Ok This Is Two Interviews Now Where Charlie And Charlie Have Talked About Wanting To Do An Au Spinoff

ok this is two interviews now where charlie and charlie have talked about wanting to do an au spinoff with sauron and celebrimbor, one they said annatar would be celebrimbor’s gardener and now charlie vickers said they would live together in New York 😭

Celebrimbor’s final words deal a death blow to Sauron’s self image. he names him “Sauron, Lord of the Rings”, in direct contrast to episode two where Sauron names himself “Annatar” and Celebrimbor provides the translation “Lord of Gifts”. Charlie Vickers has stated in interviews that Sauron fully immerses himself in his own deceptions and everything he does is 100% genuine. throughout season two he really leaned into his persona as “Lord of Gifts”. he believes he is going to heal Middle Earth, he is the one “holding the storm at bay”. Celebrimbor’s role in episode seven and eight becomes one of confronting Sauron with truths that he is not willing to acknowledge, leading up to the culmination of calling him Lord of the Rings instead of Lord of Gifts, Sauron, not Annatar. the fact that he immediately then dies by Sauron’s hand (which was never part of Annatar’s plan) puts Sauron in a place to actually start to reflect and see how his actions are not aligning with “Annatar’s” purported goals. I think he just starts to realize how he has deceived himself but then his response is to lean into “Sauron”, abandoning “Annatar” altogether. losing Celebrimbor and then facing a second rejection from Galadriel is going to push him further into Sauron out of spite. but he still mourns the loss of Annatar, I think because Annatar had friends, and trust.

i cannot get enough of celebrimbor so im manifesting him appearing in flashbacks in season 3 as sauron contemplates and plans to make the One Ring. i need sauron nostalgically reminiscing about celebrimbor, his puppet and his tool, but also his partner and his muse whose conversations inspired him. i need the twisted intimacy and genuine sincerity of sauron thanking celebrimbor as he picks up fëanor's hammer in order to make the One, with the vibe of "despite the ill words you spoke to me at our parting, i wish i could show you my greatest creation but alas, you are not here by my side." let celebrimbor haunt the narrative as sauron proceeds towards his greatest triumph— and also his eventual downfall.

one of my favorite things about of rings of power, especially season two, is the strength of the bonds between the characters and the diversity of the types of bonds. we’ve got a great mix of familial, romantic, and platonic relationships, plus a sprinkling of intense-unhealthy-obsessive-abusive?-left-up-to-interpretation relationships. all of these relationships are treated as equally important which means so much to me.

it doesn’t really matter who you ship or how you headcanon different relationships because there is so much emotional complexity to explore in this world.

I wanted to suggest that what we didn’t see on-screen could be quite violent, sometimes. A fear develops, and that would manifest itself in flinching very slightly when [Annatar] spoke suddenly. - Charles Edwards

Charles Edwards as Celebrimbor & Charlie Vickers as Annatar / Sauron THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER (2022 - ) Season 2, Episode 5: Halls of Stone

Tomorrow we're going to see them together the last time. I'm not ready to goodbye. To them and to show for 2 years AGAIN :(