1.02 - "they say that morgoth found the silmarils so beautiful that after he had stolen them for weeks he could do nothing but stare into their depths."
1.08 - "i alone can see your light" and "you bind me to the light"
2.01 - sauron staring in awe at galadriel as if he had a revelation when he first saw her at the sea.
2.05 - "when the light caught your hair, for a moment you seemed her perfect likeness."
2.06 - sauron deceiving celebrimbor "the silmarils, they will merit little more than a whisper, but the rings of power will be deemed the most precious creations in all middle-earth. best feanor." BUT then when he is alone in his illusion, we hear a man tell a woman who looks like galadriel "i've written a poem but i fear your beauty still overshadows anything i could possibly write."
like morgoth coveted silmarils created by feanor inspired by the way the light reflected galadriel's hair, sauron will covet galadriel's light till the end of his days, attempting to recreate it but failing as nothing will ever come close to her, to that feeling he felt and wanted to bind to his very being. so sauron gropes ever to see galadriel for as long as he exists!
This post made me revisit the scene once more and - unless I am in a state of copium fueled delusion and am imagining things - Sauron's expression slightly changed for a moment here as he stared at that couple. It was wistful and almost resembled longing. It's almost as if everything is going as per the plan but something is missing. Or, rather someone. Someone precious who can take Sauron's vision of his ideal world to perfection.
If my suspicions are proven correct when the finale airs then it will add an entirely new meaning to every single crumb and every expression of theirs, however small they may seem now.
no but genuinely I don't think we've talked enough about just how fucking demented this all is actually like he's just sooooooo down bad and sooooooooo pathetic about it
so... apparently, a reddit user (thank you for your service) have noticed this, and i can't stop thinking about it
of all the things sauron could come up with, he created THIS
he needs galadriel so much that his subconscious creates little echoes of the time when he was with her. cause that's the only time when he, probably, was truly at peace, happy, even, even if it didn't last
after deceiving and telling celebrimbor that his rings would overshadow the silmarils, the creations inspired by galadriel's beauty and light, sauron is left alone in his illusion and for no one else to hear or see what his mind crafts, he looks at a man telling his lover who looks like galadriel that he had attempted to write a poem but her beauty will always overshadow anything he writes! it means that deep down, when sauron is left alone with himself, he is faced with the truth that galadriel alone is the light he wants to bind to his very being! nothing will ever replace her! and the illusion becomes a reminder that she is not there with him anymore and then we see the world turn dull gray!