#durin III

[celebrimborium]

I never let you lift your hand. It was you. Just you. Getting stronger.

[frodo-sam]

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: The Rings of Power 2x06: Where Is He? 2022 - | dir. Sanaa Hamri

[anthemias]

Do you remember when I was a wee lad, and we'd arm wrestle? You'd let me lift my hand, just enough, to think maybe I could win. And then you'd slam it down again. And I knew there was nothing stronger than my father.

King Durin III & Prince Durin ↳ The Rings of Power, S2E8 "Shadow and Flame"

[sourceblog]

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER (2022 - ) 2.08 - Shadow and Flame

Balrog vs Durin III

[thephoenixandthecrocodile]

I may turn this into a longer post at some point but one of the reasons I love Rings of Power is because it humanizes not only the Elves, Men, and Harfoots (the races I think most people assume we’re supposed to root for) but it also spends a lot of time humanizing the Dwarves and Uruks.

The Dwarven storyline, for example, isn’t built on greed. It’s built on love, familial love and love for home. Durin IV doesn’t want mithril because he’s mad with lust, he wants it because it could help his people and then the Elves. Durin III even shuts the mithril mines down when he wasn’t wearing the ring because it wasn’t worth the risk to his people. And as soon as Durin IV realized the mithril was dangerous, he also abandoned that course out of love for his family, his people, and knowing that the mountain itself is more important than anything else. And THATS why he knows the rings are bad because they make his father forget that and no true dwarf would ever forget that the mountain is a sacred place as much as it is home. It deserves to be respected. I especially love how the show develops that through line with Disa and the Disettes and the practice of resonating. This ancient tradition and skill that tells Dwarves where they can and cannot dig as oppose to the rings which demand they take it all. It’s such a unique take on dwarves that we don’t really see in Jackson’s LOTR films.

And of course the Uruks. Whole books can be written about the portrayal of the Uruks and Adar, but I never thought anyone would give the “you said you loved us” “with all that remains of my heart” to a uruk and his father and have it hit SOOOOOOO hard.

It’s amazing what the ROP writers and showrunners have done to give the Uruks true personalities and cultures and remind us that their story is a tragedy. They’re not ugly goons who enough murder (all the time but then again I’m sure a murder now and then can be cathartic when you’ve served morgoth/Sauron) but they’re also people themselves and their story is maybe middle-earth’s greatest tragedies.

[stilltrails]

The elves are typically the only ones in modern Tolkien media to have such a strong, ethereal connection with the Earth. While the dwarves are a stark contrast to them, often only caring about the earth for what it can give them in return

Rings of Power challenges that by making Disa and her singer one with the mountain. It's as if their souls are apart of the mountain, to the point where their upset is the mountain's upset and vice versa.

They can feel it.

It's no different than the elves fading because their realms are fading.

It is such a magical, mythical connection reserved usually for elves in Tolkien media.

The dwarves and their relationship with nature has been so disrespected to the point where their seen as lesser than the elves in adaptations because of their disconnect.

Yet, even in Rings of Power, Even King Durin realizes and believes in the significance of the dwarves and their connection to the mountain. He honors it and depends on it, and is willing to admit that things have gone south when the singers cannot even feel the mountain anymore.

I love, love their relationship with nature.

The Rings of Power has done more the dwarves and their positive image than Peter Jackson did in three movies.

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[raointean]

Finally watched the new RoP episodes! Have some memes!

[mistandshcdow]

the stone singers can hear the mountain.

durin can see it.

the stone singers listen to what the mountain is saying, durin sees everything and wants to take it.

good writing good writing good writing

[j-wilson-md]

Elrond 🤝 Durin

Having a father who jumped into a fiery pit.

[thedeadtravelfast]

[celebrimborium]

[emo--chanel]

Rings of Power Season 2 Episode 5

BEFORE:

DURING:

AFTER:

[lands-of-fantasy]

The Rings of Power

Season 2 Stills

[luzriels]

"They used their rings only for the getting of wealth; but wrath and an overmastering greed of gold were kindled in their hearts, of which evil enough after came to the profit of Sauron. It is said that the foundation of each of the Seven Hoards of the Dwarf-kings of old was a golden ring; but all those hoards long ago were plundered and the Dragons devoured them, and of the Seven Rings some were consumed in fire and some Sauron recovered." — J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age" requested by @to-the-lost-heroes

[valar-did-me-wrong]

Okay this post has made me go crazy with ideas that will NEVER come to pass I know, but just humor me..

I wish ROP brings back all their iconic fallen characters' actors as Hobbits in the final season's final shots, set in what will become Hobbiton!!

Charles Edwards (Celebrimbor) all twinkling with excitement, explaining how he is upgrading his smial to a Hobbit girl with golden hair who turns around & we see it's Amelia Kenworthy (Mirdania) nodding!!

A family of Hobbits working on their crops and its Lloyed Owens (Elendil), Maxim Baldry (Isildur), Ema Horvath (Earien) & [anarion's actor], a lady hobbit enters the field with refreshments for everybody and it's Cynthia Addai-Robinson!! (Queen Miriel)

Sam Hazeldine (Adar S2) is selling fruits on a stand while flirting with Joseph Mawle (Adar S1), who is selling flowers just beside him!

Robert Strange (Glûg) & Geoff Morrell (Waldreg) are impatiently waiting for Sam to finish being a flirt so they can buy raspberries!!

Trystan Gravelle (Pharazon) & Leon Wadham (Kemen) are selling baked goods on a nearby stand & Alex Tarrant (Valandil) is bickering with them over prices while Anthony Crum (Ontamo) sneaks a muffin to eat.

Simon Merrells (Marchwarden) is showing off his biggest Pumpkins to Augustus Prew (Medhor) who is visibly very very bored.

Will Fletcher (Finrod) is going around the market with a beaming smile talking to everyone like he knows everyone! (he does)

Peter Mullan (Durin III) is smoking what will become Pipe-weed while chilling outside his smial.