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THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER 1.06 🗡️ Udûn

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haladriel moments: 51/∞

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+ bonus: Detective Dobson... what can I say? We didn't get to speak nearly as much as I ever would have liked, but I heard more about you than anyone ever could. And you sound heroic. The kind of guy that I could have worshipped as a child and an adolescent. Well into my 20's.

Psych + Val Kilmer references

requested by anon

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He knows my mind. And I know his.

This is what he wants. (x)

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Very nice surprise here seeing Variety talk about who they think will get nominated for Lead Actress and Lead Actor in a Drama Series Emmys and to see that Morfydd and Charlie were submitted as the leads!!! 😀 I've put the link to the actor submissions with Charlie included in the comments. This helps so much to disprove those who said neither were leads, especially those that attack Morfydd, as she's submitted as lead actress for both seasons. This is the first Charlie did but he is the lead actor now too. I get why some think this show is an ensemble show but seeing that they're submitting Morfydd and Charlie as leads while everyone else is submitted as supporting is telling. They are the leads of the show and it's not going to change. Sadly I don't think they'll get them going by the award show fantasy/genre bias and that Variety's odds are likely right, but glad to see them included along with a lot of my other favorites like Charlie Cox for "Daredevil: Born Again" and some shows I didn't expect.

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Fancast for my Sleeping Beauty retelling.

Prince Phillip: Charlie Vickers

Princess Aurora: Hailee Steinfeld

https://archiveofourown.org/works/61945996/chapters/158402161

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/56731555/chapters/163949620

Bearce nudged one of the desk chairs with his foot. “Sit, gentlemen. Let’s talk. I know you have been hot on my heels for some time. You’ve found me at last. Ask your questions.”

"I just did.”

still on his face, and placed a hand on each of our arms in a friendly invitation to have a seat.

His touch was cold and repulsive, but worse, it sent a strange shiver of fractured images through my mind so forceful and vivid that I reeled where I stood. I was no longer made of flesh and blood and water. I was ephemeral, spiraling and slamming through nebulas and great lakes of space dust. I was a child again in my mother’s garden, darting through the broken gaps of the fence and running along its length; the sunshine and flowers peeked through the slats in rapid pace. A mass of effervescent darkness snarled against the bright light, reaching for me through the fence. A surge of terror choked me, and then I was lying next to Mary in our bed stripped bare of its sheets, but she was only skin and bones, her eye sockets empty, crawling with worms. Then Holmes was sprawled across me in a bright heather field, blood pouring from his throat, soaking me and gluing me to the ground –

The horrific fragments shattered through my mind in rapid succession, merely a blink, and then I was back in that fungal infested basement, falling back into the proffered chair as my legs failed to support me.

The latest chapter of my Sherlock Holmes and Lovecraft crossovers is up on a03. Read, comment, give kudos, share!

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The Rings of Power | 2.02

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And when Galadriel (Morfydd Clark) and Sauron were fighting, I thought, “Well, there’s no version of this where she could win.” I mean, yes, he’s in mortal form, but he has so much power. Did she have a chance in that fight? Was that fight hopeless?

PAYNE: We see at the top of the season that using the crown of Morgoth, which is itself an artifact of immense power, that his physical body is able to be killed. In theory, Galadriel could have done similar to what Adar (Sam Hazeldine) did at top of the season.

MCKAY We talk about this a lot in the writing of those scenes, in the staging of those scenes, in the rehearsals with the actors. Yes, she could physically win. There is a way. But what he wants is not to kill her, but her to finally give him the credit he feels he deserves. He wants her on his side. He’s toying with her. But she’s more powerful than maybe he expected. So it becomes: How does she find a victory, even though he seems to be holding all the cards?

‘The Rings of Power’ Creators on That Big Season 2 Finale Reveal and Sauron’s Mistake

Sauron didn’t want to kill Galadriel, but he stabbed her with Morgoth’s crown because it looked cool on-screen people. We all know “blood binding theory” is our fandom’s wishful thinking and fanfiction. It’s almost as if binding himself to Galadriel hasn’t seen Sauron’s goal since Season 1, when we are told that “only blood can bind” (1x05).

Stories having continuity? What’s that? Yeah, like JP Payne said, “this was a big story with a clear beginning, middle and end. There are things in the first season that don’t pay off until Season 5.” Nah, he’s baiting the readers of “Empire” magazine, like they were baiting Emmy magazine when they called Halbrand “Galadriel’s love interest”.

“This is it. You bind me to the light. And I bind you to power. Together, we can save this Middle-earth.”

He was holding that dagger because it looked cool, too, people. Completely unrelated with only blood can bind, while talking about binding. Everything is meaningless here.

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"Ours was no chance meeting. Not fate, nor destiny. Nor any other words Men use to speak of the forces they lack the conviction to name. Ours was the work of something greater. You must see it." 1x03

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The Rings of Power | 1.03

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I think part of the brilliance of Sauron's characterization is that his words to galadriel are both a threat and a lure. I think he's saying 'everyone will know you were my ally so they will not trust you ever again, but they'll also be in awesome fear of you and if not I'll destroy them'.

He's essentially offering her what melkor likely offered him - being ostracized from everything you know and love, but also a powerful place in the eye of a higher Being that 'loves' you. We have to keep in mind that his ideas of life, loyalty, power, tenderness, reward do not align with others. His very outlook on reality is so skewed.

With mirdania, I literally think in the moment he was just going along and playing with her feelings by being suggestive (at least, I read that 'duly rewarded' as suggestive) but he got distracted by Adars army. I don't think he had a concrete plan to kill her at that moment (though I think he knew he eventually would have to ... though I wonder how he would have reacted if she had become so taken with him that she accepted that he was Sauron. Hmmm). Mirdanias death felt very opportunistic.

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Regarding Mirdania's death, do you think Halbrand's comment could be seen as a subtle threat now?

We didn't see him doing what he promised in season 2, did we? It’s possible that in the coming seasons, he might remind everyone of who was responsible for his rise to power.

Possible scenarios :

Could he use his connection to Galadriel to win the hearts of the Southlanders and declare himself as the king?

Could he use this against the elves when it comes to Numenor?

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haladriel moments: 46/∞

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I really do hope they have him interact alot with Miriel

In season 3 ROP! I want Sauron to get MUCH bigger obsession over Tar-Miriel than over Ar-Pharazôn...😇

I want his submission to Ar-Pharazôn even a little faked, but totally honest with Tar-Miriel...In season 1 he was trying to bow to her almost automatically, so...😋

PS. AND GALADRIEL, BEING SO FREAKING JEALOUS!!!!🤭🤭🤭☺️

Tar-Miriel: YOU DON'T WANT HIM? FINE. HAVE YOUR TELEP*RNO, ELF. "HE" BELONGS TO ME NOW.

Galadriel: WHAT?!!!!😤😤😤

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Morgoth: I'm going to wreak havoc and destruction, torturing all in my path to cast middle earth in darkness forever!

The Valar: ... *continues about their business*

Sauron: I'm going to be really hot and get everyone to do whatever I want because I'm just that pretty.

The One, Eru himself: Oh, absolutely not.

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The Rings of Power | 2.08

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haladriel moments: 44/∞