i think my ideal form of government at this point is just "benevolent rule by wise and virtuous god-emperor philosopher king with limitless power and impossibly ambitious vision"
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@velartrill sounds like
> In place of the Dark Lord you will set up 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 the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!
i'll see myself out now :)
@bonifartius i would have handed her the Ring without a second thought
@bonifartius tbqh i read LOTR when i was young; that passage really resonated with me and stuck with me over the years. Storm Queen Galadriel would have been so fucking awesome
@velartrill i think the point is that you would give up free will if you set up galadriel with the ring. sauron is evil, it's easy to hate him even if he has the ring. with galadriel you'd have an omnipotent ruler which is so beautiful that you couldn't even hate her if you liked to.
@bonifartius @velartrill the other thing is that higher beings like valar and eldar are so powerful when corrupted, that galadriel with the one ring could eventually become somebody like sauron
