New pic just dropped! Look at the height difference!
We don't talk enough about the potential collaboration and deliciousness of Sauron and Smaug being evil allies.
Sucks for Middle Earth though :/
Thinking of crossovers is something that I like to do because they inspire so many interesting possibilities and outcomes to explore.
Imagine what Sauron and the cast would do if there was a temporal-spacial rift and they got thrown into the world of Elder Scrolls.
Sauron belongs to Galadriel I don't make the rules
Galadriel: I will have no part in your plan to enslave middle-earth!
Sauron:
All the Awful Things Sauron does/will do in TROP/LOTR becomes funny when you imagine everything from a Game perspective
Ya'll NEVER played an MMORPG where you start of with 50 cents, a broomstick for a weapon, and the lid of a trashcan for your shield and you gotta kill mobs to gain that exp to level up so you can upgrade your stuff? This is what Sauron had to go through. Bro was literally a protagonist in his own RPG and he had to make good/bad choices that affect him but unfortunately like the chaotic curious lil shit he is, he kept picking the bad dialogue/actions and got the WORST ENDING in the game.
Now if we're talking mmo instead of single player like above:
Maybe if he wasn't such a cocky lil shit and read the damn BEGINNER'S GUIDE written by an experienced vet he would've realized his first option should've been to HELP that guy instead of taking his damn crest. THAT would've accomplished several things: +1 pt for a neutral/positive ending, +1 pt heart point for Galadriel (even tho he can't romance her npc yet cause she's still further on the campaign quest), -5 min shaved off of the Morgoth's curse major debuff).
If he successfully managed to keep a semi-positive score by the end he could've gained at least an anti-hero rank but bro just mad as hell that his previous account got suspended for violating TOS and they took away all his progress. Now he has to start over from scratch so he tryna speedhack that shit to get back to where he was. Of course it backfired when the mods found out (again) and his ass got banned this time so he can't even play on same IP anymore so he had to use a vpn until the devs were like 'ok, we gotta do something' and they just... turned his ass into a nonverbal npc. Nobody can interact with him. Now he can't do anything but watch others have fun without him. And you might think 'but he's still around!' but LISTEN, it KILLS him inside. He can't even give out quests. He's just cursed to forever walk a scripted pathway, rain or snow, hot or cold.
Bro was that one toxic sweatlord who never touched grass, fcked around, and found out.
Bro look like he hoping to get adopted
Houndbrand
I confess I don't watch many amvs since I usually just prefer to read fics, but a friend convinced me to give this a try and I'm blown away.
The song itself doesn't take the focus away from the carefully chosen lines and dialogue between them to punctuate the heaviness of certain moments and the transition from key moments is seamless. It isn't just about the nature of their dynamic, it's about their entire journey.
Please give it a watch if you haven't already! If you're still not convinced, it has 114k views, 2.9k likes for a reason ;)
Did I ever mention one of the endgame bosses in this mmo I played looks like Sauron (if he lifted more)
Thaemine
Sauron
When I first saw this I instantly thought of it.
Thaemine is a powerful boss from the mmorpg game Lost Ark. He and Sauron share some similarities. Commonalities
- both are villains (obvsly)
- both epitomize darkness (Thaemine's title is 'Commander of the Darkness Legion')
- they both have minions who serve under them
- both wield a physical weapon (Sauron's mace, Thaemine wields a sword that he can telekinetically control)
- both don't talk much (well actually Thaemine does a bit, but it's really guttural)
- they both serve (or used to in Sauron's case) a higher god-like master
...and most important thing is you don't want to see either of them on the battlefield.
Thaemine would still beat his ass though.
She's resisted him again, and he will have to have some conflict with her again in the future, but there's no chance of her joining him, and he's almost taunting her, in a way, and wanting to punish her for, like, "Look what I've become. This could have been you, had you joined me in the first place." So, there is this element of him which wants to make her feel bad and take revenge, almost, for her not listening to him.
I've always been a little confused as to how to interpret this response from Charlie in his interview here. I've read it several times, and I'm curious to see how others interpret it: 1) Is he flaunting himself by saying 'look how invincible I turned out? Look at how much power I have at my command? This could have been you [as well]'? Because Galadriel, (from the books at least) did certainly desire power (and land) but the show doesn't portray that as well as they could have, maybe they feared it might make her desire seem too similar to Sauron's, and then the audience might instantly assume power = evil (which isn't always the case, but it would make more sense why she said 'you would make me a tyrant' since she understood how capable he is at corruption).
2) Or is he saying 'look at how I turned out because you said no to my offer? Look at what you've wrought? Look at what you made me do?' — which is self-explanatory.
So we know he wants to make her feel bad and he's trying to get back at her for not choosing him in S1. I can't tell if Charlie might've missed something when he's spoke his thoughts out loud (we all do that at times), or not, but considering how Sauron can be, it's probably both even though the latter implies a kind of self-awareness that contradicts the self-grandiosity of the former.
Source: screenrant.com
Another food for thought:
Do ya'll wonder if Halbrand ever accidentally said something weird around Galadriel because he spent so long as an amorphous pile of worms? Like it casually slips out and then he has to backtrack. While they were both in jail, a rat scurries between their cells: Halbrand: Ugh, I think I've eaten enough of those to last me a lifetime. Galadriel: 🤨
Halbrand: [Realizes he fked up]
Halbrand: When the Orcs chased me away from my home... there was.. no food, they took everything...I had to survive off the land...finding whatever I could... I had to find a way... [stares deeply at the wall and hopes she reacts with sympathy and pity over his hardship instead of his flop era diet preferences]
Galadriel: Oh, Halbrand.
Halbrand: (phew) And the beauty of it is that it *still* wasn't a lie.