I have complicated feelings about RoP: it gave me a shiny new blorbo who I love to pieces (Adar, bby <33333) and I'm defensive of it thanks to all the ridiculous right-wing outrage about Black elves and female leads, but it was also just really bad, and not even in a fun trashy way, but in a borderline unwatchable way

Galadriel/Sauron feels very similiar to Reylo to me, though--and I certainly like the both pairings for the same reasons! But maybe you feel differently since, goodness knows, you're far more of a Reylo expert than I am! :-D

Thank you very much for the links, BTW! Must read. Military historian's breakdown sounds fuuuuun~