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Family Tree of #Rohan, House of Eorl, Complete Ancestry & Genealogy of #Éowyn, #Éomer & #Théoden. #LOTR
This is my 10th Chart in Middle-earth series based on J.R.R. #Tolkien's works.
A detailed thread on the #Genealogy of the House of #Eorl
#LordOfTheRings #LOTR
Family Tree of #Rohan, House of Eorl, Complete Ancestry & Genealogy of #Éowyn, #Éomer & #Théoden. #LOTR
This is my 10th Chart in Middle-earth series based on J.R.R. #Tolkien's works.
A detailed thread on the #Genealogy of the House of #Eorl
#LordOfTheRings #LOTR
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#LordOfTheRings #LOTR #TheHobbit #Tolkien
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They spend a lot of time in the morning turning me from just a regular dude into this figure who is Halbrand and now Sauron. But yeah, just playing the character is the most exciting thing.
Also things in letters & in Morgoth’s Ring about him really desiring perfection & order & rehabilitation. As well as this idea of his repentance, which Tolkien never really specifies. That’s great, that he leaves it ambiguous about whether he’s genuinely repentant or not.
So why was #Sauron on that raft? I know that's a question a lot of people are asking and one that both Charlie and the #RingsOfPower showrunners have said will be addressed in Season 2. Unlike Sauron, I'm not in anyone's head, but I can give it my best (hopeful) guess.
Disclaimer that I have not had time to do a rewatch of eps 2-8 yet, so I don't know how well this will hold up in light of that. 2/
The show has been leaning heavily into the "chance" meeting. Galadriel references it explicitly more than once. (I know this has been talked about, but stay with me here). I'd even say episode 1 ends with her jumping off the ship almost as an act of faith in such an event. 3/
Sauron didn’t plan to get shipwrecked, trapped on a raft, and almost eaten by a sea worm twice.
He didn’t plan on meeting Galadriel, an elf who, astoundingly, had just jumped out of her ship to somehow swim the entire length of the Sundering Seas, in the middle of the ocean.
He didn’t plan on meeting Galadriel, an elf who, astoundingly, had just jumped out of her ship to somehow swim the entire length of the Sundering Seas, in the middle of the ocean.
Sauron didn’t plan to be rescued by the Númenoreans.
He didn’t plan for Galadriel to refuse to believe that he’d stolen a symbol from a dead man as he told her, then insist that he was a king while he insisted he wasn’t.
He didn’t plan to be out in prison for theft and assault.
He didn’t plan for Galadriel to refuse to believe that he’d stolen a symbol from a dead man as he told her, then insist that he was a king while he insisted he wasn’t.
He didn’t plan to be out in prison for theft and assault.
Sauron didn’t plan for Galadriel to somehow convince Númenor to send ships to Middle-earth.
He didn’t plan to be caught in a pyroclastic flow from the eruption of Mount Doom.
He didn’t plan to be stabbed by a lance. (offscreen?).
He didn’t plan to get an infected gut wound.
He didn’t plan to be caught in a pyroclastic flow from the eruption of Mount Doom.
He didn’t plan to be stabbed by a lance. (offscreen?).
He didn’t plan to get an infected gut wound.
Twelve Days of Sauron, collected here all in one long thread. Like the Twelve Days of Christmas, but with fewer birds and more deception and torture. #12DaysOfSauron #TheRingsOfPower #Sauron
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On the 12th Day of Sauron... a list of the things that I hope The Rings of Power gives to me, most of which have to do with Sauron, Galadriel, metaphysics, and moral complexity. #12DaysOfSauron. 1 day until the premiere of @LOTRonPrime 🧵1/24 #TheRingsOfPower #Sauron
You've probably noticed I like Sauron. Not that I'd want to have tea with him or anything—that sounds like a bad idea—but I mean I enjoy him as a character, which is something a lot of people find odd, because they see him as one-dimensional or without need for complexity... 2/24
or because they don't understand why anyone would find a villain—any villain—interesting. Certainly no one is obliged to, but if modern fandom is any indication, it's not really such an unheard of thing. Villains *can* be very interesting, especially (I think) their Falls. 3/24
On the 11th Day of Sauron, linguistics gave to me: Sauron's actual, real—no joke—original name and the fact that it means things like "admirable, excellent, splendid, and... precious". #12DaysOfSauron. 2 days until the premiere of @LOTRonPrime 🧵1/13 #TheRingsOfPower #Sauron
In a bundle of linguistic notes dated to between 1955-1960, containing work on a list of meanings of names and words in LotR, and published in the linguistic journal Parma Eldalamberon in 2007, we learn that Sauron's original name was "Mairon" meaning "The Admirable." 2/13
This comes from the primitive Quenya root MAY- meaning ‘excellent/admirable.’ Related roots include (A)MAY- (‘suitable, useful, proper, serviceable, right’); it’s inverse, PEN- (‘lack’); and MA3- (‘serve, be of use‘ but also ‘handle, manage, control, wield’ and ‘hand’). 3/13
NEWS FROM BREE: Amazon’s @LOTRonPrime series began its online marketing in GRAND GEEK STYLE with Fantasy lover’s favorite trope: a MAP of Middle-earth with details trickling in daily. LET’S EXPLORE THIS 🗺
“I’m acquiver with anticipation!”
- Bilbo
A THREAD by @Quickbeam2000
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“I’m acquiver with anticipation!”
- Bilbo
A THREAD by @Quickbeam2000
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The silence from Amazon had been deafening for many long, dry months...
Since their first slam-bang press release we haven’t heard any news, nor casting announcements, nor anything beyond the reveal of the two young writers newly assigned.
THEN THIS!
amazon.com/adlp/lotronpri…
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Since their first slam-bang press release we haven’t heard any news, nor casting announcements, nor anything beyond the reveal of the two young writers newly assigned.
THEN THIS!
amazon.com/adlp/lotronpri…
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It is a rather shrewd piece of early marketing.
Though at first listing NO place names or demarcations, it is meant to be PURE ENTICEMENT. A blank map of such a familiar landscape has a visceral effect of “inviting us in” and lets our imagination start galloping wildly ahead. /3
Though at first listing NO place names or demarcations, it is meant to be PURE ENTICEMENT. A blank map of such a familiar landscape has a visceral effect of “inviting us in” and lets our imagination start galloping wildly ahead. /3
