Talking of the long 1950s, I also have this essay on Galadriel the Fairy Queen out now in the wonderful @speculativeinsight.bsky.social journal, which I hope you are all subscribing to because it is ridiculously good vale at c£15 pa, and very much worth supporting.
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My answer is clearly no, because if she had she would have simply become the next dark lord. And she knew that, which is why she refused it - although it tempted her.