#eye of sauron

[odettecarotte]

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[trek-tracks]

The franchise crossover absolutely nobody wanted

[saurongorthaur9]

All of this! One thing I've loved seeing from ROP, and particularly Season 2, is how it's brought this side of Sauron into the wider public eye. I've been a Sauron fan since I first read the Silmarillion over twenty years ago, and I've encountered so many people in that time who absolutely did not see the appeal in Sauron and saw him as nothing more than a boring, one-dimensional villain. The fact that this show, and Charlie, are showing people what a complex, dynamic, terrifying villain Sauron is warms my heart in ways I can't even describe.

"Sauron is not enough evil and scary in Rings of Power"

Because he was scary in LOTR?! That thing is scary to you?

I'll tell you what : Sauron's eye in the movie NEVER scared me. Not even a little bit. I remember that the first time this big ridiculous eye appeared on screen, we all chuckled because... "That's it? that's Sauron?" . And the least that we can say, it's that in terms of personnality... Well he has none, right? The conversations must be nice:

"Hey Sauron, how are you today?

Sauron: RING! RING !!! AHHhrhzjjjjjjj RING!!!!!!!

Oh yeah, the ring, sure Boss. Anything else you need?

Sauron: RIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGG!!!"

Fascinating.

I hate to break it to you, but movies Sauron is BORING. He's boring because he's hardly an entity. He's more a concept, and at the end everything about him rests on what the characters tell us about him: that he's extra evil, very cruel, a tyrant, obsessed by the One Ring, yada yada. But since he's no more than this giant eye on a tower, he never becomes tangible. We believe he's evil because that's what everybody says and also because of what his unpaid employees do, but he never gets to do anything himself, so we don't really see it.

Shelob scared me. The Nazguls terrified me. Heck, I was more afraid than Gollum than I was of Sauron. Don't laugh, did you see his teeth? I would be at least afraid to catch an horrible disease if he bit me...

In ROP, however, Charlie Vickers nails it as Sauron. He may not be literally on fire, but his evilness and his cunningness are palpable in season 2. I mean, the way he treats Celebrimbor?! If that's not sheer cruelty I don't know what it is, and it will get even worse in the episodes to come. Sauron doesn't take no for an answer. He tortures Celebrimbor, not physically but psychologically to bend him to his will. Since day #1, he lies constantly to Celebrimbor, flatters him, tells him what he wants to hear, gaslights him, isolates him from his people, nearly drives him to madness and only at the end, threatens to destroy his city if he doesn't do what he wants... That's not evil enough for you?? Oh, and add "creepy" on the list too, for this poor girl he keeps being weird with.

And as for the scary side of Sauron: Charlie proves to be an excellent actor when he manages to express his moments of contained rage through his micro expressions. For example, every time Celebrimbor resists him, his face changes enough for the audience to see he would tear the poor man's eyes out if he could, but it doesn't last long, blink and you miss it ! Same in the last episose 6, when King Durin refused to deliver more mithril to him; it was so obvious he wanted to kill the old man on the spot, but he's patient, he'll let the Balrog do it for him. Because yes, he's vicious and likes to keep his hands clean, so he tells animals do the job for him when he can!

But it's there, and we already got to see a glimpse of the sheer fury that can possess him when he loses control : in Numenor, when he beat the shit out of the men who had mocked him, and on the raft when Galadriel rejected him. That was probably just a forestate of what we can expect from the next seasons, folks.

By the way, I wrote all this with love. I love that TROP made Sauron tangible. I can see the threat he is now. I understand why everyone during the LOTR is terrified at the idea that he may come back. And I don't want anyone to fix him, mind you...

TROP Sauron, stay as you are, get much worse, PLEASE!

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[camiliark]

I think the big naturals need to spread to other characters. like a virus.

[polkadotpenguin16]

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

Summer is birthday season for me, and we're staring off strong with an Eye of Sauron cross stitch for my friend! I used this pattern by Destroynerdculture on Etsy. I also watched the extended cut of all the Lord of the Rings movies TWICE while making it, just to be authentic 😆

I thought making the hoop look like the One Ring was super clever and would make up for the simplicity of the pattern. The script looks pretty awful since I was drawing on was a hoop that was only a 1/4" wide. But I think it got the job done.

[klikandtuna]

A gift for my hair stylist ☺️ 100% self-drafted (font purchased on Etsy), stitched 2-over-1 on 18-count Aida.

[hollysmakingstuff]

Eye of Sauron pastel felt wall art

[wallflowers-garden]

so when was dave planning on telling us that baylan is trying to destroy the one ring?

[catchymemes]

[aesthetic--mood]

The lord of the rings Aesthetic

[autistook]

ON THIS DAY | September 20th

The White Council attacks Dol Guldur

[oldschoolfrp]

Wizards & Warfare, fantasy miniature wargame by Peter Irving of the Leicester Wargames and Model Soldier Society (undated 1st ed, 1976 2nd ed and 1978 3rd ed shown). Earlier printings reference many names from Tolkien's Lord of the Rings -- Ents, Nazgul, Hobbits, Riders of Rohan -- later replaced with more generic terms, similar to early and later versions of Dungeons & Dragons.

[grickle14]

The Eye of Sauron just couldn't get focused that day.