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Tolkien Topics: TV Discussion: The Rings of Power:
This is tremendously exciting:
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Narvi
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Jul 6 2022, 5:00pm
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This is tremendously exciting
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I'm once again becoming optimistic about the series. The new teaser, coupled with a few of the more revealing promotional shots, might well betray the trajectory of at least a portion of the first season:
At the outset of the series:
-Gil-galad is high king of the Noldor and appears to dispatch a White Ship westward, for reasons as yet unclear. We witness the anointing of the crew in one of the promo stills beneath a golden tree in Lindon.
-Arondir appears to man a partially-ruined watchtower (Tir-harad?). He is on intimate terms with Bronwyn.
Early in the series, at the point when the meteor appears:
-The harfoot elder observes anomalies in the heavens, presaging the arrival of the meteor (and suggesting an origin beyond Arda...from the Void? From an anachronistic quasi-extraterrestrial Valinor?)
-The crew of the White Ship witnesses the meteor while sailing West (it lights up their faces as they face the bow of the ship, meaning the meteor arrives from the West...from Valinor?)
-Tar-Miriel, apparently alive and presumably queen at this point, witnesses the meteor pass above Numenor (again, suggesting it originates across the Sundering Seas)
-Durin IV witnesses the meteor from (outside?) Khazad-dum, indicating it continues east of the Misty Mountains
-The ents (including Treebeard, I'm guessing) witness the meteor from Fangorn(?) prior to its impact further east.
-Arondir and Bronwyn witness its flight together (I guess from Harad? Although their orientation relative to its trajectory suggests a location more proximal to its primary axis...)
-The harfoots witness the meteor's impact, indicating their location east of the Misty Mountains.
-All of the characters who witness the meteor are alive at this point, which I would not have expected. I do not know how to account for the 2-episode prologue episode, and I wonder if we have not yet glimpsed it in the material thusfar released, which could actually all stem from just one or two episodes, given the synchronization of the confirmed plotlines/characters.
In subsequent episodes
-The White Ship reaches Numenor
-Gil-galad dispatches Elrond to negotiate with Disa and Durin IV
Later in the season
-Galadriel arrives in Middle-earth after visit to Numenor (via shipwreck with a Northman or Numenorean exile?)
-Galadriel & co. hunt for remnants of Morgoth's forces, perhaps encouraged by Gil-galad and the sighting of the meteor out of the West
-Plotline in Numenor: Pharazon scheming against Tar-Miriel? Isildur & co. voyaging? Carine...reading?
-Big bad of season one seems to be the corrupted elf leading his company of surviving orcs, presumably raiding while eluding Galadriel & co.
-Arondir is ambushed by orcs in a wood, is chained, fights his way out? Is Bronwyn's settlement the target of the Big Bad's raids? How does Theo (cringe) find the hilt of the broken sword?
EDIT: I have no idea how to fit Celebrimbor into this sequence, as he does not appear to witness the meteor. Perhaps he is already in Eregion at this point; perhaps he ventures there with Elrond from Lindon. All the elves seem to appear at a banquet together. I think this banquet takes place before Galadriel's departure.
(This post was edited by Narvi on Jul 6 2022, 5:04pm)
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Post edited by Narvi
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