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the facts that there's still not a reunion fic on isildur and elendil is making me mad af
LIKE ON A RAFT
"It was a good ship, sister." STILL FLOATING
Musings on Haladriel/Saurondriel after the season finale fight. I thought the fight itself was excellent! This more clearly matched my expectations for how Sauron and Galadriel would interact after the reveal. Adrenaline filled combat, with unresolved tensions that could be cut with a sword. Clark and Vickers were both amazing and despite the expected direction, I found myself at the edge of my seat!
Sauron clearly has a peculiar relationship with pain, as he described to Celebrimbor. His closest model for intimacy, Morgoth, made him see pain as a game, to prove whose will is greater. In that context, it's interesting how the closest emotional bonds he is shown to have are with those who push through the pain, and continue to defy him.
Both Galadriel and Celebrimbor score victories in their "contest of wills", Galadriel through turning him down again, and Celebrimbor resisting until his death. All this to say, Sauron has a type, and playing hard to get seems to work on him!
I don't think Sauron hurting Galadriel in that sense means he is unable to love her or it was purely deception. People can hurt the ones they love all the time, after all. :) What struck out to me was that after Galadriel is wounded, he doesn't try to stab her hand or otherwise take away Nenya by force. Even through their game, even though he is twisted, he wants Galadriel to choose him, to hand over her ring of her own free will. And that both leads to her escape and is agonizingly sweet!
"everything is black"
"god is woman..."
"new person, same old mistakes..."
crimson - (L)ashes - chalice - pride
skipping entries like crazy, doing the rest being actually lazy
6/ bitter & 8/ warm & 9/ hold
poor sick Halbrand just discovered that elven medicine isn't yummy
combined a few entries into one because this week was kinda loaded (will do it again)
challenge so far #mayron (1 - dusk & 2 - bright)
WHAT IF - a thought of JCB as Celeborn
part of an art trade with amazing @a-bungle (our theories were that JCB may be Celeborn or the Witch-King, so we literally flipped a coin and drew each a version)
urge to make a study of Halbrand in chains
on the way to earn his name
also, sage symbolism blossoming in the background
im a dummy
a screenshot study (the moment with him shaking his finger like he was making not a speech but a lecture)
some sketches from last year, trying to learn how to post here 👀
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) dir. Peter Jackson THE LORD OF THE RINGS: The Rings of Power, 1x08: Alloyed (2022 -) dir. Wayne Che Yip
Will you tell them that Sauron lives because of you?
He had many names, countless guises, but Halbrand found his peace only as a mortal smith.
Alas, the odes of sweet vengeance pouring from the she-elf's lips poisoned his diseased mind. She condemned Middle-earth to centuries of suffering and hardship, begging for the return of the meaning of her selfish existence.
She begged him for the return of Sauron.
The writers of the "The Rings of Power" were inspired by the story of Garmadon and Koko - I understand you, don't hide guys.