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[wizardheart83]

Rings of Power analysis #1

Picture this:

a figure out of legend walks into an audience with the heir to the throne. Said theoretical throne exists in a kingdom that we as the watcher knows is somewhere between its golden age and its fall.

The resulting conflict ends just well enough that our figure gets a foot in the door, gets to spend time with another significant figure in the kingdom. This interaction leads them to a secondary location within the kingdom and uncovers a secret or two vital to the plot.

It’s not all smooth sailing, there’s a mishap that seems to hang an ominous cloud over the future but our figure achieves their plot necessary objective and work begins to move them and the story forward.

What looks like victory turns to crushing defeat in the last moment of their arc this season. the heir to the throne finds themselves in a tenuous position for helping them, and it seems the seeds of doom for this kingdom have been well and truly sown.

Our figure arrives in Eregion to salvage what they can. Am I talking about Elrond or Galadriel? This is part 1 of however many it takes to beat this parallel to death. More to come.

[wizardheart83]

Links to the rest of the essay below the cut, written not long after season 1 aired.

part 2 - why it's important and Celebrimbor vs Pharazon similarities

https://www.tumblr.com/wizardheart83/713674788086890496/rings-of-power-analysis-part-2?source=share

part 3 - Significant differences between Celebrimbor and Pharazôn within the Númenor and Khazad Dum plots

https://www.tumblr.com/wizardheart83/713703798527459328/rings-of-power-analysis-part-3?source=share

part 4 Disa and Elendil

https://www.tumblr.com/wizardheart83/713784431054356480/rings-of-power-analysis-part-4 ?source=share

part 5 Durins 4 and 3 Vs Míriel and Palantir

https://www.tumblr.com/wizardheart83/713799495100579840/rings-of-power-analysis-part-5?source=share

part 6 Elrond and Galadriel / wrapping up the analysis

Elrond and Galadriel as they relate to the Khazad-Dûm and Númenor storylines Both are elves, though Elrond is on the young side. Both have

Part 7 - post season 2 follow up

After season 1, in parts 1-6 , I detailed the ways that Elrond and Galadriel’s plot lines in that season rhyme, or harmonize, with with some

[16tinyfrogs]

on watching a parent age

i saw somebody say “what if you’re gone and i haven’t become anything yet” and basically that broke me on a random thursday evening

[theriu]

OP, this is genuinely a masterpiece, three poems in one, moving and well crafted. Please tell me you have submitted it to at least some poetry contests, and if not, please do so.

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

"Just because I'm right, doesn't mean I'm being helpful" is a vastly underrated thought process that I strongly encourage others to get comfortable with

[whatbigotspost]

Hey op thanks for fundamentally rearranging my molecules in some helpful way this fine evening

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

Give me less "being kind requires zero effort" and more "being kind is worth the effort it takes."

[minoyrheyr]

Agents of the Four Seasons

[depsidase]

[longsightmyth]

There really is a line in the sand for me when you're trying to portray your main characters as good guys and it is the willful threat to murder children

...I guess I have other lines in the sand but I think when you want me to think someone is clever and good you shouldn't have them set up childmurder

[longsightmyth]

And perhaps this IS my own biases but I think if you feel or realize you have to kill not even just one kid but two kids to keep your boyfriend

You just let the boyfriend go

I don't think this should be questionable. He's not even dying. You just can't hang out with him. I don't understand the mental gymnastics involved in 'I need to save my boyfriend [from flying off into the sunset] so I will threaten to murder two kids with a dragon and mean it'

It simply doesn't compute

And if we're writing somebody crazy selfish then like sure! Okay! I gotchu. She sucks!

But no. She's The Smartest Kindest Most Compassionate, sayeth the book

I have questions

[our-queer-experience]

[unearthlydust]

ROBERT ARAMAYO as ELROND THE RINGS OF POWER

[5ummit]

Mean Girls (2004) || The Rings of Power (2024)

[mintaikkcorpse]

Love baby. Use baby as pillow

[malkaleh]

@verecunda BABIES

[verecunda]

😭😭😭💝💝💝

#ulmo made seals and just went 🥹🥹🥰 for a week

You are so correct. And Manwë just started crying because FLUFFY. 🩷

[beeftony]

Something of note is that when speaking to Hinagiku, Sakura consistently uses the second person pronoun “anata.” Japanese people tend to avoid using second person pronouns to directly address people (it’s mostly used in contexts where the “you” is more general, like a singer using it in a song to address a largely faceless audience), because it’s considered incredibly rude if you’re not on very intimate terms with that person.

The most common usage of “anata” in everyday speech usually happens between married couples or people with a similar bond, so the fact that she uses it so freely with Hinagiku is yet another point in my yuri agenda.

[erinbowbooks]

[anthropologist-on-the-loose]

It is not nearly common enough knowledge that most Native tribes in the U.S. don't actually own all of the land within their reservation. There are millions of acres of reservation land that tribes don't legally own and they have no control over how that land is used. Like, there are a lot of different concepts tied in with the land back movement, but a major one is literally just getting reservation land back into tribal ownership.

[justplaggin]

We'll make spring bloom. Spring for everyone. People who wish tomorrow never comes. People praying for tomorrow to arrive. We'll shower them all in cherry blossoms. Only the seasons are equal to the guilty and the innocent alike. We'll give them a wonderful season. That will be our revenge on the world.

[longsightmyth]

"In fairness, none of us KNOW the quality of this book."

"Alexei Romanov is a HORSE SHIFTER. We know it's a bad book."

[shutyourmoustache]

Making exercises more accessible to the disabled? Fuck yeah!