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I know this is going to be controversial but every time i see another heated debate over the rings and who made them and how sauron didnt make the three..:

Silmarillion is meant to be understood as a set of legends and myths passed along by elves. Some of them are gonna be inaccurate or wholy made up especially if there is reason for it

During LOTR it is made very clear, that no, the three were not untouched by Sauron - they will be under his influence when he has the one and they lose power with his fall as all other works of his hand and power on middle earth - that last part is most incriminating evidence

Both Galadriel and Elrond are very cagey about these rings in LOTR; Elrond says that the intention behind their creation was different so they work differently than the rest

So yes, we can argue/interpret differently the way these events played out because of everything that happened and was said that is conflicting with the pure "they were made by Celebrimbor only and Sauron had nothing to do with it" narrative - especially when youre repeatedly shown the elves have a reason to want to believe that and spread that belief

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The Rings of Power (2022-) The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (2023)

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“Pylades: I’ll take care of you. Orestes: It’s rotten work. Pylades: Not to me. Not if it’s you.”

― Anne Carson, Euripides

collab with @neyafromfrance95

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Darkness was my light Muteness was my tongue Death was my life Matter was my spirit I am a brother to the fire To fire a brother I am Amorphis - From Earth I Rose

Both maiar. Both servants of Morgoth. Formerly.

Brothers.

(Formerly).

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2.06 // 2.07

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Full respect to him for doing this.

I mean the feeling that this scene evokes in me-I want to bind that feeling to my very being…keep it with me always…

Look at her…LOOK at her. Of COURSE he bowed!!WHO AMONGST US!!!

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When you’re in the middle of a 200k slow burn and your ship hasn’t even touched yet so you check to make sure that first time anal sex tag is still in your future.

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anyway the actual point of fandom is to inspire each other. reading each other's fics and admiring each other's art and saying wow i love this and i feel something and i want to invoke this in other people, i want to write a sentence that feels like a meteor shower, i want to paint a kiss with such tenderness it makes you ache, i want to create something that someone else somewhere will see it and think oh, i need to do that too, right now. i am embracing being a corny cunt on main to say inspiring each other is one of the things humanity is best at and one of the things fandom is built for and i think that's beautiful

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Halbrand in his armor + his dirty grimy face

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"I do not deny that my heart has greatly desired this"

Some people think Galadriel has now overcome her "bad boy phase" and can move on with no internal struggle. But TROP made Galadriel's desire for Sauron a symbol of her desire for power. By ignoring Galadriel's ongoing temptation, people end up ignoring what makes Galadriel who she is—a character constantly fighting and taming the desires of her own heart.

Galadriel didn't hear Diarmid's advice to Sauron in 2x01 about choosing good each day but that's what she does. She chooses good even when her very heart greatly desires something else. The choosing didn't eliminate the desire. It just makes Galadriel a very strong person to want something and deny herself for 3000 years.

The most famous Galadriel scene happens 3000 years post-TROP. Sauron has been haunting the edges of Galadriel's heart for millennia when Frodo offers her the One Ring. Galadriel sees the One Ring that represents Sauron and tells Frodo that her heart has greatly desired it and she uses Sauron's words throughout.

"Has greatly desired" a phrasing that implies a current ongoing state. Galadriel isn't saying "I had desired." Her desire is stated in the present perfect tense.

Just because she fights her temptation for 3000 years and wins doesn't mean her desire has gone or that it isn't a hard won victory every time. Her internal victory wouldn't mean anything if the temptation wasn't real and an ever-present danger, and if the desire wasn't real.

Sauron is representational of a key part of Galadriel's identity and struggle on TROP. Whatever else Galadriel does, he's there, haunting her with what he offers. She denies the desires of her very heart (which really is her denying and overcoming herself).

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Season 1 Galadriel be like "I made this cute scarf from all the red flags you gave me".

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Nothing is evil in the beginning THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER // EP I.I / II.I

Even you couldn't possibly believe that scrap would float!~ They say there's places across the sea a man can escape himself. Find another path. Do you know why a ship floats, and a stone cannot? Because a stone sees only downward. The darkness of the water vast, irresistible. The ship feels the darkness as well, striving moment by moment to master her, pull her under.

But the ship has a secret. For, unlike the stone, her gaze is not downwards but up, fixed on the light that guides her, whispering of grander things than darkness ever knew.

~It's not going to float. It's going to sail.

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Sauron in the First Age:

Then Sauron laughed aloud. 'Thou base, thou cringing worm! Stand up, and hear me! And now drink the cup that I have sweetly blent for thee! Thou fool: a phantom thou didst see that I, I Sauron, made to snare thy lovesick wits. Naught else was there. Cold 'tis with Sauron's wraiths to wed! Thy Eilinel, she is long since dead, dead, food of worms, less low than thou. And yet thy boon I grant thee now: to Eilinel thou soon shalt go, and lie in her bed, no more to know of war - or manhood. Have thy pay!'

Whom do ye serve, Light or Mirk? Who is the maker of mightiest work? Who is the king of earthly kings, the greatest giver of gold and rings? Who is the master of the wide earth? Who despoiled them of their mirth, the vain Valar? Repeat your vows, Orcs of Bauglir! Do not bend your brows. Death to light, to law, to love; cursed be moon and stars above; may darkness everlasting old that waits outside in surges cold drown Manwë, Varda and the sun; may all is hatred be begun and all in evil ended be in the moaning of the endless Sea!

The Lay of Leithian

Sauron in the Second Age after meeting Galadriel:

This demon caught feelings and doesn’t know how to cope. And you all expect him to behave normally about this.

Here comes karma to kick you right in the face, Mairon:

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The Rings of Power | Season 2 | Aug 29 - Oct 3, 2024 "You truly are the Great Deceiver. You can deceive even yourself." - Celebrimbor