12/14/2022 0 Comments The dark crystal skeksis![]() ![]() It's utterly enraging how much the Skesis have the creatures of Thra fooled, because we know the truth the whole time. To speak out against them, or even think about doing so? Heresy! The Gelfling think they're being treated fairly, and some tithes every now and then isn't that bad a price to pay. The Skeksis have all of Thra fooled by a lie during Age of Resistance, with the entire land thinking that they're benevolent rulers. Sauron and the Skeksis both shine when it comes to the awful art of creating Fake News. OUTRAGEOUS LIES AND THE SUBVERSION OF TRUTH There is no redemption or re-assimilation with the Ainur for the giant flaming eye. Once the ring of power is destroyed, he's dead. They are joined once again with the Mystics, and the UrSkeks proceed to go back to wherever the hell they came from. The Skeksis are almost redeemed in the end, though it's not really by choice and they're kicking and screaming the whole way. Look at pretty much everything that the Chamberlain does for evidence of this. ![]() The Skeksis, by comparison, are almost as bad to each other as they are to everyone else. He even convinces the Men of Numenor to worship Morgoth instead of the Valar - Morgoth, not himself. Sauron lies and cheats every other being be meets in the stories, but never Morgoth. The Skeksis are roughly 78 percent betrayal, and 22 percent chittering dirtbag. He loses points here because at one point he served a master. Once Morgoth was finally dealt with, Sauron continued his work. Morgoth was far worse than anyone I've mentioned - he's in a special little class unto himself. There's little evidence to support Sauron ever being "good" or anything remotely like it, but he was once a "higher being." You have to go all the way back to the music of the Ainur (at the start of The Silmarillion) when Morgoth fell and Sauron joined him as his chief lieutenant. All of the good stuff went to the Mystics, I guess. While tampering with the crystal, the UrSkeks were split into the two disparate beings, and the Skeksis began their reign of being awful. We know from The Dark Crystal that the Skeksis are halves of a whole - they used to be joined with the Mystics of Thra, and were called UrSkeks. When it comes to Sauron and the Skeksis, who wore/wears evil best? Is it even a competition? Do they all have too much in common? Drink that essence and trick that elf into teaching you about rings, because it's time to dive into this wretched pool of filth. ![]() Some of Sauron's worst acts took place during the Second Age, and we'll likely see some (or many) of them in the upcoming Amazon series. Tolkien's Middle-earth stories, Sauron was a master liar and manipulator, and the Skeksis take more than a few tips from Sauron's Playbook for Being Horrible (a collection we've put together on the side, not an officially authorized release). In both the First and Second Ages of J.R.R. He has transcended into an existential, all-consuming doom - but before he turned into that giant eye, he had a body. It's not really fair to compare the Skeksis with the Sauron that we see in Rings, as he no longer has a "human" body and exists only as a giant flaming eye. Upon examination, it was surprising to me how similar the two villainous entities were/are. So, then, how do these new and un-improved Skeksis match up against one of the greatest evils that fantasy has ever known? What happens when you study them alongside Sauron from The Lord of the Rings? (Heck, they're even worse than the worst person in all of Harry Potter, Dolores Umbridge.) They are scarier than Queen Bavmorda ( Willow), and nastier than the White Witch ( The Chronicles of Narnia). These self-indulgent, gluttonous, lying, gaping maws of evil make Voldemort look somewhat decent by comparison. We knew that they were bad, but now they're bad on a level that firmly places them in the upper pantheon of the worst villains that the fantasy genre has to offer. These monstrous vulture-skeleton things whimpered and screeched their way to villainous fantasy glory, but they really stepped up their game in the Netflix prequel The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. The Skeksis have terrified everyone from the moment that The Dark Crystal was released in 1982. ![]()
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