The Rings of Power IN-DEPTH Review : Episode 6 : Insta-Mordor!

Adar and the orcs seem to be the real heroes of this story.

Galadriel lecturing Isildur on the virtues of humility is like Harvey Weinstein lecturing Mother Theresa on the virtues of chastity.

Calling it now, Sauron is the apple Isildur took a bite out of and threw into the ocean.

"How do you know he's the king?" "He's the only one not covered in shit."

Galadriel giving advice on humility, is right up there with Disa giving dietary advice. 😒

You got it all wrong! The tower is made of stone, so it looks down. It needs the rope, which is part of ships and thus looks up to keep it from falling.

The Mount Doom was created by the first dark lord, Melkor during the First Age. During the Second Age, Sauron chose the land of Mordor as his dwelling-place. He used the fire that welled there from the heart of the earth in his sorceries and his forging. Around SA 1600, Sauron forged the One Ring in the depths of the Cracks of Doom, which was built within Mount Doom itself. In SA 3429, Mount Doom erupted, signaling Sauron's attack on Gondor, where it earned its name "Amon Amarth." There. That's what Tolkien wrote. Amazon wrote: The Rings of Power is set in the Second Age of Middle-earth, or the Age of Númenor. The timing, in addition to all the acting and directing, it's all wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.

Maybe it's an "evil pyroclastic flow" - so not actually burning but cold - like the torches and meteor man...? (Just trying to find an excuse for them to stay alive...) If the story continues like this, Nenya will be the engagement ring from Halbrand to Galadriel, she rejects him and he turns evil and becomes Sauron...

The sun is rising in the west as the cavalry approaches, but earlier in the episode Elendil or Isildur talks about the sun rising in the east and setting in the west.

8:30 it just hit me, that the elf almost scored a Home run for the enemy without needing the sword key to do so. If the tower fell on the dam and broke it, would’ve been better too I recon.

The only one with true emotional motivation is Adar, and I am rooting for him now. You go Lad.

What baffles me is Adar and the orcs must’ve spent years building these canals and none of the elves with their eagle eyes atop their guard tower ever noticed any of it?

The horses were carried across the ocean by eagles, surprised you didn't spot them accompanying the massive fleet.

Can we appreciate the fact that Halauron... or Salbrand... tripped up a horse and rider in full gallop with an outstretched spear that wasn't planted in the ground like a tripwire? Man's fap hand strength is infinite!

Weirdly, 'Noro Lim' is one of only two Sindarin utterances (in contrast to Jackson's films) ; the other is also spoken to a horse. Quenya is spoken in other Elvish dialogue, even though Tolkien is quite clear that it was 'Elf-Latin' and not the tongue of ordinary conversation. Here, Quenya is the ordinary Elvish language, and Sindarin is spoken only to horses.

White orcs, wearing white robes, holding torches, calling themselves a brotherhood... is that a reference to something..

Distance from Numenor is around 930 miles, so with heavily laden ships, you are looking at 10-12 days at the MINIMUM with favourable wind and conditions. So, a realistic timeframe is about two weeks.

So we are pretty much going to think that every single time Legolas goes into battle, he plants seeds.....

It's been a while since I read the Lord of the Rings, but I don't recall Galadriel singing 'Lothlorien Uber Alles'. It must have been in the appendices.

My favorite scene is when Galadriel says: "This is Galadriel, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off.". It truly made me cry. Epic writing on this historic show.