BOYD HOLBROOK as CLEMENT MANSELL
Justified: City Primeval - EP01 - City Primeval
Galadriel and Celeborn's Uneasy Marriage
With the casting news about Celeborn, I wanted to share a couple of thoughts.
Tolkien is full of weird relationships. Most of the marriages in his stories are threaded through with a current of uneasiness at best, and sometimes a sense of deep tragedy. I'm not going to get into details here, but if anyone wants to start a thread analyzing all of the marriages in Tolkien, I'd participate, because with the exception of the hobbit marriages, most of them seem pretty messed up. Sometimes due to external circumstances, yes, but none of them end well.
Canonically, Galadriel and Celeborn fit right into this series of uneasy and somewhat tragic relationships. Look at the end of the Return of the King: in the chapter "Many Partings," the hobbits ride out towards the Shire with Aragorn, Galadriel, and Celeborn. Here is the scene where they part with Aragorn:
Then Aragorn took leave of Celeborn and Galadriel, and the Lady said to him, "Elfstone, through darkness you have come to your hope, and have now all your desire. Use well the days."
But Celeborn said: "Kinsman, farewell! May your doom be other than mine, and your treasure remain with you to the end."
Clearly "all your desire" and "your treasure" refer to Arwen, and Celeborn here is explicitly stating that "your treasure remain[ing] with you to the end" would be different from Celeborn's own doom, ie that his own "treasure" will not be with him to the end. It's both poignant and also kind of catty and passive-aggressive of Celeborn to say this in front of his wife. Like "Let's hope our granddaughter doesn't leave her husband the way you're leaving me."
This interaction has always indicated to me that there is some kind of major rupture in Galadriel and Celeborn's relationship. In a straight reading of the text, we can assume this refers to Galadriel's intention to return to Valinor and Celeborn's insistence on remaining for longer (if not indefinitely) in Middle Earth. This split is pretty clear across the text and is interesting in and of itself.
But if you throw a possible SauronxGaladriel subtext into the story, you can take this in all kinds of different directions, and still stay within the bounds of canon.
So just because Celeborn is suddenly on the scene in Rings of Power does not mean that Galadriel is bound for a happily-ever-after-eternal-marriage scenario. We know that there is tension and an effective separation at the end of all things, and we know Celeborn's annoyed by the situation, and we know that Galadriel goes ahead and does her own thing anyway. This is not a sappy, happy couple. At the end of tale, canonically, she and her husband separate because they care about different things.
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Kelpie is embracing her inner longness today, and doing it all over the house. Right now, she's being Long on the bedroom floor. As soon as I move, she will, too, to be Long near me.
Kelpie is an eight month old Maine Coon kitten.
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SHE IS SO LONG
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Every single one of these kittens: “The world is SO BIG and I am SO SMALL and I am not sure what to do with myself but I sure am trying.”
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