screaming this is so good

The glasses and hair are slowly coming back. The whore has been vanquished to the seventh circle of hell and our nerd is returning

You can smell them from the screen 😭😭

Happy 15 years since Mac and Dennis Break Up

it's genuinely funny how sauron is just standing there waiting for galadriel to finish her unnecessary silly spin to block her incoming blow 😭

he simply wants her to stop fighting and she is the one who won't stop attacking. the only instances where he gets serious with her is when she dismisses his calls for emotional reconciliation. first when she deflects from "not all of it" conversation so he forces her to face the truth, and then he really loses it and becomes desperate when she tells him that the door is shut so he forcefully keeps it open.

that stabbing is the only time he is brutal with her *physically* instead of just "playing along" with her (her taking a fall badly with celebrimbor!sauron isn't his fault, and then she decides to jump to her death herself). and i honestly think he doesn't want to harm her. he doesn't do it bc she keeps mocking, humiliating and literally trying to kill him when he is asking her to stop, he does it bc he is afraid of his archenemy closing the door on him. (it is confirmed that he doesn't do it to kill her. so the only logical explanation is that he binds her to himself.)

galadriel is clearly in denial, putting up walls as a defense mechanism, and it causes her distress. and i believe that sauron wants to "heal" her once again in the same way he did when he helped her to open up after asking why she kept fighting. but it doesn't work this time bc you can't force someone to open up once the trust is lost (and you are revealed to be her sworn enemy).

but as much as sauron dominates and destroys her in the battle, she is the one seeking out the violence and relentlessly attempting to slay him. considering this, he is incredibly patient and non-hostile with her. and it's simply insane that this evil incarnate, after discarding everyone else he had a relationship with, is visibly terrified when she pretty much attempts to commit suicide, and literally tries to save her!

the best predetermined funeral photoshoot in history

who wants to be the graham coxon to my damon albarn 😔

Rings of Power ➤ Season 2 Cinematography: Creating the 'Door is Shut' with Vertical Lines and Frame within a Frame

In Galadriel's confrontation with Sauron, she declares that the door is shut. She is refusing to give him any more power and shame from his deception. From the start of their fight scene, we see a vertical line that act as a barrier (or a door) and is again repeated throughout, showing Galadriel breaking away from his control.

When their swords are first locked, the composition of vertical lines is mixed with a frame within a frame. Sauron is framed within both Morgoth's crown and Galadriel's sword. The crown itself also resembles a muzzle, if not a cage, which I think ties to Celebrimbor's warning of how Sauron has made himself a prisoner to the rings.

Meanwhile, Galadriel is on the other side of the crown and in her own frame, freed from the prison that Sauron tried to trap her in.

Even when Sauron tries to kill her, we see still her blade right next to her face. Galadriel refuses to be influenced by him again, backed by her rallying cries, "The free peoples of Middle-earth will always resist you" and later, "Heal yourself."

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Sauron getting offended by the blast that interrupted his fashion walk

Sauron, internally: How dare they interrupt my catwalk?

you guys don’t understand how much these fictional stories and fictional characters fill me up with joy and make this insane stuff we’re going through bearable

Sorry the sketch is so messy but I just wanted to do a quick fun one!