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ᓚ₍ ^. .^₎ MORFYDD CLARK and CHARLIE VICKERS on Sauron's big cat energy  »  LOTR: The Rings of Power Q&A — December 3, 2024

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I'm SO loving the new interviews!!! 🥹

inspired by @serailovesbagelsetc 's post <3

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Q: From Galadriel's perspective, between Annatar and Halbrand, what shared trait of him really stands out to both the character and to you?

Miv: Well I think it's very painful for her to notice that there was any of Annatar in Halbrand. So that moment when they're fighting and Halbrand suddenly appears, it's very confronting to her. I think she's quite repulsed...

Miv: ...by Annatar.

Charlie: Oh, okay. Yeah.

His face kills me here. The relief when she clarifies by Annatar. 😂

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the thing about galadriel (that i really love) is that she is a leader and desires power, but her journey is about learning how to be a great leader and wield her power for good.

in the end of s2, i think she is only starting this journey.

in s1, she stomps her feet and does whatever she wants to do without any regard to others. "i'm right and everyone else is wrong" is her mentality before she is faced with the fact that her individualism and thirst for vengeance literally willed the evil incarnate back to life (and now he is proposing to her, lmao).

in s2, galadriel struggles to reconcile her conflicted feelings for halbrand and sauron, struggles to reconcile her pride with her mistake, her hero complex with her causing sauron to live. yet, she is still stubborn in her ways. she still sees the world (and herself) in black and white. she is in denial about sauron being genuine with her, she shuts down the belief that they are alike, she puts up emotional walls.

galadriel will always want authority (we actually know that she wields it even in valinor to let gimli in) that comes with leadership and power. by the end of the 3rd age, she resists the temptation to take that which she desires at the cost of everyone else, and later frodo perceives her as a great queen. i like to interpret this as galadriel finally becoming the leader that is good, now others will see her greatness, see her light.

but there is a long journey before that happens. by the end of s2, galadriel resists sauron bc she believes accepting his hand would make her succumb to the darkness. why? bc of his deceptions!

what she needs to learn, imo, is that it's not sauron's deception that would turn her into a tyrant. it is the fact that they are indeed alike! if galadriel doesn't learn how to wield her power in a way that doesn't disregard others, then she will turn into sauron even without him deceiving her!

the more powerful she gets, the more thrill she feels and wants more power. it's like an addiction. and sauron is her desire for power personified as he offers to give her more of it, all of it. he knows her mind, he knows she wants to be worshipped and he alone encourages her to indulge more in her greatest desires.

it would make sense for her own innate desire for power to grow tenfold through her connection to sauron bc he causes her to not restrain herself. she will be faced with the truth that she is susceptible to his influence not bc he is deceiving her, but bc they are indeed alike and he indeed knows her as she is deep down, she will always desire what he wishes to give her.

as a metaphor, sauron is galadriel's own desire for power personified. he is part of her very being in this way.

and she has to experience succumbing to her unrestrained urge to take power and dominate in order to fully be aware of the consequences of that. it would explain why she fears that she would be no different from sauron if she took the one ring.

facing her own darkness, her likeness to sauron, her genuine desire for him/power, will be the actual starting point in her fight against the darkness. bc the real fight against it and defeat of it should always happen within her own being! she will always be tempted but always choose good and that's why she is the wisest when it comes to fighting the darkness with the light - opposing the darkness with the light is what she does within her mind as a part of her very nature!

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"The Rings of Power Season 2: Morfydd Clark & Charlie Vickers on Galadriel & Sauron’s Bad Blood" via Popternative

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"They both have the same really intense synesthesia. You see the sky like that? Well so do I....but he is also the most evil creature in Middle Earth and she is devastated by that." - Morfydd Clark

Synesthesia is when your brain routes sensory information through multiple unrelated senses, causing you to experience more than one sense simultaneously. Some examples include tasting words or linking colors to numbers and letters.

He must light her up like a Christmas tree, no wonder everything after him is a dull grey....

She won't find that anywhere else and neither will he.

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"There is no peace to be found for you here. And nor for me.

No lasting peace in any path.

But that which lies across the sea." 1x02, 1x05, 2x08

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She so wanted to fulfill her vengeance that she made Halbrand whoever she wanted him to be. She was in a state where she would believe things easily if they aligned with what she wanted. [...] There was barely anything saying that he was the king of the Southlands. He always said he wasn't. But it suited her because she needed to go to Middle-earth and she needed the Númenoreans.

--Morfydd Clark on her toughest scene, Rings of Power Season 2, and getting shipped with Sauron (Inverse)

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Idk if people really consider the implications of Sauron viewing Galadriel as being/operating "on the same level as him"/"really on [his] level"/"someone who understands life on the same level"...when he's a Maia (immortal/eternal demi-deity) and she's an Elf (semi-immortal humanoid). X

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☯︎ CHARLIE VICKERS on Sauron and Galadriel's genuine connection and what drew them together in Season 1 of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power via Awards Buzz

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The Rings of Power | 2.08

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There is not another man on this isle that knows this craft better than I.

The Rings of Power | 1.05

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One of the best gifs of all time

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To those who say we put Sauron and Galadriel's relationship on a pedestal compared to his relationships with Celebrimbor and Adar... well... yes ? Because, is it the canon of the show ? The heart of the show is the relationship of Sauron and Galadriel. They have a special bond that no one will ever have. The strongest relationship in this show. It's just a fact. We are not saying that Sauron is not capable of loving other people and that Galadriel is the one and only on this level. No. Galadriel is said to be the one and only in the sense that she is the strongest and most unique connection Sauron will ever have. Galadriel is unique to Sauron. And that's just a fact. Also, although Sauron had a partly sincere friendship with Celebrimbor, it was first born out of an interest in creating the rings. Galadriel, the relationship he formed with her, was sincere in its beginning. The difference is there. As for Adar, Sauron loved him as Galadriel loved Elrond. So still not some form of cosmic connection or romantic feelings involved. And again, we can suspect that in its early days, the relationship that Sauron struck up with Adar had specific interests on his side, even if it later became his closest friend. We don't deny the fact that Sauron loved Celebrimbor and Adar. Simply, saying the relationship with Galadriel is the most special isn't crazy. It's just a fact, according to the show.

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#when you imagine a scenario after getting rejected.