Sapphires of West

Welcome to RINGS REFORGED, a podcast that exists because we’re so obsessed with THE RINGS OF POWER, we just can’t stop talking about it! 

In this first episode, we introduce ourselves and give you an idea what to expect from future bi-weekly installments. Then, we lose our minds ranking the episodes of the show from least favourite to best, before struggling intensely to pick our top 5 favourite characters. 

What is ‘choke me, daddy’ in Quenya?

[a snippet of fic, a little canon divergence from the rings of power, episode 8 ‘alloyed’]

…You pushed me to heights that no one else could have. I will not forget that. 

He leans in, so close she can smell singed metal against bare skin. The forge, it must be. A burnt and metallic scent in her nose. She tries to focus on it, one single thought to keep her stable. Keep her steady. His presence does things to her, and she cannot be distracted. Not now, not when she–

But he grows closer still. 

“Halbrand,” she says, uneasy. Unsure. He’s never been like this. Not this bold, not this bursting with delight. Some primal hunger in him has been fed, here in the beauty and splendor of Eregion. There’s a radiant light in his eyes that reminds her of the Two, and his lips–

He breathes in, and she swallows. He hasn’t even touched her yet and she’s lost her head. He’s going to— and she realizes a terrible a truth: she’s not going to stop him. 

It would be perilous to do this; allow him this familiarity when she has such fresh and painful doubts, allow him this intimacy in this public place where the race of men should stand in friendship alone to the daughter of the Golden House. Allow him to—

and time goes quicker between the two of us; but oh, my love, don’t forsake me — take what the water gave me