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— I Loved You by Alexander Pushkin (translated by A.Z. Foreman)
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“You want me to steal something.” It's a translation, not a question.
"Keep your voice down," she hisses and casts another furtive look around the club. "And since you are also looking to procure some fine art, I thought we might align our interests."
Leaning downclose, he whispers in her ear, "What's the score, baby?"
"The Venus of Valinor."
Galadriel and Halbrand in @thecoziestbean 's delightful The Venus of Valinor , an AU based on one of my all-time comfort films, which I've been devouring over the past couple of days! Thank you for a wonderful read 🫶
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-Elven Kings Under The Sky-
All others look on you with doubt. I alone can see your greatness. I alone can see your light. You would make me a tyrant. I would make you a queen. Fair as the sea and the Sun. Stronger than the foundations of the earth. And you. My king. The Dark Lord. No. Not dark. Not with you at my side.
Galadriel and Halbrand Sauron
THE RINGS OF POWER — 1.08 "Alloyed"
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Many ages ago, a man bearing that mark united the scattered tribes of the Southlands under one banner. The very banner that might unite them again today, against the evil that now seeks to claim their lands. Your lands, Halbrand. Your people have no king, for you are him.
Galadriel and Halbrand THE RINGS OF POWER — 1.03 "Adar"
I love the idea that @rey-jake-therapist has proposed: that this shot here is a callback to this one in “Adrift.” I agree that this parallel is a strong one. And that next to Galadriel’s broken body, the shadowed outline of a person, presumably Sauron, can be seen. The poetry of such a thought: not just that someone had been there, that someone was meant to be there, but perhaps that someone is there still. There’s an imprint. In another world, the unseen one, or a dream, Halbrand is there still. “He never left.”
It’s clearly shown in TROP that this is their recurring theme. Sauron is the voice that beckons her. It is his presence that she feels in her dreams. He is the last thing she senses before she awakes. It is his face that haunts her in that waking world.
And it's a beautiful and ghostly image that this is something Galadriel and Sauron share. Sleep is not only an intimate act. Aside from the obvious psychological and sexual symbolism here, the Freudian theories and incubus myth -- the implication here is the subconscious connection. In the subconscious and dream world, unexpressed desires can be revealed. Truths are uncovered. Or unrequited fantasies can live uninterrupted. Without the constraints of reality or society. And how moving is it that this is where Galadriel and Sauron are tethered?
This is an amazing catch! And there's symetry here: Galadriel still also haunts Sauron's thoughts when they are no longer together. He sends her visions and calls her name in them (Are they not the seeds you planted?), and the way he talks to Mirdania suggests Galadriel is constantly in on his mind ('Who's liking?' 'Why Lady Galadriel's ofcourse') .
