Author: Jason Gabbert

Warning: Contains spoilers for The rings of power Season 2, Episode 7. Sauron states in season 2, episode 7 of The rings of power In conversation with Celebrimbor that Morgoth (Sauron’s master since before the First Age) tortured him into slavery, which implicitly drove him to his path of evil. However, as convincing as the story sounds, there is more to it than meets the eye. Being a master of deception, Sauron’s motivations and backstory need to be considered to fully understand his relationship with Morgoth, and to see if it really was Morgoth that turned him to evil. Sauron…

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Warning: Contains spoilers for The Rings of Power Season 2Celebrimbor (Charles Edwards), in his Sauron (Charlie Vickers) manipulated obsession to create the rings as his magnum opus in The rings of powerInadvertently passes essential lessons to Sauron, who applies this knowledge to the crafting of the Nine, and the eventual creation of the One Ring. Although these teachings were vital to the creation of the One Ring, one specific lesson may have contributed to Sauron’s eternal destruction. In season 1, episode 2 of The rings of powerCelebrimbor has a conversation with Elrond about Fëanor’s hammer. Fëanor, using this very hammer,…

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Warning: Contains spoilers for The rings of power Season 2, Episode 7 In season 2, episode 7 of The rings of powerCelebrimbor (Charles Edwards) continues and finishes his work on the Nine, despite definitively learning Annatar’s true identity as Sauron (Charlie Vickers) – potentially positioning himself as a bigger villain than Tolkien wrote him to be in The Lord of the Rings And The Silmarillion. Although Celebrimbor is less frequent in Tolkien’s writing than in The rings of powerHe is consistently known to be one of the elven smiths seduced by Sauron and involved in the forging of the Nine.…

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Warning: Contains minor spoilers for The Rings of Power, Season 2 One recurring character in The rings of power Carrying nearly as much mystery as Sauron (Charlie Vickers) and Gandalf (Daniel Wyman) before their identities are revealed is Theo (Tiro Muhafidin). The rings of power Theo continues to explore as he discovers a strange sword, loses his mother, and interacts with integral characters like Arondir (Ismael Cruz Cordova), Galadriel (Morphid Clarke), and Isildur (Maxim Baldry). Fan speculation says that this little known character could become a Nazgûl or the founder of Rohan. It is unlikely that The rings of power…

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Myrdania (Amelia Kenworthy) was one of the Gwaith-i-Mírdain elven-middling and Celebrimbor’s (Charles Edwards) protogy, with her fate in The rings of power Even more tragic than her mentor. Myrdania, like the elves of Eregion (and most of Middle-earth), is manipulated by Sauron (Charlie Vickers) into helping craft the Rings of Power before meeting her death at his hand. Celebrimbor was also seduced by Sauron, with the same fate, but there was one significant difference between their deaths. Mirdania s Rings of power Character fortells, almost verbatim, what is to happen Celebrimbor. Celebrimbor often mimics her actions in the proceeding scene…

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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar ChildrenDirected by Tim Burton and starring Ella Purnell, Samuel L. Jackson, Eva Green and Asa Butterfield, has made a long-deserved resurgence since dominating the Top 10 list on Netflix’s streaming platform. The book of the same title, which inspired the movie, is the first of five in the series Miss Peregrine’s Strange Children Series by author Ransom Riggs. Anyone familiar with the history of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children And the work of Tim Burton will immediately see their compatibility and potential, which makes it a little surprising that the movie did not receive…

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