![]() I’ll never forget where I was when I found out my ex was getting married. I don’t care how much time has gone by or how long a person has been divorced, when you find out your ex is getting married, not only does it hurt, but it is a true shocker, and there are many feelings associated with it, including the feeling of injustice–like unfairness, anger, bitterness, jealousy–why does he get the happy ending and I don’t, and an evaluation of your own life and what might not be working. Not because I wanted to get back together with him, but because of so many emotions stirring around in my head. I must confess to irritation that we apparently have to have a backstory as to why Gandalf loves Hobbits so, but if we’re going to go there, this is not the worst way.My ex is getting married and it hurts like hell!! That’s what I wanted to shout several years ago when I found out my ex was engaged. ![]() The Stranger does help them out of this pickle, saying the word “friend” wonderingly and gazing at Nori with affection before pushing the caravan with his giant-scale strength. The ceremony highlighting this fact and remembering the dead and gone is actually quite affecting, sandwiched though it is between some gratingly broad hijinks. This is more than just a shunning: these rosy-cheeked pastoral innocents can and do leave all stragglers to die. Nori’s fixation on helping the Stranger (Daniel Weyman) has all but doomed her hobbled father (Dylan Smith) and whole family to being left behind as the community’s caravans make their way through the wilderness. Especially when the third thread in this episode is the (mostly) understated but honestly pretty engaging Harfoot plot. I was kinda interested in his interactions with Bronwyn (who does not appear this week), but without her I truly do not care at all about him or his plotline. It’s hard to do political intrigue in a world where evil is something you can measure, refine, and bake into a piece of jewelry. Environmentalism is one of Tolkien’s favorite themes as I understand it, but the drama over chopping down an ancient tree to make way for the orc’s roads went from zero to a hundred in the blink of an eye. Everything happening in the Southlands feels incredibly arch and hyperbolic, including some truly comical elf-fu that I’m pretty sure I was supposed to think was cool. There is a clear effort to echo the way that Peter Jackson’s films dramatize character deaths, but we don’t know these guys at all. It’s troubling to me that, despite how long this episode is (never mind how long it feels) there is not enough substance to justify the heavily scored slow-motion deaths of Arondir’s two elf companions. ![]() You might have recognized the name of his son, Isildur? That’s the guy who didn’t throw the Ring into Mount Doom in the prelude to Fellowship of the Ring.ĭYLAN: Yeah, all the plot is happening in Númenor, but all the emotional gravity is being loaded haphazardly onto Arondir, who has been forced to dig tunnels and trenches for the orc servants of Adar-implied to be Sauron himself. Without getting into too much detail about what’s coming (in whatever form it’ll take), Elendil is from late in the Second Age. This has cemented my feeling of “flattened” history from the first two episodes. Jenna, I noticed you scribbling in your notebook a lot as Elendil was being introduced. Today, however, Commander of the Elvish Guard Galadriel (Morfyyd Clark) and her accidental human companion Halbrand (Charlie Vickers) are not terribly welcome there, even after being rescued by the stalwart sea captain Elendil (Lloyd Owen). Can this latest on-screen voyage to Middle-earth satisfy both a diehard with the wisdom of the Eldar and your average Sam, Pip, or Merry?ĭYLAN: This week’s episode, “Adar,” follows three of the show’s ongoing plotlines, but the bulk of its 64 minutes is spent on the island of Númenor, a human nation that once allied with the elves. Artist/JRR Tolkien devotee Jenna Kass and TV critic/fantasy philistine Dylan Roth are a married couple who have joined forces to review the new original series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
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