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don’t wanna hear anyone complain about trop ever again that was one of the best battles shown on tv-i was watching with my mouth open the whole time

#trop spoilers#TROP#the rings of power#lord of the rings#lotr#middle earth#hobbit#trop season 2#trop episode 7#ep 7#elrond#galadriel#artanis#sauron#halbdrand#haladriel#elrondiel sort of??#anyway lmfao#so so good#just incredible#mouth watering stuff#trop battle
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it's vital for my mental health that the show introduces celebrían and we get to see this man fall in love with his wife
#can you imagine!!!#elrond as a bloodied and bleary-eyed soldier kneeling before celebrían in a moment of easefull devotion#the pair of them pickpocketing too little time in-between battles to read each other passages from their favourite books#if you want someone faithful to kindness and hope well then there is elrond with his tragic past and equally his tragic future#but always he remains gentle as a lamb (until innocent lives or innocent scrolls are endangered in which case the poet becomes to soldier)#he's beautiful#he's a beautiful character#elrond peredhel#elrond x celebrian#trop#the rings of power
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One of the fun things about shipping Haladriel and about Galadriel's story in Rings of Power, for me, is that we know exactly where this is going to end up. And I wanted to babble for a bit about where that place is because I have seen so many people view it as "she is retired to some woods to be a passive wife-and-mother who can do magic but in a mystical New Age-y way", and: no! No.
So a quick overview of where she will end up by LOTR:
Very much not removed from the war against Sauron.
She is constantly mind-battling against Sauron: One of the lines that inspired McKay and Payne's whole show was her talking about this: "I say to you, Frodo, that even as I speak to you, I perceive the Dark Lord and know his mind, or all of his mind that concerns the Elves. And he gropes ever to see me and my thought." In one of the versions of the Annatar story in Unfinished Tales, Sauron immediately realises she will be his 'chief adversary', and has apparently not changed that assessment 3500 years later.
She co-ordinates joint efforts against Sauron: The White Council that Elrond talks about in LOTR, the combined force of Ring-bearers, wizards and elf-lords that first drives Sauron out of Dol Guldur - she's not just on that, she founded it.
She gets Gandalf back after Moria and the Balrog: Galadriel learns what's happened to Gandalf from the Fellowship when they arrive in Lothlórien. The the Fellowship are sad; the elves of Lothlórien mourn; Celeborn loses it a bit and says Gandalf 'fell into folly'; but Galadriel sends Gwaihir the eagle to get him, returns him to health, updates him on the situation with Boromir, gives him some messages to take to the others, and sends him back on his way.
She is possibly in Lothlórien because of its position of strategic importance: from Unfinished Tales here, she 'saw that Lórien would be a stronghold and point of power to prevent the Shadow from crossing the Anduin in the war that must inevitably come' and that's why she and Celeborn go there. (There are other versions as with almost everything else in Tolkien, but this is one of them.) She's not there to hide away from Events.
2. Calmer than in TROP, but not all-wise and all-sweet and still pretty scary.
She is still tempted by power and world domination: "I do not deny that my heart has greatly desired to ask what you offer [...] In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the morning and the night!"
And, she doesn't just turn down the One Ring because it's abstractly eeeevil. She turns it down because she knows what she, specifically, would do with it. Sam sees a vision of the Shire, and tells her "I wish you'd take his Ring. You'd put things to rights. You'd stop them digging up the Gaffer and turning him adrift. You'd make some folk pay for their dirty work," to which she says that yes, she would: "That is how it would begin. But it would not stop with that, alas! We will not speak more of it."
And saying she wants to rule the world here is not me joking about! This is Tolkien describing that moment in LOTR:
It was not until two long ages more had passed, when at last all that she had desired in her youth came to her hand, the Ring of Power and the dominion of Middle-earth of which she had dreamed, that her wisdom was full-grown and she rejected it
People are scared of her: The only scary moment we directly see is the Ring temptation, but she does other unsettling things. When she meets the Fellowship she tests them by reading their minds and offering something they really want to see if it would make them "turn aside from the road and leave the Quest and the war against Sauron to others." (She offers Sam a garden; the One Ring later on tempts him with the same thing.) Even the hobbits are a bit disturbed by this and Boromir, who's already said he doesn't want to go into Lothlórien because people who do that never leave again, absolutely does not trust her.
Éomer, a few chapters later:
'Then there is a Lady in the Golden Wood, as old tales tell!' he said. 'Few escape her nets, they say. These are strange days! But if you have her favour, then you are also net-weavers and sorcerers, maybe.'
She's scary! She's ancient and powerful and people are scared of her.
3. Married, but not in the character-limiting way the nerdbros want it to be and would have you believe it is.
I am not telling anyone they should ship Galadriel/Celeborn or even find it interesting just because I do, but, the angry nerdbros fancasting Celeborn as Henry Cavill and talking about how he'll come back to tame her and tidy her neatly out of the narrative are writing their own little AU headcanons because that is not what's in the text.
She's the more powerful one. Partly because she's one of the 'High Elves' - she's Noldor and has lived in Valinor seen the light of the Trees - which for various reasons about the way Tolkien's elves work just makes her more powerful, partly because she has a Ring of Power and Celeborn doesn't. It's her Mirror; she's the one reading people's minds; she's the one locked in endless mental battles with Sauron; she's the one the Rohirrim (whose lands border Lothlorien's) tell each other scary stories about. Celeborn at no point ever seems to have an issue with this, and calls her his 'treasure'.
They work together. Even in a big-action-sequences sense: after Sauron's defeat, Celeborn 'led the host of Lorien over Anduin in many boats' to Dol Guldur, where Galadriel 'threw down its walls and laid bare its pits'. But the rest of the time, too: she says of him that 'together through ages of the world we have fought the long defeat'.
You really get the sense that they have been married for a loooooong time. An actual sequence of events in LOTR, somewhat condensed:
The Fellowship reveal there's a Balrog in Moria;
Celeborn goes "!!!!", complains about dwarves waking it up and says he'd never have let Gimli into Lothlorien if he'd known that;
Galadriel smacks Celeborn down for being rude to their guest;
Celeborn apologises to Gimli;
Galadriel tells the Fellowship that Celeborn is accounted the wisest of elves;
Boromir says something about "old wives' tales";
Celeborn, whose wife is one of the oldest beings in Middle-earth, tells Boromir not to be so dismissive because "old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know";
Galadriel hands Celeborn a drink.
Whatever is going on here is clearly something that works for them, is what I'm saying! And you don't have to find their marriage interesting just because I do, of course; but what it's not is some trad fantasy of domestic subservient-wife anything.
So where her TROP story ends up is ultimately with LOTR Galadriel: powerful, important, tempted to rule the world, a bit calmer than in TROP, a bit happier than in TROP, co-ordinating big strategic efforts in the war, married to someone who's got her back and adores her and they fall out a bit sometimes but generally work pretty well together, and still having Sauron constantly trying to get into her head. I am fine with this! I am more than fine with this.
#rings of power#galadriel#haladriel#celeborn#multishipper rights#'but I don't like Celeborn' oh what a shame he always said such nice things about you#I do not need characters in a ship to be canonically married and walk off into the sunset together#tbh I do not even need the characters in a ship to have ever met#but a ship where they end up locked in endless mind-battles and she's still tempted by what he offered her 3000 years later - so good!#genuinely find it baffling that anyone would think ANYthing season 2 of TROP could do would kill off a ship that we know ends up here#eyeofacat meta
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Maxim and Ismael's drinking game for season 2 of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (drink responsibly)
#rings of power#ismael cruz córdova#maxim baldry#tropedit#the rings of power#isildur#drinking game#*mine#trop#rop#arondir#lotr: trop#trop spoilers#ropedit#cast#shots#ign#arondir x isildur#ringsofpowerrealm#isildur x arondir#ringsofpowersource#ismael cruz cordova#i expect some compilations later#also the comments on these videos are not a safe space i'm ready for battle#ringsofpowerdaily#theringsofpoweredit
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TROP x twitter text posts
(screenshots via cap-that.com) (my other trop memes)
#'the other day' more like 5 mins ago#considered taking the eregion battle for this but like - that's even *less* normal somehow?!#adar#adar trop#adar the rings of power#elrond#elrond peredhel#adarond#trop#the rings of power#spoilers#the rings of power spoilers#trop spoilers#meme#trop meme#humor#trop crack#twitter post meme#my trop memes#mine
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Celebrating JRR Tolkien, the early-twentieth-century white man who invented the rap battle (unless you count the Norse god Loki).
#finrod felagund#finrod#sauron#mairon#rap battle#silmarillion#the silmarillion#the silm#lotr#lord of the rings#jrr tolkien#tolkien#lotr rop#lotr trop#fantasy#the hobbit#lotr art#silmarillion art#poetry
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The Rings Of Power S2 | Doomed To Die 2x07
Promise me, Elrond, you will put opposing Sauron above all other considerations. Even my life.
I will make no promise whose asking is borne of that Ring. But I swear to you...defeating Sauron will come first. Even before you.
-Eldest 2x07
#the rings of power#galadriel#elrond#doomed to die#he lie#trop edit#ringsofpowersource#can't believe he stopped the battle to save her
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His shoulders...
Kudos to the casting department...you understood the assignment...
Both Joseph and Sam have a similar build and MAN do they look fabulous in this armor!
#joseph mawle#sam hazeldine#adar#rings of power#please send help#the rings of power#uruk#lotr#adar rings of power#trop#lord of the rings#im sorry but what in the armored thirst trap??#pretty sure he could crush me with those shoulder blades#you know he's strong AF and he's going to show that strength during the battle
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Elrond's theme is so peaceful oh my god 😭😭😭
#and then you have battle for eregion soundtrack where his theme morphed into a battle song#some fucked up shit ngl#elrond#the rings of power#trop
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On a scale from 1-10 of being dramatic, Sauron would be The Phantom of the Opera overture.
#it’s funny because it’s true#he wore his hair bows to battle#a true icon#anything written by Tolkien could be a musical#fight me#sauron#annatar#the rings of power#trop#mairon#halbrand
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He perceived at once that Galadriel would be his chief adversary and obstacle, and he endeavoured therefore to placate her, bearing her scorn with outward patience and courtesy.
#Sauron#Galadriel#Halbrand#Charlie Vickers#Morfydd Clark#Cate Blanchett#TROP#The Rings of Power#Rings of Power#mine#my edit#LOTR#Lord of the Rings#The Lord of the Rings#The Hobbit#Battle of the Five Armies#JRR Tolkien#Tolkien#Eye of Sauron#Eye of Mordor#Haladriel#Saurondriel#Mairon
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Elrond 🤝 Thranduil
Called pretty by a male enemy
#the rings of power#trop season 2#elrond#adar#thranduil#the hobbit#dain ironfoot#elves#trop#the hobbit battle of the five armies
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Gil-galad would be sassy on the battlefield, and I’m gonna need to see a little bit of that when he stands against Sauron.
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TROP x @screenshotsofdespair
(screenshots via cap-that.com) (my other trop memes)
#(maybe 'angry' would have been more appropriate but we all know adar has some slight underlying sadness pretty much always anyways)#you ate well :D you are full :D you are walking into a siege and you know you'll lose ppl in that battle D:#adar#adar trop#adar the rings of power#trop#the rings of power#spoilers#the rings of power spoilers#trop spoilers#screenshotsofdespair#meme#trop meme#humor#trop crack#my trop memes#mine
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Adarond Week - Day 6: The End
Another (and very delayed!) contribution to @adarondweek
“You are blinded by your own ambition, you will kill them Adar” Adar heard the step of an armoured, plated foot move in the silence towards him, further closing the space between them. The voice continued its onslaught, becoming more impassioned but also neglectful in its volume. His beloved wordsmith forgetting in his passion, that walls have ears and you never knew what lurked in the darkness.
Wait For Me, I'm Comin' by Fornrandir
Rating: Teen & Upwards
Fandom: LOTR / Rings of Power
Relationship: Adar x Elrond
Summary:
The board is set and the Battle of Eregion is about to begin... Adar knows any impactful action against Sauron will come at a great cost. Elrond refuses to accept it. A slight, alternate dynamic between the Lord of Uruk's and the High King's Herald. Inspired by Wait For Me (Reprise) from Hadestown
https://archiveofourown.org/works/62429788/chapters/159760153
#adarond week#adarond#elrond#adar#elrond peredhel#adar x elrond#battle of eregion#canon divergence#rings of power#trop#ao3#hurt/comfort#fanfic#archive of our own#hadestown#song fic#wait for me
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No.
YOU DONT UNDERSTAND.
I NEED HIM TO SURVIVE THIS SEASON.
#adar#sam hazeldine#rings of power#the rings of power#uruk#lotr#adar rings of power#trop#lord of the rings#for real if he dies I will take off work to mourn#you can judge me if you want but I love him#please send help#I'm cheering him on nervously but I'm so scared they're going to kill him off#i am low key looking forward to seeing him in action during the battle but I'm so scared they're going to kill him off
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