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Originally Posted by Matata
Galadriel is a peaceful character famed for her beauty and grace. Amazon galadriel is a retread of gandalfs search for Sauron from the hobbit movies. There is essentially zero overlap between the two characters, so i think its safe to call amazon galadrial a crammed in character.
The Amazon Galadriel is a pretty generic female lead: she's very masculine, plucky, no discernible flaws and is constantly being oppressed by the incompetent men around her. They just picked the safest character template available to them and put galadriel's name on it.
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I disagree on this take. Galadriel was always supposed to be a very formidable warrior. Tolkien referred to her as "Mighty", and she was supposed to be special in that she was a warrior female:
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Therefore ere the Third Age was ended the Elves perceived that the Ring of Sapphire was with Elrond, in the fair valley of Rivendell, upon whose house the stars of heaven most brightly shone; whereas the Ring of Adamant was in the Land of Lórien where dwelt the Lady Galadriel. A queen she was of the woodland Elves, the wife of Celeborn of Doriath, yet she herself was of the Noldor and remembered the Day before days in Valinor, and she was the mightiest and fairest of all the Elves that remained in Middle-earth.
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Multiple more references to her being a top warrior in this article too:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultas...ays-a-warrior/
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Nature of Middle-Earth: “"Account of Galadriel’s quarrel with the sons of Fëanor at sack of Alqualondë. How she fought...”
Unfinished Tales: “she... fought heroically”
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Morgoth’s Ring: “Marginal note against the passage describing the involvement of the second host in the fighting: 'Finrod and Galadriel (whose husband was of the Teleri) fought against Feanor in defence of Alqualonde.”
People’s of Middle-Earth: “Even after the merciless assault upon the Teleri and the rape of their ships, though she fought fiercely against Feanor in defence of her mother's kin, she did not turn back. Her pride was unwilling to return, a defeated suppliant for pardon; but now she burned with desire to follow Feanor with her anger to whatever lands he might come, and to thwart him in all ways that she could."
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It might seem like a cliche to have the rare female warrior trying to find their way in a male dominated warrior world, but that was what Tolkien had intended. Galadriel was supposed to be that rare female warrior.
Elves, generally, by the time of the LotR were a lot more peaceful than previously. This was because they knew they had made huge errors with previous approaches, and there had been a major reformation within their society following the previous battle with Sauron.