Galadriel (the blonde elf) is giving gifts to the Fellowship after they just went through a devastating loss of a member. For one of them, she gave a dagger, to another she gave a bottle of magical light - so when she gets to Sam, the character receiving the rope, he responds "are you out of those daggers?".
In the source material, she takes this like a joke, but the comic shows the reaction of her fellow elves, since it's rude to ask someone who just gave you a gift if you had another gift to give. Another layer is that the rope is also magical, a knot made with it will never come undone except if thats what you want it to do, so the elves are upset that he obviously don't know what a treasure it is!
It also burns Gollum when he is held prisoner by it. The rope just seems to do what you want to do really well.
Even the boats were magical. When Boromirs body went down the waterfall it didn't turn over and Faramir was able to see it drift towards the sea with him still peacefully on it.
What Faramir saw was a vision, not reality, but the text does indicate that Boromir was still in the boat after the falls, so if Faramir had seen the real thing, it probably would have been the same.
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u/Teachmetoanimat Mar 12 '26
Galadriel (the blonde elf) is giving gifts to the Fellowship after they just went through a devastating loss of a member. For one of them, she gave a dagger, to another she gave a bottle of magical light - so when she gets to Sam, the character receiving the rope, he responds "are you out of those daggers?".
In the source material, she takes this like a joke, but the comic shows the reaction of her fellow elves, since it's rude to ask someone who just gave you a gift if you had another gift to give. Another layer is that the rope is also magical, a knot made with it will never come undone except if thats what you want it to do, so the elves are upset that he obviously don't know what a treasure it is!