#ANNATAR YOU GUYS

[pursuitseternal]

So many secrets…Everyone one is in “Disguise”

New chapter on “Beautiful Creature of Darkness:” my Phantom of the Opera/ Gothic literature inspired AU…

A masked festival, a heated moment beneath a curtain, hidden identities, confrontations between friends and enemies…

“True is false, who is who?”

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[littlestpersimmon]

The Weaver

[vreenak]

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER

Halbrand | Annatar

season 2 ; first teaser trailer

[seatokki]

I miss them already o(—(

[shebsart]

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[yashmel]

[catz4ever]

I'm sorry but didn't we just establish in your OWN show that Adar's mission has NOTHING to do with glory?!

He's doing whatever he can to protect his children. Mischaracterization is not a good look Amazon. Try again.

Have to tag you all bc I am just livid.

@baddybaddyadardaddy @orehuna @theamethystvampiress @bigblissandlove1 @eowyn7023 @toddthekiwibird @clumsycopy @zoya-olenko @magpiehistoryandart

[braxix]

Galadriel: So, what are you going to do going forward?

Elrond: I don't know what I want to do with my life.

Celeborn: Learn smithing and go work with Annatar.

Elrond: no

[kassylin]

So, samurai hairstyle. I'm fine, I'm totally fine 🥹

[thesummerestsolstice]

Alright part 2 of the summary for my Faustian Bargain AU– where Elrond willingly becomes Sauron's prisoner so he'll release Gil-Galad and Celebrimbor.

Elrond's plan is fairly simple. Earendil patrols the Void to ensure Morgoth doesn't escape, Sauron doesn't know about this, therefore, if Elrond times it right, Earendil will realize Sauron is in the Void trying to free Morgoth, get the Valar, and detain him.

There's a few possible hitches with this plan. First, Elrond needs to make sure Sauron doesn't enter the Void until the right time. He also needs to keep the information about Earendil away from Sauron– which is somewhat difficult considering Sauron's habit of picking through other people's thoughts.

Also, this should go without saying, but if Sauron manages to free Morgoth before he can be captured, they're all basically dead anyway.

But there's another problem. See, Sauron was quick to agree that he wouldn't torture Elrond while Elrond was in captivity. Elrond assumed that Sauron agreed because he was desperate. The truth is, Sauron never really wanted to torture Elrond.

He just wanted to run a few tests, what with Elrond being an unprecedented mix of three different species. Specifically, he wanted to know if there was any way to fully bring out Elrond's Maiarin power– and maybe get rid of some of his more human aspects (the need to sleep, susceptibility to disease, all that).

Technically, performing unethical magical experiments on someone isn't torture. Elrond is still not having a great time.

Especially when it looks like some of Sauron's tests might actually be working, and Elrond has to confront the fact that when– or if– he gets out, he might not be the same half-elf he was before.

[daily-smol-silm]

Day #95 - SHINY??

Celebrimbor and Narvi discover that magic moon ink thingy

[l-l-s]

“I don’t think that’s what I was asking,” he says. “That isn’t what I meant.”

“You should be very careful,” Annatar says, making his voice serious in a way that he hopes will be at least a little funny, “when you strike bargains with Sauron. The terms may be interpreted more broadly than you expect.”

Finrod leans forward and buries his face in his knees and laughs, helpless and high-pitched, the kind of laugh that sobs in one’s throat.

- The Harrowing [Ch. 29] by @chthonion

A talk just outside of Mandos.

If you squint and tilt your head a bit, their hair kinda looks like neapolitan ice cream haha

[tathrin]

Okay I know I keep harping on this, but honestly it's the little details like costume and character design that tend to bother me more in adaptations than Big Changes (the latter feel like they're at least being done with intention so even if I don't like the choice that was made I at least can credit them for trying something even if it was dumb; the former to me tend to just come off as shortsighted or lazy or careless).

So now that I've seen (and enjoyed!) the last episode...

I just. can we take a minute and imagine how this would have gone if Celebrimbor had first walked onto screen like an elegant Elf Lord, in fine robes and jewels with his long hair done up in some intricate fashion, glittering and poised and full of confidence and grace...

Contrast that with Halbrand, bloodied and barefoot human, one of the short-lived Secondborn, a vanquished king of a fallen people. Two characters so far apart they might as well have the Sundering Seas between them.

Then Halbrand comes back dirt-stained and drenched in the rain, a miserable powerless creature, and Celebrimbor comes out to meet him as the lofty Lord of Eregion; then slowly show the shift, as Celebrimbor's pride starts to whisper to him and Annatar steps out of the light in his robes, lovely but pale and simple, a creature of the Valar, ready to kindle all the hopes the Celebrimbor thought long lost...

Of course Celebrimbor grows less elegant and coiffed as he gets more and more involved in his project, swapping the fine robes out for a smith's apron and the elegant grace for passionate excitement; and Annatar becomes a little more polished, and little more put-together, until along the way he ends up in the same type of apron, the same gear, and for a moment there in the smithy they match: creators, equals, partners, friends.

(For a moment, it all seems like it could go well.)

Then it starts moving the other direction.

Celebrimbor grows increasingly disheveled as Annatar begins adopting more and more finery. Then the time-loop, Celebrimbor falling apart, soot-streaked and manic; and Annatar swanning around Eregion like an elvish lord of the Elder Days, vibrantly colored and glittering with embellishment. The way Celebrimbor was when we first saw him. No wonder everyone in Eregion looks at Celebrimbor and believes so readily that his mind is slipping! no wonder they turn to Annatar instead, so polished and put-together and confident, and place all their doomed hopes instead in him...!

Then the end, with Celebrimbor maimed and bloody, robes blackened with ashes, lying in a dying heap of destruction; and Annatar standing over him still looking perfect, not a hair out of place...a visual reversal of where they started, one rising to his greatest heights (but doomed to fall, staring up at the elf he's destroyed) the other crumbling and broken in filth and agony (but seizing that last bitter victory, staring down from the banner-pole at Sauron and seeing the doom that will find him someday)...!

The journey, the contrast, the mirroring: the parallels moving in opposite directions, meeting on the way and ending in ruin—!

(And they did this, yes, a bit...but because they started off with Celebrimbor dressed in those simple slouchy robes with messy Hobbit-curl hair, there just isn't as much of a linear visual journey for him to take, so it doesn't come across as noticeably as it could; and it doesn't hit with the intensity that it ought to in the end.)

(And it could have! It could have!)

(And it drives me nuts it didn't.)

[permanentlyexhaustedpigeon88]

Just me, and my problematic, morally gray, or just outright villainous blorbos against the world...

[anetherealpoetess]

beginning to suspect halbrand may not be just a regular dude from the southlands

[saurons-bowtie]

There's too much good Rings Of Power posts I can't reblog them fast enough to have them all

I need them all ON MY BLOG