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I don't normally say this about many characters...because I don't want to force labels but watching League of Nobleman the ONLY way I can see Zhang Ping as making any sense is him being autistic.

I'm autistic and it's pretty obvious to me. Idk...am I the only one who sees it?

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Sauron is basically the closest epitome of evil in any fictional story. Tolkien basically says as much, it's valid to go 'author is dead', and fanfic is great but there isn't anything in the text that gives Sauron any type of nuance other than absolute arrogance and the will to dominate all. He's not supposed to be a sympathetic villain.

I don't know of anything to indicate his sexuality other than you know 'evil', but it's pretty funny that people feel betrayed that a character who is evil personified written by a devout catholic isn't 'queer' enough in the adaptation.

All power to Galadriel/Sauron shippers but I'm pretty sure that the villain who is called 'the deceiver' unlikely had any textual feelings for Galadriel (in rop)other than a means to power. I'm all for fanfic and exploration of fan's shipping but ...you know...

So this me being profoundly confused that fans feel betrayed that Sauron isn't gay enough when to me he wasn’t really any sexuality other than evil manipulator.

Really, fans have way high expectations of a story with Christian allegories and Sauron is literally the devil. He's practically as asexual as Gandalf.

[chaos-in-the-making]

Don't think about the fact that he told a Brandyfoot to follow their nose long long LONG before he told a Brandybuck in the darkness of Moria. Don't think about the fact that his friendship with the Hobbits began the very moment he fell to Middle Earth. Don't think about every time he said Meriadoc Brandybuck he was thinking of his first ever friend that he ever made who saved him and shared his first adventure ever with.

Nori is one of Merry's ancestors. It is now my favorite headcanon.

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Gay ships I like in Rings of Power.

1- Nori and Poppy. That last scene of them made me cry.

2- Isildur and Valandil (I think this is going to be more shippy later on but there was enough clues in the first season.)

3- Elrond and Durin (but poly with Disa because she's amazing. )

Just wanted to put that out there.

[rings-of-power-realm]

Nori & Poppy 🍃🍂

Alloyed

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I really loved the first season of Rings of Power. It had the magic of middle earth and vary much the spirit.

This fandom is very tiring because of all the relentless negativity and the lack of common courtesy while that negativity is rubbed in your face.

I hope the series succeeds. I hope it's something that in 20 years people will back on fondly like the Jackson movies.

And next season I hope the killjoys can go back to their holes and stay there.

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I think Galadriel has separated from her husband because of her issues. It caused a rift and that's part of her grief. Perhaps she thinks whatever brought their division would mean they could never work...and that's why she sees it as her losing him. Another thing she lost.

I actually hope that is the arc with her finding peace and reuniting with him. Obviously that will happen in some way.

[writingsheep]

I Love that take!

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So do I. And considering how Galadriel is, it would totally make sense.

I would also love to think Celeborn hasn't given up on her and is waiting for her return with complete faith and love. But I'm a romantic.

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Omg. She didn’t say he died. Only that she lost him.

He’s obviously still alive and there will be a reunion. Don’t be daft.

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well DUH. jfc there’s no need to fucking scold me for just blogging my reactions as i watch

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I can do whatever I want on my blog.

[seadevilry-deactivated20241029]

you’re the one who came onto MINE to scold me what the fuck

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No I didn't. You posted in a public forum in your blog and I responded, way more politely than you obviously deserved, considering your response, in MY blog.

That's how it works. I never commented in your blog.

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I think Galadriel has separated from her husband because of her issues. It caused a rift and that's part of her grief. Perhaps she thinks whatever brought their division would mean they could never work...and that's why she sees it as her losing him. Another thing she lost.

I actually hope that is the arc with her finding peace and reuniting with him. Obviously that will happen in some way.

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Omg. She didn’t say he died. Only that she lost him.

He’s obviously still alive and there will be a reunion. Don’t be daft.

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well DUH. jfc there’s no need to fucking scold me for just blogging my reactions as i watch

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I can do whatever I want on my blog.

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Omg. She didn't say he died. Only that she lost him.

He's obviously still alive and there will be a reunion. Don't be daft.

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The thing is. I don't like characters who murder people (sephiroth is an exception, and so is meng yao shutup).

My point is, I don't like serial killers in my fiction, I don't want to read or watch people get murdered. I don't enjoy or empathise with most murderous characters and generally I avoid any fiction about them. Serial killers or people who kill for fun are fascinating in the way some insects are as a pointof study, but I don't want to dwell on them . At the most I'm indifferent, most of the time I think they are disgusting and they make me viscerally ill.

The exception, always the exception is vampires. I don't know why. At the most basic perhaps it comes from the understanding that vampires only and ever exist in fiction. Maybe that's it. I know fiction isn't real. I don't care that there are stories humanising murderers, but I can't watch them. Put fantastical monsters on the menu and I'm fascinated.

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Beating a dead horse but I still don't understand the narrative point of having Louis eat and kill the struggling fox (once again pointing out it was endangered animal).

He's trying to warn Daniel that other vampires are evil and conspiring to harm humanity, and in the process pointing out he doesn't kill humans to make his concerns more persuasive to Daniel.

Then he undercuts that with hurting and eating the fox.

I mean you could say he's making a point that he's no different to humans because we harm and kill animals for food. Okay? He has a point although using an endangered animal isn't really helping his point because generally humans don't eat fennec foxes.

But putting that aside, it really doesn't matter what animal he's deliberately hurting, because making such a point about humanity is completely undermining what he's trying to achieve in this interview. I can't believe that Louis is that out of touch with human ethics he doesn't get that.

So are the writers trying to be edgy? Were they sending that message? Okay again I can see a point, but it still undercuts the narrative.

It just doesn't really make any sense in the story. Unless I'm missing something clever here.

And I don't think Louis needs to frighten Daniel because Daniel is well aware of what vampires are so it falls flat as a threat.

I just don't get the point of such gratuitous cruelty in that scene.

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I could have gone without seeing him eat the little endangered fox alive though.

Baby pffftt....whatever. BUT THE CUTE FOX NOOOOO.

Oh I haven't eaten humans since 2000', he says BITCH, do you need to eat animals while they struggle on your plate noooo, much less endangered fauna. That's just unforgivable.

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so now they adapt one crazy anti-fanfic Anne series to television.

When they gonna adapt another dead crazy anti-fanfic Anne series?

I need my gay Pern dragon riders. Okay.

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Y’All Should Actually Read Barthes (Or Why Your ‘Rings Of Power’ Critique Is Bad)

I think what really gets under my skin about the many, many lousy critiques about Rings of Power[1] on Tumblr dot Com and Reddit[2] that I see out there is that firstly it frequently seems to be coming from people who don’t seem to realize that their understanding and memories about Tolkien are shaped far, far, far more by the Peter Jackson movies (which were hardly ‘canon-compliant’) than they are by the actual text. Secondly and more crucially I think is that everyone really wants to get pissed about canon that Tolkien never actually codified. Here’s what I mean: Tolkien didn’t ‘write’ the Silmarillion. He wrote a whole bunch of essays, letters, notes, scraps of ideas, poems, plot outlines, and ramblings, some of which he earmarked for a project he one day planned to compile as something called The Silmarillion. Then he made a slight error in his scheme by dropping dead. So his son Christopher Tolkien and his pal Guy Gavriel Kay stared at this enormous pile of stuff that went back decades, pulled out some of the bits they thought were most polished, did their best to link them into some kind of narrative, edited the crap out of it, added punctuation, and published a book they called The Silmarillion after JRR’s planned, but never completed idea. And was what was in The Silmarillion everything JRR planned to be in the final volume? Not necessarily. In many cases, not remotely, but Christopher Tolkien and Kay tried to take the stuff that was most polished, even if that was thirty year old stuff and Tolkien had changed his mind fifteen more times, because the old stuff often had a clarity of completion that the later revisions didn’t. They usually took the stuff in completely sentences over the stuff with sentence fragments, even if the latter was more ‘fresh.’ But because they realized that The Silmarillion was more a simulacrum of Tolkien’s ideas than anything actually definitive, Christopher then put out The Unfinished Tales, which contained some of Tolkien’s ideas in various forms such as did and did not make it into The Silmarillion. And since the very large pile of notes and scribblings and essays and letters and old recipes didn’t seem any noticeably smaller, he then spent thirteen years publishing The History of Middle Earth, comedically large tomes stuffed to the brim with Tolkien ideas, variations, variants, and late night side-table kleenex notes. And then they kept putting out more books. And more. And then Christopher made the same silly mistake of dropping dead too! But other people put out even more books, with even more untouched material! There’s one coming out in November and JRR Tolkien’s been dead for fifty years. None of this was published under his aegis. And let me tell you, JRR Tolkien had a pretty weighty aegis: the man was famous for berating his publishers for edits and corrections. Part of the reason he never got around to completing a definitive Silmarillion was the fact that the man never wanted to publish something with which was not completely satisfied: and everything that has come out after his death, compiled with all the love and care in the world, is nevertheless pretty damning evidence that Tolkien was never satisfied. What we know about old JRR is that he changed his mind again and again, and we can’t know that on his dead bed, his last thought wasn’t some brilliant revelation that finally made the One Ring work in the context of Sauron’s timeline in the Second Age — but he didn’t even get to scribble it on a napkin for his son to later try and make sense of. And so we will never really know what his true canon decision on, say, elven pregnancy was: sometimes he thought it should take about 108 years. Sometimes only 9 years. But then he would change his mind, or change his math, again, and sometimes he’d go back to old stuff we didn’t like his new ideas. And so on. So when you talk about the ‘canon’ of Tolkien, it’s important to remember that even if you’re just speaking about ‘definitive’ works, you’re left with those published with his approval in his lifetimeL namely, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Adventures of Tim Bombadil, and The Road Goes Ever On songbook with Donald Swann. And even then, what version of The Hobbit are you talking about? The original? Or the one he rewrote after he changed his mind about the entire nature of the ring Bilbo found in a cave and decided that actually it was the most important piece of jewelry in existence. Honestly, given world enough and time he probably would have made a third edition of The Hobbit because those two ‘canonical’ books, The Hobbit and it’s ‘sequel’ Lord of the Rings, don’t even fit together very well, as poor Peter Jackson learned to his sorrow and our pain with his wretched, tonally disjunct Hobbit films. )It’s funny, because everyone on here loves talking about Death of the Author. Almost none of you have ever read it, but it sure is a thing that’s a super important, inviolable concept… until we talk about an author the internet isn’t mad at, and suddenly the author’s word is inviolable and all adaptation choices are wrong.) I don’t know how to get this across any clearer: anyone who have ever dug deep into Tolkien’s lore knows that speaking of things like ‘canon,’ ‘definitive,’ ‘authoritative,’ and all similar adjectives is often a fool’s errand. Tolkien left us with a lot of ideas about the second age, but very little in the way of clarity, much less ‘this is the true thing unchanging.’ Even the ‘authoritative’ timeline of the Appendices in LOTR is stuff that he was already changing in the writings he did in the years after. So I am begging you. Please. Please stop giving the Akallabêth a level of authoritative definition that even its compiler admitted it did not possess. Until you can prove to me you brought the shade of JRR Tolkien back from beyond the Veil to speak True Authorial Intent,[3] I am going to treat your recourse to ‘but the canon’ with the level of exasperation it deserves. ————————–

[1] Besides the general problem on this website that everyone’s heard of critical theory and almost nobody’s ever read any. [2] There are plenty of valid critiques to be made, especially about pacing and awkward racial optics, but it’s really not the unhinged shit I’m seeing, as usual. [3] Let’s be honest: in the fifty years since he shuffled off his mortal coil, the shade of Tolkien will unquestionably return with a ghostly second pile of essays, letters, notes, scraps of ideas, poems, plot outlines, and ramblings, and they won’t be remotely definitive either. And we’re all going to be super disgruntled when the ghost insists that the only good Tolkien adaptation is Khraniteli.

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Two stupid things I've seen people say while critical of rings of power here.

1- Harfoots are obviously ripping off the concept of Hobbits. Gee, ya think? Someone doesn't know Tolkien lore.

2 - Harfoots just wander around and take food lying around and move on and never grow and cultivate their own stuff just like the EVIL Amazon.

Now 2 is not only a complete misunderstanding and demonisation of Harfoots but of nomadic culture. The comparison so 'cleverly' used to point out how evil Amazon not only doesn't work but it's stupid. Nomads are kinder to the land and their practices are more sustainable to the ecosystem than agrarian society. I could write a bloody essay explaining how much nicer nomads treat the planet than almost any other lifestyle but I don't have to because it's bleeding obvious to anyone with two brain cells.