#rop mairon

[cyraes]

(click to enlarge bc tumblr resolution sucks)

🌻sort of ghibli'sh colour style of the lineart version. for my dear @theriverwild 💛

[haladriel]

The Sun Rising

by Evarista (haladriel)

Rating: Mature Chapters: 3/12

Galadriel and Mairon meet at university. After a chance encounter, they agree to an arrangement not of convenience, but of curiosity. Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022)   Tags: No Archive Warnings Apply Galadriel | Artanis/Sauron | Mairon Galadriel | Artanis Sauron | Mairon Sexual Experimentation Lovers to Friends Friends to Lovers Temperature Play Light Bondage Power Dynamics Semi-Public Sex Nature Eventual Romance Philosophy late teenage years Alternate Universe - College/University British British English teenage idiots get bored studying metaphysics and poesie politics and law Casual Sex Sort Of when sex gets philosophical curiosity doesn't kill the cat

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‘I see rhetoric as a tool to ensure equal access to justice across the community. There’s a beauty to its practical application beyond scholarship.’

She tipped her head in appreciation. ‘That’s more noble than studying literature because reading about people is preferable to talking to them.’

He tilted his head with a smirk, one finger idly stirring his coffee. ‘Am I the exception?’

She considered this for a second. ‘So it would seem.’

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Concept

Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The contract Chapter 3: The law of treaties

[samiaescorcio15]

Coquette bow tutorial.

[silmarillion-ways-to-die]

Celebrating JRR Tolkien, the early-twentieth-century white man who invented the rap battle (unless you count the Norse god Loki).

[cartoon-aragorn]

sauron tricking/seducing celebrimbor is so fucking funny to me.

imagine you have this guy who's like the CEO of middle earth's largest tech company. graduated magna cum laude in MEIT (Middle Earth Institute of Technology). very gifted in the ways of forgery and invention.

then this (handsome) motherfucker shows up in the lobby one day calling himself "Annatar the Giver of Gifts" promising all sorts of riches if you listen to his wiles.

Elrond and Gil-Galad were like "um...no solicitors" but Celebrimbor is like "hmm sounds legit" and completely gets sucked into this fucking ring-making cult

[witchbitchmairon]

creachurrrre

[therealmairon]

"i'm a sauron apologist" what are u apologizing for? the fact that i invented be gay do crimes ?? 😭😭

[marimosalad]

Galadriel x Sauron, the ultimate doomed ship.

[aureentuluva70]

SAURON ORIGINAL FORM HERE WE GOOOOOOOOOOOO

[samiaescorcio15]

Guys, I really don't have time to draw. Maybe I'll make some simpler drawings to post here.

[ophidion]

i know what the lore says but ROP.... I have some questions

now I KNOW that there is no way Sauron and Galadriel ever met in Valinor as kids. I know the lore. But... the visuals of the opening scene of the show keep bugging me, especially after there were whispers of young!Mairon potentially being seen in S2.

��Nothing is evil in the beginning” is directly overlaid on a scene of a blindfolded boy who is being guided by a tapping sound from one of the children. (metaphor?)

“And there was a time when the world was so young, there had not yet been a sunrise” the camera remains focused on this boy. With reddish brown hair and light colored eyes that… well… having this boy and the young Galadriel be the first focused frames of the show is a certain introduction.

*Pause* I want to appreciate how the first thing this kid sees when taking off the blindfold is Galadriel and he gets… this expression. Like I’ve seen that expression before. 

“Even then there was light,” is the voiceover when the boy looks at Galadriel and we and this boy are seeing her for the first time.

Notice how he is the ONLY one looking at her in this shot. As if he is the only one who can see her light.

As she is folding the origami boat, a young male voice is heard offscreen asking what is that. This is the second voice we hear in the entire show.

That’s alone is not what’s interesting. As the children approach Galadriel, the camera waits for the formerly blindfolded boy to peer his head around at her before switching to show Galadriel again.

(the boy just has a bit of a wry mischevious look to his face and VERY ambiguously shaped ears... like we know Halbrand has big ears and so are this little boy's but I've not found ONE shot where they look clearly POINTED.)

But he doesn’t talk to her though, that’s reserved for the rude boy. 

*Also* the blindfolded-boy is wearing the simplest clothing out of ALL of the children. The two other boys have gold adornments on their tunics but the reddish-brunette has nothing. It's obvious even from behind how his clothing is the plainest of all of theirs... almost like a servant.

The episode don’t show who threw the first stone (👀). Nor they don’t show which of the kids’ throws finally sinks the boat. But… the formerly-blindfolded kid is running behind the pack for the majority of the time. Meaning he may have thrown it or did he stay out of the conflict, just remaining at the fringes.

But this boy in the simple clothing loiters in the back of the pack for the ENTIRE exchange of watching her ship. Like he wants to say something to her but isn’t. 

This might be nothing... but if the show-runners truly had the main idea of basing the whole show around that line in the Mirror of Galadriel...

"blinded by the darkness, her light turned away from him, but nevertheless he gropes ever to see her. But still the door is closed.”

Somehow... this boy being the first to approach her, to almost be reaching out to see what the girl is doing... nothing is accidental in film and television. Particularly in the establishing shots of the show. It may be against lore. But nevertheless even in episode 2, Halbrand's introduction to the audience is a perfect mirror.

[pinkbeastie]

YOU CANNOT TELL ME- IT WASNT ROMANTIC WHAAAAT

[saurongorthaur9]

Halbrand and Tevildo: pencil sketch by saurongorthaur9

A very quick sketch I did based on this interview where Charlie said he would love to see cats (and particularly Tevildo) in later seasons of Rings of Power.

[witchbitchmairon]

“The relationship between those two characters - and those two actors, Charlie and Charles, is something we're so proud of," says Weber. "It is a spectacular performance from both of them and a really compelling story that's very much at the heart of what we're doing this season. Sauron wants to control all of Middle-earth, and he knows he needs rings to do it. And he needs the greatest of elven smiths to make those rings."

- Empire magazine, shown early by @theoneringnet

oh silvergifting nation will be winning.