Lord Of The Rings_ Rings Of Power Season 2 Episode 4 FULL Breakdown & Tom Bombadil Explained
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00:00Back in the witty window, folk used to call me Bombadil, Tom Bombadil.
00:07Welcome back everyone it's Charlie this will be my full Lord of the Rings rings of power
00:10season 2 episode 4 video there were a whole bunch of Easter eggs references.
00:15They finally introduced Tom Bombadil in live action really big deal because Peter Jackson
00:20just completely swerved on the character during the events of Lord of the Rings it also seems
00:24like they confirmed some of our theories about who the stranger is and who the dark wizard
00:29is.
00:30So I'll explain that during the video if you're brand-new to the channel be sure to subscribe
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00:36If you have not seen episode 4 yet the title of the episode was eldest which is a reference
00:42to both Tom Bombadil because they finally introduced him in live action who's thought
00:46to be one of the oldest living beings in the world.
00:48There are several times where he references being basically the oldest person on the planet
00:54eldest that's what I am would mean eldest eldest canonically it said that he existed
01:02on the world before Melkor in the first Valar took physical form coming to the world in
01:07the first place in the days before days like right after the world was created that would
01:11also make him older than the Ents in the title of the episode.
01:15The eldest is also reference to the Ents who they also brought on during the show the Ent
01:19wives to this is the first time I think we've seen the Ent wives in live action anywhere
01:24in the books Gandalf talks to Frodo thinking that the Ents are meant to be the oldest living
01:29beings on the planet.
01:30The way that Tom Bombadil talks in the episode though he confirms that he is the oldest living
01:35person on the planet Rory Kinnear is playing the character you probably recognize him from
01:39a bunch of different shows and movies he's all over the place, but he's primarily featured
01:44during the original Lord of the Rings books but Peter Jackson completely cut him out when
01:49he was doing the movies.
01:50Just because it felt like too much of a side quest and he's meant to be this really weird
01:54really powerful character who's super mysterious that Tolkien never fully explained their lot
02:00of jokes and references to that during his parts of the episode where he's speaking very
02:04mysteriously about his backstory and his powers what are you don't you know my name yet that's
02:11the only answer is all because Tolkien never really explained it.
02:15So there's been so many fan theories about his character for so many years.
02:19So I think the writers of the episode were trying to be kind of funny about that, but
02:23also not step on their toes too much by trying to over explain the character like they didn't
02:28want to create too much new lore about the character just because I think the Tolkien
02:32estate probably has some rules about the way that they're allowed to adapt certain characters
02:36and this by some specific rules they had for adapting the Tom Bombadil character him rescuing
02:42the stranger from the end like rescuing him from the tree is meant to be a reference to
02:46the way he was introduced in the original Lord of the Rings books rescuing the hobbits
02:51like Frodo and the other hobbits from a tree just explain how powerful he is in the episode
02:56he jokes that he could take on the blue wizard and Sauron by himself the dark wizard who
03:01they do confirm is one of the blue wizards, but when he implies that he could take them
03:05down by them so that he could take care of Sauron all by himself.
03:08He says is not really my job to do I'm more of a wanderer there's been a lot of memes
03:12in the Lord of the Rings fandom about Tom Bombadil just soloing all the big bosses of
03:18the Lord of the Rings lore to make a game of thrones reference is also why he talks
03:22to the stranger like the stranger is a sweet summer child, even though technically he's
03:27one of the Meyer like he's one of the story making him one of the oldest living beings
03:31in existence, but the way he talks to him implies that Tom Bombadil is older than the
03:37Meyer.
03:38So again, the episode is meant to be very mysterious about the nature of his character
03:42how powerful he is how his powers work what is true purposes other than just wandering
03:47around and watching everything just explain how powerful he's supposed to be in the books
03:52when Frodo and the hobbits run into him near the Shire he's not tempted by the power of
03:57the one ring the way that other living beings are like even Meyer like Gandalf would be
04:02severely tempted by the one ring is kind of the same idea with the Silmarils in Morgoth
04:07is Tom Bombadil just isn't affected by anything at all like that's how powerful he is when
04:12it comes to the other oldest living things on the planet.
04:16The Ents were all made by Yavanna is a reaction to Owlay's creation of the dwarves.
04:21She was primarily responsible for the growth of living things on the planet plants around
04:25the earth just in general.
04:27She was worried that the newly created dwarves would destroy all of her trees like they talk
04:31about that during this episode the orcs destroying all the trees in the area.
04:35So Yavanna created the Ents race to protect all the trees.
04:39There's a lot of rumors and theories about what happened to all the Entwives which Treebeard
04:43discusses in the Lord of the Rings movies he explained by those events in the third
04:48age they'd lost like they couldn't find the Entwives anymore they had no idea where they
04:53were a lot of Ents through history would stop talking slowly start to resemble regular trees
04:58basically going to sleep forever in kind of turning into actual trees was partially
05:04implied that the Entwives were eventually either killed or burned down when force were
05:09cut down or burned out or they themselves just turned into actual trees and stop talking
05:14it was really cool to see all the Ents, but really the big deal here is Tom Bombadil just
05:18because it's like a big big first for Lord of the Rings.
05:22One of the funny things those Peter Jackson actually did say that one of the biggest complaints
05:26that he had when he originally made the Lord of the Rings movies which are obviously all
05:29fantastic but he had to change the books quite a bit to turn it into a three movie format
05:35and make it more movie friendly format the way the actual books are written they jump
05:39around in the timeline a lot.
05:41So it's not written like a traditional movie script would be written, but he said way back
05:45in the day one of the biggest complaints that he got from the fandom at the time was that
05:48he didn't do Tom Bombadil like you just completely cut him out of the story.
05:53So some of his scenes actually reference that like yay were finally giving the fans
05:56what they want they been asking for Tom Bombadil for all these years.
05:59Here he is the episode starts with Elrond and Galadriel in the Grey Havens with their
06:04force of elves about to head for Celebrimbor and Eregion to try and stop Sauron the axe
06:09a bridge shortcut that he speaks of is meant to give you vibes of Gandalf and the fellowship
06:14of the ring taking the Khazad-dûm shortcut the bridge of Khazad-dûm they do another
06:19cool map transition showing their party of elves running towards Eregion because elves
06:23have way more fortitude they can pull off a run of that distance like epic marathon
06:28length supermarathon they learn Sauron used his power in lightning form like lightning
06:33powers to destroy the bridge.
06:35So add that to the list of powers that we haven't seen Sauron used before in live-action
06:41you have to remember that at this point in history Sauron is way more powerful he hasn't
06:46poured most of his life force energy into the one ring while he was creating it.
06:50That's one of the reasons why the one ring is so much more powerful than the lesser rings
06:55because Sauron literally poured a ton of his own power his life force into it horcrux style
07:01to make a Harry Potter reference.
07:03So this whole bridge lightning powers strike here is also to give you a preview of what
07:07they might face should they try to face Sauron in open battle this season or in future seasons
07:13when they mention the hills of turn Gorthund those are the Barrow downs here where the
07:17Barrow whites come from in the lore is a bit of a change they're making on the show here
07:22with the characters originally the characters don't really show up till the third age is
07:26a little bit earlier.
07:27But the way they explain on the show is the glad real things that Sauron woke them up
07:31purposefully and they're working for him later in the timeline the witch king of Angmar basically
07:37does the same thing like the witch king goes to them and tries to get their help in just
07:41messing around with people in this area.
07:43They're meant to be evil spirits kind of like the Nazgul the ring race there like a different
07:48kind of rate that exist both in the unseen world and have physical forms to their bunch
07:53of times in the episode the glad real uses her ring of power either inadvertently or
07:58on purpose notice the sound the year coming from it is meant to be the same sound the
08:02year coming from the one ring of power when Frodo is listening to it.
08:06It's meant to be Sauron's voice talking in their ear what's happened with glad real is
08:11that the ring of power is amplifying her powers of foresight.
08:15She sees one of the barrel whites in the future, whereas previously she probably would not
08:19of all the rings of power even the lesser rings amplify the natural abilities of whoever
08:24wears them.
08:25So like if you already have magic like you're a wizard kind of like Gandalf or one of the
08:29other characters that some special ability any ring that you wear will amplify that ability
08:34whatever it is.
08:36So before all this glad real did have powers of foresight, but they were much much weaker
08:40much more random they start to figure out Sauron's grand plan that this is meant to
08:45screw them no matter what they do like either the take the long way and they take two weeks
08:49to get to Eregion or they take the shortcut to the barrel whites in most their group gets
08:54killed or Sauron's hoping that most their group gets killed either way giving Sauron
08:59enough time to finish making all the rings of power in taking them from Celebrimbor like
09:04that's his whole plan.
09:05He wants to get them forged and then be able to use them as he wants to or use them himself.
09:10So has been creating all these roadblocks all over the place for all the forces of elves
09:15to slow them down on their way to Eregion Elrond is the leader of the party orders her
09:20to stop using the one ring thinking that Sauron might be able to control her through the ring,
09:26which isn't totally correctly he's partially correct because Sauron didn't lay any special
09:30enchantments on the elven rings they were made separately from Sauron like he didn't
09:34actually physically touch them.
09:36He doesn't control them until he wears the one ring of power.
09:40The way that Tolkien explained it because he influenced the actual creation of the rings
09:44themselves like he gave Celebrimbor the idea of how to create them and even then when he
09:49puts the one ring of power on he can't control them as much as he can control the people
09:53who wear rings that he physically touch he can kind of influence the elves that wear
09:58the rings.
09:59So we're still a long ways off from Sauron having any actual effect on Galadriel or anyone
10:04that's wearing the elven rings like we haven't gotten close to him forging the one ring of
10:08power yet, but they don't totally understand how Sauron can control the rings or people
10:13who wear the rings.
10:14So as long as Sauron is not wearing the one ring of power any of the elves that are wearing
10:18rings of power should be okay.
10:21Not so much for anyone wearing the dwarven rings or the rings for men.
10:24He can control those even without wearing the one ring of power.
10:27So once the dwarves start putting their rings on later this season Sauron can start controlling
10:31their minds my assumption based on the timeline of the season in the way this final battle
10:36goes down is that the also finish making the rings for men by the end of the final
10:40battle to like a probably all go down in the last two or three episodes they finish making
10:45the nine rings for men and then boom orcs attack and that's it for a Region.
10:50Then we go back to rune is the strangers looking for Nori and poppy who got blown away in his
10:54magic tornado wizard of Oz style and he winds up running into of all people Tom Bombadil
11:01the way they explain Tom Bombadil's presence in the east during this part of the timeline
11:05is that canonically it just said during the first and second ages he traveled around
11:09the world and is pretty vague about what he was doing he explains he's been wandering
11:13around and he wound up here just because he wanted to see how things have changed since
11:16the creation of the world living it up in the east with his aunt friend also hang out
11:21with blue wizards and you notice when he first runs into him.
11:25You actually hear him singing a song from the books before you actually see his face
11:29like he comes in with him see because it's kind of how he enters the story in the books
11:33he's meant to be a very mysterious figure on purpose Tolkien never really fully explained
11:38his backstory or how the character works his powers or what he really is.
11:43That's why they have the joke later in the episode where the stranger literally says
11:46what are you in Tom Bombadil says will you know my name that's about all I can tell you
11:51because Tolkien never actually explain the character was a bit of a joke for the writers
11:56winking behind the camera like we can't tell you because we don't know either there's been
12:00so many fan theories about who he really is because he seems so powerful.
12:04Some people thought for a while that he might be a Lou Vitar, but the way the books talk
12:08about a Lou Vitar he never actually took physical form to walk around on the planet.
12:12So I think that's confirmation that Tom Bombadil is not like the physical manifestation of
12:16God but I do like the theory that he might also be one of the my are to just because
12:21he is powerful like the my are the only problem with that is that he's not susceptible to
12:26the power of the one ring the way that the my are or even the Valar would be mean that
12:31theoretically he could be more powerful than the Valar or the my are if you think you have
12:35a solid Tom Bombadil theory like what actually is he write it below in the comments notice
12:40how when he sees the stranger he recognizes him instantly as an is Tari like he knows
12:45everything about like an open book.
12:46The second he sees him almost like he kind of expected him because I think we're getting
12:51into book cannon now to were talking about the history of the blue wizards later in the
12:55episode he explains that he met the other blue wizard the came to root.
12:59So he was probably expecting the second blue wizard that he knew would eventually come
13:03along and it is the stranger throughout all their different scenes in the episode.
13:07He sings a bunch of different songs all of them are songs that he sings in the books
13:12with the hobbits when the mysterious wind blows the strangers map that he was following
13:17onto a tree it's the end and is meant to be a reference to him searching for his staff
13:22like I was hoping to get the step like borrow it from the end here.
13:26Part of the ideas that he learns that he was actually destined to be following this map
13:29to find Tom Bombadil rather than find some special place under the stars like it was
13:34meant to be a map to Tom Bombadil not that far away Noreen poppy run into an Easterling
13:40who we find out is actually from another race of halflings related to them and to hobbits
13:46you notice that he says his name is Mary Mac which is also the full name of Mary in the
13:50Lord of the Rings books Frodo's companion from the shire later in the timeline during
13:54the third age most of their storyline in the episode is meant to set the whole concept
13:58of the shires creation later in the timeline that doesn't happen till much much later.
14:04These most of their scenes for comedic relief and also explains what the etymology of all
14:08the different races of halflings poppy winds up having a bit of a meet you with him.
14:12They break all the special rules of the community the minute they step in and we find that their
14:18stores who are one of the three breeds of hobbits.
14:21The other two being Harfoots who we previously seen on the show in the fallow hides really
14:26big Easter egg here to connection back to the Lord of the Rings books Gollum was born
14:30Smeagol he was a store of their race by one of the most famous members of their race.
14:35So this whole town here like this whole introduction is meant to give you a lot of Easterling hobbiton
14:40vibes like this is meant to feel like the shire like a precursor to the shire and hobbiton
14:45Nori even remarks Harfoots living in holes like it's one of the precursor to hobbits
14:50living in hobbit holes.
14:52There was a lot of talk about hobbits when they were getting ready for season one because
14:55hobbits didn't actually exist in the Lord of the Rings world until the third age.
15:00So were like a long ways off from that.
15:02So the shows whole work around here is basically to show you the eventual creation of hobbiton
15:06like how did this eventually happen.
15:08We find out their leaders name is actually goon to bail which reminds me of Mount goon
15:12to bad a place that shows up during the hobbit whole lot of hobbit references all over the
15:16place here is a little bit of exposition that she gives off to like a couple really important
15:20bits of information.
15:22She says the Easterlings that are serving the dark wizard is start like the other blue
15:25wizard here are called God rim.
15:28I believe they created that for the show.
15:30I don't think that that's actually mentioned canonically like there's so many mysteries
15:34about the east Tolkien never really got into that much.
15:38So think a lot of this Eastern storyline is based on the bones of what Tolkien wrote
15:42about and is trying to expand on that.
15:44If you been watching house the dragon, which is based on like a very small amount of book
15:48Canada George RR Martin wrote it's kind of the same idea with all the rune storyline
15:52stuff the couple more Gandalf Easter eggs and references.
15:56Even though I think we've confirmed that the stranger is not Gandalf like he is one of
16:00the blue wizards will get to that in a second, but during their conversation.
16:03She says the stranger is a big grand elf.
16:06When Tolkien started to create the Lord of the Rings lore Gandalf was one of the first
16:11names that he ever created of any of the characters.
16:14His name was based on the old Norse words in real life gander, which means magic staff
16:19in alpha, which means elf which together mean staff elf or wand elf.
16:25So the stranger who's looking for a staff is kind of like a big elf a big wand alpha
16:30big staff elf originally the Valor called Gandalf myth reindeer the elves in Valinor
16:36cult in that to which is why Galadriel uses that name when they meet later in the timeline.
16:41But one of the big ideas I think is there some copyright issues with the show actually
16:45using Gandalf because he doesn't show up till the third age generally, but he did exist
16:50before this, but he was living in Valinor during this whole time.
16:54Then we go to the dark wizard who I think now is confirmed to be one of the other blue
16:58wizards that went to rune we find out that his main lieutenant Gowdrym here is named
17:02Brink telling him to take care of the Harfoots and he would take care of the other is Tari
17:07himself pulling a Thanos fine all do it myself.
17:10So we're gonna get a full-on wizard battle at some point back at Tom Bombadil's he convinces
17:15the end to let the stranger go the with the window that he mentions was a minor tributary
17:20of the river Brandywine that flow through the old force on the borders of the Shire,
17:24which I think is meant to be a reference and there are many of these to his origin in the
17:28Lord of the Rings books when he first ran into Frodo in the other hobbits.
17:32That happened right near the Shire the song that he starts singing when the strangers
17:36taking his bath is the same song that he sings right after he rescues the hobbits in the
17:41Lord of the Rings books Goldberry that he mentions is his wife from the books that also
17:45shows up during that whole event when the hobbits meet him.
17:49Even though he has all these jokes with the stranger like what woman are you talking about
17:52I wasn't talking anyone is just the two of us here who who's this person that you're
17:55speaking of.
17:56I think that's also a joke about there not being a lot of canon information that Tolkien
18:00wrote about Goldberry and it also kind of implies that she's as old as he is like one
18:05of the other oldest living things on the planet when they go into his living room.
18:09You notice that the ceiling has a bunch of star charts carved into them and he talks
18:13about tiny eyes watching down at you.
18:15That's meant to be a reference to a Louvatar to the Valar to the Meyer basically who did
18:19not take physical form and come down to the planet.
18:22So a bunch of them are still up there looking down watching what's happening on the planet.
18:27So part of the idea here is that Tom Bombadil knows exactly what's up with the stranger
18:31why he's come here in what his destiny eventually is.
18:35He also kind of clowns on the Einar just in general to the Valar and the Meyer saying
18:39they think they know everything, but they're still newcomers because he Tom Bombadil existed
18:44on the planet long before any of them even Melkor came to the planet.
18:49He reveals the end that's living nearby his house is called old man Ironwood.
18:54We get a little preview of his power when he breathes in deeply affecting the fire and
18:59when he calls his goat Eorwain that's actually a reference to Eorwain Ben Adar, which is
19:05actually what the elves call Tom Bombadil in the books translating to oldest and fatherless
19:11me that he's so old that he was just created by a Louvatar like he didn't actually have
19:15a father that he was born to when he asked him to teach him his magic how to wield the
19:20staff and he says a wizard staff is like a name.
19:23It's yours already.
19:24It's literally with the stranger just told Nori about names that a name can't be given.
19:29It's already yours.
19:31So part of the ideas Tom Bombadil is implying that the minute he picks up his staff he'll
19:35instantly remember everything that he needs to remember.
19:38Then he starts talking about the other wizard that came to visit him at his little hut here.
19:44So the this is where they get into the bits of Lord that Tolkien did write about the actual
19:48blue wizards coming to the east coming to rune.
19:51They're not the first Astari who's eaten honey by this fire canonically the idea the
19:56blue wizard is during the second age.
19:58They were both sent to the east to try and deal with Sauron and prevent him from developing
20:03this large force like basically getting the east to serve him the way the books talk about
20:07the blue wizards.
20:08They were ultimately unsuccessful in the original purpose for going east one of them eventually
20:13created a cult.
20:14I think that's meant to be the dark wizard like that's meant to give you vibes of that
20:17part of the canon in the other blue wizard is the one that stayed true to their original
20:22purpose who is meant to be the stranger like the good blue wizard.
20:26So a lot of this is meant to give you vibes also of Gandalf in Saruman where the ideas
20:31used to be a good character like he started out being very good, but eventually gave in
20:36and teamed up with Sauron and that's part of the idea part of the danger with the dark
20:40wizard with the other blue wizard in both the names of the blue wizards in the books
20:44are Altar and Palladino within the dark wizards real name might be Altar in the strangers
20:50real name might be Palladino, but they might change that it might be the other way around
20:54a lot of this whole blue wizard stuff that they're doing on the show is it stuff the
20:58books touched on never really got too deep into early theory by the end of the season
21:02the blue wizards will face each other in the stranger will remember everything and even
21:07though their original mission they were given was deemed a failure what they did do is they
21:12stop Sauron from completely amassing all the elite uniting the entire East into his
21:17forces because if he done that there's no way that during the war of the ring they would
21:22have been able to beat Sauron like his forces would've been a way too large.
21:26So in a way the blue wizards were successful in their original mission kind of tangentially
21:32then we go back to Elrond and Galadriel as they run into the Barrow whites from the books
21:36they confirm Gil-galad's messengers that were sent to warn Celebrimbor about Sauron were
21:41killed by the Barrow whites.
21:43Those were the people that were dragging them away in chains.
21:45This song that they hear the Barrow whites sing cold be hand and heart and bone is an
21:50incantation that they also speak in the Lord of the Rings books side note to Gollum actually
21:56recites some of this poem during two towers meeting the Gollum has also face in escaped
22:01the Barrow whites back at Pilargir detective Arandir figures out what's really up with
22:07Estrid the way they explain her back story in the episode is that she was forced to take
22:11the brand bend the need to aid are in order to survive.
22:14But she didn't want to and she ran at the first opportunity.
22:17So like she's meant to be a good person there many many scenes that she has in this part
22:21of the episode with Isildur where they have all kinds of chemistry just trying to hype
22:25up the good have some kind of relationship, but she still has that betrothal he even has
22:31to remind her.
22:32Oh don't you have somebody that you're about to get married to why you being all horny
22:35on me.
22:36So that guy is meant to be a bit of a third wheel, but we do have a giant battle coming
22:40later this season is a pretty good chance that that third wheel might wind up being
22:44killed in that battle because Estrid might wind up being Isildur's eventual queen when
22:50they form their kingdom of the faithful we were pretty good idea what's gonna be happening
22:54in Isildur's future as they go looking for Theo Isildur goes full never ending story
22:59Artax almost sinking in the mud.
23:02They also use this to prove Estrid is a good character like she eventually comes back to
23:05save them with the branch in the using this mud creature is a sort of watcher in the water
23:10kind of monster only for mud pits calling it their dinner basically probably tastes
23:15pretty good, but this creature is not just like the watcher in the water like they're
23:19completely different creatures back in the stores village Nori bonds with them over Sadoc
23:23burrows her former leader RIP who passed away during season one who's related to their tribe
23:29through an ancestor who left to go west thinking of a place that look kind of like the shire
23:35like there a lot of references here that make it sound a lot like the shire she explains
23:39that he was going to leave find this Suzette place basically the shire and then send word
23:43back for the rest of their tribe to join them.
23:46I think part of it is a trend to set up the by the end of the series will find a place
23:49like this.
23:51The only problem with that is that the hobbits didn't settle in the shire to like well into
23:55the third age.
23:56So there was a place that hobbits came from like they traveled to the shire from another
24:00place nearby they might set that place up at the end of the series.
24:04But that's basically where her whole speech is headed like is basically meant to show
24:07you the eventual creation of hobbit in the shire much much later in the timeline.
24:13Brink shows up and reveal some more details about their backstory as well to saying that
24:17it was basically the dark wizard or the other blue is like the evil blue wizard they curse
24:21their flesh basically giving them some kind of crazy disease and that's why they're wearing
24:25the masks early theory is that the good blue wizard AK the stranger will use his magic
24:31to heal the curse on their flesh.
24:33Gladriel says she's been getting more visions of the distant future of what the world would
24:37look like if Sauron rule basically like a darkest timeline situation Elrond mentions
24:42that his father Eärendil told him that one day he'd hold Celebrimbor's life in his hands
24:47and he'd have to choose the best path to protecting it that would have had to been during the
24:50first age before he was tasked with journeying the sky in a boat with one of the Silmarils
24:55on his forehead yet remember these elves are incredibly incredibly long-lived then she
25:01has a bunch more visions of the future battle at the end of the season at Eregion she sees
25:07Sauron's crown.
25:08So here's the thing about the crown on the show they actually clarified it's meant to
25:12have been Morgoth's crown before this like it's the dark Lord's crown and Sauron just
25:16took it after Morgoth was defeated by the Valar and made it his crown in the books though
25:21Morgoth's original crown was actually melted down and used to create the chain that binds
25:26him where he exists now beyond the doors of night basically outside the universe like
25:31Morgoth is chained outside the universe, but on the show this crown is meant to be the
25:36dark Lord's crown that Morgoth wore and Sauron just took is his own crown because he minted
25:40himself the new dark Lord.
25:42I believe this shot is from the trailers from like the last couple episodes to where Galadriel
25:46is fighting Sauron and he's using his crown like a weapon.
25:50It's also meant to be the same crown that you see him wearing in the prologue for fellowship
25:54of the ring during the war the last alliance.
25:57She sees Elrond at the hands of a bunch of orcs captive like they've lost the battle
26:01the orcs pulling down the statue in Eregion having sacked the city Celebrimbor looks like
26:06he's totally dead here RIP definitely not going to be the one who's remembered as the
26:11Lord of the Rings then Sauron towering over Galadriel in Halbrand form again.
26:17She makes Elrond a promise to kill Sauron no matter what even if it means not saving
26:22her.
26:23Part of the idea is there might be some situation in the finale the final episode where he does
26:27have the opportunity to kill Sauron, but does not in favor of saving Galadriel instead giving
26:32you a lot of vibes of his eventual future with a sealed or refusing to throw the one
26:37ring of power into Mount Doom and destroy it like you had the opportunity to end a lot
26:42of this strife earlier if you just taken different actions.
26:46So they're just setting up a situation where Elrond will remember that like regretting
26:50not killing Sauron during the second age when he had the opportunity to when it comes
26:54to the end of the second age and he has an opportunity to destroy the one ring of power
26:58again.
26:59There's a lot of runway and storyline there for a sealed or that we haven't even gotten
27:03close to yet.
27:04Like there's so much stuff that is sealed or has to do in the future and we just started
27:07developing his character.
27:09Then around here in the others finally meet the end wives and some of the ends like it's
27:13not just end wives there a bunch of ends in general, but we've never actually seen the
27:18end wives in live action.
27:20They have not been lost to the ends that they didn't lose them yet.
27:24You notice the only thing that gives them pause is when a rondier start speaking in
27:28Sindar one of the elven languages they're calling this and wife winterbloom played by
27:33Olivia Williams you might recognize her voice.
27:35The other end is named snaggle root played by Jim broadbent they basically win them over
27:40by asking for their deep deep forgiveness and also saying that they hate orcs like we
27:45all hate orcs here.
27:47Why don't we all have fun together and promise to restore the woods in this region.
27:52She says they been here since before the mountains rose up and divided the land that's a reference
27:57to Yavanna creating them at the dawn of the world right after the Valar came down during
28:02the years of the lamps calling back to the title of the episode eldest is in like oldest
28:06living things on the planet you remember though Tom Bombadil did say that he is the eldest
28:12like the actual oldest living person on the planet.
28:15They return Theo to a rondier who makes up with him doesn't hate around here so much
28:19now like their best buds Estrid finds her fiance notice how bummed out though Estrid
28:25is when her fiance turns up alive like all great.
28:28It's you crap.
28:29What am I going to do now.
28:30Like I said, he just meant to basically put a wedge between her relationship this developing
28:35with Isildur.
28:36I think we have that big battle coming in a couple episodes that's basically where you
28:39get rid of that boyfriend character we don't need that third wheel anymore a rondier says
28:45he's going to head off to find Adar and the army of orcs when Theo says that he's got
28:49a promise that he's going to keep.
28:50I think the promise was to his mother to serve as the new healer for Pelagir because they
28:55basically he was the only healer in town.
28:57Then we see Adar's army of orcs on the march toward Eregion with their Hulk in full view
29:03like we have a Hulk big troll here Gladriel and Elrond clocked them to from afar, but
29:08they haven't figured out Sauron's true plan to play the orcs in the elves against each
29:13other making both sides think that the other side has allied with Sauron against them because
29:18both sides both the orcs and the elves absolutely hate Sauron like everybody hates Sauron and
29:24Sauron is playing everyone against themselves like a fiddle that's kind of in his whole
29:29thing during the second age is taking a different tactic for trying to win everyone and conquer
29:35the world work smarter not harder get everybody else to do your dirty work for you get everybody
29:40to take each other down Gladriel accidentally uses her ring of power to heal the elves
29:45wound instantly oops wasn't supposed to use that ring gives it to Elrond which I think
29:50is a precursor to eventually Gil-galad giving Elrond his blue ring of air Vilya like eventually
29:55Elrond will get his own ring of power Gladriel takes one for the team is Elrond says wasn't
30:00just to save their lives, but to also prevent the elven ring of power from falling into
30:04Sauron's hands if she were to be captured or fall in battle which she is shortly after
30:09this notices Adar who actually captures her speaking in quenya which is the original ancient
30:15language of the elves remember the title of the episode is eldest in Adar is from the
30:21original tribe of Avari elves that were awoken during the awakening of the elves that were
30:27eventually captured by Morgoth one of the 13 he said mean that Adar is also one of the
30:33oldest living elves on the planet next to CÃrdan CÃrdan was also part of the original
30:38elves that were awoken at Cuiviénen but as old as both of them are they're not as old
30:43as the Ents and the Ents are not as old as Tom Bombadil who actually winds up closing
30:48down the end credits during the end credits of the episode they play one of Tom Bombadil
30:52songs that he sang earlier in the episode overall was a pretty solid episode.
30:57If you're Lord of the Rings book fan.
30:58I think you probably enjoyed this episode a little bit more because of how deeply they
31:01got into stuff that they not done in live action before like Tom Bombadil for instance
31:06there was so much lore and references Easter eggs to things from the books that they talked
31:10about.
31:11So if there's anything in the episode you spotted that I didn't talk about in the video
31:14just write it below in the comments my full episode 5 video will post next week after
31:19they release it.
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