Fangirling and Writer-Nerd Chaos

lanfear 🤝 sauron

The season 2 finale drove me insane, I can't believe I'm watching the Sauron I know and love being his terrifying self in this amazing adaptation.

This was inspired by Jodie Muir's art!

"why did the ring mostly affect frodo and not bilbo who had it for a gazillion years" objectively has a textual answer but i think the best answer is that sauron just likes bilbo more than frodo

bilbo: *uses the ring to hide from his relatives*

sauron, remembering almaren: yknow. real.

actually this is a request & I didn’t want to post it but I post it anyway because I think this is the best silmarillion related thing I ever draw in my life except for that melkor cover

they are Cancelling me for dealing with my grief as best i can . also for the vicious war Crimes

villains are hard to design. making them ugly is dangerous, depending on what traits you choose to frame as monstrous or undesirable, you could very well end up saying something fatphobic, racist, anti-semitic, etc

but if you make a hot villain then people will get thirsty and demand redemptions and refuse to acknowledge their evil actions, no matter how despicable

Solution: Full body armor and masks. You don’t see people shipping themselves with Sauron!

…………..you think?

…………..don’t look up Sauron on AO3

Nothing fails to crack me up like this post - the vain hope that somewhere out there is some awful nasty thing that there is not also a person whose kink that is, the idea that covering something up won’t make people obsessed with finding out what it looks like underneath, the surface level understanding of Sauron and complete lack of knowledge of the Silmarillion and it’s fandom, the fact that Sauron was canonically hot as fuck, the amount of Sauron erotica I have seen, God this post never gets old

The Poster Of The Comment: You don’t see people shipping themselves with Sauron!

The Very Large And Dedicated Community Of Sauronfuckers In The Tolkien Fandom, collectively:

Point. For those who have not read Sillmarilion, Sauron used to look something like this

The teaser at the end of the War of The Rohirrim is actually hilarious.

Like, I can see it now. Sauron, the Nazgul, and all the rest of his dark council sitting around in their evil warroom (I imagine it looking rather a lot like the one from Dr. Strangelove, complete with a giant board map of Middle Earth) spit balling ideas on how to get The Ring back. Finally someone just stands up and shouts, "Look, there can only be so many plain gold rings out there! Surely, it's got to be one of them!"

And so the Dark Tower embarks on its most ridiculous, overly complicated, cumbersome, top-down, bureaucratic scheme yet. There's a whole department of Barad-Dur dedicated just to sorting through thousands and thousands of gold rings now. Deep in the vaults, dwarfing even his horded mithril, Sauron posesses mountains of cheap, useless jewelry.

Shrek (2001) + The Rings of Power (2024)

Getting distinct Interview With The Vampire vibes from Adar (nearly) taking out Sauron.

Adar: Good night, sweet Prince. May flights of devils wing thee to thy rest.

Sauron: Then on a diet of the blood of snakes, toads, and all the putrid life of the Mississipi, Lestat became something like himself again.

I am so, so, so sorry.

Never I guess

Wrapped in Fine silk and Jewels, Here is the Lord of Gifts himself!

“and they had at first much profit from his friendship.”

HEARTBREAKING: character actually mildly interesting to think about but I Dont like their fans

apparently today is the anniversary of Sauron’s fall in LotR so… RIP pal, you tried your best and it wasn’t enough I suppose ❤️

Always here for Shame Sauron Day.

Oh no saying “You tried your best and it wasn’t enough and now we’re going to shame you” might be worse for Sauron than literally being destroyed

Celebrimbor, eating popcorn in Valinor: I fucking told you it was a bad idea, but did you listen? Nooooooo. Not Annatar, Lord of the “I’m A Better Smith Than You, I Know What I’m Bloody Doing, Precious!” Gifts uh-huh. Well, how do you like it when somebody rends your soul asunder and destroys the last remnants of your corporeal being all over a fucking Ring, huh. Fucking told you so.

*munches popcorn defiantly* Asshole.