#Nori Poppy and Gandalf

[dancerinthestorm]

Four episodes into „Rings of Power“ and I’m having serious doubts whether I’ll ever be strong enough to finish two seasons (let alone more).

Seriously, people! How do you do it? Meeting all these wonderful characters just to live in abject fear of what might happen to them or with the soul-crushing certainty of what will happen.

Aaaaaah!

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(I know, I know... if you can't stand the heat of your favorite characters being gruesomely yet poetically murdered every now and then get out of the Tolkien fandom... 😂😭)

[hikarielizabethbloom]

[ringsofpowerdaily]

POPPY, NORI & THE STRANGER in THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER (2022-) S2E02: Where the Stars are Strange

[lasaraconor]

[gnomescarfcomics]

Middle-earth shots of the week

[hailturinturambar]

The Rings of Power Posters: Second Season Starring The Stranger, Nori Brandyfoot, Poppy Proudfellow, Theo, Princess Disa and Prince Durin IV.

[thequeensjester]

Rings of Power ➤ Storyline: Rhun (insp)

Strange how that which is left behind can be the heaviest burden to carry.

— credit: cap-that.com

[wepepe-draws]

Drew a quick doodle of Nori, Poppy and Gandalf.

I love them so much 🥹

[buffyfan145]

It's official, "Rings of Power" is going to have Tom Bombadil and Vanity Fair got the first look photos and interview with his actor Rory Kinnear and the writers!!! 😀 I'm really happy about this as Rory is a great actor and I've been a fan of his since he played Frankenstein's monster in "Penny Dreadful", and to finally have a version of Tom on-screen. There are spoilers in the article too that The Stranger, Nori, and Poppy (she did end up going with them after all) meet him in Rhun. It turns out Tom knew The Stranger was coming and has been waiting for his arrival and to help him to discover his path ahead. The writers are saying this storyline is more lighthearted compared to the darker storylines with Sauron, Adar, and the others. And they've stayed true to how Tom was in the book, including the poems Tolkien wrote about Tom which are getting a brand new book edition in August too. Nice finally getting more about these storylines as this was the one we had the fewest leaks about, and I'm excited to see how this plays out.

[saessenach]

No but why is this silly show so much FUN and why am I several years late to it!!!

I love lying characters who tell the truth but only to a certain degree, so I am absolutely YELLING about Sauron flat-out TELLING Galadriel about the blood-oath to Morgoth and "I am not the hero you seek"

I especially find it really fun how you've got the little sleight of hand trick setting up Sauron behind Halbrand - the so-called kingship of the Southlands, the mystery of a crest that marks the way, the whole forge thing!! Gosh, it would have been sooooo much to go into this blind about the reveal BUT this is also really FUN.

(I've only ever read one of the LOTR books, but had a lovely time with the movies, so I am not the best at discerning whether this is a ~good~ adaption, but hooo boy am I having a lot of fun with it!!!)

[hikarielizabethbloom]

Happy new year, fandom!

[valar-did-me-wrong]

So this convo by @mai-komagata & @illegalcerebral about how JCB could also be a Harfoot, made me pause & think about the probability of it happening. Which then lead me to look up on the history of Hobbits a little & I think I've got a Tinfoil Hat Theory for the Harfoot & Gandalf storylines in Season 3!

Imo we're gonna meet the Fallohide hobbits & Gandalf is going to visit Greenwood in S3!!

(I know atleast 10 other people have already speculated about Gandalf in Greenwood for S3, this is just my own tin foil hat attempt at the same!! So let's goooooooo 🫣)

So according to the lore, there were 3 tribes of Hobbits & by S2 we've met two of them the Stoors & the Harfoots..

Now the show seems to have given a lot of lore Harfoot traits, like burrow digging to the Stoors of the show for some reason.. maybe as a way to make Harfoots a migrating community & use it as a call back to the Wandering Days of hobbit history from the lore since season 1..

And seeing as neither the Stoors nor the Harfoots in the show seem to have facial hair or an adventurous side as a whole community, I think these are the traits they're planning to give the Fallohides who we might meet this season!

Maybe on the journey back towards the Harfoots, the Stoors & our girls (Noppy & Co) for some reason will meet the Fallohides?!?

Now what I could gleam from the maps in the show, the lore & the path of Harfoot migration according to this Nerdist article, the position of most major players by the end of S2 seems to be this:

N is where Noppy & Co are leaving from (seeing as there were no rivers or water sources all through Gandalf + Noppy's journey in S2) also the Dark Wizard is also somewhere here

H is where the Harfoots migrate about usually

And T is where Theo & Kemen are in S2E8 along with U which is Adar's Uruk colony in Mordor (now orphaned :c)

C is Cirdan in Lindon or Grey Havens, wherever you want him to be & E is where all our elves are after leaving Eregion (RIP)

Sau is where Sauron is supposed to be wreaking havoc rn

I am guessing, Noppy & co will follow the Migration song & trace their steps back to Rhovanion & then follow the migration trail to try & reach the Harfoots.

Now with all the Numenorian deforestation, Mt. Doom eruption & Uruk spread near Mordor, it would mean the Harfoots probably won't be able to survive in this area anymore, so they must go West or North now.

So probably following the migration trail will be fruitless for Noppy & co now and atp maybe they might find some sign or clue left behind by the Harfoots for them, to hint where they must be going.

This can be a pretty nice point to introduce Noppy & co. to the community of Fallohides & explore them a little like they did with the Stoors in S2.. maybe somewhere on the banks of Anduin, seeing as Anduin & it's river valley is mentioned by name in hobbit history often

Now seeing as Noppy & Co are going to travel west from Rhun, Gandalf probably won't follow the same path (after that emotional goodbye, unless they wanna throw a Poppy reappearance at us again) so Gandalf probably is going to go North West towards Greenwood & bring Oropher & Thranduil into the show!

:D

*gently removes the tinfoil hat & bows*

[lostinmirkwood]

Gandalf has really bad luck with halflings and wells.

[rings-of-power-realm]

"Why does everyone I love the most always have to go away?" - Poppy Proudfellow to Nori, Alloyed

[bumblingbriars]

Rings of Power is actually kinda fun to watch when you don't have a bitch whispering in your ear about it. Also shes adorable and I'd put my life out for her