The Lord of the Ringsfranchise is no stranger to wacky pairings at this point, but the wackiest may have happened in a video game.The Lord of the Rings:The Rings of Power’scontroversial Galadriel-Sauron romancetease started in season 1 and developed in season 2, despite never crossing the line into fulfillment of the tension between the two. Galadriel and Sauron hated each other inThe Rings of Power’ssource material, J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1954 novel,The Lord of the Rings. That makesRings of Power’sromance between Galadriel andSauron/Halbranda divisive stretch of canon.
Canon doesn’t apply to Tolkien’s legendarium the way it applies to many other high-fantasy worlds. Tolkien created his works as a mythopoeia - a realistic set of myths full of contradictions and contradictory perspectives, varied formats, and mystery. Nonetheless, Galadriel and Sauron hated each other in every single format, perspective, and story. Additionally,Rings of Powerhad Elrond - Galadriel’s future son-in-law - kiss her passionately, albeit as a diversion. But the pairing inMiddle-earth: Shadow of Warmakes these flirtations appear sensible.
Sauron & Shelob Share A Kiss In The Lord Of The Rings' Shadow Of War Video Game
Sauron & Shelob May Be Lord Of The Rings' Wackiest Pairing
Sauron and Shelob share an intimate moment inMiddle-earth: Shadow of War. This may come as a shock to those who know Shelob only as the giant spider in Tolkien’s novel and Peter Jackson’sLord of the Ringsmovies. Shelob also features inRings of Poweras a giant spider. ButShelob takes a human forminMiddle-earth: Shadow of Warand gets involved withSauron in his Elf form. Players are treated to or subjected to, depending on who is playing, a kiss between the two. However, Sauron and Shelob’s relationship extends far beyond this kiss in the game.
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Sauron and Shelob’s full-blown relationship inMiddle-earth: Shadow of Warmay constitute the zaniestLord of the Ringspairing yet. Needless to say,this pairing bears no relation to any of J.R.R. Tolkien’s many writingsonthe world of Middle-earth. This little-knownLord of the Ringspairing is the furthest any story in the entire franchise has ever taken Sauron into a mutually agreeable romance. Sauron’s star-crossed situationship with Galadriel inRings of Poweris nothing short of disastrous, despite being bizarrely beautiful in the show’s internal logic and more than a little tragic.
Shelob Never Took Human Form In The Lord Of The Rings But Possibly Could Have
There Is A Chance Shelob Could Have Been Able To Shapeshift
Shelob’s Maiar parentageprovides the faintest possibility that she may have been able to shapeshift and take a human form and that this may not have been a total invention on the part ofShadow of War.The SilmarillionconfirmedUngoliant (Shelob’s mother) could shapeshift, so she was most likely a Maia like Sauron. Shelob’s father was another primordial spider monster of unknown type and may or may not have been a Maiar. Their pregnancy would have bound them to their bodies, making them unable to shapeshift again, but the shapeshifting ability of their children is unknown.
Middle-earth: Shadow of Warwas released in 2017 and is an action-adventure video game published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.
Lúthien, daughter of an Elf and a Maia, took on some of the abilities of both parents. Regardless, in the game,Sauron and Shelob’s fair forms kiss in the Unseen world, but it leaves the Seen to the imagination, scarily. Shelob is fair in the Unseen but could be anything in the Seen.The Unseen world inThe Lord of the Ringsis also known as the wraith-world, which is the world Frodo went to when he put on the One Ring. In this world, Frodo saw the Ringwraiths' withered, corpse-like ghosts, although they were invisible in the Seen.
Galadriel Deserves Better, But Sauron & Shelob Are Lord Of The Rings’ Scariest Power Couple
Sauron & Shelob Deserve Each Other
Out of all the hilariously non-canonical Sauron romances shoehorned onto screens, Sauron and Shelob is the weirdest but also the most oddly appropriate. WhileThe Rings of Powerteases feelings between Galadriel and Sauron, it also portraysElf Mirdania’s crush on Sauronwhile he is disguised as Annatar and Sauron’s manipulative flirting in response.Galadriel and Mirdania both deserve better than Sauron, but Sauron and Shelob deserve each other, as the gameplay goes on to prove. Sauron betrays Shelob with a kiss, paralleling Judas' biblical betrayal of Jesus.
Sauron called Shelob his"pet cat,“but"she owns him not.“It is hard to think of this in the same way again after playingShadow of War.
From this point onward, Shelob starts becoming a grotesque arachnid beast, possibly signifying that she is no longer able to assume a fair form after she completes this transformation.It is suggested byShadow of Warthat Sauron gives Shelob upto the army that is attacking, but it isn’t entirely clear if his kiss turns her into a spider or how this helps him defeat the army. Perhaps he is trying to help her in some strange way. Either way, both members of this toxic twosome are despicable inLord of the Rings.
Middle-earth: Shadow of Waralso features the Second Age Elf, Celebrimbor.
Sauron called Shelob his “pet cat,” but “she owns him not.” It is hard to think of this in the same way again after playingShadow of War. While most cats may own their humans,Sauron was too powerfulfor even Shelob to control. Impressively, Sauron didn’t dare control Shelob either, unlike most of the other beings in his life.Sauron never officially worked with Shelobbut appreciated her guarding the Cirith Ungol pass, and sent her Orcs to torture for both of their amusement, demanding stories from onlookers. Sauron and Shelob may beThe Lord of the Rings’scariest power couple.
The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings is a multimedia franchise consisting of several movies and a TV show released by Amazon titled The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. The franchise is based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s book series that began in 1954 with The Fellowship of the Ring. The Lord of the Rings saw mainstream popularity with Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies.
