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I know it’s not CONFIRMED yet but I mean.

Anyway I’m so happy the Stranger really IS Gandalf, I would have been sooo disappointed if they’d only messed with us!! The way this episode took me on an emotional roller coaster ride.. I cried and I flailed and I gnawed on my boyfriend’s arm like a feral raccoon (don’t worry he’s okay he’s used to it).

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valid input 😅

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Elrond in Rings of Power - Episode 8: “Alloyed”

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Rings of Power’s elven clothing & armour - design appreciation

Requested by @klngfili thank you I hope you like these!! ♥

My favorites are easily Elrond’s blue and gold outfit, Arondir’s chestplate and Galadriel’s armour.

rop design team very good job thank you

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“True creation requires… sacrifice.”

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“Save it. For the far side.”

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Hope is never mere.

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A Token of Friendship

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“I cannot stop thinking that if you'd not gone down there, Durin might have been in that shaft when it.. I'm sorry. I'm sorry I lied to you.”

“You were faithful to my friend. That is all we need remember.”

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“.... Fetch your feathery shirts. Let's start walking.”

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“I swore an oath to Durin. To some, that may now hold little weight. But in my esteem, it is by such things our very souls are bound.“

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Isildur & Eärien

Children of Elendil the Fair, descendants of Elros Tar-Minyatur

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“So, what do you have to say to that... ‘Friend?’”

“... Congratulations. On your wife, your children. I hope you can come to forgive me.”

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Can we just talk about how Elrond genuinely hadn’t realized how long it had been? How long twenty years are to anybody other than an elf? (“Has it only been twenty [years]?”) And how, right here, he realizes how much he hurt Durin, his old friend who he just told Celebrimbor was “like a brother” to him?

And THEN can we talk about Durin please and how he planted that sapling that Elrond gave him basically RIGHT IN HIS HOUSE and for TWENTY YEARS despite growing hurt and anger and quite possibly building resentment after all that time, he still TENDS IT LIKE IT’S HIS THIRD CHILD, according to Disa - and why would she lie? He certainly doesn’t argue either, when she tells Elrond as much. Durin loves Elrond SO MUCH. Even after many years of disappointment and pent up very justified anger, he never REALLY gave up on Elrond and their friendship. He cared for that tree because it still MEANT something.

And you can see in that shot where Elrond looks at the tree, that he realizes just that. That tree is woven throughout twenty years of Durin’s life. A LARGE chunk of Durin’s life, that Elrond wasn’t there for, because he just... didn’t think to.

And then when Disa pleads with them to “find a way to mend this(!!!)” (thank Aule and Eru for Disa honestly), Elrond brings up the sapling. And I think that reminds Durin of WHY he never gave up. Of why he planted it in the first place. Of why he never forgot to tend to it. And that’s when he comes around.

God, I just. I just cry. These two kill me.

Bonus:

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“We're playing the knocking game!”

“Well, knock it off!”

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"Where did you learn all this?" "From your mother."

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Elrond in Lindon

“It’s almost as if I didn’t wish to be found.”