Great analysis! The one thing that I missed most in the movies, and that was also overlooked in your text (though it’s so brilliantly written I don’t really mind :D), is the relationship between Gimli and Éomer, and how their ‘fight’ over Galadriel culminates in that wonderful comparison of Arwen and Galadriel, at once summoning the entire difference between the Elves of the First Age and the Elves as they were in the autumn of their lives…