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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OB1" data-source="post: 8813140" data-attributes="member: 6796241">I'm not sure how you see this as an example of 'showing not telling'.  Throughout the first season, we see Nori struggling with her place in Harfoot society, flirting with striking out on her own but afraid to and being told that to do so would mean her demise.  When she finally musters the courage to do it, she's still scared, still worried that she's making the wrong choice, and knows that in all likelihood she will never see these people she's spent her whole life with again.  That last bit is important, because leaving family can be an incredibly difficult decision, even when everything in your soul wants to do it.  I'd say her just walking off without seeing that emotion play out would have been odd, to say the least.  Telling would have been if she left without showing emotion, then on the road told the Stranger "Man, it sure was hard leaving them, I don't know if I'll ever see them again.  This is the hardest thing I've ever done."As for mystery boxes, they are typically only an issue when either the writer doesn't have a clear answer to the mystery that informs the rest of the story (See Rey's parents from Force Awakens) or when the answer to the mystery is only satisfying to the audience, and doesn't make any narrative sense in the story itself (See Khan in ST: Into Darkness).  The Sauron and Stranger mysteries in RoP both have clear answers, and more critically, are important to the characters in the story.  Nori had a legitimate reason to be fearful of who the Stranger really was, and had her faith tested when the Warlocks (or whoever the white robed ladies are) tested the Stranger.  That she ultimately had her faith in her own heart rewarded, it's earned because of the mystery.  That Galadriel was deceived by Sauron is important to both her story and the plot in general.</blockquote>

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