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[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.

[zovie9638]

Part 5 Bill should be more careful with his words. It's not nice to call someone your pet. Next part Previous

[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.

[feastofchildermass]

rings of power + text posts

Additional TROP crack: Chart

[metalheadmelkor]

full article here

[valar-did-me-wrong]

also see @theivorybilledwoodpecker post to understand what they are bickering about and experience the full spectrum of emotions I felt while making this ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Part: 86/?

[greenleaf4stuff]

Celebrimbor: Sense has chased you your entire life, but you are faster.

Annatar: ...

(source: x)

[leotanaka]

"the rings of power is trying to make us empathise with sauron."

no, the rings of power wants you to understand sauron. if they wanted you to empathise with him, they would have presented the scene in question and that moment delving into his backstory in an entirely different way.

[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

[incorrectringsofpower]

Galadriel: i fear only one person has truly ever understood me and i fucking hate the guy

[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.