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8 months

Not quite random observations about #TheRingsOfPower Thread of threads (🧵-🧵) A series of threads that explores the possibility that the writers of the show are influenced by some of the lesser known works of Tolkien (HoME, NoME, UT, ...) and some transciptions of props.

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3 months

Not quite random observations about #TheRingsOfPower Are the Orcs corrupted Elves? A series about the lore concerning the origins of the Orcs and how it was used in the show (Part 1 of 3) A thread 🧵(50+)

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Not quite random observations about #TheRingsOfPower Although contact between the elves and the isle of Númenor has broken down 350 years ago, there are still a lot of remnants of that once amicable relationship visible in the city. Let’s look at a few of them. A thread 🧵(40)

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Not quite random observations about #TheRingsOfPower Why does Galadriel reject Sauron’s proposal? During episode 8 Sauron makes a proposal to Galadriel: ‘I alone can see your light. […] I would make you a queen. […] You bind me to the light. And I bind you to power.’ 🧵(50+)

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Not quite random observations about #TheRingsOfPower What role has Durin’s Bane to play in the show? The Balrog under Khazad-dum, also called ‘Durin’s Bane’ makes only a brief appearance in Season 1. But we can still speculate and make a few predictions. A short thread 🧵(14)

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Bear McCreary’s soundtrack covers every minute of the show, but sometimes it is barely audible or just muted. If ‘Celebrimbor’s Ambition’ is layered over its corresponding scene, the Mithril/Ring theme appears two more times, linked with Fëanor’s hammer and the planed new forge.

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Not quite random observations about #TheRingsOfPower The númenórean numerical system When walking up to the palace in Episode 3, Galadriel and Halbrand walk past a flood line plaque that contains also a two numbers. A short thread 🧵(11)

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Not quite random observations about #TheRingsOfPower Transscript of the Line of the Southlands (House of Indreth) First part are Tengwar in the Sindarin mode (following the sound of words, like on Míriel's warmap). Second part is a mix of Cirth and new letters.

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Not quite random observations about #TheRingsOfPower Who is Sauron? The question of Sauronʼs identity (Adar, Halbrand, Stranger) looms high over Season 1. But Sauron has another presence in the storyline of some of the characters too. A thread 🧵(50+)

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We have already seen Sauron feigning defeat forshadowed when Elrond did the same to gain access to the dwarven king (another element connecting the dwarven and the númenórean storyline). (Sauron clearly doesn’t play Elrond here, but Elrond in a way plays Sauron.) #TROPspoilers

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Not quite random observations about #TheRingsOfPower The Guild Daggers of Númenor One visible sign of the guilds of Númenor are the Guild Crests and one of them features prominently in Halbrand’s storyline. But the guild use their own daggers too. A short thread 🧵(13)

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5 months

Not quite random observations about #TheRingsOfPower Full picture of Eärien’s letter of acceptance into the Builder’s Guild with transcription:

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Not quite random observations about #TheRingsOfPower One minor detail from Episode 1: Galadriel carries a broken sword while in Forodwaith (which adds another similarity to Adar, who also carries a broken sword).

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Not quite random observations about #TheRingsOfPower What are this islands west of Lindon about? The islands have not shown up in the show yet (and perhaps never will), but they are 3 of only 5 named islands on the promotion map. A short thread 🧵(20)

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8 months

Not quite random observations about #TheRingsOfPower Full picture of the plan for Celebrimbor's 'more powerful than any ever built' forge with transcription. Most has been already transcribed from the show itself (link in next tweet), i only added some newly visible words. 🧵

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2 months

In Episode 4 (and other ones as well), we see another mural, this time depicting the collaboration of Elves and Men in a fight against a sea monster. The cantina is set in the ruins of an older elvish building that contains murals on the other walls too.

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@Claus_Pandi Sie scheinen leider momentan der einzige Journalist in Österreich zu sein, der die Ausmaße dieser Nehammer-Aktion verstanden hat.

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The Galadriel of the show is very much based on the description that Tolkien gave in ‘The Shibboleth of Fëanor’ (in HoME v.12). For now we are only interested in one point: her being ‘a match for […] the loremasters […] of the Eldar’. She knows all the lore of Middle-earth.

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The first massive reminder of the connection between the Men of Númenor and the Elves is the towering statue of Eärendil, a half-elf, and his wife Elwing, an elf, both parents to the first King of Númenor, Elros. We see it for the first time at the start of Episode 3.

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1) EXPLORE THE LORE Tolkien developed the origin story of the Orcs throughout his life without reaching a final conclusion. In the first part we will look at the earlier versions of the story and the version that ended up in ʻThe Silmarillion’.

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3 months

There is also this visual connection between the falling snowflake and the falling leaf:

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@RaptureVelvet @e51dc715a5 @DailyRoP Speaking of the Balrog and echoes, compare the snowflake falling on the anvil and evaporating (1x01) as Thondir says, "Whatever happened here was long ago," to the leaf falling down the mine and catching on fire when we see the Balrog (1x07).

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In their Podcast, J.D. Payne calls their design of Númenor a ʻlayer-cake’. ʻYou can tell the history of this civilisation in the architecture itself […] You see this sort of conflict between elf and human written in stone.’

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We can find the oldest version in the story about ʻThe Fall of Gondolin’ in the ʻLost Tales’ (HoME v.2). In this version, Melkor bred them of ʻthe subterranean heats and slime’. We also find the first idea of elves being twisted to the evil of Melkor, but they are not Orcs.

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But then Tolkien wrote multiple Orc characters for ʻThe Lord of the Rings’ and writing characters can change your mind (as with the dwarves in ʻThe Hobbit’). In the story, this new insight was expressed by Frodo: ʻI don't think it gave live to the orcs, it only ruined them’.

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When Elendil waylays Galadriel later in Episode 3, he shows her a bust in an alcove, decorated with fresh flowers, as a sign that there are still people in Númenor that are friendly to the Elves.

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Beside the Dwarves, Sauron is destined to interact with the Balrog. Why would he need to do this? Because Adar’s story in Episode 6 suggests that the Balrog has some pertinent knowledge needed for Sauron’s quest to craft his new power. #TROPspoilers

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When Adar talks to Galadriel in episode 6 about Sauronʼs attempts to craft his new power, he mentions a ʻshadow of dark knowledge, that kept itself hiddenʼ. We see the horns of a Balrog on the anvil during that sequence, so Sauron is going to visit someone beneath Khazad-dûm.

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Miriel’s grandfather is Ar-Gimilzôr, the ʻgreatest enemy of the Faithful’, who forbade utterly the use of the Elven-tongues. His great grandfather is Ar-Adûnakhôr, ʻLord of the West’, who started to restrict the use of the Elven-tounges (from: ʻAkallabêth’)

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The destruction of Khazad-dum happens 2000 years into the Third Age and dwarves from Khazad-dûm are part of the Last Alliance. Therefore it is quite unlikely that we will see a Balrog rampaging through the city and killing King Durin in the show. #TROPspoilers

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The veiled bust looks like the veiled female Elves we see in Episode 1 and Episode 5.

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On the other hand, we know that Sauron is unable to escape Morgoth’s shadow. He always ends up creating just another variation of the deeds of his master, including his end. That is one of the main features of his story. There is always a Morgoth-element in what he does. (Silm)

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In Episode 3, Miriel states the timeline for the escalation of the conflict: ʻElves have been unwelcome on our shore since the reign of my grandfather’s great grandfather’.

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The evil that Galadriel perceives in Adar triggers a violent reaction and risks to end their shared story. And then Sauron, in his role as Halbrand, decides to intervene (again), enters the frame and pulls her back. (How long has he been watching both of them silenty?)

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We already know how Galadriel’s story will end and following her rejection of Sauron, she is now on a path to reconnect with her elfdom. Adar’s future, however, has not yet been written. Is something similar possible for him? That will be explored in the next part.

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In the same story, Thorndor, the King of Eagles, refers to the Orcs as ʻthe children of Melko, the accursed’. But this does not look like a description of a relationship of descent.

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In a draft letter written in 1954, Tolkien credited this insight to suffering and experience, but also to the Ring. He also showed his first idea about who the ruined ʻthem’ could have been: some of the earliest Elves. (Letter 153)

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But if Season 2 also shows us more of Sauron’s backstory, it creates an opportunity to invent more history between the the characters. In Episode 8, Sauron talks about his release from the clenched fist of Morgoth. A strange position for Morgoth’s right hand. #TROPspoilers

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1) EXPLORE THE LORE. In this thread I don’t want to argue the wrongness in Sauron’s offer. But instead I’m going to speculate about the reason for her tears. And for that i look at a possible psychological trigger: the story about a union of power and light.

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Not quite random observations about #TheRingsOfPower Why does King Durin III. wear an iron crown? There is no fixed answer to this question (that I know of), but we can still see what we find about the topic in the lore and the show and then explore further. A long 🧵(50+)

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But there has to be a reason behind introducing Durin’s Bane in Season 1 in the form it happend. And it is not: ‘We have to put a Balrog somewhere. Then we can include the shot in the trailer and dumb people will be fooled into watching the show!’ #TROPspoilers

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When Tolkien started to write the story of the Silmarills in the form of a History of the Noldor (ʻQuenta Noldorinwa’), he kept this idea at first: ʻThe hords of the Orcs he made of stone, but their hearts of hatred.’ Here the Orcs are made before the Elves awoke. (HoME v.4)

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Not quite random observations about #TheRingsOfPower Where are all the apple seeds? Before the show started, we heard a lot about the Harfoot’s apple seeds. But although an apple and apple trees play a role in the last two episodes, the seeds are harder to spot. A short 🧵(20+)

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When asked about the Balrog in the show podcast, Patrick McKay reacts quite evasive, but adds the very general statements that ‘there is so much here’ and that ‘there is a lot of story to be told’. But what could that story be? (The following part is marked with spoiler tags.)

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In the next version of the story, the ʻQuenta Silmarillion’, Tolkien added a new idea: Melkor made the Orcs to mock the Children of Iluvater. Therefore they could only be made after the awakening of the Elves. They still were made from stone. (HoMe v.5)

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But he wouldn’t be Gorthaur the Cruel if he didn’t also torture her before the end and leave her with a poisoned farewell gift, just in case. ‘Sauron lives because of you!’ He now uses both her help and her rejection as a weapon against her.

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The text in the show’s adunaic script can be easily transcribed, but the year and the number of deaths stay unknown.

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Quite early sharpeyed watchers noticed the same pattern of meandering lines on the armor and clothing of Adar, Elrond, Gil-galad and the guards in Lindon. The pattern looks a lot like the form the Mouths of Sirion could take:

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Before that he had managed to frame their relationship as a redemption story (‘I knew if ever I was to be forgiven [...] that I had to heal everything that I had helped ruin’). Like Ossë, he is a repentant maiar looking for his Uinen to save him. more:

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The show’s choice to place Sauron’s Númenórean prison cell directly before a statue of Uinen, the undaunted wife of Ossë who pulled him back from service to Melkor at the prayer of Aulë, cannot have been accidental. #TheRingsofPower

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I owe this idea to one of @tropbrainstorm ’s threads, where she pointed out that Sauron’s description of the ‘first sunrise’ is done from the perspective of one of the prisoners of Angband. But how could he have ended up as a prisoner? #TROPspoilers

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(2/20) This was not THE first sunrise. The sun existed for centuries before Morgoth was defeated. He was talking about THAT first sunrise, *after Morgoth's defeat.* That sunrise was a big deal in The Silmarillion.

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She then questions his plans for Middle-earth: ‘Save? Or rule?’ His answer (‘I see no difference.’) leads to her finally rejecting him: ‘And that is why I will never be at your side.’ Why is this a problem for her? We have seen her ‘ruling’ people on her quest to ‘save many’.

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Beside the statue of Eärendil and Elwing another building literally towers over the city: the King’s Tower. It is built on a ledge next to the palace and although it is clearly built in the elven style, it does not show any signs of decay.

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@robertjoscribe The first part is english written with Tengwar and some variants. That are the first 4 lines:

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When Elendil, Galadriel and Halbrand leave their boat, we can also see massive colums that end in the pointed arch that we already know from Valinor, Lindon and Eregion. They are darker than the architecture around them, showing age but also neglect.

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Envinyata!

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@MichelJungwirth @kleinezeitung Also große Philosophie ist das nicht.

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Beside the History of the Noldor (ʻQuenta’), Tolkien also developed the story of the Silmarillion in a pair of annals for Aman and Beleriand. In the ʻAnnals of Aman’, he wrote the version that Christopher later used in ʻThe Silmarillion' and is therefore best known. (HoME v.10)

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And another one, this time some of Bronwyn’s notes, written in the cursive of the Southlands. Quite a lot is readable, but there is no clue for the number system (I only know the symbols for 1 and 2). We also see the recipe for the fire-weed that Theo is grinding in Episode 1.

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But now the frame has suddenly changed. She knows the lore, so we can image her to realize that they are no longer re-enacting Ossë pleading to Uinen, but Morgoth courting Varda or Ariël. And that is not a story about redemption, but about abuse and the seizure of power.

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In this version, the Orcs are made from Elves that were captured between their awakening and the destruction of Utumno, so before Oromë brought them into the west. But, as so often with Tolkien, the story is presented as the view of a certain group, here the wise of Eressëa.

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She percieves his darkness and rejects him, as her role models in the lore did. But she knows how these stories go: You may defy the Dark Lord to his face, like Húrin or Ariël, but you are still going to bear the consequences. She defied Sauron, and he leaves her to drown.

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Adar’s point of view focuses on what the Orcs once were: at the core of their being is something that is beyond Morgoth’s power: ʻWe are creations of The One, Master of the Secret Fire, the same as you.’ They still have a purpose of their own other than Morgoth’s plans.

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But Tolkien did not seem satisfied with this solution, because in the typescript version of the ʻAnnals of Aman’ (refered to as AAm*) he added the the following note to §43: ʻAlter this. Orcs are not Elvish.’ We will look at alternative solutions in the 2nd and 3rd part.

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In the king’s bedroom we see the 8-pointed star of Fëanor in the windows. This star seems to be used as the common elven symbol in the show. Behind the king’s bed is a tapestry depicting a ship, but unlike the one in Lindon, this ship appears to come out of the west.

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The mystery is finally solved:

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Source of the picture (and a lot more documents to transcribe):

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ADG - The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Writing it all down

I have wandered in and out of Middle-earth for many years. When my brother and I read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings as teenagers, the runes and the beautiful Elvish scripts caught my attenti...

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What we have here are hints of an idea, that got never expanded (as far as we know), about an encounter between Melkor and Varda, ending in her rejecting him. She instead joins his wise brother Manwë and rules at his side, being henceforth his most hated and feared enemy.

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It isn’t true, because like Morgoth, his darkness has already set the path, but he wants her to believe it. And alone she can’t share this pain with anyone. Finding someone she can fully trust and who can break Sauron’s spell is going to be part of her story in future seasons.

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Knowing all that she then asks him to clarify: ‘Save? Or rule?’ And his answer betrays his role model: ‘I see no difference.’ There is no saving outside of his rule and control. His main goal, like Morgoth’s, is to dominate everything.

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But when we look at the final version of the ‘Valaquenta’ in the ‘Silmarillion’, we find a new idea: Varda at some point rejected Melkor. And it is connected to her coming to Manwë’s aid. Unfortunately, we do not find out more about the circumstances of her rejection.

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@JeremyMcLellan Neither should they be friends with other priests, as two jesuses being friends with one another is a contradiction.

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After the battle and some interrogation, Sauron could leave Durin’s Bane trapped beneath the mountain, ready for an accidental release by the Dwarves in the Third Age. #TROPspoilers

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@DailyRoP I think they set it ip for the Sauron storyline. Adar talks about 'a shadow of dark knowledge that kept itself hidden' while we see balrog horns in the snow fortress. So Sauron is going to visit it at some time. And then there is this footnote in the appendices:

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In Episode 5 we see another mysterious mural next the the stairs leading up from the market place. It looks like a figure clothed in black holding a smaller figure on its lap. Maybe it’s Mandos with the soul of a deceased person, but there is just not enough of it visible.

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But it was also during his reign, that the elven ships from Eressëa started to come only secretly to the west shores of Númenor. (from: ʻThe Unfinished Tales’, ʻThe Line of Elros: The Kings of Númenor’)

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ADDENDUM I Another interesting take on the more direct meaning of the phrase ‘bind you to power’:

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(1/15) —In the Darkness Bind Them— #TheRingsOfPower Has anyone else wondered exactly why Power was the proper exchange for Light? That line always stood out to me as something unexpected and ominous. It seemed like there was a lot more to it than what we perceive on the surface.

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The daggers of the Sea Guard also have a hierarchy carved into their hilts.

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Not quite random observations about #TheRingsOfPower How did Sauron enter Galadriel’s mind? After talking to her under the guise of the human Halbrand for the whole season, Sauron suddenly enters Galadriel’s mind in episode 8 to convince her to join him. 🧵

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The theme of Galadriel's mirror has already been introduced in Episode 1, when she reacts violently to her own mirror image on a piece of ice in the Fortress of Duranost.

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2) TEST THE KEY In their podcast, JD Payne explains, that for them the idea of Orcs as corrupted Elves was the most intriguing. Adar, the main Orc of the show, was designed to showcase the ʻmissing link between Elves and Orcs’, ʻthe first step of corruption’.

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When could the confrontation between Sauron and Durin’s Bane happen? If the show follows the structure of the Ring poem and Sauron focuses his efforts on the Dwarves next, then this could be a spectacular climax for Season 2. #TROPspoilers

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@BerekTheHorse S2 - Dwarven Rings, Narvi, Celeborn, númenórean colonialism (Pelagir), Entwifes, Andúnië - Climax: Sack of Eregion (E6/7) - End: Sauron meets the Balrog

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Elendil on the other hand is a Captain of the Sea Guard, so the hilt of his dagger contains the most ornaments, signifying the highest rank. (Episode 3)

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Later in the same episode, we learn from Arondir that sowing these seeds before a battle is an elven tradition. There is a part of Adar that still works to keep a last connection to his elven past alive in him.

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The conversation then turns to a question that follows from an elvish origin of the Orcs: Do they still have a fëa (soul), here named ʻheart’? Many implications (redeemability, free will, rationality) hinge on this point and that’s why Tolkien struggled to find a good solution.

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4 months

Some of the images published by WETA Workshop show the daggers in detail. The first one if from the Sea Guard, third one from the Expeditionary Force (but not the Horseman’s Guild) and the fifth one is from the Weapon Smith’s Guild.

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When Galadriel percieved the darkness in Fëanor, ‘she did not percieve that the shadow of the same evil had fallen upon the minds of all the Noldor, and upon her own’. The hightened elven insight into other minds comes with a dangerous blind spot for what’s inside their own.

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5 months

Another document from the same acticle: a proclamation to the people of the Southlands, declaring the end of the elven presence. (But this is not the document that gets handed to Médhor in Episode 1.)

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Elwing is pictured as a bird because it was in this form that she found her husband Eärendil on his voyage to reach Valinor. (from: ʻOf the Voyage of Eärendil and the War of Wrath’)

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But his armor is not the only element that still connects Adar with his elven origins. At the start of Episode 6, he sows a few alfirin seeds while muttering ʻNew life. In defiance of death’ (in Quenya).

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3 months

She leaves Númenor with a new armor and a full sword (either an elven heirloom, like Aranruth or Narsil, or a new creation by a very talented smith), but this outer restoration doesn’t correspond with a real inner healing. Her lost connection to her elfdom has only be masked.

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6 months

Although Melkor/Morgoth has connections to light and uses it when he tries to impress the elves, he holds power to be his main attribute (just don’t ask him about Tulkas). When he takes on a visible form in the ‘Ainulindalë’, he chooses to express power and majesty.

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5 months

Now we know who the two statues next to the ‘ship’s bow’ are: Elros (left) and Andarion (right):

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A thread of Númenor concept art by Julien Gauthier ( @jgauthier_art ) released today. Beginning with the palace and names of the statues of the kings that we see in the episodes.

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In a concept art of the sword published by WETA workshop we can see a story told on the blade: Beren and Luthien, the werewolf Carcharoth with the Silmaril within, King Thingol and Huan on the hunt and finally the fight between Huan and Carcharoth.

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11 months

While not named so in the show for rights reasons, this is what would be known as Aranrúth, the sword of Thingol, now carried by Miriel. The details etched on this are awesome, depicting the hunt for Carcharoth (silmaril in his belly) from the tale of Beren & Lúthien.

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But if Morgoth is the ‘power’ part of the union, who is the ‘light’ part? Light is the main attribute of Varda, Lady of the Stars. Her works are a major obstacle to Morgoth’s plans. He tries to destroy sources of light and uses shadow and darkness to hide when he can’t. (Silm)

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A picture of the Númenorean Guild Symbols, showing two different horse related types. The symbol with the four fishes and whirlwinds that Pharazon wears doesn’t seem related to the Sea Guard, as they use the one with the 5 ships. The 5 birds could be the Guild of Venturers.

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For the next step we have to look at a different numerical system. Julien Gauthier published a star map with some of the constellations used in the show. And this star map contains a numerical system that is based on the Tengwar script, counting up from 1 to 24:

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6 months

In the commentary on this passage (in HoME v.10) we also learn that Christopher omitted the word ‘now’ from the first sentence when editing the ‘Silmarillion’. He later realized that his father had started to shift away from the idea of them being together ‘from the beginning’.

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But is Adar the first Orc? In Episode 4 he asks Arondir about his origin and, after geting the answer ʻBeleriand’, he adds ʻBy the mouth of the river?’, followed by ʻI went went down that river once when i was young. [...] The banks were covered in sage blossoms. Miles of them.’

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6 months

Already earlier in the episode he had made this hidden threat: ‘You saw strength in me. You pushed me to heights that no one else could have. I will never forget that. And I’ll see to it that no one else does either.’ He made her ‘help’ for him into an external threat to her.

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4 months

ADDENDUM 1 The acceptance letter to Eärien also contains some of the numbers (1, 3, 0):

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5 months

Not quite random observations about #TheRingsOfPower Full picture of Eärien’s letter of acceptance into the Builder’s Guild with transcription:

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In the next episode, Galadriel’s thinking starts to change: now she calls killing Orcs a ʻdark deed’ and calling it good ʻdarkens the heart’. A new front, one inside her heart, has been added to her fight against Morgoth’s darkness.

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6 months

In the next episode we see Adar’s seed starting to grow: ‘It darkens the heart, to call dark deeds “good”. It gives place for evil to thrive inside us. Every war is fought both without and within.’ Blinded by evil to the darkness inside her, she has not even fought that battle.

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In ‘Of Beren and Lúthien’, Sauron flees to Taur-na-Fuin after being bested by Lúthien and Huan. After that he vanishes out of the story, only to reemerge in ‘Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age’ after the breaking of Thangorodrim. #TROPspoilers

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5 months

When Sauron was beaten by Huan and Lúthien, he took the form of a vampire and fled from ʻTol-in-Gaurhoth’, where Galadrielʼs brother Finrod was killed, to Taur-nu-Fuin and dwelt there for a while. (Of Beren and Lúthien)

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