[HairOfTheDog]

Lothlorian is a resting spot, but for whatever reason, not as fun to linger in as Rivendell. Maybe we know too well by this point in the story that these rests will be followed by darkness.

At the mirror Tolkien gives Galadriel away as a ring-bearer, why just her do you suppose? Perhaps so that she can best prepare Frodo for the last leg?

My favorite part of our rest here is the gift scene at the end. I so look forward to that part in the extended DVD! From the pictures we have seen already (which I will post later) it looks beautiful.

[HairOfTheDog]

By the way.... Correction in the pertinent chapters... I goofed up above.

Pertinent Chapters - Book II
Chapter 6 - Lothlórien
Chapter 7 – The Mirror of Galadriel
Chapter 8 - Farewell to Lórien

[NewCenturions]

The Lorien Elves are much more serious and ethereal (and the Haldir in the film is just spooky!) than the singing, laughing Rivendell bunch. (Here's where I launch into "well, when I lived with the elves...")

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

At the mirror Tolkien gives Galadriel away as a ring-bearer, why just her do you suppose?

I think it reflects Frodo's growth as the Ring-bearer. When he was in Rivendell, he was still too inexperienced to perceive Elrond's ring; by the time he gets to Lothlorien he has grown wiser. Galadriel herself comments on this, after she shows him the Mirror: "Yet even so, as Ring-bearer and as one that has borne it on finger and seen that which is hidden, your sight is grown keener. You have perceived my thought more clearly than many that are accounted wise. You saw the Eye of him that holds the Seven and the Nine. And did you not see and recognize the ring upon my finger?"