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This thumbnail is absolutely bananas, I love it lollll

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The most gorgeous haladriel art ever 😍 ✨️ 💖

Link https://x.com/blossombythesea/status/1894456223275037013

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Hozier - Francesca (Behind The Song).

❝ There is no life in which I make any other choice but to love you and being clung to your side for eternity is no punishment whatsoever. ❞

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My friend, you had horses, and deed of arms, and the free fields; but she, being born in the body of a maid, had a spirit and courage at least the match of yours.

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There was zero reasons for this scene to be so hot

And yet

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all I want from rings of power is for bret mckenzie to show up as an elf and just randomly stand behind elrond in one scene. no explanation. he's just there.

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“So when MELIAN THE MAIA falls in love with a hot elf and they establish a police state together, she’s a ‘dear gift’ and ‘wiser than any child of Middle-Earth’, BUT WHEN I, SAURON…”

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Here's the thing about Jareth from Labyrinth right?

He's made up.

That's not necessarily the same thing as not REAL. But he, just like all her friends who show up in her room before her adventure as toys and figurines, exist in relation to her, in response to what she wanted and needed. She told the story and there he was, there he always had been. But she's a teenage girl who doesn't know what she wants yet, and Jareth kind of pays the price.

"but the king of the goblins had fallen in love with the girl, and had given her certain powers." He's an archetypal oxymoron. He's both the dastardly baby stealing villain and the royal love interest trying to relieve the heroine's suffering, Cinderella style. He's fucked either way by being both. She doesn't know if SHE wants to be the villain or the heroine until he shows up and then she decides on the heroine, so he has to sneer and menace and challenge but it's too late for him!! it's too late, The King Of The Goblins Had Fallen In Love With the Girl, he's Cinderella's prince too and he has to try, he gives her a poofy dress and takes her to fucking goblin prom, sweeps her around the room like a music box with perfect posture and room for Jesus.

But it doesn't work buddy, it can't work. You're just a story for a teen girl to grow up in, and as the villain you have to be defeated. He's so complex because his tropes contradict themselves, and he doesn't understand why he has to lose when he was only doing the job he was given. In his last scene he is pale as death with shadows under his eyes, backing away and begging for his happy ending with nonsense mishmash promises that belong to both halves of him.

"I am exhausted from living up to your expectations of me." I'm sure you are, Jareth. No wonder.

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does anyone know if you can get in trouble for feeling weird

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Whoever wrote this, slayed so hard with all these statements, truer words have never been spoken

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Okay, I don't know what to say here...except that I adore her 💔

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The question that has been haunting me for quite some time is whether Sauron can feel anything *beside anger, hatred, irritation* and understand feelings of others. Durin's description of him as "Sauron the Stone Heart" suggests that he is devoid of emotion, he is cold and calculating. This image aligns with his mastery of manipulation and gaslighting allowing him to control others without the distractions of empathy or remorse.

'I see you'

The iconic phrase "I see you" emphasizes the idea that Sauron's eye can perceive people's true selves and desires. But the question is whether he truly sees his victims and understands the depth of their desires and emotions?

I personally think that Sauron, as a master of the mind, perceives human/dwarven/elven desires through the lens of his mind, rather than emotions. He reads thoughts to predict what people want, but lacks true understanding of their feelings. As a result, everything he offers feels perverse: children to Adar, rings to Celebrimbor, and the crown to Galadriel. Sauron fails to comprehend why he is rejected, betrayed, and despised, because in his mind, he believes he's doing everything right. His logical, mathematical mindset simply can't process why these elves are so unhappy.

*yeah I destroyed your city, killed your people, and tortured you, but you need to understand that I did it for you!*

'That feeling'

He also struggles to grasp the emotions connected to the seen world, as these feelings run so deep they stir something within him, something he can't even describe, referring to it only as "that" feeling. He doesn’t know how to process it with his heart alone.

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'I know your mind'

Sauron sees Galadriel’s longing for power, recognizing that she wants to rule Middle Earth. This is the desire that mirrors his own. That’s why he believes he understands her so well and offers her a chance to rule alongside him. That is in her mind, lies on the surface and it doesn't take any effort for him to read her thoughts.

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Right after he stabs her *near the heart*, we see him visibly bewildered and surprised. Why? We already know that he reads her thoughts and he knows what she wants.

In that moment, as some haladriels mentioned he starts to see and feel what Galadriel truly feels for him and that she desires not only power but him as well despite him being Sauron. This feeling is deeply hidden in her heart.

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That's why he says with a bit of sadness in his voice that he would have placed the crown upon her head if she chose to be with him, emphasizing that he would make everyone worship the Queen, just as he worships her.

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Now, he understands not only her mind but also her feelings for Sauron. The reason he reaches out to her for 1000 years isn't driven by the thirst for power, but rather by 'that' feeling they once shared.

'It keeps him going in a way. Her existence'

This may be the only genuine and enduring feeling of light he has experienced in thousands of years. Its intensity overwhelms him, a sensation unlike anything he's ever known, leaving him addicted and desperate to bind it to his very being.

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Jane Austen really knew what she was doing in making us swoon when she wrote the line: "My affections and wishes are unchanged, but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever."

Mr Darcy's income of ten thousand a year and lovely estate in Derbyshire is nice and all, but the thought of a man actually shutting up if you told him "no" is very appealing indeed...

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