#galadriel is a badass

[jessyoflorien]

Yes, she is! 🤍

[mmelolabelle]

you know if i had fumbled adar and galadriel in a such a relatively short space of time, i too would be crashing tf out and may or may not be tempted to get into jewellery making, torture the nice tea-drinking elf, lay waste to a city and maybe subjugate all of middle earth to my will just to feel something

[the-chains-are-the-easy-part]

I've been kinda obsessed lately with Sauron and the events of The Silmarillion after watching the second season of Rings of Power. I can't say I fully liked it, but I didn't totally hate it either. But you wanna know something that really pisses me off? In the final fight between Sauron and Galadriel, she's all determined to defeat him at any cost... until he shapeshifts back from Annatar to Halbrand, and suddenly her hand hesitates, stopped by her good feelings for him.

...

...girl.

IT'S LITERALLY THE SAME PERSON, THE SAME FUCKIN FACE, HE JUST GOT A HAIRCUT AND DARKER HAIR. WHAT THE HELL? ARE YOU SERIOUS? One second it's blood, death, vengeance, and the next this dude goes to the hair salon and you’re like, “Oh, but he was my friend”… WHAT THE FUCK???!! I can't.

[duchess-of-mandalore]

Five images that exist in the same mental file folder

[waterlooletterwrb]

Lame people annoyed by the galadriel-gets-every-boy jokes as if we weren't loving and supporting her (principally when she gets to kick sauron balls because of it) and you weren't just jealous.

[cursecuelebre]

I’m sorry if I’m not going to see Dark Galadriel in the Season 2 in ROP I’m fighting because yes she with a sword wonderful we love it, but when she has magic?? Just 🤌🤌

[dinosaurswant2rule]

I wanted to fix Adar's fate and piss off Sauron TADA!

@eowyn7023

I've seen you post about Adar and I thought this might appeal to you

[mame-bean]

Welp, looks like The Rings of Power has pulled me right back to my roots… welcome back Middle Earth obsession, it’s been a while.

[psychicbluebirdmiracle]

If I see someone show a clip of galadriel in a video essay on terribly written female characters one more time I will scream

Clearly no youtuber who does has actually seen rings of power or really cared to look at her character she is leagues better than marvels crap female writing or any of the other examples they show

[that-angry-noldo]

Oh I forgot, Finarfin should get to jump ahead in the beating SAURON to hell line! At least until he's behind Finrod. And Earwen. I can't imagine she's not wishing for a turn too. Like her namesake she secretly craves violence, right? Especially if you touch her babies.

Look Finarfin and Eärwen have two hands each

which means they can hold hands and wield swords at the same time

which means sauron should hide in the deepest corner of angband and pray

[jhalya]

This is what I was talking about @onedivinemisfit ! Elrond is like...wtf, bestie??? :)))

it’s PERSONAL. 1000 years later and elrond is like “what the hell HAPPENED between you two?!”

[thesummerestsolstice]

My favorite Gil-Galads, and some headcanons for them:

Celebrian Gil-Galad:

This is a tragically rare take

Genderfluid just like his mother

Look he's beauty he's grace and she's a butch lady you're getting the complete package here

Takes a lot after Galadriel actually, an absolute badass who gets things done and takes no shit from the quirky evil miniboss squad that calls itself the Noldor court

Born in the late First Age, got the kingship because Galadriel was AWOL (single-handedly ripping through Morgoth's armies)

"Gil-Galad died at the end of the Second Age" you are in fact wrong she just retired to go live in Rivendell with her eldritch half-elf

Cel-Galad and Elrond have the absolute best love story I do not take criticism

No but the devotion

Yes it still took them several thousand years to confess their feelings for each other

And then they got married like a century later because they'd basically already been living as a couple for millennia

Some Random Guy who Looks a Little Bit Like Fingon Gil-Galad:

Look there was a lack of legitimate claimants to the Noldor throne and Gil-Galad looked enough like Fingon to get the kingship

By the end of the First Age everyone knows he's not actually part of the House of Finwe but he's done such a good job that they decide to keep him as king anyway

Doesn't know his actual parents (two random Noldor who died in the Nirnaeth) and was raised entirely by Cirdan

He's a free-spirited mariner at heart, forced by a strong sense of responsibility into accepting a throne that regularly makes him want to tear his hair out

He's kind of a tragic figure, someone who grew up too fast; he and Elrond bond over this

Eventually he gets to enjoy a life of peace and seafaring in Valinor

He probably becomes good friends with Earendil; Earendil lets him on the magical flying boat and Gil-Galad tells him about Elrond

When I make a post about Gil-Galad, I'm talking about one of these guys. Feel free to share your favorite Gil-Galads in the tags, I love all the different takes on who he is and where he's from :)

[celebrimborsapron]

I love Arondir because when he tells Galadriel that Adar took everything from him he's not just talking about Bronwyn- he's definitely also talking about Theo and the little family the 3 of them were building.

Like I just imagine how much he enjoyed the short time they were all in Pelagir before it became clear that Bronwyn was getting worse instead of better. He was finally free of his duty to the elves, and he no longer had to hide his relationship with Bronwyn from anyone. He knew obviously that they were mortal, but he also knew that life can be short for anyone during a war and any time is better than none. So he's happy.

But then Bronwyn started to get sicker and sicker and died and Theo got angry with him and he had no place anymore. No duty, no family, just revenge. And he doesn't even get his big revenge moment because Adar kicks his ass in 2 seconds and leaves him for dead. But he (somehow*) survives and keeps fighting and suddenly he's fighting alongside the High King and Galadriel and all these famous elves. And he just rolls with it because what else can he do?

*I know the show runners said that the wound wasn't supposed to be mortal and all but it looks like Adar stabs him in the heart. Looked pretty mortal to me. I am endlessly curious what happened here. I bet there was a scene showing him surviving that got cut for time and they were like its okay, they'll figure out he's alive when they see him alive.

(Also his fighting style is so smooth and there's no wasted movement. Such a badass. I love that the writers gave him the sad tree-chopping moment and the ent encounter. Arondir is peak Silvan Elf.)

[sindar-princeling]

rop season 2 episode 1 thoughts

at this point you gotta admire the creators' dedication to absolutely bizarre choices when it comes to sauron. 15 minutes in I'm already going what the hell and fuck. like what was that supposed to be. genuinely

Charlie Vickers has grown on me; he still doesn't have much to work with in terms of the script or the plot though

this whole introductory sequence was there....... I'm not sure why? we could already extrapolate all that, and I mean All That, from the previous season

it still pisses me off that Galadriel is The Main Idiot and Everything Is Her Fault

also, I am reminded of all the plot and worldbuilding choices that annoyed me before. why is mithril important for the elves' survival again?

CIRDAN HIII CIRDAN <33333

I'm so glad they kept his beard

believe me, I AM trying to find things to like about this show, but the plot choices feel like so much unnecessary drama. Galadriel and Elrond fighting feels.... tiring. I feel like all Galadriel does is fight with people

oh are we getting Rhun?? 👀 Nice

this is a personal opinion but the elven women have wayyy too strong and modern-looking make-up

it's a shame galadriel gets the ring because she's power-hungry and reckless, not because she's one of the mightiest elves in middle-earth. she SHOULD be power-hungry, don't get me wrong, it's one of her best traits, but this way you don't put any sort of accent of how very important and mighty she is

sauron having a Badass Walk into mordor at the end of s1, which was a really cool shot to end a season on, only to then get himself in chains and then turn away and come back to Celebrimbor has got to be the most '???' moments of this show. they really have no idea what to do with him

overall I'd say my main gripe, apart from the plot solutions, is that this show doesn't have much to say. it's showy, it's lore-heavy (even if I don't like the lore they came up with), but so far it still has little heart and thought behind it. to me at least it doesn't feel like it really wants to tell you something

[waterlooletterwrb]

I love them so much your honor it hurts 😭🙏🏼

been talking to some folks and in the adariel universe, CELEBRIAN & AMROTH WOULD LOOK LIKE THISS—