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I win so bad ✊🏻😔

"How wild is that Sauron x Galadriel is the most popular pair on ao3 for BOTH characters!? There are already more Sauron x Galadriel fanfictions (1,731 + 1,543 tagged Halbrand) than Sauron x Morgoth (1,633) and Sauron x Galadriel is the most popular pair for Galadriel character herself. And the numbers keep growing every day. This is crazy (in a good way)!"

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not me actually with my fucking fic where I have to do historical research on both the World War and the effects of being a soldier

Writers when it's time to write the story no one forced them to come up with in the first place 🙄

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I see no difference

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really, so much the better if you see things like that, it helps to be able to appreciate things and so much the better, I just come back to a very small point on the eregion arc, in truth, it's mainly because I have a whole vision in my head of how things could have happened (and I think it's maybe not the best way) but I have a kind of vision of how things could have perhaps unfolded, after in truth, anyway, I still really like season 2 and I can't wait to see the rest, I think it's still a superb good series and that's it, but your opinion was very interesting to read and it allowed me to see certain things differently!! 🙌

I see a lot of TROP fans expressing their thoughts about Galadriel's arc in season 2, so I figured the timing was good to also give my opinion, even though no one asked for it. I don't mean this post to be 'controversial'. I'm not looking for a fight, and I hope it won't upset people. It's just... well, my personal feelings about this arc.

Recently, I received an ask from an anon who told me they didn't understand how some fans didn't believe that Galadriel was sidelined. Well, I may be one of those fans. I think she had an important role in season 2 even though it was more a journey of introspection; she had some kick ass scenes (her fight with the Orcs even if it didn't last for long! her fight with Sauron!), and I went out of season 2 loving Galadriel more than ever. So, "sidelined" isn't the word that *I* would personally use regarding Galadriel.

But I didn't like the way she was treated by men: belittled and shamed for being deceived by an immortal entity whose game was so good that he deceived literally everybody he met in season 1 and again in season 2, imprisoned and chained by Adar, brutalized by Sauron... The only male character who treated her right was Arondir! Oh and Celebrimbor but they interacted for two minutes. Eru bless Arondir's heart, especially when he was the only one at the end to call her "Commander", giving her back the title she never deserved to lose.

Sauron is a DECEIVER. It's literally what he's known for! And he didn't just deceive Galadriel: in season 1 everybody believed Galadriel when she said he was the lost king of the Southlands, even though she didn't bring any proof; Celebrimbor didn't see anything weird in the fact that this "low man" knew so much about his craft that he came up with an idea he wouldn't have had alone, and fell even harder for his lies in season 2 when he claimed to be an "emissary of the Valar" sent on Middle-Earth to "help", I mean...

They ALL fell for his deception, and yet Galadriel was the only one who was belittled and humiliated for it; losing the title of Commander was humiliating, and I still don't see how it was justified: how was falling for Sauron's deception and lying about his identity related to her capacity to lead a company of Elves? Neither Gil-Galad nor Elrond acknowledged the fact that Galadriel was RIGHT since the beginning: Sauron was still out there, and if it hadn't been 'thanks to her' he would have surely found another way to go back to power: I think they quickly forgot that they had sent her away because they believed she was delusional and blinded by her desire for revenge to accept that he was gone...

So here's the main thing that didn't sit right with me. The second thing is that the writers made her a damsel in distress multiple times, while she proved in season 1 that she was largely capable of handling herself. Elrond had to rescue her from Adar, and she was kissed against her will (sorry but Elrond being a good guy doesn't make a forced kiss any "good" and "beautiful" to me, rather the opposite because it's usually a bad guy thing, and if TROP Elves are "bohemians" who casually kiss on the lips it should have been showed earlier); then after she was free and escaped Adar's tent, she was again rescued by Arondir even though she was attacked by only two Orcs... The Galadriel I know would have easily managed without his help, c'mon.

Regarding Haladriel: I must be one of the few Haladriel shippers who was perfectly fine with what we got. Sorry about that... Maybe because I didn't start season 2 actively shipping them (I found the concept hot in season 1 but that's about it), I didn't need to see more scenes of them arguing and fighting, which we would have probably gotten if they had shared more scenes. Nothing foreshadowed the possibility of "mind palace scenes" where Sauron and Galadriel would communicate from a distance in season 1, so I didn't expect any.

Now, about Galadriel not being in Eregion: it's true that in the book, Galadriel lived in Eregion when Annatar worked with Celebrimbor, so asking why she wasn't in season 2 is a legitimate concern. But to me, it made perfect sense and I still don't see how it would have worked without leading to an absurd situation, where Galadriel would have told everyone that Annatar was Sauron, but for some reason, no Elf would have believed her. When I say that to me, it would have been absurd, it's because she's THE Lady Galadriel. She's not some random, foolish she-Elf who's known for throwing baseless accusations about people just because she doesn't like them. Annatar, on the other hand, nobody knew him. It would have made no sense for the Elves to trust him, and not her...

Every Elf respects Galadriel an awful lot, so if she had said that Annatar was Sauron, it would have been absurd for the other Elves to discard her warning; especially Celebrimbor! Before making the Rings of Power, Galadriel told him not to work with Halbrand. She should have explained why, sure (that's the only mistake that Galadriel should be blamed for, IMHO). But she DID tell him not to deal with him ever again. Celebrimbor didn't take her warning seriously, that's on him! But I have a hard time believing that if Galadriel had stormed into the forge while he was working with "Annatar", who was also the guy she warned him against, and told him to stop right here because this Annatar was not an emissary from the Valar but Sauron, he would have dismissed her without blinking. It would have felt forced, to me.

So there's that, and there's also the fact that if Galadriel had been in Eregion sooner, it would have taken the audience's attention away from Sauron and Celebrimbor. I loved every minute of their dynamics even if it was emotionally hard to watch, and I'm glad they kept these storylines separated in a clean way, tbh.

There it is, I wrote my piece... Again, I hope that I don't upset/offense anyone! My post is by no means to tell anyone that they are "wrong" to feel the way they feel. I just happen to have a slightly different experience...

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Thoughts about the future of the TROP ✋🏻😀🤚🏻

I saw a lot of criticism about season 2 like Galadriel and Sauron should have met sooner, unfortunately we didn't get that but for future seasons what are we going to get from them?

I saw a lot of theory about the mind palace and okay why not, it's a very interesting theme especially if we move away from the lore, the link with the crown can be interesting to explore, we could have perhaps a little "horror" side (I don't think horror is the right term) but we know that we won't have that,

but then the question I ask myself is what do the future seasons have in store for us about Sauron and Galadriel?? how will their bond be presented, if they do it again like season 2 with a final fight at the end, it will be super boring, but she closed the door on him and said it like that, so he won't be able to tempt her anymore,

I saw a very interesting theory about the last season that maybe Galadriel will end up in a cell in Numenor when Sauron is the high priest, kind of a parallel to season 1 and it's a fantastic idea but realistically I feel like since Galadriel told her the door is closed I feel like it leaves little for the future,

And that's also why I regret that their bond wasn't developed enough in season 2, and the idea that Sauron comes to see her in the tent is so great, I still have this modification in mind that I saw on Twitter where Sauron comes to see her, it would have added more depth but hey season 2 is a star wars bis 2,

(And also I regret that we didn't have a longer Eregion arc in the sense that we had something similar in the books, that is to say, Galadriel lives in Eregion when Annatar is there, or when he is still Halbrand and she would have come to Eregion to warn the elves of Annatar's identity but that no one believed her, well it was so weird that no one told Celebrimor who Halbrand really is)

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Character study of Ariadne

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So real

Being a Heather’s the Movie fan is so completely different from being a Heather’s the Musical fan and I feel like there aren’t enough people who like the movie

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when you're writing but for some reason the words do not word the exact way you want the words to word

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Jeri in lover mode LMAOOOO

« For you, Scythe Anastasia, I would kill myself a thousand times. However, only one will be enough. »

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my biggest problem with "the toll" is that I have it a few years ago and I had a big reading breakdown, I didn't like the end and there, re-reading the 3 volumes with hindsight, I I enjoyed the plots of the books even more because I understood a lot better but I still haven't finished "the toll" and so far I particularly like the whole plot and how the story is going but i'm so scared i have this same problem a few years ago and hated the ending when the first two are 5 stars

I had this same problem with a previous trilogy by the author and I hated the last volume which went all over the place

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Scythe Rand who always visits in memory of Tyger LMAOOO I will never get over it

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On the other hand, I just started on Tumblr, my account is super ugly, it's horrible I don't even take the time to personalize it 💀💀

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I'm more than half of "the toll" and rowan is close to being burned like a witch, HOW WILL HE GET OUT OF IT????

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The fact that jeri has a crush for citra LMAOOO no sorry never I'll get over it

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I will never forgive neal shusterman for never having developed more than that the romance between citra and rowan 💀💀

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Little Miss Massacre always puts "✨slay✨" into "slay out the entire White House"

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inspired by junji ito posing in the barbie box