Although she was conscious of giving glimpses of the character that
Galadriel would become, Clark says she also had to ignore the baggage.
βYou have to shut all that off,β she says. βMy Galadriel canβt imagine
sheβs going to turn into Cate Blanchett one day. She doesnβt know if
theyβre 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 theyβve not been shown that they
can get things wrong.β