#I want to see more of Adar pls!

[bilbo-babe]

“i wish you could feel it like i do. for soon, it will be gone. and with it, the part of me that knew its warmth as well. i shall miss it.”

[incorrectringsofpower]

Season 2 Ep 6 liveblog reaction notes (spoilers behind the cut)

Run, Arondir, run!

He is just that cool.

Doing okay there, Celebrimbor?

Mirdania: Early-onset dementia is a really bad sign for an immortal, boss.

Annatar trying to talk about having the creative Flow State but evil lmao

"As you wish." Oh yeah the fandom will love that.

Lol the Sauron theme quietly playing after he agrees to see about the mithril.

"Pray that he finishes this work before it finishes him." Oh I hate you.

Annatar is such a creeeeep. Stop touching herrrrr.

Awkward Dinner Party time!

At least none of the food appears to be made of Man...?

Sam as Adar has such a good screen presence. They chose well for the recast.

Ooh Dutch angles have made a return?

Galadriel loves getting offered armies, it is true.

Interesting to offer Adar children. Can we go back to the FA and hear that convo?

Ooh stabby crown!

I was there, Gandalf. I mean, Galadriel.

Her hair is half in the light, half in the dark here. Interesting.

Adar, stop spoiling the plot of Season 1! /s

Ughhhhhhhhhh leave Elendil aloooooone.

Yeah I'm angrily sewing today. Fuck all of these people.

Sure would be nice if Anárion showed up.

More rhyming.

My poor Harfoot wives ship! Ah well. This one is cute, too.

Lmao the predicted kiss was from the ship pretty much no one expected it from. Take that, trolls.

Not Tom Bombadil basically parroting what was said by the Guru in S2 of AtLA lol.

Nice gold you have there. Sure would be a shame if anything happened to it.

Prince Durin wants to call him a bitch sooooo baaad.

Stop using "precious"! I have a visceral response to it ;_;

Yay, we are gonna get a reference to the mithril armor from LotR!

Lady Macbeth viiiibes

lol wut they summon the monster a la Dune?

Bit too late for that, Eärien.

Not my sad tragic shiiiiip :(

More emphasis on faith this season!

My shiiip ;;_;;

"The sea is always right" coming back to haunt us all again.

Disa: Surprise bitch. Bet you thought you'd seen the last of me.

Ok but you both could use Elrond. Pls. I beg. Where is Elrond?

At least Elendil has plot armor for now?

Míriel noooooo :'(

Haaate this, haaaate this

Soft touching but I'm sad about it :((((

Ossë be nice pls

NOPE NOPE NOPE

I have regrets about a quote I made earlier this week. Sorry in advance whenever the queue spits it out :/

Get rekt Pharazôn.

So this is how they force the first cousin marriage? Hmmmm.

Pharazôn, you'd live longer if you stopped doomscrolling 4chan. Just saying.

The Galadriel x Adar shippers are gonna love this episode.

Yah ok, sorry Adar girlies but I think he just sealed his fate with that.

Sauron: In my divorce era. Skin clear, crops withering, rings growing.

Sauron: Pushing me is gonna get you turned into a banner, buddy.

Ohhh. He's dream sequencing him. Lovely.

Charlie loves that he can be the one to title drop so much this season. Also. Annatar. Stop saying "precious". I'm seriously twitchy about that word aughhhh.

Feänor must be rolling in his grave rn that Sauron touched his hammer.

Quite a way to end the episode lol.

Battle two-parter starts next week, wahoo!

[thequeensjester]

Adar and Galadriel both lying to the other because they inherently cannot trust each other and because they also learned it from their experiences with Sauron.

Adar lies about wanting a mutual alliance because it's life or death for him and the orcs. He's been burnt too many times to take any more risks trusting outsiders but he knows he's different from Galadriel. He can't take the risk in believing that the elves will let them live. So he entreats her using Elvish and offering food in a civilized manner, traces of his own Elven past, to get Galadriel to lower her guard. Adar talks about pride to really drive home what he needs. He's doing the exact thing Sauron would do to get Galadriel to fold because he knows how insidious Sauron is.

Galadriel resists as long as she could because of their previous conflict. She also lies because being vulnerable with Halbrand at the Numenorean forge made extremely vulnerable to Sauron's schemes. So ofc, she lies about Sauron's true offer because how else would Adar react if he knows this.

However, she takes the chance and ends up trusting him because what Adar went through is the closest thing to her experience. The guilt clearly weighs down on her and she wants to do the right thing. So she puts aside her pride because saving the world is bigger than herself. Morfydd said in an interview that Galadriel has to learn that as hard as her grief and pain is, saving the world is bigger than herself. So this is why she chooses to trust Adar. It's not naive because saving the world is a group effort. I also think Galadriel is being honest with him but could orcs even be accepted? Well...

This blows up for Galadriel but it's blowing up worse for Adar. Glug hears and sees Adar rushing in, making the same mistakes. Adar's own pride in being right about the elves and Sauron is making him act recklessly.

A tragedy.

(Pls let Adar live so we can collectively simmer with anguish a little longer).