#Trop spoilers

[thatlittlered]

rings of power men | tropes

warning(s): light TROP spoilers, gn!reader used throughout

author's note: most of these will be turned into actual fics :)

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Elrond + friends to lovers

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As kind as summer, as gentle as the soft rays of sun upon your faces whilst you sit in each other's company and he is weaving, unbeknownst to you, tales of your wit and beauty in his mind; poems he would never dare show you. It was love long before either of you knew what to call it.

Gil-galad + opposites attract

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Born and raised the son of kings, Gil-galad has known nothing but duty during his lifetime. A King neither ventures, nor tries his hand at passing affections, and yet the curse of a still beating heart inevitably finds him when his lieutenant and trusted friend Círdan is apprenticed by a lovely lowly elf.

Celebrimbor + soulmates

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It is instant, absolute. As if the two of you were born a mystical creature, bearing two faces, four arms and four legs, until the Valar separated you and forced you to spend eternity searching for your other half. In the worst of times and the most unlikely of places, the search has come to cease. Alas, so has the time of peace.

Arondir + forbidden love

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The Silvan elf comes to respect the race of men for what they are during his time in the Southlands and whilst he dare not admit it, it does pertain with knowing you. It is hard to care for the hateful gazes of villagers when your own gaze is so tender under the moonlight, your hands cold and decisive when you touch him here where no one can hear or see. Though he has not tasted mortality, it must taste like you and the urgency you kiss him with, as if in fear the sun might never rise again.

Elendil + forbidden love, age gap

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This man was born to be your dutiful protector, loyal like no other and sworn to serve you as his ruler with everything he has. Loyalty and love tend to melt into each other, merge so that it is impossible to tell them apart. It is a tormenting, silent agreement that neither of you may speak on these feelings and yet, it... overwhelms.

Valandil + childhood sweethearts

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To know and love Valandil comes as easy as breathing air. You have been doing both for just as long, you think. Childish adoration blossoms in time until your souls are tethered and he will commit his life to earning rank and making it official, from the streets of Númenor to the edge of the world, where he hopes to travel with you.

Isildur + love triangle, second chance

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Isildur has always held a deep admiration for you, a childish infatuation even, but your bond with Valandil always comes before all and he happily accepts things as they are for a long time. Friendship is of equal, if not grander, worth and he considers both of you his dear friends above all. Until Valandil is killed, that is. The love each of you have for him and each other perseveres until grief threatens to swallow you whole. On the precipice of desperation, a teary kiss is meant to bring comfort. Yes, of course. That is what this must be.

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bonus:

Adar + enemies to lovers

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Sauron saw in you every weakness, every earthly, pathetic desire to be appreciated and loved when everyone and everything has been cruelly ripped from you. To be part of something larger than the pain eating away at your chest until your days in Middle Earth are over and you can find refuge in the arms of those who unlike you, gave their lives for a greater cause. He saw and took full advantage. Adar sees it now too when he looks at you; the agony of knowing you have played into the hands of evil itself just as he has. There is always a sliver of affection in understanding another, is there not?

[sihtryggr]

Galadriel / Sauron immediately attempting to kill Adar / killing Celebrimbor because they felt insulted of the Highest Order by Adar & Celembrimbor- after they (Gal + Sauron) had just been yapping on about how they would/could keep Adar/Celebrimbor alive as a means of torture.

the crash out was real.

[greenleaf4stuff]

like literally adar what the hell are looking at that first pic i can't-

TROP x twitter posts

(screenshots via cap-that.com) (my other trop memes)

[incorrectringsofpower]

[Season 2, Episode 6] Adar: let's not talk about my problematic past, but my problematic future

[loo-nuh-tik]

That one time when Sauron washed his Halbrand disguise with fabric softener…

[elena-gilbert]

THE RINGS OF POWER 2.02 ― “Where the Stars are Strange”

[jennistarjs]

Obsessed with the Elves being constantly deceived by Sauron in all his many guises and Durin taking one look at him and going "fucking fraud"

[toherrys]

Sauron, Lord of the Rings

The season 2 finale drove me insane, I can't believe I'm watching the Sauron I know and love being his terrifying self in this amazing adaptation.

This was inspired by Jodie Muir's art!

[leotanaka]

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER (2022 - ) Charles Edwards as Celebrimbor & Charlie Vickers as Sauron 2.08 - Shadow and Flame

No, hear me. Hear me! Shadow of Morgoth. Hear the dying words of Celebrimbor. The Rings of Power shall destroy you. And in the end, I foresee, one alone shall prove your utter ruin!

[fukutomichi]

Benjamin Walker as High King Gil-galad S2.E7 ∙ Doomed to Die

[dailyflicks]

THE RINGS OF POWER — S2E8: Shadow and Flame

[olessan]

Low Opacity Elrond: the trifecta

[sihtryggr]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE:

“All his spindly roots in me...”

[greenleaf4stuff]

Crack idea, but I wonder what would happen if S1!Adar and S2!Adar met each other.

Apart from having different actors portray them and different goals due to the creation of Mordor in S1, both Adars do come across as slightly different from each other due to each actor adding their own spin to him. It’s got me curious, would they

immediately become suspicious of one another, thinking the other might be Sauron or perhaps another type of impostor ready to try and take the uruk from them, divide them or otherwise harm their cause?

team up and share leadership of the uruk, using the fact they have an unknown ‚twin‘ to their advantage strategically and to confuse their opponents (esp Sauron)?

allow one of them to work as a spy or even to defect from their cause to have a life they both secretly wished for, away from the battles and the responsibility? (Would the other even be able to do that, or would their sense of duty stop him?)

would S1 have gone differently if S2!Adar was involved (or replaced S1!Adar)?

would S2 have gone differently if S1!Adar was involved? Would he have let Halbrand go with even the slightest possibility of him being Sauron? Would he have let S2!Adar attack Eregion, so soon after finding a home for the uruk and with the chance that they are playing into Sauron’s hands?

etc.

Just some very interesting ideas to think about. What do you guys think?

Also, if anyone is interested, I wrote a little snippet about that concept:

[incorrectringsofpower]

Annatar: [is cute and perfect but also unstable, violent, and self-destructive]

[winterswake]

#when you gaslit too close to the sun