#oh gil

[leletha-jann]

Ohhhhhhhh, wait. This isn't "Bohrlaika is still coming out of the timestop and woke up fighting".

This is SHE BROKE THE TUNNEL WALLS with that big sword.

The thing everyone was repeatedly told NOT TO DO.

...this whole tunnel structure is coming down with them inside it, cosmic forces are collapsing on top of them, and Gil is desperately yelling at the people he loves to run, run, because last time this happened he was on the outside alone for years and he can't bear to lose them to the timestop again.

Oh, guys, I'm having some feelings about this.

...also, as ever, well done our professors for setting this up back in 2014. Showin' us how it's done, as always.

[fukutomichi]

The Rings of Power | Season 2 | Aug 29 - Oct 3, 2024 Benjamin Walker as High King Gil-galad and Sam Hazeldine as Adar

[marshmellin]

[sesamenom]

Gil-galad Variations, featuring all the gil galad theories i've encountered.

[s2pdoktopus]

Hehe

[nshi-ao3]

Sorry, I might be having a bit too much fun with this setting (and making Spiderverse references) haha. I should probably get back to work??

[hollygl125]

@tvarchive TV Appreciation Week 2024: Day 2: Favourite male character: Gil Grissom (William Petersen).

“Since I met you.”

Insp. (x) + (x) + (x) + (x) #he’s so handsome here

[the-writing-goblin]

I am once again thinking about how good the story of the second age is, and all the fun things you could do with an actually decent adaptation. Consider:

Galadriel should be exactly the same as she is in Lord of the Rings. She is older, weirder and more powerful than any elf other elf in Middle Earth. Other elves are just as unnerved by her as mortals, and dealing with her is stressful at the best of times.

Elrond should be an absolute infant. Just, complete baby face. But everyone treats him super respectfully and he has a lot of power and influence. The energy should be the same as when the super ancient and powerful vampire or faerie or whatever looks like a ten year old girl.

ALSO there should be a tall, menacing elf with visible tattoo and facial scars who just. Stands behind Elrond looking intimidating all the time. The least elf-looking elf ever. All the other elves are uncomfortable around them. Elrond should treat them like their an Aunt or Uncle. The elf is one of the few surviving hard-line Feanorians, all of whom follow Elrond. The longer you can go without explaining this, the better.

Gil-Galad is very tired, and spends a lot of time balancing one of the most famously unstable political systems in all of Arda. Galadriel and Elrond both have factions they support to strongly to be relied on to be impartial. The reason he doesn't worry much about what Celebrimbor's up to is that he's the one member of the family who is highly unlikely to attempt something batshit nuts, and his followers are mostly moderate.

Celebrimbor and Annatar/Sauron should spend the whole series playing complicated mindgames with each other.

Annatar is playing four-dimensional chess from the beginning. For him, this is an all or nothing gamble. If he can't make the rings he won't have the power to seize control on his own. He should spend a lot of time having Light Yagami-level monologues where he tries to figure out what game Celebrimbor is playing while outwardly pretending to be harmless and normal and only succeeding at this about 75% of the time.

Celebrimbor should start of thinking the stakes are considerably lower. Like... is Annatar hiding something? Yea, but he figures Annatar doesn't actually have permission from the Valar to be here or something. Not, ya know, Annatar is secretly Satan in disguise. In the first act there should be an almost comical disconnect between the amount of energy Sauron is putting in to these mind games versus Celebrimbor.

Bonus points if as Celebrimbor figures out the truth, you intersperse more and more of his family backstory. The guilt he is still carrying for a lot the things that happened in the first age. Early on bring in the fact that Finrod went into Sauron's jaws alone and it was Curufin's fault, use this as angst material. And then as he figures out who Sauron really is, drop Maedhros and Thangorodrim in like a nuclear bomb.

Because Celebrimbor has seen this play before, and he knows what Sauron does to people. It wasn't even personal then, what Sauron is going to do to him will be so much worse.

And Celebrimbor chooses to forge the three rings anyway. He doesn't give up their locations, even with everything Sauron does to him at the end. And that should be devestating.

[wowthosearebigears]

Hey you know how we were theorizing that Gil Galad saw his own future/death with Vilya? Well…

[sandwichmustbetasty]

gil-galad is a bit harsher towards elrond than i would ideally like but i absolutely love that he has that air around him that if one more things goes wrong he will lose his shit

[misspermitted]

I’m on board with the “Adar was/is Celeborn” theory purely because I want this crack exchange -

Adar/Celeborn: You cheated on me with Sauron!

Galadriel: Well you also cheated on me with Sauron so the scales are balanced

Adar/Celeborn: What?? In what-

Galadriel: You left me, your wife, for 1000 years, to have a family and children with him

Adar/Celeborn: Okay, well, you fell in love with him. Which means you weren’t even in love with me in the first place. Which is worse

Galadriel: YOU LITERALLY HAD HIS CHILDREN

Adar/Celeborn: You married me for all eternity wiTHOUT EVEN BEING IN LOVE WITH ME

High King Gil-Galad, to Elrond: Still think he’s fake and they’re not married?

Elrond: Oh no, I take it back, they’re definit- oh my god Galadriel do not challenge him to a duel there is nothing wrong with your womb gods above

[group-dynamic]

Bartender: Hey, man, how's it going?

Me: Yeah, you know, it's good. Just thinking about how Gil Galad's kingship was haunted by Elrond. Like his first great failure after being crowned when he'd barely come of age was showing up too late to stop the destruction of Sirion. How he probably felt a deep personal responsibility to find Elwing's missing boys at least but couldn't even do that. Like, I know he probably got redirected by Cirdan toward all those refugees and stuff, but he probably really wanted a win, especially because he was kinda orphaned by then himself and knew how cruel fate was to the sons of greater destiny. Like all his family who'd been king before him died, like, horrifically? And then when Elrond returns all fine and he comes to Lindon and he's chosen the fate of the elves, Gil Galad's physically haunted by him again. See, but this time he chooses to be haunted by Elrond. Because I think he wants to fix what he sees as his first great failure by restoring a bright future for this kid which was robbed from him when Sirion fell--and it's probably like he wants better for him than what he got, too, because he got this kingship in exile thrust upon him when all he was doing was hanging out with Cirdan making ships or something with the other non-combatants and refugees like he and his mother who were fleeing war and violence and he was like fourth in line to the throne so he probably found out in one fell swoop that all his family's dead and oh, you're king and your destiny's out of your hands. So he's like, I'll make Elrond herald and give him all the experience and guidance on this leadership stuff I never got while also giving him better control of what kind of future he has. Then--get this--he never even marries or has kids and when his reign is coming to an end. . . Which, by the way, he probably foresaw his own death which is fucked-- because he gives Elrond his ring before the war of the last alliance, metaphorically making him his heir and also giving him the opportunity to shape his future. . .Yeah, yeah, cause Elrond wouldn't have been considered suitable to be a lord or a king or anything after he was raised by wolves the sons of Feanor. So when Gil made him herald it was like helping him gain political experience and any status he lost. So anyway, then Gil Galad dies, but in some ways he's spent a greater part of his life dedicated to the act of restoring Elrond to the path he should have been on in an alternate reality where he was raised as Earendil and Elwing's son and like correcting that first failure--but also changing Elrond's fate because Elrond has the ring, like, he literally has Gil Galad's legacy and power in his hands, something he wouldn't have had (or needed?) before. But he decides he won't be king. He'll use that power to guard the place that fulfills the legacies of both him and Gil Galad. He's rebuilt the home he lost, something Gil Galad was trying to give him, and then he makes it a place for all the orphans and the wounded and the refugees--like he even fosters a bunch of future orphan kings and like--

Bartender: Like the ending of Hamilton?

Me: *mumbling into my empty glass* Yeah, exactly like the ending of Hamilton.

[marshmellin]

Gil-galad: can i not have one normal day? One.

Elrond: *starts inching toward the door*

Gil-galad: I'm going to teach you how to do my job so I can offload - I dunno - the burden of leadership. Why are you walking away. Elrond, stop using that excuse, you ARE somehow related to all of us and you absolutely CAN be High King of the Noldor get your half elven ass BACK here

Inspired by this hilarious Gil-ga-accurate text post from @greenleaf4stuff! Check it out! - I laugh every time!!

[nanawaffles]

.... one sad aspect of watching rings of power is the moment you're looking at one of the characters and it hits you.

By the end of the show they're gonna die.

[nagithoes]

i love seeing art for tolkien elves because you never know for sure who you’re looking at until you check the tags

[ozsdoll]

maybe im pulling strings or thinking to hard but listening to the soundtrack for the penguin has made the series even better for me. the fact each character has motif's with the songs that play. vic having modern rap songs, sofia with some older songs and 80s hits. and oz with jazz and of course -` miss dolly p ♡´- . my favourite being the use of gil scott-heron's cover of me and the devil. it works so beautifully as a review of the previous scene and characters. the intro to the song is a sample from a hispanic rap song (vic). heron's voice is more old timely (sofia) and the lyrics. me and the devil, who is the devil in this scene it's oz. he created the situation happening.

might be a stretch but honestly even if it is, it just makes the prior scene to the credits even more enjoyable.