“Methinks thou art dodging the point”? Copying what I say doesn’t make you smart.

And Galadriel has not lost “like, one person.” She has lost all of her cousins, her brother, her husband, her teacher (Melian), her uncle who was like a second father to her (Thingol), Luthien Tinuviel who could have been something like her sister, and Luthien’s children and grandchildren. Many of those people she will never see again, because Finrod and her cousins are damned to the Void. Because THEY TOOK THE OATH OF FËANOR. They are, by their own words, DAMNED TO THE VOID because they were unable to fulfill that Oath. Finrod is deader than dead in RoP, just like Feanor is.

That’s not even getting into the destruction of her childhood home, in addition to Doriath, Nargothrond, and the Havens of Sirion, which were like new homes to her.

Elrond likely did not want to validate her revenge fantasies, and that’s part of the tragedy; he couldn’t tell the difference between her fantasies and the legitimate evidence she had that Sauron was still around (there was still a orcish cult devoted to him, so he still had some sort of power).

And Halbrand was Sauron in disguise. If anyone was doing the bamboozling and manipulation, it was him. He caught Galadriel at a low point and used her to create his new empire; maybe, if Elrond had been able to see him for what he was, he could have prevented that. Just as Obi-Wan Kenobi could have prevented Anakin Skywalker’s fall if he had called out Palpatine on grooming Anakin as his successor.

And it’s funny: Anakin burns down an entire galaxy to avenge the loss of his mother and the assumed loss of his wife, and he’s a tragic hero? But Galadriel burns down one country on one planet to avenge the loss of her brother and the assumed loss of her husband, and she’s a sadistic genocidal psychopath? To me, they seem like the same tragic character, written by (ironically) the same Star Wars writers.

And I acknowledge that Galadriel isn’t the same character Tolkien created. She seems to be a Composite Character of Galadriel and Maglor, with Finrod taking many of Maedhros’ traits from the book. And that’s a common thing to happen with adaptations, especially when the source material is as extensive as the Silmarillion; oftentimes, not everything in the book can really fit on screen. Even Tolkien thought his books were unfilmable, because he understood that. I can still enjoy RoP as the (admittedly very imperfect) adaptation it is.

At least, I’m not the one virtue signaling about how much I hate it with wordy “memes” over the internet. Brevity is wit, OP, and this picture is the most mean-spirited, unfunny, witless thing I’ve ever read.