#also sauron's words a little later are... loathsome in the utmost

[edennill-archived]

no, but really I'm insane about the lines:

Chem tak laskayet chornyy tron Tvoi glaza, o Sauron? Kak budto myortvyy blesk koron Spasyot togo, kto ne rozhdyon?

yes I'm quoting them in the latin alphabet because cyrillic hurts my brain and you should be glad I didn't go all the way and switch words to polish equivalents when possible because that's how my brain defaults to reading them.

translation being:

Why does the dark throne So draw your eyes, o Sauron? As if the dead glitter of crowns Would save one who was not born?

(oh, look it almost rhymes in english too!)

especially with the actors' intonation, it's so intense and... reproachful? as if finrod is really pitying his foe and captor — when I don't think at this point he has any hope to win this battle, he has nothing to gain from these words — and his parting shot is just "why did you throw away all you were given for... this?"

honestly, it reminds me of this one post floating around the — narnia fandom, I think — about how the promise of evil is always less than what one was really destined for.

but also, trust it for finrod to pity a dark lord.