Galadriel’s not been going about her quest particularly well. He calls her a mirror to Morgoth, and he has a point. I wrote last week about finding it hard to love Galadriel as a character, and Adar points out exactly why: her rhetoric – that of an unflinching, battle-hardened leader – is dogmatic. Galadriel goes to confront Adar, chained up in the barn. (Is that because Halbrand’s actually the shape-shifting Sauron? Probably.) It’s a haunting moment and once again shows Adar to be a great antagonist – something that becomes even clearer once the dust has settled. “No,” Adar responds with a sinister smirk.
Galadriel and Halbrand chase a fleeing Adar, with Halbrand spearing the villain’s horse and almost killing Adar before Galadriel stops him. It’s a fight that unites these disparate story threads, giving some needed cohesion to the overall series. There are some slightly gratuitous shots of slow-motion horses (it works better here than in episode three, though it’s still a strange choice) but that doesn’t speak to the thrilling, nonstop action that unfolds, brilliantly directed brilliantly by Charlotte Brändström. Like Éomer’s riders at Helm’s Deep, the Númenorians rush into combat. And then, when all hope is lost, a surprise: Galadriel really did make haste. It’s Theo, though, who breaks and gives Adar the weapon. Arondir, more emotional than we’ve seen before, is willing to give up Bronwyn to hide Sauron’s sword. It’s bloody and tense and riveting.Īdar breaks into the barn and starts brutally murdering Southlanders. The (good) humans take shelter in the keep and Bronwyn’s hit by an arrow that pierces through her. And then the Southlanders realize they’ve been killing their own kind under Orcish masks. Indeed, it feels like a set piece coming to a close. A weaker show would have ended there, the conflict coming to an end. A heroic Bronwyn saves him and there’s victory. Despite the Elf being one of many main characters, the fight is framed and shot in a way that gives tension – as if he really could die. Moments later, chaos erupts: Arondir and Bronwyn are fending off a wave of Orcs, Arondir taking on one particularly large fella. However, as Gandalf would say, it's the deep breath before the plunge. It’s a decent but not spectacular start, with a few good lines here and there but nothing too riveting. Meanwhile, on a boat heading to Middle-earth from Númenor, Isildur and Galadriel talk for the first time. Bronwyn gives a disappointingly cliché speech to muster the men, yet her words to Theo moments later – about light conquering darkness – are resoundingly Tolkien-esque. There’s some tepid celebration as they watch Adar’s armies being blown up, though there’s still a fight on the horizon. They march on the stronghold, yet Arondir has set a trap – the humans have run to a nearby town where they set up another ambush. No more hiding in the shadows, waiting for daylight to disappear. They have been slaves, he says, but no longer. The episode starts with Adar, played with fascinating reservation by Joseph Mawle, giving a pep talk to his Orcish children.
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The Rings of Power series has continuously blurred the barrier between film and television, and the line has been completely wiped here. And that’s not to mention the battle, an epic fight between the Orcs and Southlanders that dominates the runtime and would not have been out of place in one of Peter Jackson’s movies.
A volcano erupts and changes the face of Middle-earth forever. A villain goes from simply intriguing to entirely engrossing. Storylines connect as Galadriel and Arondir finally meet. The show’s sixth episode has the feel of a finale. Now, that moment has come for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Games of Thrones’ first season was solid throughout, but the infamous ninth episode, ‘Baelor’, guaranteed its place on the pop-culture pantheon. For Lost, it was ‘Walkabout’ in which John Locke’s secret is first revealed. For the Sopranos, that episode was the show’s self-contained fifth installment, ‘College’, in which Tony finally acts on his gangster impulses.
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There comes a moment in every great TV show’s run where everything clicks into place – when you, as a viewer, realize you can’t stop watching that you’re here for the long haul, however many seasons are ahead.
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