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Was I disappointed that Season 2 of The Rings of Power kept Galadriel and Sauron apart until the finale? Yeah of course I was. But I understand their reasoning for doing what they did.

Does it mean I think there's some grand conspiracy by the show-runners to be mean to me specifically because of my ship? Of course I bloody don't.

Good talk, glad we could have it.

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Talk about dragons/dragonriders love. Same vibe.

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And now another "Rings of Power" season 3 update this time from the Rings of Power Era account on Twitter/X and BlueSky saying that pre-production work from the art department has been on-going since last November. 😀 Almost all of this account's scoops were right, including about costumes, for season 2 and this actually aligns with those comments from Charlotte that we likely were going to hear about the renewal back in October. So it does look like Amazon did quietly renew the show back in the fall and like the cinematographer posted today on Instagram and the comment on Reddit the show fully seems to be in pre-production with a likely May filming start for season 3.

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I say to you, Frodo, that even as I speak to you, I perceive the Dark Lord and know his mind, or all of his mind that concerns the Elves. And he gropes ever to see me and my thought.

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If I had a nickel for every time my blorbo was a murderous redheaded necromancer in a full-body suit of spiky black armour, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

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And I hope we get some flashbacks to be sure that in Adar's tent was Sauron in Elrond!Form. And it was Sauron who helped Galadriel, who stole her the kiss. 🤭And said "Sorry" for all of it, with the tears in his eyes!😊

Robert Aramayo kissed Morfydd on the lips, not on the cheek; as it was written in the script. Morfydd is very surprised because it's her honest reaction. Robert says it's because "it was dark and he missed". I think our sweet Elrond learns to tell fairytales in interviews from Charlie: "Halbrand is just a regular guy!" 🤭

Sauron--I think he even really loves Galadriel. And you see that at the very end [of s1]. He would wish he could get her back.

--The Rings of Power 201 & Interview with Director Charlotte Brändström (X-Ray Vision podcast)

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My favorite Haladriel/Saurondriel quotes from TRoP creators and cast

"one of the initial sparks and ideas and, in our opinion...a reason to do the entire show, is that Galadriel talks about Sauron in the books in a way that indicates that she knew him maybe really well. [...] And the idea...that this has been a thing where he's been reaching after her for a long time and there's been this sense of back and forth between them. We found that...endlessly fascinating, and we said, 'Like, there's an entire history between them.' [T]here's a relationship. And so we said, 'How could you have a relationship between the Dark Lord and Galadriel, you know, in a way that was good, really let them get to an interesting place?' [H]e has this desire to heal the world, and she has this sort of heroic desire to fix the world also, and so if you could put them in parallel to each other without exactly her knowing who he was, there was an opportunity there." "The chance meetings are preordained in Middle-earth and that idea of...what if Sauron is in a place where he's sort of repentant and lost and Galadriel is in a place where she's desperate and obsessed with a meeting?" --J.D. Payne, Patrick McKay (Radio Times/Games Radar)

"at the end of the day, if these two aren't connecting, none of it matters. That's not the cherry on top, that's the whole ice cream cone." --Patrick McKay

"It would be easy to mistake the lyrically swirling strings of the Galadriel ostinato with the urgently metered tremolo strings of the Sauron ostinato. The truth is that while these two character ostinatos are technically unique, I wrote them both to be easily confused for one another. I did this because we never actually see Sauron for the majority of the season, as we mostly experience the idea of him through Galadriel. For the first season, Galadriel’s defining character motivation is her relentless quest to find and crush Sauron. I wanted the score to suggest that her thoughts of Sauron are always on her mind, always influencing her decisions."

"The remainder of the episode’s Prologue features warring fragments of the Galadriel Theme and the Sauron Theme, clashing back and forth as the audience is introduced to the adult Galadriel" --Bear McCreary (Scoring Episode 101 'A Shadow of the Past')

"Our prologue concludes with Halbrand awaiting his fate on a makeshift raft. The Sauron ostinato engages in full force after he hears Galadriel call for help. The choir singers foreshadow the words Halbrand will shortly say to her when she reaches the raft, singing in Quenya, 'Sólar ambarto,' meaning 'The tides of fate.' --Bear McCreary (Scoring Episode 201 'Elven Kings Under The Sky')

"In that moment, he feels this cosmic connection to this person, and he's spent so many years alone, and meeting people that are not like him, that when he meets someone with extreme, incredible power, you get a thrill, you get a rush, and you say 'I want to be with this person.' So, she's survival" --Charlie Vickers (Inside The Ring, Episode 8)

"in Tolkien, and in folklore in general, these chance-meetings mean a lot. So both of them are kind of enchanted by this idea of how they met. …this idea of history and tradition in Middle-earth, even though they're very different they both follow that." --Morfydd Clark (Awards Buzz)

"He saved her, and she saved him. So they are bound...and I feel that what would make an unbreakable bond is saving each other’s lives." --Morfydd Clark (Inverse)

"With Galadriel, he very much has this, as equals…they're kind of, like, bickery and poking at each other a little bit, in a way that you do with someone that you feel is really on your level." --Gennifer Hutchison (X-Ray Vision podcast)

"he genuinely really connected with her, and was genuinely open and vulnerable with her because she understood him on a level that no one had for hundreds of years. And she operates on the same level as him." --Charlie Vickers (Awards Buzz)

"as they really sort of begin to pierce each other's emotional armor, they're almost staring directly into the lens, almost kind of staring directly into each other's souls." --Wayne Che Yip (Inside The Ring, Episode 5)

"what Galadriel represents for him is like a second chance, almost--a new start. […] He has this whole new life set up for him, but there's this person that he has connected with, and I think he knows full well that she is…using him[.] But there is something within him that is drawing him back to that, and something in his, I guess, destiny, he feels like is written in the stars for him to go with her." --Charlie Vickers (Inside The Ring, Episode 5)

"She so wanted to fulfill her vengeance that she made Halbrand whoever she wanted him to be. She was in a state where she would believe things easily if they aligned with what she wanted. [...] There was barely anything saying that he was the king of the Southlands. He always said he wasn't. But it suited her because she needed to go to Middle-earth and she needed the Numenorians." --Morfydd Clark (Inverse)

"She feels massive, monumental galaxy shifts whenever she feels anything. Somehow, what she sees as a hopeless mortal that she found stranded at sea has forever changed her. It was really fun exploring how vulnerable this mythical being Galadriel could be. We spoke a lot about how we’d stage it [the log scene], and both of us felt that looking at each other would even be just too intense. It’s, like, too much—whatever they’re feeling is too much." --Morfydd Clark (TVLine)

"He sees things in her--like her ways of leading armies, or seeking out her goals and striving towards a different endpoint than he could imagine-- that kind of illuminate some things for him in terms of how he can control others. And that's why he wants her…to join him." --Charlie Vickers (The Movie Blog)

"Pleading for empathy...Halbrand tells her he feels liberated from Morgoth’s vile influence, and asks her to join him as queen. I supported his genuine offer with a unique version of the Sauron Theme. [...] In between each regal phrase of the Sauron Theme, a solo cello offers an emotional phrase of The Halbrand Theme. This passage is the first time the Halbrand Theme and the Sauron Theme are presented simultaneously"

"The sea turns to glass, literally reflecting for Galadriel a tempting vision of a possible future. [...] Tolkien fans will recognize much of this dialog from Galadriel’s unforgettable scene with Frodo at her Mirror...making clear that this scene with Sauron on the raft will haunt her for thousands of years. The choir supports this brooding passage with...'Temptation, give into desire, the choice of peace'" --Bear McCreary (Scoring Episode 108 'Alloyed')

"He basically proposed to her, come be with me, be my queen, and let’s rule Middle-earth together. You’re a light to my ambition, peanut butter to my jelly, let’s go." --J.D. Payne (Deadline)

"here’s where I think we can tip our hats to Gennifer Hutchison who wrote quite a bit of...'Alloyed,' and there’s a rich metaphor there of things that don’t belong together being coaxed together, and complementing one another, and balancing one another. That’s very much what’s going on emotionally with Galadriel and Sauron. That’s his pitch. 'If you and me do this together, you’ll balance my dark side, and I’ll give you the power that nobody wants to give you.' He’s pitching an alloy to her." --Patrick McKay (Vanity Fair)

"Even the mithril itself, we’re saying, is a certain kind of alloy, because we tell this potentially apocryphal backstory about it. [I]t’s this struggle between good and evil that was fused together in a moment of lightning."  --J.D. Payne (Vanity Fair)

"She still has that feeling of, I have to be the one to fix this. It really mirrors what Sauron’s saying…‘I’m the one who can fix the world–with you’. There's a reason why that's tempting for her" --Gennifer Hutchison (X-Ray Vision podcast)

"she’s tempted enough [by Sauon's proposition to be his queen]. She realizes that she is a type of atomic bomb, I think, there. And so there’s a care that she has to take throughout the rest of her existence, because she saw herself as good and as a hero. And now she’s seeing herself as more in the realm of Tolkien’s gray areas." --Morfydd Clark (TV Insider)

"I think that also kind of binds her to him, because...he'll forever be the person who deceived her and tricked her." --Morfydd Clark (GamesRadar)

"Sauron--I think he even really loves Galadriel. And you see that at the very end [of s1]. He would wish he could get her back." --Charlotte Brändström (X-Ray Vision podcast)

"he is never really connected to someone else on his level. Galadriel is the closest thing to that. ...there is a part of him that feels like she has the power to...fully influence his course in Middle-earth. Whereas I think he sees Adar more as someone that he can swat aside." --Charlie Vickers (IGN)

"it's really hard to shake those that wound you. So he is there, and will always be there. [...S]he's feeling this connection to this possibility that was there when Halbrand existed as his form. [S]he felt powerful in a particular way when she was with him, and does she miss that? Possibly." --Morfydd Clark (Nerds of Color)

"whatever connection they had was enormous. Whether it was power, friendship, whether it was romance, it was just completely beyond what they felt before." --Morfydd Clark (Inverse)

"I think whenever you have two talented, thematic people like this in scenes together it's very natural [that] people [are] gonna pick up on the chemistry that they have between them. It's just part of the nature of their drama, and so it's not so surprising." --J.D. Payne (Yahoo UK)

“It would be like if you had the most intense type of synesthesia, and then you met someone else that had the same type of it, but then you find out they’re the worst person in the world. But you can’t undo that feeling of what it was to be understood and connected in that way.” --Morfydd Clark (TV Insider)

"the connection will always be there. [H]e does know her. She was ungaurded towards him. And so he'll always have a certain amount of power. And she'll have to continue to resist it". --Morfydd Clark (Winter is Coming)

"she was very much in love with Halbrand. I mean, there was almost like a love story. He really seduced her." --Charlotte Brändström (Entertainment Weekly)

"there's a sense of loss there. She sort of has a hole where Halbrand once was" --Sam Hazeldine (GamesRadar)

"The portrayal [in s2] changed externally, but internally I wanted everything to be aligned with Halbrand…in that he wants to heal Middle-earth, and save Middle-earth. It's just he has been separated from Galadriel now." --Charlie Vickers (The Movie Blog)

"our characters have been talking about…and obsessing over each other for all this season, and it was a wonderful, kind of, climax" [to finally have that confrontation in the finale] --Morfydd Clark (Gold Derby)

"they've just been obsessing over each other this whole time, and so it means that when they do fight and meet each other, they are weirdly aligned in the desire for this confrontation." --Morfydd Clark (Collider)

"They're both very hungry for it, in different ways. So they're kind of also weirdly united in their meeting." --Morfydd Clark (AwardsRadar)

“[Galadriel] has this ring that he put all this effort into, and he wants that back...particularly hers, because he knows what they represented when he was making them.” --Charlie Vickers (TV Insider)

"we had this moment where they're…almost pinning each other, where they're choosing to not inflict pain or to inflict pain. Because I feel like Sauron could've inflicted more pain." --Morfydd Clark

"I did one line in a slightly northern accent when we were fighting, and…I didn’t mean to do it--but I think it was the familiarity of Halbrand being back with Galadriel. I think it's when I say the line, 'Not all of it.' [T]hen I transform into Halbrand. It's those things you don't expect when you're put back in the situation with the other actor, and things like that just happen." --Charlie Vickers (Collider)

"That bit ["We are not alike…It was just another of your illusions"/"Not all of it"] was really important because he's not wrong, but she's not gonna use that in a way that he thinks she will." --Morfydd Clark (AwardsRadar)

"he becomes Halbrand for a while because he knew the feelings Galadriel had for him. I also think that Sauron was almost disappointed in the end because I think he would have liked to have Galadriel as his queen. [...] Galadriel obviously was in love with Halbrand. She was very attracted to him. [...] Sauron knows this because he gets into her head, so he knows what she’s thinking, what she’s feeling. So when he immediately takes Halbrand’s shape, he completely destabilizes her because that was her weakness. She had very strong feelings for the King, for Halbrand, obviously" --Charlotte Brändström (Nerdist)

"It was a bit more of a glam Halbrand. Had a bit of a curl in his hair…" --Charlie Vickers

"Bet you that's how Galadriel sees him." --Morfydd Clark (AwardsRadar)

"For me, that was about just trying to…open the door, trying to get through to her and be like, 'Remember this? I'm just the same guy.'" --Charlie Vickers (AwardsRadar)

"I think she feels pity towards him and herself in that moment and decides that there's no time for pity. She's got to find some sort of wolf inside of her and keep fighting. Her time with Halbrand was a time where she was very much herself in some ways because she was an Elf alone. She wasn't following the rules of her people at that point. So, he knows a part of her that other…beings don't, and there's a tragedy to losing that, and through losing him, she's also lost that part of herself." --Morfydd Clark (Collider)

"The stunt rehearsals of the fight were very fluid in terms of these moments where they feel the connection and a closeness and then when that will be either repelled or accepted. So, they were in this kind of dance. It's really fun as an actor to do those things without words." --Morfydd Clark (Collider)

"Certainly, Galadriel and Sauron, you're dealing with some heavy relationship stuff through a sword fight." --Patrick McKay (AwardsRadar)

"She's not trying to win, she's trying to continue to hope and protect and value what Middle-earth has, which is also something that she knows that Sauron won’t be able to do, and that will always keep her apart from him." --Morfydd Clark (Collider)

"They're intrinsically connected, and they will forever be, because they are the representations of good and evil in the world...established by the show. I think he came to depend on her in season one. I liked the idea of what she brought to him, and how she made him. I think what is undebatable is that he always had the intention to rule by himself, but if she were by his side slash beneath him, he would have an element of light. [...] Since they operate on such a high level, I think the connection comes from meeting someone who understands life on the same level and understands the world. They probably do have a connection that runs deeper than just surface. There is more to it than that. That connection will endure as long as the show endures[.]" --Charlie VIckers (Schön! Magazine)

"They have a connection that’s above everyone else in the world. It’s a connection that is really strong in...an initially positive, and then becomes quite a negative way for both of them. I think each one will drive the other to the limit. [...] I think that as long as the show goes on, right up until the end, it will be Sauron and Galadriel. I think they’ll always be connected, even if they’re not next to each other, even if they’re not in the same scene together." --Charlie Vickers (Den of Geek)

"they’re connected, if not by proximity, then by their psyche. They’re higher beings so I’m sure it runs deeper than being in the same place together." --Charlie Vickers (GamesRadar)

"they are always connected throughout the ether." --Charlie Vickers (Yahoo UK)

"They're both magical, powerful beings, and I think there is something lonely to existing in that kind of sphere that they both are in. But yeah, there is some sort of cosmic connection, which I've heard Charlie mention a few times. I was like 'Nice, I like that'. Yeah, and it will go on for 1000s and 1000s of years." --Morfydd Clark (GamesRadar)

"it keeps him going in a way, her existence." --Charlie Vickers (Collider)

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MY BABIES!

She is like: "I just meet MY King!"

He is like: "F...k...I wanna be HER personal slave!"

x x x

Well that was a hard pivot. Now they'd been led to each other by a universal force even greater than so-called fate or destiny? And all it took was her finding something at the Númenor Public Library that let her choose to believe Halbrand was the scion of a royal line that she could use as leverage in getting an army to Middle-earth. In their directly previous scene she was annoyed with and didn't want anything to do with him. But now that he was a "king who could ride [her] to victory" it was all soft, flirty voice, prolonged eye contact, and red strings.

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NOSFERATU (2024), dir. Robert Eggers

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I'M OBSESSED!!!❤️

The Portrait of the QUEEN OF MIDDLE-EARTH

Galadriel 🧝‍♀️✨🗡️

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The mightiest and proudest was Ar-Pharazôn the Golden of all those that had wielded the Sceptre of the Sea-Kings since the foundation of Númenor; and four and twenty Kings and Queens had ruled the Númenóreans before, and slept now in their deep tombs under the mount of Meneltarma, lying upon beds of gold. And sitting upon his carven throne in the city of Armenelos in the glory of his power, he brooded darkly, thinking of war. For he had learned in Middle-earth of the strength of the realm of Sauron, and of his hatred of Westernesse.

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I LOVE TO WATCH MY PARENTS DANCING!🤭

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Who ghosted Galadriel 🤭

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She hypnotizes him!🤍🖤

She looks so powerful. She is so powerful. My beloved, you deserve everything.

#hervulnerabilitiesmakeherstroger

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Sauron being unintentionally hilarious, part 2. Remember when Galadriel's bad diplomacy was so bad it literally melted his brain for a second?

Galadriel: *i wanna a ship i wanna a horsie and i wanna you to be nice to me, lady.* Sauron: *we are homeless and smell like whale semen. you need to chill, horsie.*

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Sauron, Prince of Darkness ❤️🖤 by Agnes Nascady on IG