the jedi killer in love with the last jedi

The Void and Yelena :3

He kept showing up in mirrors to Yelena so she knew exactly where he was and after she said she wanted to talk, he actively allowed her in! He had control over at least that one room. And we have to assume that he was allowing the others to find each other and them too because how else would they have done so?

So Bob wasn't fully weak there - he desperately wanted Yelena and the others to find him and he helped them do exactly that 😭

Just read this theory on Reddit and I think it can work out. It may explain as to why the One ring is so powerful. Unlike the Elven rings made of the dagger (with Mairon's involvement) that embody the light and healing energy, the One ring is a symbol of corruption and destruction (Sauron's field of work). Once Sauron falls into darkness completely by binding himself to the ring, he will kill this tiny Mairon's part in himself. It means there will be no longer of Mairon in the Elven rings and they will be ruled by the One as the others.

Furthermore, the Crown has Sauron and Galadriel's blood on it and if melted, it will just coax them together bound by darkness (crown itself=darkness).

This plot twist can give further prominence and explanation to Galadriel's desire to have the One ring as to embrace her other self.

Sauron will bind himself to the ring while Galadriel will keep resisting until she passes the final test and departs to Valinor.

It's been already implied that the Crown is something that both

divides them, serving as a barier between them (good vs evil) and

binds them in the darkness as they both have it in them.

PS: it doesn't make sense to have 2 objects with the same magical power in the hands of the same villain. They will have to get rid of the crown anyway.

Thanks for the gifs :)

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A vision of a crown, rejected.

A crown to still their swords.

A crown to bind them.

parallels: initiating touch with Galadriel VS recoiling from other's touch

Oh yeah, this is going to be juicy in S3.

After Galadriel is stabbed by Morgoth's Crown, some interesting things happen. First, Sauron speaks into her mind (door closed my ass).

Next, after Sauron stabs that Orc, he halts atop the mountain and looks in her direction, like something caught his attention. The camera cuts straight to Galadriel from above, in a viewpoint that definitely looks like another pov watching her.

(Interestingly the music that also happens to be playing is the same from S1, when Halbrand says "No--not dark. Not with you by my side.")

It definitely looks like they're setting up that "cosmic connection" bond they've been talking about. Mind to mind speaking, Sauron able to "perceive her" and perhaps she him in return. I had been hoping for these sort of what I'm calling "Reylo force bond scenes" in S2, but perhaps they wanted to set it up this way, using the Crown (which happens to pierce both Sauron and Galadriel now, drawing their blood) as a means of tying them even closer and forging that bond.

Remember what Adar said. "Only blood can bind."

Bonus: "Bind yourself to me!"

galadriel is sauron's god.

the god that he violently pierces with his crown and binds to himself by guilt when she rejects him, as his worship is selfish and cruel.

the only god who could replace the other - morgoth. it was not adar alone who saw galadriel as morgoth's successor. sauron sees that the only way for him to be free of morgoth's darkness is to bind himself to galadriel's light.

he doesn't want her as a trophy, he doesn't want to tame her, deep down, he doesn't even want her to simply be his equal.

he wants her to willingly become his master, his god. yet, when she resists, he pins her and pierces her with the crown (=the proposal/power), leaving her no choice as he penetrates her flesh with his offering, keeps pushing in as he tells her he wants her as his queen to worship, a soft expression turning into the desire to devour. if she doesn't hold his leash, he will eat her whole. if she doesn't accept his submission, he will ravage her as a means of binding in his desperation. if she doesn't bind him to her light, he will bind her to his darkness by marking her with morgoth's crown. his yearning knows no boundaries.

I have always thought that Sauron's possible try at redemption and his feelings towards Galadriel will be shown as ambiguous. And here's an example: right before a scene in the Numenorean prison, where Galadriel 'discovers' that Halbrand is 'the king of the Southlands', and tries to convince him to return to the Middle-earth with her, we get this scene - Galadriel as a puppet on strings moved by a puppeteer:

The obvious conclusion is that Sauron is the puppeteer that is manipulating her. Pretty neat, right? But that's not the only symbolism here!

Right after the puppet scene, comes this shot - Galadriel entering the prison, and the main focus is on this statue, which we will get in the prison scenes a lot:

The statue represents Uinen. Now it's not unusual that her statues would be present in Numenor, as she was a Maia who brought calm seas and was revered among the Numenoreans. What is unusual is that the statue is in the prison and that it is shown so many times. I've read the reasoning behind this is that the prison was formerly a temple to Uinen. But still, people creating the show really wanted to highlight that specific statue during Galadriel and Halbrand's scenes. Why?

Well, on the surface level, the statue resembles Galadriel with her long wavy locks (Galadriel's hair is always down in the prison scenes) - so that's a sign that we should connect her and Uinen.

So what is a possible meaning of the statue in this context?

Uinen was married to a Maiar Ossë, who was corrupted by Morgoth, but Uinen persuaded him to return to the light side.

If we assume that Sauron's redemption is true, he really might have wanted to return to the light by his relationship with Galadriel.

And of course that wouldn't have worked, because Sauron is a demigod corrupted by a god, and Galadriel could have helped him only if she dragged him back to Valinor. She can't heal him, but his intensions could have been true nevertheless. Like Halbrand has said himself: 'Look, Elf. You didn’t cause my suffering and you can’t fix it. No matter how strong your will. Or your pride.'

what is so alluring about sauron x galadriel dynamic is the whole notion that sauron is making up delusions about merging souls with galadriel so that they can be joined at the hip while galadriel is making up fantasies about slaying him like a dragon. that sauron is an irredeemable evil, the darkness incarnate itself, yet galadriel is the only being he loves bc he covets her like morgoth coveted silmarils (which is so mythology-core) and bc she is his inverted mirror. that galadriel can't stop fighting sauron, is consumed by her fight against him, so it becomes an intrinsic part of her very being to the point where she even takes nenya, the symbol of her fight and connection to sauron, with her to valinor. that he makes her thirsty for power and she makes him obsessed to posses her. that no matter how many times galadriel has humiliated sauron (who is infamously prideful) by rejecting him, he still gropes ever to see her.