a rant book of lotr rants, headcanons, (aralas) fanfics and fic recs, aralas in general, ship rants, (character) analyses, ship justifications, frosam, random things i notice, things i love, things i hate, rings of power, really anything and everyth...
yes i am still alive even though i haven't posted for almost a month
in my defense i've had 😲✨school✨😲 and i've been working nonstop on my aralas fic (30K words so far 💪)
and ik i said i was gonna do a chapter on elrohir x legolas AND I STAND BY THAT and i PROMISE THATS GONNA BE IN THE NEXT ONE but i had no motivation to post and the rings of power finale gave me my first hint of inspo in literal weeks so here have this half-baked chaotic review of rings of power as a whole and my thoughts on the finale
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please enjoy this low quality meme i made after i watched ep7 of rings of power:
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now please enjoy this second low quality meme i made after i watched ep8 as a recreation of the first low quality meme:
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yeah. so it's safe to say i have THOUGHTS on the finale. and to get into THOSE we have to go back a bit and look at ep5 and ep7 and make some notes on what i thought ab those.
so ep5 sparked some new thoughts on the modernity of the show, which continues to be my biggest problem
like the whole thing with COMPLETELY rewriting the origins of mithril (????????) and making the leaves of lindon start to whither and go black felt VEEEEERY third age mirkwood to me
in fact, just the way that gilgalad was portrayed in general (though i admit i am not and have never been a gilgalad stan so if any second age girlies wanna correct me on this feel free) was VEEEERY similar to how thranduil was portrayed in the hobbit movies
which while they're comforting asf they're like the farthest possible thing from canon so rly not the best comparison
and the complete lack of gender gap???? like dgmr, i LOVED bronwyn being an absolute girlboss and slaying leading a whole ass village into battle - like yes queen tell them - but YOU'RE TELLING ME that in the SECOND AGE they'd have just followed her like that???? this is ANCIENT TIMES. there would have been SOME DOUBT as to her abilities to lead bc she's a woman like come on
