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Episode 8 season finale promo stills

[quietparanoiac]

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022–), 1x03: Poppy continues to be the most relatable character

[greeneyed-thestral]

[wildwren]

Nori + The Stranger // 1.08 // The Rings of Power (2022)

requested by @bananaphanta

[tommieglenn]

Nori and the Stranger

Because they don't get enough attention, and I love them 💓🍎

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[sorayax]

Gandalf has always had a soft spot for the hobbits with bright eyes and an adventurous soul :3

(If in the end the character of trop is not Gandalf, we can say that the maiar have a soft spot for hobbits)

[eterut]

Sharing adventures :)

[spiderliliez]

NORI BRANDYFOOT & TONI SHALIFOE 😅 Markella Kavenagh and Erana James in one show. So toxic, this caught me off guard! Scenes from the Australian TV series BAD BEHAVIOUR (2023) [+] LGBTQ 🏳️‍🌈 [+] ..more on Markella Kavenagh 🍂 [+] ..more on Erana James 🔥

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Markella Kavenagh as Nori Brandyfoot

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power 1x01

[neverpaint]

"Haven’t you ever wondered, what else is out there? How far the river flows or where the sparrows learn the new songs they sing in spring? I can’t help but feel there’s wonders in this world. Beyond our wandering." Nori Brandyfoot

[attheexactlyrighttimeandplace]

Anyone else excited by the place the show has made for the women so far?

The writers managed to create for almost each species, conflicts in which one woman dominates her community through her leadership skills (Galadriel, Tar Miriel) or her strong will (so strong that they seized the power and break the traditions under extraordinaire circumstances in the case of Bronwyn and Nori).

It used to be true for Galadriel who had as a commandant a high military status during centuries before falling from grace, it's ambiguously true for Miriel who must share the influence with Pharazôn to keep the peace in Nùmenor, it's spectacularly real for Bronwyn who showed an extraordinaire courage by killing an orc and who convinced entire villages to follow her to Ostirith, it's painfully true for Nori who forcibly included a complete stranger, a tall man to her small nomadic and peaceful community of gatherers, breaking an almost sacred rule and making her family pay a high price for it.

It's also so freeing to watch in a such big production main female characters who are not defined first and firemost by their romantic potentiel.

Miriel and Galadriel are single (even if Halbrand and Elendil are presented as potential love interests for Galadriel, though these subplots are written in such a soft and restrained style, that it requires attention to notice the signs), and they have been introduced with no discussion or commentary inside the plot about their marriage prospects or their child desire; Bronwyn is a single mother and the independent head of her family; Eärien has won her place in the Builder's Guild and has been wanting a career long before meeting Kemen; Nori is enjoying her free life and traveling all around Middle Earth; and Disa, mother of two children and the only wife of the lot is the most non conformist model. She challenges all the norms of feminity established by the more popular characters in term of skin color, weight and height and yet looks fabulous, all while she takes care of her family and helps her husband in his work.

They are not only modern heroines, they are also complex heroines: i'm still impressed that writers dared to make at times Galadriel so rude and bossy, Nori so frustrating and naive, Miriel so indecisive, that they have not been afraid to separate Eärien from her family because of her unpopular (in the fandom) anti elves positions.

Considering the conservatism and even religious traditionalism in Tolkien's work (things he wrote when was older and which were a censorship of his more "progressive" earlier writing), the writers have done in my opinion a really solid job at actualizing his work in regard to the current ethical standards, without breaking the unity of the universe he created.

If it was only about filling the quotas for diversity, the writers would have stopped at this point with their large main cast of wonderful femal characters, but they decided to add two more groups:

The women in white that appeared to be studying the crater where The stranger crashed. I loved everything about their appearance: from their outfits that gave a religious (as in "high priestesses") and warrior vibe, to their confident attitude and the impression left that they belonged to the" magical" world of the Valar.

Whoever they are, i'm thrilled the most by the risk taken by the writers, who seem determined to shake things even more by adding new players to the game and that they picked more women for that. I'm not even sure at this stage that i want them to reveal their identity, i'm just satisfied that those women (spirits?) looked so powerful, cool and fierce and that they seemed to lead the hunt, be it for good or bad reasons.

The veiled Elves servants: they have been giving all its meaning to the idiom "hiding in plain sight" since episode 1. So silent that i could sometimes almost forget that they are present in every scene related to Lindon while performing their many tasks: messengers in episode 1 when one of them informed Elrond that he couldn't participate to the Council, assisting others elves in religious rituals on the elf ship that was taking Galadriel and the company she lead to Valinor, or domestic servants during the dinner with Durin. That's why i easily noticed and reacted during the post dinner scene between Gil Galad and Elrond, when they stopped and turned back to watch the two male elves accusing each other of lying. It was ethereal and i was almost expecting them to break their "vows" and make some commentaries like chorus do in the ancient greek tragedies. It seems to me it was filmed to look like a group move, and it's one of those details that make me want to know more about them collectively, (how they are hired, trained etc).

Not that i believe that they have any influence on the plot, but just because of the light they can shed on the elfic society and its hierarchy. I need to understand better the contrast between their position and the trajectory of Galadriel's career, especially in a community like Lindon which seem too wise to judge people based on their gender (though the family lineage and class seem to play a big part in the assignment of social roles). And this thirst came probably from the fact that Galadriel is the only woman elf developed so far (there was one fighting at her side during the discovery of Morgoth's lair in episode 1 and one other captured by the orcs of Adar in episode 3, but they weren't even named and the one in the Southlands died quickly during the failed escape).

It's not perfect but it's enough to say that a show written with this level of attention and care for its heroines, is a show that knows how to tell properly a story.

[quietparanoiac]

The most relatable character of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022–) 1x01-02: Poppy Proudfellow

[greeneyed-thestral]

[aquitainequeen]

*sidles out of my sheltering from all of the drama*

I really like the dynamic between Nori Brandyfoot and the Stranger.

*sidles back into my sheltering from all of the drama*

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Rings of Power Valentines Week @ringsofpowervalentinesweek

Day 2: (found) Family

Absolutely adored the dynamic between those two hope we’ll see more of them in season 2 ❤️

[moonah-rose]

I've had Nori for one episode and if anything happens to her...