Botching his escape, he’s captured again and dragged off to meet “Adar” – the next big shadowy character we’re all going to have to wait a week to unmask. Forced to dig a mud pit with a load of other slaves, he manages to start a prison riot and ends up getting the episode’s best set-piece fighting a giant warg. Meanwhile, across the other side of Middle-earth, Arondir (Ismael Cruz Córdova) has been captured by an army of orcs. There’s clearly more to Halbrand than the show is letting on here, and his John Wick fighting skills don’t make things any clearer – but neither does a conversation with Galadriel that hints at him having royal blood (big echoes of Aragorn here…) Loyal to his old king instead, he takes Galadriel to an Elvish library on the edge of town (cue a slow-motion horse-riding montage) where she discovers that the symbol of Morgoth she’s been tracking her whole life is actually a map outlining the mountain range that will later go on to become the evil kingdom of Mordor.Įlsewhere in Númenor we meet Elendil’s kids Isildur (Maxim Baldry) and Eärien (Ema Horvath), and watch Halbrand get into a fight with the locals so he can try and steal a brooch that lets him join the blacksmith union. Luckily, Elendil isn’t great at following orders. Most humans don’t trust the elves anymore, so Queen Míriel ( Cynthia Addai-Robinson) secretly orders Elendil to keep her out of trouble. Unfortunately, as soon as Galadriel turns up, she pisses everyone off. Isildur, played by Maxim Baldry in ‘The Rings Of Power’. This, after all, is the fabled seat of power that Return Of The King keeps namedropping. Stranded at sea with human exile Halbrand (Charlie Vickers), she’s now picked up by Captain Elendil (Lloyd Owen) and taken to Númenor.Ī huge part of Tolkien lore, the ancient island kingdom makes its on-screen debut here looking as awesome as it deserves – the biggest city by far in The Lord Of The Rings and a whopping great bit of CGI that does the name’s legacy proud. First up, there’s Galadriel (Morfydd Clark). This week’s episode spends just as much time marinating in the finer details, gently unfolding its own sense of scale to inch the show’s three different storylines in different directions. Moving far more slowly than modern fantasy wannabes like House Of The Dragon, Tolkien’s stories are told at their own pace – and they usually spend ages talking about irrelevant ancestry and singing songs about blackberries. So it’s Gandalf, right? Everyone is eager to find out who the weird wizard bloke is who fell out the sky during last week’s episode but that’s really not how The Lord Of The Rings works.
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