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bad-surprise · 3 months ago
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at the museum, with you across the way
chapter 26: watching stars collide
haladriel modern au | E | 103k | 26/?
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hazelmaines · 2 years ago
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Thanks for asking @maironiiel !! This from an upcoming chapter of The Chain:
The grey haired woman thumps the table and says, "Aye, sorcerer."
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shady-swan-jones · 1 month ago
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Elf-lover by mildthemes
Remember Me Like This by shady-swan-jones
Another Tale of Darkness Indeed by Hopeful_Foolx
This Fate Bound Throne by callitagift
Salt of the Sea and Iron Smoke by @poopsiekitten
Reforged in the Making by FormerlyIR (Irony_Rocks)
Bound to His Being by ChapterEight
A Deal with the Devil by Iblametumblrformyproblems
Poison & Wine by @coraleethroughthelookingglass
Human Halband
what makes night within us may leave stars by essaupe
These Hands are Rated E for Everyone by NumquamCedam
The Best Laid Plans by @ichabodjane
The Heat & The Pulsing Rush by AnMorrighan
The Adventures of the Low Man by @ichabodjane and @somebirdortheother
But listen carefully to the sound of your loneliness, like a heartbeat, drives you mad by coraleethroughthelookingglass
Impulse Control by NumquamCedam
Young and Beautiful by @pinkorchestra
I Met the King of the Southlands Once (AND ALMOST DIED) by NumquamCedam
Back Into the Furnace by BetoWrites
I Could Get Used to This by orphan_account
Keeping Watch by @name1name1
Post season 1
Know My Name As It's Called Again by @deceivedcomet
A Lord and his Builder by @90shaladriel
Lavage by kimsey
Binding by CartaEscarlate
Beautiful Lies by Ottertale
Queen of Night and Stars by @90shaladriel
Know My Name As It's Called Again by Comet19
King of The Southlands
The White Queen by LadyRosalune
Queen of the Southlands by FormerlyIR (Irony_Rocks)
Unsired by @shady-swan-jones
Shake Like the Bough of a Willow Tree and First Impressions by @myfavouritelunatic
Numenor
consolations of the flesh by framboise
All It Takes To Bind You by @shady-swan-jones
cry of the mourning petrel, tooth of the sea by @rain-sleet-snow
kalopsia by properhaunt
to call dark deeds good by prettybrilliantfunny
banquets have burned for you by @conundrumoftime
Adrift by bartagnans
The Souvenir by @somebirdortheother
A Curious Case of the Cart Trying to Push the Horse by orphan_account
What Happens in Numenor by @youwearfinethingswellwriter
Hands on You by @lisenberry
A Beacon Of Stars by @jhalya
Lady of the Seas by @conundrumoftime
i cannot heave my heart into my mouth by fallofrain
Slice of Paradise by @scriberated
Perfection by @nenyabusiness
All We Are, Flood Damage In The Dark by @klynnvakarian
Season 2
Splashes of colour on shades of grey by @mirroringdust
mitosis by @orcas86
the too plentiful light by @thefudge
More Painful Sacrifices by myfavouritelunatic
Until the Dawn Comes by @scribblecat27
light of the Two Trees by dxrklina
Primal Play by thenagil
destitute of the light he once craved by @mirroringdust
That all encompassing feeling by @naldoreth
and laid her soiled gloves by by @mortaltempless
A Goodbye by @youwearfinethingswellwriter
the labyrinth that binds us by eastwynds
Teeth by @pinkorchestra
A door, once opened by @maeday1551
I put a spell on you by @sixofwaffles
Darkness Bound by no_more_doubt
Stars & Shadows by @nowforruin
if that is to be the way of things by @hazelmaines
Epic Adventures (50k+)
A tragic age by @stitchingatthecircuitboard
The Trials of Mairon by bynightmylove
That Which Lies Across the Sea by @theriverwild
I could be your king by @cliffdivingsblog
Echoes of Mairon by @hopeforchanges
Shadow-Bride by @conundrumoftime
In Case of Defeat, Break Glass by eastwynds
The Venus of Valinor by @thecoziestbean
Instruments of Salvation by @scriberated
The Lesser of Two Evils by @thrillofhope
Across That Fine Line by @myrsinemezzo
Beautiful Creature of Darkness by @pursuitseternal
Rainbow of Chaos by yletylyf
Litost and Beasts of the Hill and Serpents of the Den by @demonscantgothere
Special fics
the nameless by bimmyou
Half Moon by vuas
The Mirror and the Palantír by @oroniel
Dubcon/dead dove
Hérincë by  @mzladybird
those who eat, those who are eaten by thehoneydoll
Until the Dawn Comes by Scriberated 
Trespassers Beware and Lord of the Werewolves by @pursuitseternal
Part 2 - Modern AU, Explicit & Bonus (coming soon)
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sauronxgaladriel · 5 months ago
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Haladriel Library
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Saurondriel/Haladriel Fanfic Recommendations. Some of these stories could fit into multiple categories. If you have any more recommendations feel free to add them!
Marriage
Shadow-Bride by eye_of_a_cat
Bridesprice by FormerlyIR (Irony_Rocks), Irony_Rocks 
Poison & Wine by Coraleeveritas
Galadriel takes longer to discover Sauron's identity
no matter how many skies have fallen by stitchingatthecircuitboard
A man is a god in ruins by eye_of_a_cat
Queen of the Southlands by FormerlyIR
Galadriel Says Yes
The House That Fire Built by Ready_For_The_Laughing_Gas
dig up the bones (but leave the soul alone) by Wyrd_Syster
Gilded by eye_of_a_cat
And white winter, on its knees by eye_of_a_cat
The Trials of Mairon by EllieCarina
Mortal Laws by Helholden
A Portion of Thyself by Frotu
Reforged in the Making by FormerlyIR (Irony_Rocks)
Fabricated by Frotu
Canon Divergence/Reimagining of S1 and onwards
I could be your king by cliffdiving
The Tides of Fate by fireheart321
In Case of Defeat, Break Glass by eastwynds
that i may rise and stand, o'erthrow me by mortaltemples
Five times Halbrand's secret got revealed by eye_of_a_cat
Across That Fine Line by MyrsineMezzo
Instruments of Salvation by Scriberated
a fair form by properhaunt
Autocorrelation by EisforEverything
The Return of the Queen by Nenya Business (Cec_Jo)
A Feast of Starlight by TheLightofArwyn
Supernatural Creature AU
should have known better by Nenya Business (Cec_Jo) (Witch/Demon AU)
Wild Magic by Scriberated (Witch/God)
Storm Tides & Weaving Threads by elssiie (Siren AU)
just a taste by stardustspell (Vampire AU)
Haladriel meet before TROP
Spark, Ignite, Burn by cliffdiving
our souls were made from the stars by silverwing12 (Deleted)
Necessity's Bargain by Scriberated
Though the Gods and the Years Relent, Shall Be by Helholden
determination is the cure (for longing) by downtheroadandupthehill
where the spirit meets the bones by kangaroopaws
people throw rocks at things that shine by ophidion
Pick a star, and follow it home by CloudlySkies124
Hades Persephone Vibes
Beasts of the Hill and Serpents of the Den by Helholden
a dust like thine by mortaltemples
One-Shots
Unsired by shady-swan-jones (sweetleaf), sweetleaf 
the light of his eyes by eastwynds
now dark, now glittering by mortaltemples
In the Shadow of Your Heart by mzladybird
i cannot heave my heart into my mouth by fallofrain
this love is glowing in the dark by Orcas86
we could just kiss, like real people do by justatinycollector 
a millstone around my neck by mortaltemples
the nameless by bimmyou
next time by you_wear_fine_things_well
ouroboros by Amuria
Pregnancy/Parenthood
Light and Power by chronicallyexhaustedwriter
shining like a fiery beacon by ophidion
A Blessing of Eru by Scriberated
mitosis by Orcas86
Darkness Bound by no_more_doubt
Smut
A Stressed Tiding by FormerlyIR (Irony_Rocks), Irony_Rocks
this love is glowing in the dark by Orcas86
Buried in Bone by Invisible_Hand
Riptide by makeshiftdraco
Perfection by Nenya Business (Cec_Jo)
like magnets work, only drawn to thee by audreystark
To Follow the Light by Thrill_of_hope
A Moment of Honesty by Draconic_Grace
Dream Within a Dream by Nenya Business (Cec_Jo)
bind yourself to me by Nenya Business (Cec_Jo)
Dream Within a Dream by Nenya Business (Cec_Jo)
Lady of the Seas by eye_of_a_cat
Dark/Dead Dove
all your pain will end here by poeticmemory
Land of Enchantment by EisforEverything
perle by emphemeron
Glanduin Kiss by Anonymous
The Cost of Victory by EisforEverything
what you and i have wrought by thefudge
what heart's ease by fallofrain
Sauron as Annatar
hold her head above the water by Orcas86
next time by you_wear_fine_things_well
the light of his eyes by eastwynds 
Contaminate by Frotu
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fatcatlittlebox · 11 days ago
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AU When Mairon and Artanis met under the light of the Trees.
inspired by Pick a Star, and follow it Home
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partfae · 29 days ago
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Sauron, Galadriel, & Tolkien's Theology of Repentance - Part One
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Summary: Character meta analysis on Sauron (and Galadriel, through the lens of Sauron). Based on both Silmarillion & RoP canon. 3.5k words. Discussion of Catholic theology involved. Blanket TW for discussion of violence, manipulation, etc., because Sauron. Spoilers for S1 & S2 and the Silmarillion, of course. The tragedy of Sauron is that he gets offered so many legitimate chances at redemption and forgiveness, and he denies them every single time. But we know he wants absolution, because that’s what he sees Galadriel as: his chance to bind himself back to the light, to be Mairon again, to heal the pain that he caused and that was caused to him under Morgoth. But because he has such a warped view of himself and his actions, he dismisses genuine extensions of compassion, forgiveness, and care as simultaneously beneath him and too good for him. And yet, he still pursues redemption, but through none of the channels offered to him.
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In The Rings of Power, he’s given the explicit instruction to change for the good in the village after he’s reborn. He’s given the chance leave his past behind and work meaningfully in Númenor. He’s given the chance to redeem himself by Galadriel's offer of friendship (or love, depending on your interpretation). In the Silmarillion, he's even given the chance by Eönwë himself, and comes close to leaving Morgoth behind completely!
Let's look at this passage from Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age (emphasis mine):
When Thangorodrim was broken and Morgoth overthrown, Sauron put on his fair hue again and did obeisance to Eönwë the herald of Manwë, and abjured all his evil deeds. And some hold that this was not at first falsely done, but that Sauron in truth repented, if only out of fear, being dismayed by the fall of Morgoth and the great wrath of the Lords of the West. But it was not in the power of Eönwë to pardon those of his own order, and he commanded Sauron to return to Aman and there receive the judgement of Manwë. Then Sauron was ashamed, and he was unwilling to return in humiliation to receive from the Valar a sentence, it might be, of long servitude in proof of his good faith; for under Morgoth his power had been great. Therefore when Eönwë departed he hid himself in Middle-earth; and he fell back into evil, for the bonds that Morgoth had laid upon him were very strong.
This passage is clear that Eönwë is willing to pardon Sauron--he simply did not posses the power to do so. But when Sauron was told he must appeal directly Manwë, he gave up entirely and skulked back to Middle-earth. There are a few ways to read this:
1. He was not wholly repentant
Sauron simply wanted the protection of a new master in the absence of Melkor. i.e., he was rather fickle and simply wanted to be on whatever the "winning" side was. This is supported by the text literally saying that at least some of his obeisance was completely false, and that he only made a point of feeling bad about anything once his master had been chucked into the Void and his armies and strongholds were being destroyed (Thangorodrim). In this reading, perhaps Eönwë saw Sauron's treachery and referred him to Manwë knowing that it would be a test of his true intent. However, while a valid interpretation, I believe this to be the less holistic of the two.
2. He was truly repentant
Sauron did truly feel badly and "abjured all his evil deeds," but he was unwilling/unable to humble himself after being so fundamentally broken by Melkor and developing an insatiable power lust (hey, he isn't defined in the narrative by lust and pride for nothing).
Earlier in this same chapter, Tolkien wrote that Sauron could "...deceive all but the most wary." This is in the specific context of his physical shapeshifting. But, I would argue that this can also be tied to his lies. Tolkien has a specific ethic of beauty, where physical perfection is equated with moral goodness. Sauron completely inverts what is otherwise a hard and fast rule within Tolkien's writings by being the character most frequently described as "fair"--seven times to Lúthien's six, and she was the most beautiful woman to have ever lived!
(Side note: I have another post on Tolkien & beauty in the works where I'll get more into this idea)
Why does this matter? Even though this interaction with Eönwë takes place in the First Age, Sauron could at this point be in the demonic form Mirdania describes in the forge. And, I am inclined to believe that Eönwë, as the head Maiar and herald of Manwë, would be a pretty wary guy, and thus able to sense any of Sauron's trickery. I read this to mean that Eönwë looked at Sauron and saw his potential to be Mairon again, either in absence of his evil form or in spite of it.
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Because Sauron is incredibly beautiful. And even if it is a disguise of the true, depreciated form of his spiritual essence, he presented himself to Eönwë at his most beautiful. He wanted, even in his act of repentance, to make himself more favorable in Eönwë's eyes. To show up as Mairon (who was likely close friends with Eönwë before everything went down, since they are considered to be two of the most powerful Maia and would have worked closely together).
But I don't think this was all manipulation on Sauron's end. I agree with the scholars mentioned in the text who believed that Sauron was truly repentant--which is why Eönwë even bothered referring him to Manwë instead of kicking him into the Void with Melkor.
And this is the tragedy: Sauron is told exactly how to repent, and believes fundamentally that it is an impossible path for him. And yet, he still longs so intrinsically for it! He was, under Aulë, a Maia of precision, perfection, and order. Under Morgoth, he feels disordered, dis-regulated. He needs to correct the fundamental imbalance within him, so why does he flee Eönwë?
It comes back to Sauron's pride.
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If he follows through with this path of reconciliation, there is no way he can hide or pretend his actions away. If he cannot trick his fellow Maiar, he certainly cannot trick the Valar. And he cannot stand the idea of submitting himself back under their rule, especially now that he has tasted power. This is a pride wound; it is why the idea of confessing to Manwë would be humiliating to him as opposed to just upsetting/uncomfortable.
Again, the pivotal moment: he is told how to make amends for crimes and determines that he cannot do it. So he returns to Middle-earth and stews in his own self-hated and self-pity for a few years. In that time, he consciously or subconsciously latches onto Eönwë's offer--forgiveness from penance. It is the way forward. And if he cannot earn penance at Manwë's hand, he will do it on his own.
The Prodigal Son
This is where we have to talk about the Catholic roots of Tolkien's work for a moment. The scene where Sauron approaches Eönwë mirrors the biblical parable of the prodigal son. In this story, a man abandons his family, spends all his money, and falls into ruin. But when he recognizes his failings and returns to his father to get help, he is welcomed back into the family without question--in other words, he is forgiven and restored to his former position.
17 But when he [the prodigal son] came to himself he said, “How many of my father’s hired hands have bread enough and to spare, but here I am dying of hunger! 18 I will get up and go to my father, and I will say to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; 19 I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me like one of your hired hands.’” 20 So he set off and went to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion; he ran and put his arms around him and kissed him. - Luke 15:11-32, NRSV CE (emphasis mine)
The parallel is clear; Mairon, the repentant Maia, returns home with hopes of reconciliation. He is prescribed the same task that the prodigal son offered to his father: he must be bound in servitude to his father/creator in order to pay off his debts. This is a deliberate allusion from Tolkien. The story of the prodigal son models the path of reconciliation that Eönwë describes. Tolkien seems to be drawing a line in the sand with this: Sauron is unwilling to do the work required by the Valar for repentance, so he is unable to receive the grace of a warm welcome back into the fold of the Ainur. Since he did not humble himself, he has to be told to do it. And he does not want to! He wants to be loved, but he also wants his power--evidence, in a way, of how his character was fundamentally altered in his time with Morgoth.
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His pride--and his fear--cut him off from the potential of grace. He does not know for certain that Manwë would subject him to servitude (though I would argue that it's textually evident that it is a custom), but this assumption leads him to flee, which allows him to slip back into his old ways.
He wants to be Mairon (admirable) again, not Sauron (abhorrent). He wants to be accepted and loved, but not punished. He wants the benefits of reconciliation without the work he would have to do to earn it or the shame he would feel as he did. It's pride, but it's also deep shame--the flip side of his extreme ego is an implicit self-hatred, one that we can see in the subtext of how he speaks about himself and about his time with Morgoth.
Even the language Tolkien uses is heavily shame-coded, especially in a Catholic context; Mairon did not go willingly, he was "seduced." He admits to Celebrimbor that he was "tortured by a god". It becomes exceedingly clear through both text and on-screen canon that Sauron was routinely broken and abused for centuries. This has fundamentally damaged his self-perception, which is ultimately what leads him to "[fall] back into evil"--whether due to pride or shame, he hides, perhaps because he consciously or subconsciously does not believe that he deserves forgiveness, no matter how much he craves it.
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Naked in the Garden
His flight back to Middle-earth after meeting Eönwë is reminiscent of another biblical scene, where Adam and Eve, after committing the first sin, hide from God in shame and fear (emphasis mine):
7 Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked...9 But the Lord God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?” 10 He said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.” -Genesis 7-10, NRSV CE
The image of nakedness is, here, one of vulnerability, and Tolkien establishes that Sauron fears that which he cannot control. He needs the Rings under his power. He needs his armies and his enemies under his watchful eye. He is petrified of letting his power slip away (possibly due to never wanting to feel powerless in the hands of a Vala, fallen or not, again).
The biblical allusion here hearkens back to the fear Tolkien describes Sauron as feeling regarding his return to the Ainur. In the religious system Tolkien has established, which is likely inspired by his own religious beliefs, Sauron has sinned, and must make penance. But he is afraid of God/Manwë, and does not want to "let go" of his sin. In other words, he is not truly repentant. This reflects the Catholic sacrament of confession, which requires self-reflection and resolve to never commit the sin again.
Instead of shame driving him to contrition, it drives him to isolation.
But he still wants forgiveness. So, in his years of hiding in Middle-earth, he decides to earn it himself. His own way.
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Enter the Rings.
Sauron wants to perfect the wrong he wreaked so that he can both earn his way back into the Ainur and keep his power. But what he does not realize is that this does not work. Eönwë is clear that he must forsake his true temptation--absolute power--through penance by submission. Yet Sauron in his pride thinks he can have it all. Sauron is a very carefully controlled villain, and the only times he snaps or makes significant mistakes are when his inflated self-perception is challenged, revealing the self-loathing and/or self-pity underneath. The best example of this is when he kills Celebrimbor prematurely, and cries afterwards. Why? Because Celebrimbor was right about him, and he hates it. He hates knowing that he is nothing more than the Morgoth's shadow, because Morgoth was his master as much as he was his tormentor. As Sauron puts it, his relationship with Morgoth was often defined by pain as a test to see "whose will was the mightier":
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This image carries more shame, both in its implicit sexual connotations and in the simple power dynamic of it. Sauron, even though misguided, is rallying against Morgoth. He wants to break what Morgoth has created and build something new, something better, something apart from his old master entirely. But Celebrimbor confronts him with reality: he has not created something new, and perfect, and special, as he so wanted to--he can only act in imitation, not in generation. And when he got close with the Rings, it cost him everything. It's almost like he wants the power of a Vala, and loathes that he cannot attain it.
And this is why he becomes so singularly obsessed with Galadriel.
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She’s his foil. They both crave power and adoration, but in the end of things, she does not fold under his temptation. She turns down everything she has ever wanted for the greater good and for the sake of her own soul. Sauron looks at Galadriel and perceives that she would have succeeded at Eönwë's test because she is willing and able to humble herself. This maddens him to the point of both desiring her and desiring to break her.
She learns that she is easily tempted and becomes strong enough to handle it (through a lot of tough love from Elrond & co.). She has to learn how to do it, but she is able to.
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She grows from someone who resisted and rejected authority to someone who is trusted as an authority because of her ability to wield it wisely (see: Gil-galad allowing her to answer for him in 2x08).
In other words, she earns the trust, love, and support of her community. Sauron has to force his to comply—it is an illusion of love.
His possessive obsession with her also stems from her fairness. She was the object of her uncle Fëanor's obsessive desire for creation as well. Her hair was the inspiration of the Silmarils (see: The History of Galadriel and Celeborn; The Shibboleth of Fëanor - source with page #s here), which Morgoth desired more than anything to possess.
Sauron, wanting to spite his master, wants one better--to own that which inspired the Silmarils, to own the image of fairness (and thus of moral good) completely. This is why he wants to bind himself to her. This is why he needs her. He sees Galadriel as his mechanism of repentance, and his last triumph over Morgoth. Winning her is his salvation as much as it is proving that his will is the mightier. It is his way of dominating Morgoth. This starts, I think, as a genuine effort at proving himself to the Valar, but quickly consumes him entirely. He is overcome with the desire for revenge, just as Galadriel was at the beginning of the First Age.
And he sees this in her. Sees their similarities. Sees that she, too, is angry and lonely and so afraid of losing her power. And he leverages that to befriend her. This is where it gets ambiguous and you can read RoP as either painting the image of Sauron being earnest but completely misguided in his proposal, or you can see it as him being entirely manipulative.
I think the truth of that scene probably falls somewhere in the middle; just like when he presents himself to Eönwë, he is sincere in his desire, but only knows how to present it in an inherently contriving way. He does want to bind her to him, so he tries to only reveal to her the good aspect of that desire (and also of his desire for power, which he allows her to see because he believes that it is good and also because she understands it), and not the ugly underside of his internal struggle against Morgoth, the Valar, and himself.
And I do think, in his own way, he cared about her. Galadriel consistently shows kindness and compassion to him. In S1, they grow to know each other's minds and souls, and she considers him a close friend. He finds comfort in this, that someone could see the blackness of his heart and care for him anyway. He thought, in his isolation, that he lost that chance when he fled back to Middle-earth. And here is the very picture of the light itself telling him that she supports him, that she sees the good in him, that she wants to help him set the world to rights! Of course he is infatuated by this. Of course he also wants to use it. He is Sauron.
But Galadriel succeeds where he fails, so he stops playing nice and tries to forcibly drag her down with him. First, by baiting her with the image of the man she cared deeply for:
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Then, by reminding her of all she is losing by rejecting him:
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And she is still strong enough to say no. And not just to say no, but to shut the door completely. To look in the face of everything she has desired for centuries and turn it down, understanding that it will ruin her. Yes, she hesitates. Yes, she still wants it (wants him). But she wins the day by holding fast to the light that Sauron wishes so badly to bind himself to.
Because she has lost everything--her brother, her husband, the station as commander, the trust of her high king and best friend--and earns it back only through her resistance of her greatest temptation. It is a struggle, it is painful, it nearly kills her--but she does it. She wins the test that Sauron could not even bear to face.
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In their headlong, self-sacrificial tendencies, they are the same. Both view themselves as fundamentally stronger/better than their peers while also being deeply lonely due to their self-imposed isolation (Galadriel's laser-focused hunt for revenge, Sauron's exile in Middle-earth). But to Galadriel, the light is more important than her pride.
For Sauron, the light is his source of pride. He desires it more than anything, but condemns himself to never being able to touch it due to his rejection of Eönwë's offer. Paradoxically, he tries to grasp at it through Galadriel, the living silmaril, and succeeds only in darkening her. We learn from Gil-galad in 2x08 that his crown piercing her flesh in an act of brutal domination nearly strips her soul from her and pitches it into the unseen world. In this, Sauron is saying: If I cannot have you, I will force you to need me. I will break you into loving me.
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He says this to Celebrimbor as well. He no longer knows how to love properly. He only knows how to inflict pain until this object of his obessive desire needs him--just like how his immortal spirit was broken into submission by Morgoth. And isn't this revealing of his own sense of self? He refuses to suffer the path of light, but willingly suffers the maddening path of darkness because it is a comfortable, familiar suffering. One, he tells Celebrimbor, he even grew to enjoy (2x08). As the path of the Rings drive him madder and madder, his desire for the light (Galadriel) and the return of his power (Celebrimbor) become further disordered and corrupted until they culminate in him destroying them--and his chance at earning/owning them--entirely.
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And this is Sauron's ultimate point of no return (which we will hopefully see in S3 🤞). The razing of Eregion and slaying of Celebrimbor were acts of petty rage he committed when his pride was injured. This was the final nail in the coffin. Galadriel, in her rejection of him, ruins what he sees as his true chance for redemption.
Galadriel, now stepping into the role of Eönwë, re-opens the invitation: "Heal yourself!" (2x08). But in rage and shame and stubborn pride, he turns it down again. I believe this is where his desire to heal Middle-earth shifts fundamentally into desire to dominate Middle-earth. He always wanted to rule, but now he wants to own.
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deus-sema · 3 months ago
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The (obvious) Haladriel agenda is spreading and it pleases me so much.
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demonscantgothere · 1 month ago
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Litost. Galadriel/Sauron | Halbrand. Explicit. 270.2k | 4.6k chapter [46/61] Chapter 46: The One We Shared Together
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During Ar-Pharazôn’s rule of Númenor when Sauron holds the position of the High Priest of Melkor, Galadriel is captured in the middle of a war, imprisoned, and handed over to him as a sacrifice to be made in the Temple of the High Priest, but Sauron has other plans. From Akallabêth to the founding of Gondor, unlikely allies are forged.
Galadriel’s lip trembled harder as more tears threatened to fall. “Even if you die—even if you—you can still come back, Halbrand—you can still come back—”
“I have not seen that end,” Halbrand admitted, “but I will welcome it if it comes.” His eyes gazed intently over her face, drinking in all of her features as if trying to commit them permanently into the back of his memory for all of time. “And I hope you are waiting for me,” he added in the softest whisper.
Fresh tears fell, lashing out at her skin with the burn of hot firebrands. “Please,” Galadriel attempted one last time, “retreat, and allow them to—allow them—”
“—You have made your bed, sweet wife,” Halbrand told her definitively, his thumb stroking over the arch of her cheek, “as I have made mine, though I will never forget the one we shared together.”
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rey-jake-therapist · 2 months ago
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Since we have our tin foil hats on, I’ll reach for the stars here: what if Galadriel was the one Eru meant for Mairon, but he chose to side with Morgoth before he ever got the chance to meet her in Valinor? And now, Eru is giving Sauron the ultimate “f*ck you, your evil b*tch!” and had them cross paths, knowing full well they could never ever be together? This would go hand in hand with the theory “sea monster was actually Ossë”, sent by Ulmo, the Vala of the sea, to force Galadriel and Sauron’s encounter. Galadriel also seems to acknowledge their meeting wasn’t random, but the work of something greater (= the Gods?). And, so, Sauron did face the judgement of the Valar, after all; by having his true love delivered to him but forever doomed to never be with her, because she’s already bound to another (Celeborn) in the eyes of the Eldar and the Valar. And that’s his punishment/sentence for joining Morgoth and betraying Aman.
Oh my god, I absolutely love it. And it would make sense, I guess ?! Worse, it would be a punishment for her as well, though in a lesser degree because she would at least get a few thousands of years of happiness with Celeborn...
Seriously, if they don't write it for the show, someone needs to write it in a fanfic ! 🙏🏼
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galstelperion · 1 month ago
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"What's a pretty girl like you doing all alone out here anyway?"
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dreamlandcreations · 1 month ago
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Imagine Galadriel saying yes to Sauron's proposal but finding it hard to keep the light so she decides to include you in their relationship...
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Imagine Galadriel saying yes to Sauron's proposal but finding it hard to keep the light so she decides to include you in their relationship whether you like it or not...
Leading the rebellion against the self proclaimed king and queen of Middle-earth was not an easy feat, doing so with Galadriel's growing obsession with you putting an even bigger target on you was nearly impossible.
The strategy had to change. With so many of the free people under their influence, you had no chance in an open battle, so you planned to you use this inconvenience to your advantage. You figured you could get close enough to them and live long enough to take out at least Galadriel if you had no chance against Sauron, losing her could weaken him just enough to break their spell on the people...
The plan was not an entirely hopeless one, you just didn't calculate with Sauron getting an interest in you as well and participating in Galadriel's wicked games.
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bad-surprise · 3 months ago
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and this part was for her, this part was for her (does she remember?)
celedriel + haladriel | M | 3.2k
He waits her out, but she wins, she always wins, if only because he can no longer bear the struggle. Far better to willingly acquiesce than to submit under duress. This is the lesson she teaches him, day after day after day. His ego yields automatically, folding in favor of love, in favor of her, for the sake of their marriage.
It does not hurt that she is so pliable in the aftermath, so readily bending to the will of the hands she chose freely— freely, he reminds himself. He will not be her jailer, she cannot force him to fit the shape that suits her story best, to play his role as written in this ongoing drama conceived in her darkest days.
Celeborn suspects, in the weakest of moments, where he is spent yet unable to find rest, that she would much rather learn the touch of another.
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The world is changing, she whispers into his soul, too close, far too close for comfort, and he did not agree to this.
or: Celeborn tries to come to terms with his wife’s past— and his growing suspicion that her feelings for Sauron still linger.
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conundrumoftime · 2 months ago
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My Haladriel fics
I haven't grouped all these together before, so here's a collection of all the complete Haladriel fics I've written so far since October '22. Cannot believe it's been almost two years!
(Some of these fics also feature Celeborn/Galadriel, Celeborn/Sauron or all of them together, because I like a) Celeborn b) multishipping and c) mess. I'll make it clear here which stories those are, so if Celeborn is not your guy or if multishipping confuses or distresses you then that's! fine! just please don't read those ones and then be weird to me about it in the comments.)
Multi-chapter fics
Shadow-Bride (E, 265k words): This is my long long longfic, started in December of '22 and now complete after 43 chapters. Canon-divergence from the middle of s1.
Banquets have burned for you (M, 24k words): Written for eastwynds for the spring '23 Haladriel fic exchange, where the prompt was "one thing happens differently on Númenor, and everything changes." Went heavy on the Greek tragedy influence for this one because it felt fitting for Númenor.
A man is a god in ruins (E, 21k words): At the time this was the longest story I'd ever written and the first multi-chapter story I'd finished since the LiveJournal days. How things change! Canon-divergence from the very end of s1; what if Halbrand decided to leave Eregion before Galadriel got suspicious?
All the kinds of alive you can be (E, 13k words, also Celeborn/Galadriel, also Celeborn/Sauron/Galadriel): so loads of us have written "what if Sauron shapechanged into Celeborn to seduce Galadriel"; this is "what if Sauron shapechanged into Galadriel to seduce Celeborn, because he's furious with her and obsessed with her and sort of wants to be her all at the same time"?
So Wide a Sea (E, 6k words, also Galadriel/Celeborn): After Sauron's final defeat in the War of the Ring Galadriel remembers a long-ago day on Númenor.
One-shot fics
Five times Halbrand's secret got revealed (T, 6000 words): the first Haladriel fic I ever wrote, of five scenarios of Galadriel learning his name. 'Shadow-Bride' is a continuation of one of these five; 'A man is a god in ruins' is the '...and one time it didn't.'
Tar-Mairon of the Shire (G, 3000 words): entire fix-it fluff, probably more '&' than '/', Hobbits make everything better including Dark Lords.
Tempered (M, 3600 words): written for @thecoziestbean for the spring '24 Haladriel fic exchange.
And white winter, on its knees (M, 1800 words): written for the Haladriel Winter Solstice '23, a what-if Galadriel said yes to Sauron's offer story.
Weakened like Achilles, with you always at my heels (M, 4000 words): written for Haladriel Week '24. A little moment after the Tirharad battle and before the volcano.
I have loved flowers that fade (M, 1700 words): they deserved to have at least one nice time in Eregion before she found out who he was!
Weighed Against Our Future (T, 1800 words): A delirious (or is he?) Halbrand on the road to Eregion.
Shine (T, 3300 words) and its sequel Lady of the Seas (E, 3700 words): Halbrand makes Galadriel's armour on Númenor.
Silver Queen (M, 3600 words): my first 'what if Celebrían was Sauron's daughter?' story, sort of a Haladriel fic and sort of a fix-it for Celebrían.
Civil Twilight (M, 10k words, also Celeborn/Galadriel): for Haladriel Week '23. A 'what if Celebrían was Sauron's daughter?' and 'what if Galadriel finds her missing husband?' story combined.
The turn of the tide (T, 1700 words): For Haladriel Week '23. In the Fourth Age after travelling back to Valinor, Galadriel still feels called to the sea.
Though I sang in my chains like the sea (T, 3000 words): For Haladriel Week '23. They were on that ep2 raft for a while; so this is a gapfiller of them getting to know each other better. Or not.
Blood Sugar (M, 7000 words): the only time I've ever done a modern AU, and even then it doesn't really count because he's still literal Sauron in it. Anyway: Glasgow, professional disillusionment, and difficult relationships with your history.
Ficlets under 1000 words
You built a nest inside my soul, you rest your head on leaves of gold (M, 800 words); Numenor alleyway smut.
How shall summer's honey breath hold out (M, 600 words): and why shouldn't Galadriel get to command an army and have a nice time with the enemy general while heavily pregnant.
Gilded (G, 550 words): another 'what if she said yes on the raft' fic
Not for all my little words (T, 775 words) s1 ep8, Elrond-POV on Galadriel and her weird new friend in Eregion.
Miscellaneous fics:
Half-Maia Celebrían short fics: Suo Gân (G, 1000 words), Arda Sahta (G, 1100 words), As Little Might Be Thought (T, 2600 words). All these are Galadriel/Celeborn (and the last one is also Celebrían/Elrond) and Sauron isn't really in them, but they're all about the impact of that being his child.
To hold all the promise of blue-velvet dark (T, 1700 words) - another 'what if Sauron impersonates Galadriel?' fic, this time featuring baby half-Maia Amroth.
Silmarillion rather than TROP: As certain dark things are loved (M, 8000 words, also Galadriel/Celeborn, also Galadriel/Celeborn/Sauron), for @softlighter for the Sufficiently Advanced '24 exchange. Annatar in 2nd Age Ost-in-Edhil.
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shady-swan-jones · 14 hours ago
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~ Haladriel Recs part 1 ~
Modern AU
damn the weather by properhaunt
Galadriel and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Years of Gifts by bam_cassiopeia
went down to the crossroad, fell down on my knees by justatinycollector 
Ouroboros by @shady-swan-jones
sharp as a razor, sweet as honeysuckle by @cozyships
Stand By Me by @scriberated
Love, in spite of us by @myfavouritelunatic
you just can't say goodbye by brutefource
there's a few bad things I've done by @orcas86
You're the truest thing in this town by @lisenberry
The Rule of Twelfths by @thrillofhope
The Nicest Parts of Hell by @myrsinemezzo
se vis pacem, para bellum by @nenyabusiness (John Wick AU)
Each Scar I Carve is in Your Name by @myrsinemezzo (film noir)
Set Our Hearts Ablaze by @myrsinemezzo
but i thought you might by @poeticmemory
The Exception by @makeshiftdraco
Chef Halbrand by @lisenberry
An Intoxicating Presence by formerlyIR
My Way Or The Highway by @cozyships
long years numberless as the wings of trees and Sugar and Spice by @jhalya
The Nossë-Verse by @coraleethroughthelookingglass and @somebirdortheother
Singled, Doubled, Pickled by @klynnvakarian
Beleriand Beans & Brews by @nocaptainonthisship
Fool me once by Manudb
What is Light Without Darkness? by xxDaisyofSpringxx
Covert Operation by @karinamay
just what i needed by HazelMaines
Knowing Me, Knowing You (Make A New Excuse For A Stupid Reason) by @coraleethroughthelookingglass
the law is reason (free from passion) by HazelMaines
Period AU
In Another Lifetime by Anonymous (regency)
come undone by notbillie (regency)
Come on love, draw your swords by lisenberry (rome)
When the Coliseum falls, Rome shall fall by @dinosaurswant2rule 
My Little Dark Age by thenagil (medieval)
kiss the skin that crawls by cozy_ships (renaissance a/b/o)
Someone Taught You Wrong, Kid by @klynnvakarian
Widowmaker by @wyrd-syster
in my head, in my veins (regency, A/B/O) by AlterMortem
Explicit
Don't be kind to it by poopsiekittens, WanderingWayfarer
secrets by Generallykenobi
False God by @scriberated
Sweet thing, you need something better by @myfavouritelunatic 
bärchen - emphemeron
Body of my Own by gimleafs
Gimme by @mzladybird
lend me some sugar (I am your neighbor) by @wyrd-syster
catharsis by @softlighter
we really like your vibe and i will crucify my dreams to be on your side by tenacious
whatever it is by @hazelmaines
divortium by @orcas86
blood sugar by @conundrumoftime
artanis by @nocaptainonthisship
vicarious by @softlighter
we really like your vibe by AlterMortem
Like Calls Unto Like by Elahrairah_Inle 
Let me be the monster by @lisenberry
One Smut Collection to Rule Them All by @sauronisms
caged pet by @thefudge
Drabbles
mere monstrosity by @galadrielette
Détaché by @jimenablack93
ABO
HEAT by @nocaptainonthisship
the law is reason (free from passion) by @hazelmaines
bind me (to you) by @softzindagi
the end of his world and of the dawn by @softlighter
One Shots
ouroboros by Amuria
the love that I have chosen, I'll therewith be content by anardilyas
One Corrupts, Two Bind by me
Seawater by me
An Answer by maddieromanoff
The Milkman by @jimenablack93
Weakened like Achilles, with you always at my heels by @conundrumoftime
Inextricable by TransitUmbra
If I Can’t Take You Down, I Will Never Forgive Myself by @gil-galadhwen
süße by emphemeron
Light Weight by @demonscantgothere
dead dove
exit light, enter night by justatinycollector 
swimming in the shallows by justatinycollector
internal combustion by lexicon93
My Rings of Power fics ~ Haladriel Week 2024 ~ Hellbrand & Ghouladriel 2024
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saurongorthaur9 · 2 months ago
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Re: Sauron's S2E6 illusion
How many times do you think he's created a "fix it fic" illusion where Galadriel says yes to him?
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jackpotgirl · 2 months ago
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In early celebration of my Saurondriel/Haladriel fanfic "THE TRIALS OF MAIRON" turning two years old on October 14th, I have assembled a little commemorative Visual Guide.
Most of the images in the full 16-page guide were created using prompts from the fic and an AI-image generator to get as close to what I had in my head when writing as possible. It aims to serve as a visual aid for first time and returning readers to be consulted throughout the read if so desired. As such, it contains SPOILERS for the entire fic.
(Re-)Read the fic here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/42374703/chapters/106411167
View the entire Visual Guide
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Thanks for everyone who has re-read or started to read the fic in the wake of the second season, I've been getting a lot of really sweet new comments and that inspired me to put this together. I hope you like it <3
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