#one ring of power

[maranull]

anyway, Elden Ring is about love and hope

Marika burns everything she has build out of sorrow

Ranni banishes the Outer Gods and also fucks off the Lands, giving agency back to the normal beings of the Lands

Fortissax endlessly fights Death for his friend/lover

Melina burns herself and Erdtree in hopes of a better world in the hands of the Tarnished

Blaidd fights against the very reason he was created out of love for his sister

Ranni and Rykard always keep an eye on their mother, protecting her

Radahn evokes so much love from his troops that they organise a whole festival to give him a honorable death even in his madness

Radahn learns an entire new school of magic in order to still ride his favourite horse

Boc's love for his mother, his mother's love for him

How all but two endings are build on the hope that this new era (whatever it might be) will be good

Miquella attempting to create an whole new world-tree to host the forsaken and the damned

Miquella turning on the faith he was raised and even believed in to an extent, when it was unable to cure his sister's curse

The Cleanrot's loyalty to Malenia and their endurance of the Rot, only to stay in her service

Malenia marching through the entire continent in search of her brother

Finlay traveling all the way back on her own, carrying the incapacitated demigod on her back

Tanith's love for Rya

Dialos' entire questline

Edgar being driven mad after his daughter dies

Vyke embracing, to a point, the Frenzied Flame in order to save his finger maiden

or you know, that's just how I see it

#elden ring #i'm simplifying a lot in this #but that's the story #to me #it follows the pattern of the ds series too #where the world was miserable and depressing #yet the main theme was hope and perseverance #with elden ring we got so many more characters and as such love began playing a bigger part too #and you can't really have interesting characters without their actions being driven by love and hope #or lack thereof #even power-hungry characters are driven by the hope of reaching the power “level” they want #and hateful ones are driven by lack of love #or so i think

[doctorslippery]

#thoughts and prayers #lord of the rings #the two towers #fellowship of the ring #return of the king #aragorn #boromir #token tolkien #gondor #mordor #ring of power #the one ring #sauron #gandalf #frodo #bilbo #samwise #merry #pippin #gollum

[ylieke]

The One Ring as a human. Highly desirable, powerful and dangerous.

#my art #lotr #lotr rings of power #the one ring #lord of the rings #sauron's ring #humanization #the one ring humanaized #golden ring #the rings of power #silmarillion #silm art #the silm fandom #the silmarillion #lotr fanart

[truejekart]

Six Fanarts!

Marcille Power Ayaka

Blaidd Akechi Zoro

#six fanarts #genshin impact #kamisato ayaka #chainsaw man #power chainsaw man #marcille donato #dungeon meshi #blaidd the half wolf #elden ring #goro akechi #persona 5 #roronoa zoro #one piece #illustration #art challenge #fanart

[middle-earth-mythopoeia]

(source, 11/30/22)

KING

#anti rings of power #rings of power #Bernard Hill #LOTR cast #anti rop #and before anyone says something about how Peter Jackson's movies made money too - yes they did #but at least they were based on books Tolkien actually wrote #the Amazon show is not based on any story Tolkien actually wrote #it's just the haphazard and low quality imitation of a greedy and corrupt company #Bernard Hill is right and he should say it #IT'S NOT THE REAL THING #and also #I think he's saying that the Amazon show is PURELY a money-making venture - which is true #the LOTR films were not purely a money-making venture - in fact they didn't even know if they'd be successful at all #and then they were - but no one predicted it

[uri59]

#wot #the wheel of time #the Witcher #the Silmarillion #wot on prime #rings of power #one piece #opla #the Sandman #one piece live action #wheel of time

[aragornsrockcollection]

Isn’t it funny that you never see anyone throwing a hissy fit over the inclusion of flora not native to Medieval Europe in Tolkien or other fantasy works.

Tomatoes, tobacco, POTATOES, tea and sugar, are all perfectly acceptable and normal for Tolkien to have included in Middle earth, but depict a single character with brown skin, and suddenly it’s not realistic, and WHAT ABOUT OUR HERITAGE.

Forget that we don’t analyze the heritage of white actors playing these rolls to make sure they’re from the proper culture to represent Tolkien’s extremely English story. Has a single person ever complained that Frodo and Sam were played by Americans when Hobbiton is CLEARLY based on rural England?

According to some, Hobbits can grow food and other crops that were only introduced into Europe through the violence of imperialism, but to have the hobbits look like the people who originally grew those crops is sacrilegious.

Medieval Europe, which wasn’t as homogenous as people think anyways, is only ever trotted out to justify hating the inclusion of black and brown characters.

If Sam can wax poetic about potatoes, he can look like came from Peru, like potatoes did.

And if that idea bothers you, maybe examine why.

#tolkien #the silmarillion #lotr #jirt #silm #jrr tolkien #I’m still not about rings of power but that’s because of every other choice they made #also why not take advantage of increasingly evil Numenor’s colonization of Umbar #a canon reality of the second age that saw relations turn from cultural exchange to domination #that is including diverse narratives and one of Tolkien’s opinions that aged great was his anti-imperialism #the condescending way he argued against it didn’t age as gracefully #but you can’t have everything #anyways people need to examine why non white people being included in a work of fantasy makes them angry #I mean we all know why

[bestboy-huan]

The girlboss-ification of Galadriel bothers me so much. In the books, in Tolkien’s works, Galadriel is a powerful political leader, even by the second age. She is a princess of the Noldor, the daughter of Finarfin. She is proud and respected.

In the Rings of Power, she is nothing more than a bitter commander in Gil-Galad’s army. She can’t even control her own subordinates. (They call her “Commandeer Galadriel” not “Lady Galadriel”!) She is ignored by Gil-Galad and condescended to by Elrond, she is dismissed and rebuked. She has no influence and no status of her own. So far in the show, her motivation is just vengeance and her own trauma, there is no greater consideration of the fate of Middle-Earth, no political aspirations, no nothing. Her identity becomes one of being Finrod’s little sister, not a leader of her own.

In the Unfinished Tales, there are many inconsistencies in Galadriel’s history, but none of them suggest this powerlessness and this humiliation.

I don’t care if they make her out to be a warrior or not, I don’t care if she leads people into battle or not, I do care about her political power.

They say they are centering female characters, which would be great, except they are disempowering her. I would much rather see a woman in a position of influence and respect, than one who is good with a sword. This is Galadriel, who refused Feanor, one of the greatest elves of all time, when he asked for a strand of her hair, and in Rings of Power she becomes a cast-away who is thrown around, ignored, and manhandled by those around her.

I understand the need to have room for character development and growth, but this is not that. It’s such a performative attempt at feminism, she is a classic 2010 female protagonist. One who is good at fighting, who is the underdog, who doesn’t allow herself to be kind or gentle or have emotional vulnerability, because the writers forgot what female empowerment actually looks like. A woman with dignity and political power is so much more important than a woman who can carry a sword.

#SO HELP ME #center female characters without making them powerless #tolkien never would have allowed Galadriel to be ignored and dismissed like this #she was one of the most powerful elves of ALL TIME and you’re going to do her dirty like this #rings of power #trop #i hate it so much #also no worries #i watched it in a way that was maybe not so legal #lotr #tolkien #galadriel

[thethirdtreeofvalinor]

#has this one been done #the rings of power #rings of power #lotr amazon #lotr on prime #tolkien #lotr #lotr memes #the lord of the rings #lotr fandom #silmarillion #silmarillion memes #incorrect tolkien quotes #incorrect silmarillion quotes #incorrect lord of the rings quotes #john mulaney quotes #john mulaney

[tangomagnolija]

POV youre watching the coworker who doesnt know Shit About Fuck give a presentation that will Definetly Solve All Of The Company's Problems. If said coworker was also the token Mad Scientist you keep in the basement because you couldnt hire the better ones. also sorry for the art quality i needed to get this out of my system fast

#khr oc #khr #khr lamette #art #The Plot is happening to everyone but him and no one bothers to catch him up #thats not how Mafia Fire Ring Powers work and idc the joke is funny okok #this would be happening sometime post ring battles idk i havent read or watched khr #khr varia

[meteors-lotr]

Just remembered that if Erebor was never taken and Thorin had become the king in all the rightful means and such, mans would probably have a ring of power

#Considering Bilbo is rocking with The One Ring #Their dynamic becomes so much funnier and engaging #Also Thorin really is hot shit like mans king got the arkenstone and a ring of power #and STILL he finds things to brood about #lotr #lord of the rings #the hobbit #thorin oakenshield #Bilbo Baggins #bagginshield #Like ish #It’s in the notes #But I will always include it if possible

[nishihii]

what if malenia used to be buffer before getting knocked out for a thousand years

#i know she's a demigod but she still had to work for that power #she was built like a strongwoman because i said so #elden ring #malenia blade of miquella #btw i think about that one fanart of her showing off her arm muscles a lot its AWESOME

[doctorslippery]

A Tolkien-ed up Christmas story would be awesome.

#christmas #reindeer #rings #lord of the rings #rings of power #the two towers #fellowship of the ring #return of the king #aragorn #boromir #token tolkien #gondor #mordor #ring of power #the one ring #sauron #gandalf #frodo #bilbo #samwise #merry #pippin #gollum

[ylieke]

Halbrand

#my art #the rings of power #sauron #sauron fanart #silmarillion #silm art #there only one lord of the ring #lord of the rings #halbrand #halbrand rings of power #the lord of the rings #lotr #RoP

[sesamenom]

all the rings at once

#silm #silmarillion #lotr #lord of the rings #all the rings! #21 rings of power #and one of friendship #the infinity gauntlet has nothing on this lol #might give you power rivaling one of the aratar; might blow up in your face; idk

[autistook]

An Unexpected Journey

#lotr #the hobbit #hobbit #smaug #bilbo #bilbo baggins #hobbit edit #lotr edit #hobbits #tolkien #tolkien edit #middle-earth #middle earth #an unexpected journey #unexpected journey #the ring of power #one ring #the one ring #lotr sting