The Eye
Theo and Galadriel find themselves in the middle of a pyroclastic flow, which has destroyed most of the village. They are able to survive by consuming product from the horses, which gallop past. Galadriel finds Theo to be fine, while most of the structures in the village are still intact. They head off in search of salvation.
Meanwhile, the psychotic Harfoots decide to get the Stranger to try and fix what’s happening to their world. When a tree falls on Nori, they’re lucky she’s not hurt because as we know, the Harfoots will just leave their wounded behind. Anyway, The Stranger’s magic seems to have worked, as the trees begin sprouting masses of food that they greedily harvest.
The Harfoots are being watched by a mysterious trio that we saw last week. They silently head off, but Nori decides to stop them. That’s a bad move, as the leader sets fire to their caravan and burns everything, food included. As a result, they decide to follow Nori, although Sardoc is convinced this is a bad move. ..
Durin III agrees to give Elrond access to the Mithril mines for five centuries, but only if Elrond can furnish the city with game, grain, and timber from the elder forests for that same period of time.
Durin slides a piece of mithril across the table, and it ends up next to the infected leaf. It seems to heal it. Disa though is not happy with this and believes they should reopen the mines themselves and see if there’s a safe way of mining mithril. When Durin slides the piece of mithril across the table, it seems to make her happy.
Elrond and Prince Durin are mining mithril together, and there are some lovely scenes between them. Honestly, these two and Disa are the best parts of the show. When King Durin sees his son in the mines, the pair have a pretty fiery chat. These scenes end with that aforementioned leaf floating down the recesses of the mines where it happens upon a mighty balrog. ..
Elendil and the others are walking through the forest when they see hundreds of Southlanders and Numenorians are marching through the trees. They are completely fine, and not even burnt.
As they walk, Theo and Galadriel are discussing the possibility that their mother and Arondir are dead. Galadriel says that she cannot know for sure, but she believes it. Theo says that he does not believe it, but he is willing to explore the possibility.
Galadriel reveals that Celeborn, her husband, is dead and she said goodbye to him. She said that he went off to war but she didn’t know why the commander of the northern armies didn’t go to war. Galadriel knows that Celeborn was collecting helmets like a Jenga game so she must have been at one of the wars.
After another reused scene, this time from Fellowship with Theo and Galadriel hiding from an orc rather than a Ringwraith, they evade Adar and his orcs as they near. ..
Anyway, they make it back and find both Arondir and Bronwyn, who are absolutely fine. Galadriel approaches Miriel, who’s blind now. There are ships waiting to take them back, while Miriel vows that Numenor will return and when they do, they’ll be ready.
Bronwyn is also leaving, heading off to an old Numenorean colony by the mouth of the Anduin. They call it Pelargir and apparently there’s fresh land and water there. Galadriel meanwhile, is heading off to the High King, while Halbrand is wounded but otherwise fine. ..
In the Southlands, Adar decides to change the name of the Southlands to Mordor.
The Episode Review
The pyroclastic flow that swept through the town of Rivendell last week was a vision? Elvish magic? Nope, it was just bad writing. It’s not even explained. It’s one of the most frustrating things with this show and it’s shocking how bad the writing is.
The screenplay for “The Dark Knight Rises” is terrible and there’s no consequences for anything.
The show’s visuals are great, but some of the interior sets and costume designs look terrible. We’ve seen the show copy and paste in extras rather than actually hiring more people, while the choreography and battle scenes leave a lot to be desired.
Rings of Power is one of the worst shows this year and it’s hard to fathom how much money went into this project. If there’s one saving grace, it’s that we only have 1 more episode left of this next week!
