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Sauron to Galadriel through their telepathic connection

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A little more of that post-canon WIP, already shared on the 🐦

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(cosmically connected)

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You know what I love the most about haladriel? Everything aside. They're fun XD Every single interaction in S1 has been fun and full of mirth and brattiness and cockiness on both sides (Halbrand... Don't start. Stop comparing me to a horse!!!! lol). They had fun being in each others company. Fitting together perfectly, smiling and being coy and showing off. And having each other's back. Feeling alive together (for the first time in a very long time). And it was fucking real and nobody will convince me otherwise. Yes, it was two blonde bitches fighting that pulled me in. But what made me stay were those two dorks, doing god knows what XDDD And having fun with it) It would be just the two of them against the world in some other reality. Romeo and Juliet (just with a happy ending).

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My fellow Haladriels I do not know who has told you that according to The Lore elves can only love once, but a) this is not The Lore, and b) also in Tolkien 'The Lore' does not really work like that anyway.

In the words of Galadriel's grandfather Finwë:

It is unlawful to have two wives, but one may love two women, each differently, and without diminishing one love by another. Love of Indis did not drive out love of Míriel, so now pity for Míriel doth not lessen my heart's care for Indis.

What is rare is elf remarriage, and this is partly because of the absolute drama that Finwë's led to.

Also: the law on when remarriage is and isn't allowed is set down by the Valar in Valinor to the elves living there. What the elves living in Middle-earth made of this - if they even heard of it, and how would they? - is unrecorded. Many of us have written fanfic that plays around with a culture clash on this issue!

Also also: the Noldor do not always do what the Valar explicitly tell them to do Or Else, which is how come Galadriel and many of her extended family are back in Middle-earth anyway.

Also also also, and (for me!) most importantly: there is no The Lore anyway, in the sense that people citing it in that sense mean (i.e. a rulebook for this fictional universe setting out what is true and what isn't and how everything works). There is a massive collection of notes, thoughts, essays, letters, stories finished and unfinished and drastically revised, much of it contradicting other bits earlier or later, some of it managing to contradict itself.

Also also also also, much of what is there is in this posthumously published material is presented (explicitly or by implication) within a framing narrative of something reported by a fictional character - as indeed are LOTR and The Hobbit. For example, there's an essay on how elf marriage works as part of 'Laws and Customs among the Eldar' in the History of Middle-earth; it's very unclear whose perspective this is written from; it's associated with a narrator called 'Ælfwine', who in some versions of some Tolkien things is a human who wrote about what an elf called Pengolodh told him about the history of Arda. Also there are Vikings but they're not important.

None of this means 'The Lore' is not important - it's fascinating, I recommend it to everyone, there's some amazing stuff in there - but it's not 'important' in the sense of being like a list of what is and isn't True. It's important in the sense of being mythology, being a collection of texts we can write stories about and frown at and go "I feel like Melian is getting away with far too much nonsense here" about and occasionally send each other snippets of saying things like "fyi there's a version where Maedhros and Earendil and Elwing all end up in the flying ship together, thought you'd appreciate this one" and so on.

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© [insp.] & @neyafromfrance95

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Why am I the person who both likes happy ending stories where everyone gets along and then also when I walk into a new fandom pet shop to pick out my new favorite blorbo I always end up walking out with War Crimes Georg

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TROP S2E7 "missing scene."

Annatar's time in Eregion has grown wearisome.

Gone are the days of a sun-drenched courtyard in Armenelos where soldiers trained for battle. Gone is the guild crest, the leather apron and gauntlets that brought him such delight, the lowly forge that was so satisfying to tend. Gone are battles of wit and word with the strangest mirror into which he has ever looked, moments when the laughter that spilled from his new lips felt easy. Gone is the daily sense of being restored in strength and purpose.

Read on AO3.

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I think we haven't talked about the fact that after Sauron's second proposal, Galadriel not only says no, she actually kicks him in the face?

That's brutal! That's humiliating! That's a definete 'no'. So he proceedes to plan B - binding Galadriel to him in darkness with Morgoth's crown.

You KICK Mairon? You kick his face like the football? You reject his honest proposal of enernal worship of your light? Oh! Oh! Thralldom for Galadriel! Thralldom for Galadriel for One Thousand Years!

Original gifs

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This dude literally told Galadriel in the middle of their fight that the door's still open on his end, pls pftfgsshkhf. He on some Call me beep me if you wanna reach me.

No matter what happens between them, she could legit roll up to him one day out the blue and be like Ok I'll be your queen now, and he'll be like

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Post-LOTR-canon WIP snippet. It's tentatively called "won't you take me where you're going this time"

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TROP S2E7 "missing scene."

Annatar's time in Eregion has grown wearisome.

Gone are the days of a sun-drenched courtyard in Armenelos where soldiers trained for battle. Gone is the guild crest, the leather apron and gauntlets that brought him such delight, the lowly forge that was so satisfying to tend. Gone are battles of wit and word with the strangest mirror into which he has ever looked, moments when the laughter that spilled from his new lips felt easy. Gone is the daily sense of being restored in strength and purpose.

Read on AO3.

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CHARLIE VICKERS as SAURON in The Rings of Power — 2.07 "Doomed to Die"

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When I tell you I screamed and scared the daylights out of my husband when Celebrimbor said this line. 😭

(From Ch. 8 of this canonverse AU)

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"Fair form" Madam that’s a washed-up seaweed

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The way this creep just slides into frame 😂