Something about Sauron telling the Orcs + Adar that the Valar wouldn't accept them, and that collective helplessness/sadness/resolve amongst them all that they were truly alone in the universe was so, so devastating.
Personally, I think he was lying, but they don't know that. I understand Adar's strive to create a world for just his children because really, no one else in his mind will accept them.
Headcanon that Gil-galad writes the most godawful speeches and he doesn't realize just how bad they are until he doesn't have his herald there to help him.
ARONDIR & THEO in THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER (2022-) S2E03: The Eagle and the Sceptre
Nonsense headcannon: republic era mandalorians being a particular nuisance to spaceports and stations, constantly perching in the rafters like unreasonably lethal pigeons
'unreasonably lethal pigeons' implies an acceptable level of pigeon lethality and I'm totally here for it.
I am here and it took way too long to get here.
It all went downhill
His sword was long, his lance was keen.
His shining helm afar was seen.
The countless stars of heaven’s field
Were mirrored in his silver shield.
But long ago he rode away,
And where he dwelleth none can say.
For into darkness fell his star;
In Mordor, where the shadows are.
//Tag drop
the rings of power + references to first age figures
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: Rings of Power — 2.01 / Elven Kings Under the Sky (2024) For Ulmo bore up Elwing out of the Waves — Jenny Dolfen (2018) / @jennydolfen
Elros and Elrond were taken captive, but Elwing with the Silmaril upon her breast had cast herself into the sea. Thus Maedhros and Maglor gained not the jewel; but it was not lost. For Ulmo bore up Elwing out of the waves, and he gave her the likeness of a great white bird, and upon her breast there shone as a star the Silmaril, as she flew over the water to seek Eärendil her beloved.
OMGOSH it didn't occur to me!
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: Rings of Power S0202 — Where the Stars are Strange (2024)
Sauron, Galadriel. His name is Sauron.
And last of all the mounting wave took to its bosom Tar-Míriel the Queen, fairer than silver or ivory or pearls.
Cynthia Addai-Robinson as TAR-MÍRIEL The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power — 2.03: The Eagle and the Sceptre
No one can stab you in the back quite as good as family.
#Tar-MírielDeservedBettter
DURIN IV & ANNATAR THE LORD OF THE RINGS: Rings of Power — 2.03
