[+] The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - SPOILERS ALLOWED

[MarkB]

That was a good episode. Lots of twists and turns. Of course, also extremely furtious timing... But that's definitely LotR stuff, I'd say.

It's only fortuitous timing for the handful of villagers that were left, the ones we've been shown and asked to care about. It was awful timing for everyone else in the entire region.

 

[Ryujin]

It's only fortuitous timing for the handful of villagers that were left, the ones we've been shown and asked to care about. It was awful timing for everyone else in the entire region.

Yup. All of the people from surrounding villages had either been killed or enslaved, with a few refugees making it to Tirharad. They were the last hold-outs.

 

[Tonguez]

So, your stance is that 100 orcs and a handful of slaves dug all those tunnels?

Tolkien never specified how long Orcs live, but Adar had been with Morgoth in the first age. Tolkiens Orcs are also almost as good at digging as dwarfs - so I think that there were more Orcs but that the tunnels have been dug over generations (possibly for 1000 years)

and as Ryujin said, many more were killed in the tower collapse

 

[TheSword]

I thought the reveals around Adar and him literally being the father of the orcs was very well done. We’re seeing a new side to Tolkein orcs that doesn’t in any way reduce the horror, but showing glimpses of pathos. In fact it increases the horror. Seeing that tortured elf/orc/uruk and knowing that the orcs were fathered… not bred. Is powerful.

The creation of mount doom was cool. I particularly like how the sword hilt when entered into the keyhole looks just like Barad Dur. The defense of the ancient keep and the damn was a nice detail. I’m really looking forward to how they finish things off… presumably reveals about the stranger who is clearly Sauron. I don’t know where people are getting the Halbrand-Sauron idea from - when it is so clear that he is the stranger.

 

[RuinousPowers]

I thought the reveals around Adar and him literally being the father of the orcs was very well done. We’re seeing a new side to Tolkein orcs that doesn’t in any way reduce the horror, but showing glimpses of pathos. In fact it increases the horror. Seeing that tortured elf/orc/uruk and knowing that the orcs were fathered… not bred. Is powerful.

The creation of mount doom was cool. I particularly like how the sword holy when entered into the keyhole looks just like Barad Dur. The defense of the ancient keep and the damn was a nice detail. I’m really looking forward to how they finish things off… presumably reveals about the stranger who is clearly Sauron. I don’t know where people are getting the Halbrand-Sauron idea from - when it is so clear that he is the stranger.

The only thing keeping me from thinking that is I inferred from Gandalf that 1. Sauron wasn't aware of hobbits, and 2. if he was, he would have enslaved or exterminated them a long time ago. So, I can't really see him hanging out with and breaking bread with hobbits.

 

[Sepulchrave II]

I think that Meteor Man is an Ithron Luin - a Blue Wizard. At least, as far as the rights will permit this for Amazon.

I think that Sauron has yet to be revealed; we haven't seen the actor yet.

That said, often, I'm wrong.

 

[Tonguez]

Hey what if the Stranger is Tom Bombadil!

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

If that was the case, Halbrand wouldn't have reacted.

You're projecting onto him what they want you to think is his reason for reacting.

"Don't you know who I am?" or "this peon who can't even perceive who he's really looking at killed me?!" would also provoke similar reactions.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Hey what if the Stranger is Tom Bombadil!

Boo! Boo this man!

 

[Maxperson]

I suspect that you could have killed Mike Tyson had you stabbed him in the back.

True, but then he wasn't an angel.

And Adar isn't just some dude, he is one of the Noldor. He is on the same level as Galadriel

No he isn't. The only one who came close to matching her was Feanor. Not even Fingolfin, Finarfin and the rest matched her power. Adar was corrupted into an orc, which the Noldor easily killed by the tens and hundreds of thousands. And the vast majority of the Noldor were nowhere near the named Noldor in power, let alone Galadriel who along with Feanor was at the top of the named pile.

and she is pretty confident she can kick Sauron's butt if she can catch him.

And she MIGHT be strong enough, and she might not. Only the strongest of Noldor could face a Balrog and they died doing it. Sauron was was Morgoth's lieutenant, so he was a stronger than a Balrog. That said, it took multiple Balrog's to take down Feanor and Fingolfin lasted long enough to wound Morgoth 8 times before he was killed by the weakened Valar. She might be on his level.

The only one we know was able to chase away Sauron was Luthien, and she was half-maia, half-elven and had as her mother one of the most powerful maia in existence.