#míriel still visibly blessed while end of life pharazôn seals his and númenor's fate because he can't handle not being eternal god emperor | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

anghraine · 2 months ago

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For years, I've had a firm policy of nursing my grudge against a fictional character by only tagging Pharazôn as #pharazôn and not #ar-pharazôn and in general trying to always refer to him as Pharazôn alone. Tar-Míriel is the only final monarch of Númenor acknowledged in this house!!

S2 of ROP is not budging me on that point, I've got to say.

#anghraine babbles #also i actually like the highly visible contrast between the visibly aging and heavily bearded pharazôn #and míriel's elvishly ageless beauty—not young not old and just kind of staggering. which itself betrays her loyalties #tolkien even remarks in one of the many drafts that pharazôn looked older than tar-míriel #even though they were first cousins of almost exactly the same age #rop obviously doesn't go for full throttle númenórean aging per tolkien but i've imagined this increasingly glaring contrast #míriel still visibly blessed while end of life pharazôn seals his and númenor's fate because he can't handle not being eternal god emperor #(yes i've read the version of míriel that's Not Wholly Unwilling 2: Electric Boogaloo and i can see why tolkien discarded it)#legendarium blogging #tar míriel #pharazôn #tv: lotr #legendarium fanwank #númenórë

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