Some may never be, if they are prevented. The Mirror is a dangerous guide to follow." Galadriel said to him.
"I wish I had never come here. I don't want to see any more magic." Sam said, stepping back, choking back tears, "I'll go home with Mr. Frodo, or not at all. But I hope I do get back someday. Things have to be fixed somehow."
"Do you wish to see now, Frodo?" Galadriel asked. Frodo looked hesitant.
"Come on, Frodo. I'll do it. You can too, right?" I stepped up to the Mirror, and looked into it, "What am I supposed to do to get it to go?" I asked. Then I saw what I was dreading to see.
"What are you doing there?!" I cried out to the Mirror, "You're supposed to be at home! Although, this world is actually better than home, but that's not the point! You had better be careful! I'll kill you if you guys die! Ki and Ka would be devastated!" I grabbed the edge of the pedestal and started to shake it, "Do you hear me?!"
"Stop." Galadriel said, taking hold of my hands. I released the pedestal, and backed away.
"I tell you…" I muttered to myself as Frodo approached the Mirror. He stared into it for a few moments. Then the water started to steam. Then to boil.
"Sam…" I whispered warily as Frodo started to lean towards the water, "Do something."
He stepped forward and was about to grab Frodo, when Galadriel spoke and drug him out of his trance.
"Do not touch the water!" She said. Frodo looked up at her, as though he had been tricked into something. She looked slightly disturbed. "I know what you saw, for it is also on my mind. Do not be afraid! But do not think that only by singing amid the trees, nor by the slender arrows of elven-bows, is this land of Lothlorien is maintained and defended against its Enemy. I say to you, Frodo, that even as I speak to you, I perceive the Dark Lord and know his mind, or all of his thoughts concerning the Elves. And he gropes ever to see me and my thought. But the door is still closed!"
"What?" I thought. I was SO confused. She raised her arms and said something in Elfish. Then I noticed the ring on her finger, although I knew that it had always been there. She was a perfect ring wearer.
"Yes, this is a ring of power. Verily it is in the land of Lorien upon the finger of Galadriel that one of the Three remains. This is Nenya, the Ring of Adament, and I am its keeper." Galadriel said, as if reading our minds.
"You are wise and fearless, Lady Galadriel. If you ask of me, I shall give you the One Ring. It is too great of a matter for me." Frodo said.
"Arrgh!" I shrieked, in shock, diving for the Hobbit, "You can't do that! Don't give it to her, Frodo! I don't care if the is the most beautiful Elf in all of existence! You have to destroy it, Frodo! Frodo!" I shook him.
Galadriel laughed all of the sudden, which stopped me from thrashing Frodo.
"Wise the Lady Galadriel may be, yet here she had met her match in courtesy. Gently are you revenged for my testing of your heart at our first meeting. You begin to see with a keen eye. I do not deny that my heart has greatly desired to ask what you offer. For many long years I had pondered what I might do, should the Great Ring come into my hands, and behold! It was brought within my grasp. The evil that was devised long ago works on in many ways, whether Sauron himself stands or falls. Would not that have been a noble deed set to the credit of his Ring, if I had taken it by force or fear from my guest?" Galadriel said, "And now it comes at last. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will have a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon a Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightening! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!"
She lifted her hand and her own ring glowed and left all else. Suddenly, she let her hand fall and suddenly she laughed. She seemed as if she had returned from the highest power to a simple woman.
"I pass the test." She said, "I will diminish, and go into the West, and remain Galadriel."
"You really talk a lot, although it did mean something." I said, sitting on the ground, "But thank you for not taking the Ring. That would have been awful."
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References? None! What did you think? She's a scary lady!
