Great insights about the mirroring of the prologues revealing the shift in focus from Galadriel to Sauron and the way you can substitute precious for moment in Celebrimbor's mini-rant (it stood out to me just how many times he focused on himself there: "*I* have spent an age preparing for this. *I* have apprenticed, *I* have studied, *I* have reached the very height of *my* craft. This...this...this is is my moment.")
I like your Blue Wizards theory better than the Saruman or Gandalf ones. I've always hoped that The Stranger is a Blue Wizard, but hadn't considered that the Dark Wizard could be a way for them to establish a Gandalf/Saruman dynamic by sorta combining Tolkien's two versions of their backstory.
Haha, I ended up waking up at midnight to watch the first two, so I was able to think about them and mentally draft thoughts all day in the background before watching the third one and finishing up
Great insights about the mirroring of the prologues revealing the shift in focus from Galadriel to Sauron and the way you can substitute precious for moment in Celebrimbor's mini-rant (it stood out to me just how many times he focused on himself there: "*I* have spent an age preparing for this. *I* have apprenticed, *I* have studied, *I* have reached the very height of *my* craft. This...this...this is is my moment.")
I like your Blue Wizards theory better than the Saruman or Gandalf ones. I've always hoped that The Stranger is a Blue Wizard, but hadn't considered that the Dark Wizard could be a way for them to establish a Gandalf/Saruman dynamic by sorta combining Tolkien's two versions of their backstory.
Here I took a half day off and you still got your review out before I finished mine!
Haha, I ended up waking up at midnight to watch the first two, so I was able to think about them and mentally draft thoughts all day in the background before watching the third one and finishing up