Mere hours till the #RingsofPower finale. I'm trying to keep my expectations in check because I just don't know if it's possible to wrap this up in a way that will truly satisfy me (YMMV, of course). Naturally, the (potential and thoroughly teased) Sauron reveal has me on edge.
Before the show actually aired and we were getting short clips and stills my suspicions about The Stranger were tempered by the fact that it just seemed...too obvious. But the idea that Galadriel happened to be, unbeknownst to her, lost at sea with the very person she was hunting
Well that was kinda wonderful. I've always liked the idea of the show keeping us guessing on who Sauron might be. As I've said before, it's a literalization of something going on across the history of the texts that's been transformed into narrative. I like it. It's clever.
Sticking the landing though...
Then the "lost king" plot dropped and Halbrand started to go some places that didn't quite work for me assuming he *were* actually Sauron in "hiding" or "fleeing his past." If he isn't, there's some terrific irony that will be lost.
Then the "lost king" plot dropped and Halbrand started to go some places that didn't quite work for me assuming he *were* actually Sauron in "hiding" or "fleeing his past." If he isn't, there's some terrific irony that will be lost.
Around the same time I started to get the impression that all the Sauron misdirection was, in fact, misdirection meant to keep us from looking at the obvious: Annatar was already in Eregion or working his way into Eregion, whispering in Brimby's ear, influencing GG's decisions.
But then Adar dropped his confession. He didn't just "kill Sauron," he "split him open." Well that's an odd choice of words. "Split" implies division, though "open" implies exposure or even release. Assuming it's not just flowery language, there're a lot of places that could go.
Release from what? Some kind of spiritual captivity? Exposure of what? Some inner nature or truth? Split... into somethings? Or someones? I would never have even considered it before, but I don't know that a Sauron whose eala was split into multiple parts would shock me now.
So who knows.
Maybe "Annatar" is already in Eregion but some other part of Sauron is galavanting around calling himself "Halbrand." I'd still call this the longshot possibility. I think H=S OR S is already in E is more likely. As to which... well...
Maybe "Annatar" is already in Eregion but some other part of Sauron is galavanting around calling himself "Halbrand." I'd still call this the longshot possibility. I think H=S OR S is already in E is more likely. As to which... well...
Considering the preview clip we got today (Brimby suggesting he *could* have had it done sooner), combined with that shot in the latest trailer of something blowing a hole in the side of Brimby's tower, I am more convinced Annatar has already been there...
Offered to help in some way (perhaps by using "the powers of the unseen world") but was rebuffed by GG, at which point GG and Brimby turned towards the idea of using "Silmaril light infused" Mithril. In this case the general idea that will lead to the Rings is Brimby's...
(Circular shape, portable object, etc.) I'm gonna guess that Brimby is going to try to use their tiny bit of mithril to craft this "crown" he mentions in the clip during the ep and it's not going to work (hence the hole being blown in the side of the tower).
Left with no choice
Left with no choice
Either someone is going to relent and call on this "Annatar," or it's going to turn out "Halbrand" happens to have similar knowledge (perhaps on how to do this without mithril). How Adar's statement about S never acquiring the knowledge he needed will play into this I'm not sure.
But if "I'm a smith, let me help" Halbrand happens the moment this "crown" idea doesn't work out, I think we'll have our answer.
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