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[leotanaka]

celebrimbor went from agreeing to make the nine because he was scared gil-galad would find out he lied and created the dwarven rings without approval and would never allow him to forge anything ever again to willingly chopping off his thumb and risking the likelihood he would never be able to forge anything ever again in order to stop sauron from getting his hands on the nine and enslaving the men of middle earth.

[verkomy]

I know I’m probably repeating myself but no other media or fandom has ever brought me this much comfort as Tolkien’s work and everything related to it. every time I read the books, watch the movies or tv show, play games or listen to the music it brings me so much peace and joy and no matter how much time passes I always look at those things with fond smile and affection cause this is my comfort place.

[sluttyseacadet]

Rings of Power + text posts (1/?)

[sixxxer]

this diva

[lesbiansforboromir]

Literally all I've ever wanted out of tolkien adaptations is a moment where characters discuss their metaphysical existence within the given paradigms that the world itself offers and RoP made an orc and an elf argue about it onscreen and the elf came out looking like a bloodthirsty slaughterer, happy to ignore all evidence to the contrary in order to hold onto the idea that she is inherently pure of heart and soul and orcs are all better off dead because the alternative is to realise the only cosmic difference between an orc and an elf is one was tricked by evil and the other was not... And now Galadriel cannot even claim that. !!! !!! I'm supposed to not be insane about that?? I'll be dead in my grave before that happens.

[mirkwood]

ADAR NEEDS TO SURVIVE OUT OF SHEER FUCKING SPITE !!!!!! SAURON STABBED YOU FATALLY?? WALK IT OFF. URUKS TRIED TO KILL YOU???? GET TF UP AND CONTINUE THE GRIND. IT'S NOTHING. BE UNGOVERNABLE.

[metalheadmelkor]

full article here

[feastofchildermass]

rings of power + text posts

Additional TROP crack: Chart

[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

I've seen plenty of bonkers criticisms of Rings of Power, but this is certainly the most baffling so far.

Tolkien was never about the elves?

Tolkien?!

J.R.R. Tolkien?!

The guy who wrote The Silmarillion?!

That Tolkien?!

[thewheellargo]

Fret not Master Elrond, some scrolls did survive Eregion

[leotanaka]

i love that rings of power had celebrimbor call sauron "shadow of morgoth", tell him that the one ring will be his destruction and that he will be a prisoner of the rings forever before giving him the title of "lord of the rings" and that every single one of those moments, despite what was occurring in those scenes, was presented as a victory for celebrimbor and a defeat for sauron.

[jimmymcgill]

Halbrand and Galadriel + text posts

[lesbiansforboromir]

The ending of Adar and the orc's narrative was exactly how it needed to end. It was strikingly inkeeping with the themactic through line of 'everyone is doing everything they can think of to stop the horror and in doing so they are creating the horror' and was absent all the resolving narratives I was worried about. They did not give us a 'see orcs really are evil so it's fine' ending they did not give us a 'these orcs are good so they get to live but the rest chose evil so it's okay to kill them' ending.

Rings of Power said these people have been so brutalised from birth, so reviled, so hopeless and choiceless and only one person with any seeming power has ever cared for them as thinking breathing souls. And the moment they clawed out a home for themselves where they might finally know what safety and gentleness feels like, that person dragged them all back into the mud and the blood to feed the war machine like meat to a grinder. And he told them he loved them whilst he did it. A betrayal so raw and burning and painful that the desperation it inspired must have felt maddening, anything better than how much this hurts. Better an honest devil with cold demands, if war is all you will ever be allowed, than the father you love who will break your heart as well as your body, right?

And then RoP was like "So you just have to deal with that!" The orcs, like so many people in this show, will never get a happy ending, it will not matter how much they loved or cared or hurt or needed or were misunderstood. In fact, it will be precisely BECAUSE they love and care and hurt that they will never see even a glimmer of peace or freedom again!!!! And they will not deserve it!!!!!!!!!!! AND WE SIMPLY HAVE TO COPE!! Every subsequent moment an orc is onscreen will be coloured by this knowledge. It's literally so heartbreaking it's making me feverish.

[mirkwood]

HE SERVED CUNT AND WAIST AND YOU KILL HIM???????

[redeclipsee]

This is just going to be a little rant about Galadriel, Haladriel, Celeborn and other thingies I've seen discourse about lately. And this is by no means discrediting people's opinions. I just wanted to talk about it lol

I've always been pro-ship. Ship whatever the hell you want. "Problematic" ships, morally wrong ships, just whatever. As long as you're not being an asshole to other people.

Which led me to Haladriel. Haladriel is easily the most popular ship of the show, and with the end of S2, I've seen people attacking the ship, but I've seen more people demanding for Haladriel to become "canon" and absolutely shitting on other characters, plots and fans who enjoy other parts of the show that don't revolve around the ship. And it's quite embarrassing.

In the show, Sauron and Galadriel are foil characters to each other. I don't think hoping for them to face each other each season is unrealistic or even bad. In fact, it's expected. Whenever Sauron chooses darkness, Galadriel will choose light. It's a dance with those characters. 

BUT demanding the romantic ship to become canon and being mean to everyone who says otherwise is bad. You don't need canon to ship them or read them as romantic (because let's be real, the show left it to interpretation, and it's fantastic). Sauron and Galadriel being canon makes absolutely no sense with the lore, the world and the characters. We already know what the characters end up like, so being childish because they won't kiss is embarrassing.

Which leads me to some people hating the character Celeborn. We haven't even seen him in the show and yet, top 5 hated characters. I've seen more people attacking people who want Celeborn and Celeborn and Galadriel giving the most absolute insane takes; "he's boring", "you want Galadriel to be a tradwife", "you just hate Haladriel shippers“, among others. Which all of them are insane. How can you say he’s boring when we haven’t even seen him on the show? Galadriel can be happy, have a loving husband and be badass, be for real. And well, people can ship whatever. If people like Celedriel more than Haladriel is their right? Just as people can dislike Celedriel and like Haladriel, just be kind to each other idk.

SAURON & GALADRIEL

For me, there was a little romance between Galadriel and Sauron on S1. I think Sauron fell in love with her light and her power. I think Galadriel fell in love with the understanding that Halbrand gave her that she couldn’t find in anyone else, her “darkside” was understood. But Sauron’s idea of love can’t be anything but twisted and Galadriel could never really love Sauron. So yes, for me, there was love, but it was twisted.

Sauron is obsessed with her light. He wanted her power just as he wanted Celebrimbor’s art. And he won’t ever renounce it, so he’ll chace it and tempt her at every occasion he can, because he wants her light. Sauron, who thinks he needs to control everyone on Middle Earth to “heal” it, naturally has an obsession with the Lady of Light.

But that’s all there is. Because Galadriel could never truly love Sauron even when he’s the only one that could understand her darkest desires the most. 

GALADRIEL'S JOURNEY

I’ve seen people saying that her speech of “all peoples of Middle Earth will always resist you” is bad because it makes Galadriel abandon her personal goal of hunting Sauron for the greater good, not allowing a woman to have her own agency and advocating for everyone else. And well, I would agree if we weren’t talking about a Tolkien adaptation.

S1 Galadriel is galloping alone. No one believes her, no one understands her, and she can’t stop her quest. She’s prideful and selfish to an extent, and it’s her choices alone, her own internal desire to bring Sauron down that, unaware, brings him back to Middle Earth. She fucks up monumentally. 

S2 Galadriel is about the consequences of her actions, but also, realizing she’s not alone. Her letting go of Finrod's dagger at the end of S1 was a beautiful way of letting go of her quest. Gil-Galad and Galadriel’s relationship in S2 shines because Gil-Galad is harsh on her as much as he believes in her, and he tells her that. S2 Galadriel has no company and has to deal with the tables turned around by being part of Elrond’s company. Elrond, who was also acting stubborn like a mule and refused to listen to anyone (just like her S1 self). S2 Galadriel is about her finding that she’s not alone and that Finrod’s quest is over, and it’s time to fight for Middle Earth, all of it.

Going forward is about her becoming the Lady of Light that we know in Lord of the Rings. And yes, she’ll always have a darkside, she’ll always be prideful and ambitious, and I’m so excited to see hints of that in the upcoming seasons, but I don't think saying her putting aside her personal and prideful quest is bad is fair to the story the show is trying to tell. This is Tolkien, and it makes complete sense for it to be like that.

So yeah, in resume… I love Haladriel, but I don’t want them to ever be canon. I can’t wait for Celeborn to show up, and I can’t wait to see how the show develops Galadriel’s journey in the upcoming seasons! Just remember to be kind to other people, even if they don’t like your ships.

[permanentlyexhaustedpigeon88]

Some amusing (to me, at least) quotes from my mom while watching episode one of RoP S2:

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Halbrand: "Let my people go."

Mom: "Who do you think you are, Moses?"

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Mom: "Okay, I kinda like Adar."

Me: (*twitching*) "Kind of? KIND OF?!?!?!?!?!"

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Adar: "With your head at my feet."

Mom: "Oh, see, honey, you're gonna wish you hadn't done that..."

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*Waldreg getting eaten by the Warg, Halbrand!Sauron smiling as he rides away*

Mom: "You are such a little shit!"

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*Gil-galad singing*

Mom: "Oh wow, he's got a VOICE!"

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Bonus round, every time The Stranger came on screen:

Mom: "It's Gandalf!"

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When I tell you I was cracking up because of this, and because of how my poor dad kept face-palming in the background, OMG... 🤣🤣🤣