#saurondiel Tumblr posts

[annatartastic]

yeah, you and me, we can light up the sky. if you stay by my side, we can rule the world. (x)

[shady-swan-jones]

Charlie Vickers on TV Insider: Galadriel & Sauron can't shake their 'cosmic connection' in 'The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power' Season 2. (X)

[thatbluebox]

DROP BY DROP | galadriel & sauron 

[rings-of-power-realm]

SPOILERY PIC!!

[himekasza]

If Celeborn shows up in season 3, I know people are going to put him in a cuck chair in their Saurondiel fics.

[hikarielizabethbloom]

He's pathetic at this point 😂

He's begging her to join him.

The dork lord is an idiot in love 😂😂😂

And can we talk about Galadriel's 'my king'. Girl, possessive much?

[princessfantaghiro]

AMAZING THING!!!! 🤯❤🤌🧎‍♀️

Galadriel's reincarnations haunting Sauron over millenium...AU

[reginarubie]

I finally caved in, and wrote a one shot. I might actually expand on this based on how you all like it and my muse.

“And what of my king?”

(…)

She panted, with breathless lungs as he stepped back, held the crown — blood, her blood dripping to the ground — as he slowly, arms open in a gesture of welcoming, sank to his knee.

Meraki

[stuf-hehwhsushs]

Would anyone be interested in writing some Halbrand/Sauron x Galadriel RP plots with? specifically looking for someone to play Halbrand/Sauron.

[not-xpr-art]

I would make you a Queen (haladriel fanart) ~

(a mixed media collage based on THAT scene in the rings of power lol)

(08/2023)

[justacynicalromantic]

I feel like people try too hard to keep Sauron "in character", to the point that they super-impose the 3rd Age LOTR Sauron onto the 2nd Age TROP Sauron. To the point that people attribute everything he does to a manipulation, thinking that the guy does everything as planned, as if he can't do an action because he just feels like it, or make a decision based on emotions. That is just... Not how I saw even LOTR Sauron. Plus, a lot can happen to a guy in several millenia, yk? (And I believe we will even see this road of his in later seasons).

I will give you the scene where he apologises for killing Galadriel's brother, for example.

Rewatching it, you can absolutely tell that Sauron seriously intended to stay in Numenor and do nothing but simple smith work.

He wasn't lying later to Gal when he said he had all but given up at this time frame - he really did. In that moment, he believed himself to be a giant failure, all his plans had fallen through, even the orks mutinied against him and his close servant/friend (because it is obvious he and Adar were close - 1) how else would one disembowel fucking Sauron unless he trusted his back to that person? 2) he would NOT act THAT angry if that betrayal wasn't personal on some level) betrayed him and murdered him - so at this stage he is in the "to hell with it all, I give up, I am a loser, let me just smith cutlery and horse shoes in peace" frame of mind.

But then comes Galadriel asking him to help her take the Southlands, refusing to take "no" for an answer.

As a side note, I find this part of the scene interesting:

Love the actor's work as well here - how his stare becomes vacant as he loses himself in the dark memories.

(And he is turned away from Galadriel here. She doesn't see his face at all. At. All. So, unless he is trying to manipulate coals, the emotions on his face are. All. Real.)

"You don't know what I did. How I survived...

And, as he gazes into the fire, it's not his memories that come (as would be expected out of this cimetographic tactic), but the present scene of the villagers submitting and kneeling to Adar and the orks.

Legitimately, his words here are narrating over the people kneeling to Adar. Right over this moment. I kid you not, go rewatch it, if you do not believe me.

This, here, is a 100% tell that, at least in this story, as TROP authors intended it, the idea is that Sauron's continuous service to Melkor was a matter of survival. You don't make such an obvious parallel unintentionally.

So, while he came to serve him probably out of his young foolishness and ambition, but that, down the road, it became simply impossible to change sides, even if he wanted too, unless he was willing to sacrifice his life for it.

Going back to the point. So, Sauron, as Galadriel asks him to abandon his own plans and help her with her quest, demands that she gives him an honest answer why she pursues her goals.

She turns away from him in tears and:

"The company I led mutinied against me"

Mmmm?🤔

"My closest friend conspired with the King to exile me"

MMMMM?🤔🤔🤔

(what could it be reminding me of I wonder??)

What? What is it, Sauron? Why are you making this sad version of a surprised Pikachu face?? And to her back no less, where she can't even see you doing your obviously manipulative surprised sad faces😆

(Seriously, guys, he even does a small gasp here)

And Galadriel's next words:

"Because they could no longer distinguish me from the evil I was fighting"

...beyond being a hilarious irony (because, yk? said evil is standing right behind you, Gal), are supposed to clarify for those that didn't get it from his shocked face what exactly ran through Sauron's mind at that moment, that surprised him so much:

"We are alike".

Bingo. So there you have it. What made Sauron change his mind and follow Galadriel was not some masterplan where he decided that her quest to the Southlands would be very beneficial for him - but simply he recognised a kindred spirit and he felt he could understand what she was going through and empathised with her, decided to help her.

Bonus - after he just discovered for himself that they have much in common and apologised for killing her brother, she says:

"Your sorrow cannot ease my pain.

And nor will a hammer and tongs ease yours.

There is no peace to be found for you here.

And nor for me.

No lasting peace in any path, but that which lies across the sea.

I have fought for centuries to earn mine.

This is how you earn yours."

(even her words here are perfectly paralleled, casting them as mirrors of each other)

And after saying this she leaves. And he stays looking like this:

- which, again, no one is witnessing, except the empty smithy.

So, in conclusion, Sauron follows Galadriel because: a) he feels a sense of guilt towards her; b) he cannot ignore it because he understands her and he feels they are alike; c) a person he feels they have a lot in common with is sure that "there's no peace to be found for the likes of us here", so yes, it makes him first hesitate and then change his mind about staying in Numenor and living a simple ordinary life; d) while he did plan to just live as a simple smith in Numenor, it was never what he actually wanted for himself. His failures together with his guilt made him give up, but Galadriel gave him hope that he could be something more and do something good. And that was always his dream and his ambition.

I believe it's not before they came to Eregion and he heard about the mirthril and the Elves' plight that it all came to him how he could restart his previous plans that he had abandoned because of continuous failures (and Adar physically banishing him from existence).

PS: and no, it is not Galadriel's fault, because nothing she said here was wrong. Sauron stood on a crossroad and he had a real chance here - where he was wrong-footed and doubted all his previous beliefs - he had a chance to choose the right path. But instead he chose subjurgation of others (and I do not believe it was because of his nature as Dark, but because of his previous experiences, what they shaped him out to be). If anything, the one to blame is Adar with his untimely volcano show, because - who knows? - had they had more time, maybe Sauron could have found the right footing. Instead, before he could unlearn his worse life lessons and learn new better ones, he, sort of, came to the Tree of Knowledge in Eden.

[bellamyblcke]

okay one of the things i’ll say is villain romances imo are not about succumbing to darkness but are instead about the relentless seductive pull of the darkness. the recognition of a capacity for evil in yourself and the capacity for goodness within somebody else! and the requesting of that goodness to be brought to life and being denied and the requesting of your evil to be brought to life and that being denied as well! it’s about heartbreak and compassion and existing on two opposing sides that fundamentally cannot coexist but do within you!! they do within you! inner turmoil is what’s sexy about it!!

[shady-swan-jones]

[90shaladriel]

Haladriel Week fic: Strays at Sea

Here is my entry for Haladriel Week Day 2

Prompt: Missing Scenes or What Ifs

What if Sauron didn’t have Halbrand’s form on the raft but was a doggy instead? 2.7k words | General Audience

[elfbotanist]

[malfunctionart]

Rings of Power Valentines Week @ringsofpowervalentinesweek

Day 1 OTP: haladriel/saurondiel aka there was only one raft !!!

Incredibly proud of this one ❤️