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    Annatar Explained

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    5. @rafaelgustavo7786 on

      This was the period where Sauron was supposed to be a pseudo Promethean figure generating religious engineering in Harad and Rhûn with the metallurgical revolution he made in the east and south.

    6. @awesomehpt8938 on

      Annatar sounds like a nice guy. Definitely doesn’t have any ill intentions for anyone. I’m sure there’s no chance he’s associated with any dark lords whatsoever.

    16. @Clyde-S-Wilcox on

      Annatar explained: Some elves were dumb enough to trust a guy calling himself "Lord of Gifts" even after Gil-galad, Elrond, and Galadriel were all like "hell naw."

    22. @errantwinds-up8uu on

      I honestly can't blame Celebrimbor and co. for accepting Annatar at first. Not only did he portray himself as coming from the Valar, but Feanor and his line always had that streak of pride in wanting to create beautiful things.

    28. @elitestarquake3597 on

      There’s something about Maiar and Elves who were aligned with Aulë, isn’t there. Sauron, Saruman, Feänor and the other Ñoldor to whom Aulë taught much in smithying and crafting – they all seek mastery over physical matter and tend towards arrogance and a desire to have power over other beings, even if “for the good”. Even Aulë himself thought he knew better than Ilúvatar and jumped the gun by creating the Dwarves without prior approval. Galadriel – herself a Ñoldo – desired a realm to call her own, to nurture, protect and, yes, to rule. Sauron knew exactly what he doing by focusing on Eregion: those Elves heard exactly what they wanted to hear from him.

    29. @aarontalksculture4946 on

      6:18
      I'm of the opinion that the Elves nor the Valar were truly meant to exist in the perfect isolation of Valinor apart from the rest of the world.

      The Valar started their inhabitation of Arda in Middle Earth. Also the Elves and Men awoke in Middle Earth. I think the sundering of the people of Arda is in some way the original sin that set tens of thousands of years of strife into motion. The Valar are mostly benevolent, but they are in fact, not perfect.

      It seems the Valar and Elves of Valinor try to pause Arda in place and create artificial perfection rather than growing and adapting with the changing world.

    33. @Milesfinlay1 on

      If the rings of power ended with the lord of gifts, giving Galadriel a squishy toy for her anger management issues I’d be very much more content than I am now😂

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