#celeborn

TROP GALADRIEL AND CELEBORN BEING SO TORN APART, BROKEN, TORTURED AND DISTANT FROM EACH OTHER and I’m rooting for them so badly! Oh how will they find their way back to each other? Have things between them stayed the same? Are they forever changed?

by Cor-belle (@i-did-not-mean-to)

Galadriel wants to make a good impression…and succeeds?

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Nerdist: Jamie Campbell Bower Says ‘Something Inside Celeborn’ May BETRAY Him in TROP S3

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When we speak to Jamie Campbell Bower, we note to him that it sounds like Celeborn has really seen the darkness of the enemy, trapped as he is in a Middle-earth prison. We wonder how, then, Celeborn views the darkness and its forces in The Rings of Power season three. Is it all black and white for him? Or has he come to see things in shades of grey?

Bower offers us a beautiful answer, bringing it back to one of the most important themes in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. He notes, “I mean, to talk about the idea of ‘One cannot know light without having experienced the darkness, right?’ And I think that for Celeborn, he’s chosen to find joy. But I struggled with this concept of joy and what it means. And I looked at many, many writers to do with joy, and actually found something particularly interesting in Nick Cave. Joy is not the absence of suffering. It is choosing hope even in the face of great suffering and great sorrow. And that’s what he’s had to do.”

Jamie Campbell Bower speaks with great confidence about Celeborn’s joy, but then he wavers a little bit as he starts to offer a sentiment that feels like it may get into spoilery territory. Bower notes, “But within that [hope and joy], he’s constructed something of his own… That may or may not be something that could be used against him.”

In addition to Jamie Campbell Bower, The Rings of Power season three showrunners J. D. Payne and Patrick McKay had more to share about Celeborn. While they didn’t touch the idea of Celeborn potentially being betrayed by something inside of him/something he’s constructed as Bower did, they did return to the idea of how Celeborn’s dark fate has made him that much more full of light. The pair discusses whether Celeborn’s torment has twisted or corrupted him.

McKay notes, “Only time will tell. I think Gladriel will be worried about that. But Jamie Campbell Bower is a pretty stalwart elf. I would believe in his ability to withstand torture.”

And Payne offered, “Everyone will be affected by that kind of experience, but not everyone would necessarily be twisted to the darkness. And I think what’s interesting about Jamie’s Celeborn, everyone responds definitely those kinds of experiences. And Celeborn, there are actually scenes where he’s getting to know Galadriel again, and they’re reconnecting in their marriage after having been apart for millennia, talks about the effect that it’s had on him. And actually, you see that it has twisted him, not necessarily towards darkness, but maybe to light.”

by UnicornsInSpace (@greyjedijaneite)

Galadriel and Celeborn meet from the first time.

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Jamie Campbell Bower: “With Celeborn, I didn’t try to sew all [the threads of his story] into one amalgamated thing. I focused on loyalty, wisdom, courage, and strength, and I think wisdom was the thing that felt [particularly important] this season and this journey he goes on takes us closer to when he’s attributed to be the wisest of all elves.”

by StarSpray (@starspray)

As she reached the bottom of the stairs, Galadriel looked up to find Celeborn following. “What is it you seek?” he asked as she filled the silver ewer from the clear and cold waters of the stream. “My cousin,” she said as she turned to the silver basin. “It is a new Age; if he lives still, I would find him and bring an end to his long exile.”

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