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He is the worst (I love him)
rough sketchy sneak peek of artwork for @flameunquenched inspired by their fic <3
....he's about to drop that wine glass 🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷
THE RINGS OF POWER (2022-) | S02E06
brain go brrrr
The Rings of Power: Season 2 (2024) 2x06 Charlie Vickers / Sauron
He told the tale so many times About the dream not meant to be In a world of the free He plays with your mind
screencaps from: https://www.cap-that.com/
Charlie Vickers from The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power" - New York Season Two Finale Special Screening.
Annatar is just such a dramatic diva this season, had to do some art for it!! 😆🧡
The Rings of Power: Season 2 (2024) 2x06 Charlie Vickers / Sauron
truly think the worst thing about sauron's mindfuckery with celebrimbor is that he keeps making him choose, over and over again, to work with him. he manipulates celebrimbor into keeping the forge open, into making the nine rings despite his concerns, into continuing the work even when it's taking such a toll on him, and the whole time makes celebrimbor agree rather than intimidating or forcing him. he makes celebrimbor feel like this is the right and only thing to be doing. celebrimbor's being manipulated, of course, but when the moment finally comes when he realizes annatar's true nature and feels like he willingly agreed to everything that he was coerced into doing, the guilt is going to be HORRENDOUS
Charles and Charlie are so heckin adorable in interviews they’re cute, smart, giggly, and they sit *very* close together I love them
Also, i just watched the preview clip and other than my god my heart they're really going for a tearjerker here arent they? I have a chief thought: do you think someone ever did or will tell Sauron that. Like. He can stop at literally any time? He does not have to do this? Do you think he knows that?
What an idiot clown.
That means the New interviews are coming 🤩🙏🌋💍🫂❤️❤️🔥👑🤤
We're seeing Celebrimbor and Sauron as themselves, the best and worst of who they are, and I'm really in awe of both of them for different reasons. And the actors holy crap.
I'm in awe of Sauron for showing his real self to Celebrimbor. He's a mess because of Melkor in ways he is not quite aware of, but this time with Celebrimbor will give him insights into himself that would not have been possible without our favorite elven smith. I bet the fallout from this time in Eregion will sneak up on Sauron in unexpected ways later.
I'm in awe of Celebrimbor's brilliance and his bravery. He fought his way out of that nearly flawless illusion by force of will alone, and no one else has been able to do that (maybe Adar, but we don't know that Sauron constructed a whole fantasy world for him or not, and with Galadriel it was Sauron who played along in her fantasy).
I have no doubt after their scenes in this episode that Sauron loves Celebrimbor; as much as a being like Sauron is capable of love after forsaking emotional love all those eons ago, he loves this genius artist.
The tears in Sauron's eyes during "it's a pity" gave me chills.
And Celebrimbor admitted that a part of him knew that something was not right but he wanted what Sauron had to offer anyway. One of the things Sauron offered was collaboration and creation with someone on his level. They have a deep understanding of each other despite the enmity and Sauron will mourn in his own twisted way when it is finally over.
Yes, Celebrimbor went back to stall Sauron so Galadriel would escape safely with the rings, but I think he went back because even if the "light" he spoke about is elsewhere, the color and the connection are still by Sauron's side and he has chosen that place for his end. He and Galadriel could have escaped together easily enough, there was no compelling strategic reason for Celebrimbor to go back, but he went anyway. To do what he could, and because he's the only one who can "play the game" on Sauron's level.
But Celebrimbor knows it's almost over; for an artist to destroy one of his hands, well.
I'll probably have more to say about this after I really unpack it, but it's as if Celebrimbor knows that Sauron is as obsessed with him as he is with the rings, and their game-playing has reached more than a fever pitch, so Celebrimbor understands that Sauron will not be able to resist the chance to best him and prove whose will is stronger.
But this version Sauron ... will be changed after this time in Eregion. He has cast off the facade of Halbrand completely and will be unrecognizable to Galadriel (I hope that's what helps her defeat him or get away) but he has crossed another threshold and will never be able to go back to the point when he arrived for the second time in Eregion and made a choice to follow old paths of destruction, and the even older pattern of abuser and abused.
Will we see Celebrimbor displayed as Sauron's "banner" in the next episode? I'm not sure, but it makes sense because if Celebrimbor dies Sauron will not be able to let him go right away, not even his body, not even in death.
(I'm tagging this silvergifting because that ship name predates everything, and this episode was as close to an interpretation of book canon as I could imagine, and I'm still in awe of the performances from these actors and what I feel is the show's way of nodding to us old school fans.)
Do you know what it is to be tortured at the hands of a god?
taking the weekend as a silent meditative retreat to contemplate the Shakespearean tragedy that is celebrimbor’s life
still thinking about how sauron sees pain and struggle and cruelty and push-and-pull as good things, perhaps even love; and how it seems that in his own way he genuinely believes himself to be a very good and loving lord to all those he's scorned and hurt in his wake