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/

Mere hours till the #RingsofPower finale. I'm trying to keep my expectations in check because I just don't know if it's possible to wrap this up in a way that will truly satisfy me (YMMV, of course). Naturally, the (potential and thoroughly teased) Sauron reveal has me on edge. Before the show actually aired and we were getting short clips and stills my suspicions about The Stranger were tempered by the fact that it just seemed...too obvious. But the idea that Galadriel happened to be, unbeknownst to her, lost at sea with the very person she was hunting

If there is any one thing I can't forgive #Tolkien for either not writing or not preserving, it is the mysterious "Sauron: Arising and Fall of Men" that is referenced in the essay "The Awakening of the Quendi" in #NatureOfMiddleEarth. I have *thoughts* on this. @MichaelFKane @7stars7siblings @srwestvik @Tolkien_erklart There was a long period before NoMe was published where portions of fandom—at least where and when I was involved—assumed the being described in the Anthrabeth must have been Sauron due to the timeline conflict...

Apparently today is #PortfolioDay. I don't normally use this Twitter handle for my art but today I figure "hey, why not?" So, here's a🧵

Sometimes I do fanart... 1/

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#art #WangXian #mdzsfanart #MDZS #artistsontwitter #digitalpainting #procreateart Sometimes I do other digital art (the first was a study based on a photo, the web source for which has since been taken down)... 2/

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#PortfolioDay #artistsontwitter #artistsoftwitter #digitalpainting #digitalartwork #procreateart

1/ #RingsOfPowerOnPrime episode 1 rewatch liveblog begins now🧵

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:

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 Day 1

https://twitter.com/CameronBorgQeen/status/1560951805768568839?s=20&t=z3vaWx0EDvjpTXZnTxmHYA

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

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