Although she was conscious of giving glimpses of the character that
Galadriel would become, Clark says she also had to ignore the baggage.
‘You have to shut all that off,’ she says. ‘My Galadriel can’t imagine
she’s going to turn into Cate Blanchett one day. She doesn’t know if
they’re going to survive. But you look at aspects of her character like,
could there be such a thing as a naive elf? Probably not. But naivety
for an elf would be arrogance, because they’ve not been shown that they
can get things wrong.’