Even when he mistreats you? [She shakes her head.] Your duties to him were no more than his to you. Among my people, at least, there are none who would think poorly of you for renouncing yours when he had violated his so grossly. You were not his possession, to do with as he wished.

[It reminds her, in a way, of Irissë and Eöl. Eöl had thought he could own her cousin, thought that his wife and son were his utterly, and it had ended with her death. And his, in punishment; Galadriel wasn't sorry that he was dead either.]