Sometimes I do vector illustration, often as a part of my graphic design work to create promotional pieces. This was used on the poster for a theatre production... 3/
Sometimes I use traditional media (pencil and micron pens on vellum), in this case to create frames for the opening montage of an indie film. Final work was animated in #Adobe#aftereffects... 4/
a.i "Nothing is evil in the beginning" is the first line of this series, and I couldn't wish for a better one. In LotR this line is about Sauron and how far it is possible to fall when starting with good intentions.
2/ a.ii How the show intends to use this line is unclear. It's possible it could be as simple as describing life in Valinor: what was (or seemed like) an Eden—the rest of the monologue describes the world in terms of youth and innocence. But of note is the first montage we see:
3/ a.iii A group of children in white play a variation on Blind Man's Bluff, where each except the "blind man" appears to be making noise, some by tapping sticks on stones, to lead (or mislead) him. It feels idyllic and possibly is a metaphor for what will be Galadriel's quest
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
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