#rop actor

[queen-daya]

Happy 43rd Birthday Nazanin Boniadi (May 22, 1980)

[apoloadonisandnarcissus]

I mean this is where it started; these two [Charlie Vickers and Morfydd Clark] were auditioning […] and these two were doing chem[istry] tests and, like you know, little reads for months and months together before, you know, before anyone else was in the cast. This is kind of where we built the whole thing. Source

Not Patrick McKay confirming they built the entire “Rings of Power” series around Sauron and Galadriel dynamic, how that's the core of the show, and how important it was for them to find the right actors for this duo.

[draethius]

[wowthosearebigears]

I just want to ask Ben Walker what it’s like to have so many correct opinions.

[saurongorthaur9]

I have to give a shoutout to Charlie Vickers in S2E7. He did it. He made me loathe Sauron. He made my skin crawl. He made me feel sick to my stomach. He made me happy to know Sauron wasn't ultimately going to win. Charlie did it.

Now, don't get me wrong. I'm still a Sauron fangirl in every way, shape, and form. I still love Sauron with all my heart. He's still insanely sexy to me. But he did it. He made me viscerally hate Sauron from the depths of my stomach.

All the kudos to you, Charlie Vickers, you amazing, amazing person.

[deus-sema]

He is going to leave me devastated. I know it and I am well prepared. But it is still going to hurt as hell.

[nomilkinmyteaplease]

Charles Edwards in Rings of Power s2

[olessan]

Me pretending not to notice that Berek is played by a different actor with a black mane this season because production moved hemispheres:

[rise-my-angel]

I'm just saying, the "Adar is suddenly sexy" reveal would have worked a lot better if he was still played by Benjen Stark.

[eri-pl]

(Follow up to this poll)

\* I'm not sure we can clearly call all of those choices "bad", especially leaving his dad&uncle.

** I don't remember this part of history too well, sorry.

[ambi-apocalypse]

Me @ Rings of Power Season 2 episode 8

[deer-with-a-stick]

if netflix makes Luo Ji non-chinese I'm going to throw myself off a fucking cliff

[justacynicalromantic]

WAIT I THOUGHT ANNATAR WILL BE PLAYED BY A DIFFERENT ACTOR BUT THATS JUST CHARLIE IN A WIG OR AM I TRIPPING???

[hikarielizabethbloom]

This is what the show did 😂

[malkaleh]

I just need to say the one (okay no more than one) thing(s) I need to see in Elrond are:

Biracial

Kind

Diplomat/Healer who is canonically everyones favourite

Sense of humour

Wise

Most beautiful person you have ever seen

Excellent parent

[beyonddarkness]

The Prince of Cats

It's interesting that Tevildo's character in The Tale of Tinúviel is an early version of Sauron in The Silmarillion. Everything about Tevildo in that particular story parallels Sauron--being a great servant of Morgoth; holding Beren captive (which caused Lúthien to endeavor to rescue him); and the fight with Huan. Tevildo is even said to be a fay in beastlike shape, which (fay) is probably an early version of the word Maia (roughly), because Melian is a fay, and they are part of the group of beings that...

[...] were born before the world, and are older than its oldest, and are not of it. - (an excerpt from the Tale of the Coming of the Valar, taken from the book Beren and Lúthien.)

But what really got me is the description of Tevildo's eyes. We all know that Sauron's Eye is like a cat's, but since Tevildo is Sauron (in that early version of the story of Beren and Lúthien) maybe there was more to the casting of Charlie Vickers than we thought (him being green-eyed and what not).

From The Tale of Tinúviel:

His eyes were long and very narrow and slanted, and gleamed both red and green [...]

And I've always thought that the sharpening of his teeth as he screamed was to draw the connection to him being Lord of Werewolves... but now that I think about it... he looks more like a cat than a wolf.

His purr was like the roll of drums and his growl like thunder, but when he yelled in wrath it turned the blood cold...

...and indeed small beasts and birds were frozen as to stone, and dropped lifeless often at the very sound.

And just as a reminder of what plays as he drops her...

(by the way, the mind-warping only spanned the length of the staring contest--meaning we got to see what happened outside and inside her mind. He drops her in the water, while we hear yelling in the music, hinting at what part of the vision she is in.)

Here are some sidenotes:

1) Reminder that Charlie said in that one interview that his favorite creatures in Middle-earth were cats and/or dogs (particularly werewolves and Tevildo).

2) When Charlie says that he's excited about the different SHAPES that Sauron takes in the Second Age, and that he himself is excited to explore those things...

We know Sauron takes on different shapes in this era. All I can say is maybe to that. Maybe we're going to do those things. But I'm incredibly excited to explore him doing these things that we know he does.

What different shapes might we see, I wonder.