Lord Of The Rings_ Rings Of Power Season 2 Episode 6 FULL Breakdown & Things You Missed
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00:00When the history of this age is written, the Silmarils, they will merit little more than a whisper.
00:06Welcome back everyone, it's Charlie. This will be my full Lord of the Rings, Rings of Power, season 2, episode 6 video.
00:12There are a whole bunch of easter eggs and references. We're into like the last couple episodes of the season.
00:16So like they're finally heating up into like the really big battle of the season, which is the fall of Eregion.
00:22So we'll break it all down. If you're brand new to the channel, be sure to subscribe to get all the videos.
00:27Careful for spoilers. If you have not seen the episode yet, we'll just start at the beginning, work our way through shot by shot,
00:32talking about easter eggs, WTF moments, starting with the episode title.
00:36Where is he? Which is a reference to Adar's carving on the Elves' body, asking where is Sauron?
00:44Because he thinks that Sauron is working with the Elves to build his weapon that he was trying to make back when Adar killed him at the beginning of the second age.
00:51And he's not wrong about that. Like he's building a weapon with the Elves, but he's using the Elves against Adar, pitting them against each other.
00:59He thinks that he's allied with the Elves, but that's not really what's going on.
01:03The actual opening scene starts with Orondyr running to catch Adar's army, catching a couple stragglers.
01:09The subtitles refer to them as deserter orcs, so it is that not all orcs are that loyal to Adar.
01:15Like they're willing to throw away their allegiance because they don't want to die, thinking that Sauron is not actually back.
01:20Like he's not a thing. We don't need to worry about this. Like why throw away our lives trying to fight the Elves for a ghost?
01:26How this will come back to bite them in the ass. But the whole idea here is that Orondyr gets the map from the orcs.
01:33So he knows now that the orc army, Adar's army, is on its way to Eregion.
01:37So the idea is the last couple of episodes, this big battle of Eregion, everyone's meant to be converging there.
01:42Like the dwarves are starting to figure out what's going on there. There's also Gil-Galad's army.
01:46We'll talk about that when we get to that part of the episode, because there are a couple of Gil-Galad references.
01:50Because currently he's planning on marching them to Mordor, not to Eregion, which is where they're really needed.
01:56Back at Celebrimbor's workshop, he's having trouble forging the Nine Rings for men.
02:00You can see just piles and piles of his attempts around the workshop here.
02:05They play it fast and loose on the timeline of each episode, but a bunch of time is meant to have gone by
02:10since Sauron came back to Eregion and started forging the Nine Rings.
02:14You have to think of it as weeks going by, not days.
02:17Sauron already turned his staff against him, so the more unhinged Celebrimbor gets,
02:21the more the other elves start to hate him.
02:23I think this is part of Sauron's long-term plan to get the other elves to help him when it comes time for him to steal all the rings for men.
02:30We find out the dwarves stop sending Mithril shipments to actually make the rings.
02:34Not because of what Durin IV said, because he's all wary of Sauron, even though he doesn't know that it's Sauron.
02:40He just thinks that something weird is up with the rings.
02:42It's all because the ring has made Durin III way more greedy, and he's holding out, not wanting to send them more,
02:49expecting them to pay more for them.
02:52They made some changes about the way the rings affect the dwarves from the books.
02:56In the books, the negative effects of the rings, like Sauron's influence on the rings,
03:00doesn't actually have an effect on the dwarves, but on the TV show version, it does.
03:04So the ring is Sauron basically polluting Durin III's mind, making him more greedy.
03:10This mind belongs to me.
03:14It's mine, my own, my pressure.
03:21Yes, Sauron does want the Mithril to finish the nine rings, like he's on a clock here, it's ticking.
03:27But he also wants to sow division amongst the races of Middle-earth, so they won't band together, unite against him.
03:33So he's trying to drive a wedge between the elves and the dwarves,
03:36which is why he's using his influence over Durin's ring to influence his mind and make him more greedy, holding out for more money.
03:44This whole thing with Celebrimbor, forgetting Mirdania's name, is just Sauron twisting him up inside so badly,
03:50like he basically locks him inside his own workshop, using illusions to trap him inside there.
03:55The deeper he descends into his own mind, like they start talking about it here, like,
03:59shouldn't you spend more time just thinking about your thoughts?
04:02The more time he sits here stewing, just all by himself, the crazier he gets.
04:06You also notice that Sauron has switched to wearing black, slowly starting to show his true colors, dot dot dot, getting bolder and bolder.
04:15Remember, there's only two episodes left, so he's gonna have to show his hand pretty soon.
04:19Like, eventually Celebrimbor will learn the truth, everyone in Eregion will learn the truth, but not until it's too late.
04:25You also notice that he's using his powers, Sauron is using his powers to make Celebrimbor see or not see certain things, like he's creating illusions around him.
04:33Like here, they don't show his hammer, but the minute he looks back, the hammer is back there, that's more of Sauron's tricks.
04:39He does it later in the episode too, where he makes him think that everything is fine outside, so he doesn't see the orcs.
04:45They're not really clear on Sauron's exact power levels in this form after his body's already been destroyed once,
04:50he's still crazy powerful, but like, not nearly as powerful as Morgoth or the Valar.
04:55So you can see later in the episode, that's why he has to like, cut his hand and use his blood to sew a much bigger illusion.
05:02Sauron then uses this as an opportunity to take control of the administration of Eregion, to sort of grease the wheels and get this war with the orcs started.
05:10He wants the orcs to invade, so that he can use the chaos to steal the rest of the rings.
05:16You also notice right outside the forge, there's a statue of Feanor holding one of the Silmarils.
05:20Celebrimbor is Feanor's grandson, so he looks at Feanor as sort of like this high figure that he wants to surpass.
05:27He wants to create something that will be remembered as being greater than the Silmarils.
05:32Later in the episode, Sauron plays him like a fiddle again, using this against him.
05:37Like, oh, your rings will be viewed as so much greater than the Silmarils.
05:40Nobody will even remember those crazy Silmarils when they see the rings.
05:44But at least at the beginning of the episode, the elves are just starting to see the signs of the orcs.
05:48Like, why aren't we getting any more visitors? Like, where are all the traitors?
05:51How come people haven't been coming in? What's going on here? Are things happening on the road?
05:55We start to see more of him twisting Mordania around his finger.
05:58She's clearly down bad for him, he's just using it against her.
06:02Early theory, she'll be the one to help him steal the rings for men.
06:07Then we see Adar treating with Galadriel.
06:09They bond over their hatred of Sauron with a bunch of callbacks to season one
06:13with the other version of Adar before they recast him.
06:16They both bond over how Sauron messed with both of their minds.
06:20We find out what Sauron's bargain with Adar was way back when he saved him during the Years of the Trees.
06:25This was back after Morgoth experimented on those original elves,
06:29turning them into orcs, and sounds like he just forgot about them.
06:32Like, he just didn't care anymore. Like, ah, whatever, you know,
06:34I'll just throw you to the mountaintop and forget about you.
06:36He tells them that Sauron promised him children,
06:39which explains why all the orcs here think of him as their father.
06:43Like, they literally call him father.
06:44But I also kind of think the twist here is that some of these orcs
06:48do have some sort of biological connection to him.
06:51Like, he probably had some children back then,
06:54who then begat many many further generations of orcs
06:57because the life cycle of orcs moves pretty quickly.
07:00They breed like rabbits, so there is a pretty good chance
07:02that Adar is a common ancestor for a lot of these modern orcs.
07:06The reason why Adar is still alive in present day
07:09is because he still has so much of that elven biology in him,
07:12and elves are immortal.
07:14Presumably after those original 13 elves that were turned into orcs
07:18had enough further generations, like enough generations were born,
07:21the immortality was bred out of them.
07:23Then he shows Galadriel Sauron's crown, which is Morgoth's crown.
07:27So there's a couple more book changes here,
07:29but we get a couple big lore dumps.
07:31In the books, Morgoth's crown was actually melted down
07:33and used to make the chain that binds him outside the door of night.
07:37On the show, the way they explained it though,
07:39is that Sauron just grabbed Morgoth's crown
07:41and then reforged it to a size that would fit his own head
07:44because Morgoth himself as a Valar, way more powerful
07:47and way way bigger than Sauron was.
07:50Just because the movies trade so heavily on Sauron
07:53is this overarching powerful big bad.
07:56People forget that Morgoth is meant to be vastly more powerful than Sauron ever was.
08:01Unless you count Tom Bombadil,
08:03because they're so mysterious about how powerful he actually is.
08:07Technically, Morgoth is meant to be the second most powerful being in existence
08:11next to Iluvatar.
08:12Adar starts talking more about Morgoth's crown.
08:15It was actually forged to hold the three Silmarils
08:18when he stole them during the first age,
08:20which we just saw a statue of an Eregion,
08:22Feanor who created the Silmarils.
08:24And the idea is that he says he kept the crown around
08:26because it actually has legit power inside it
08:29and he used that power to kill Sauron
08:32during the beginning of the second age.
08:34It's not meant to be just a regular metal crown.
08:36It actually has a ton of power imbued in it,
08:38which he wants to use to try and kill Sauron again
08:42in combination with the power of the three elven rings.
08:45Here's the big problem with that,
08:47like there's a couple lore issues with that
08:48because you cannot kill immortal beings.
08:51You can destroy their bodies,
08:53but you actually can't destroy their essence.
08:55That's how Sauron keeps coming back multiple times.
08:59Even Gandalf, who gets killed,
09:00gets brought back because he's an immortal Maiar.
09:03Then Adar correctly guesses that Sauron
09:05has been masquerading as Halbrand
09:07and was trying to trick him into fighting the elves.
09:09But later there's a twist in the episode
09:11that doesn't totally make sense
09:12because he learns all these things
09:14about what's really going on with Sauron,
09:16what's really going on with the rings,
09:17like he gets all this information.
09:19But then later in the episode,
09:20when Galadriel explains that Sauron is playing him,
09:23making him attack Eregion
09:24because that's what he wants him to do,
09:26Adar does not believe her.
09:28For some reason, he believes everything she says
09:30except for that one thing,
09:31which just seems weird.
09:33Back in Numenor,
09:34Farazun holds judgment over Elendil
09:36over the fight in the shrine last week.
09:37This is all to set up the big twist with the faithful
09:40later in the episode in the Valar saving Muriel.
09:43They're basically trying to set this further division
09:46between the faithful and the Kingsmen,
09:47the people that were loyal to Farazun.
09:49On the show and in the books,
09:51Elendil is destined to help lead the faithful
09:54back to Middle-earth at some point.
09:55So they're basically just trying to make things
09:57seem worse and worse on Numenor
09:59till they eventually get to the point
10:00where Elendil and Muriel are like,
10:02all right, you know what?
10:03Let's get out of here.
10:03We don't need this anymore.
10:04Let's go back to Middle-earth with the faithful.
10:06Then we see the stranger getting visions
10:08of Nori and Poppy screaming.
10:10The Easterlings have knives to them,
10:12threatening to kill them,
10:13forcing him into submission,
10:14which is what they said that they were planning to do
10:16earlier this season.
10:18Then he sees a vision of the dark wizard.
10:20The other is Tari falling rocks,
10:22making it seem like the evil wizard
10:23was going to kill all the halflings
10:25like this entire village of them living out there.
10:27He's still with Tom Bombadil,
10:29who tries to basically offer him
10:31the fork in the road choice.
10:32Like you have to take one path,
10:34either you train and continue to try
10:36and learn your power as a wizard,
10:38find a staff, or you go and save your friends.
10:41There's a bunch of references to Iluvatar
10:43and the secret fire, the sacred flame.
10:45Basically, the secret fire is like the power of creation
10:48that only Iluvatar has.
10:50Like that's how he creates the world.
10:52He creates beings, other things,
10:53pretty much anything in general.
10:55None of the other beings like the Valar or the Maiar
10:58have the sacred flame.
10:59They can't create things the same way,
11:01which basically sets up the entire conflict
11:04during the Silmarils with Morgoth
11:06going against Iluvatar and the other Valar.
11:09Morgoth is obsessed with finding the secret fire
11:12because he wants to create things himself too
11:14and because he can't do that,
11:16that's why he comes to Middle-earth
11:17and seeks to take dominion over it,
11:19reshaping it in his own image.
11:22Because if he could, he would have just gone off
11:24and created a completely separate world
11:25of his own making.
11:27The way that Tom Bombadil talks about it though,
11:29he's basically telling the stranger
11:30that Iluvatar speaks to other people
11:33and can send them visions if they're listening.
11:36There's actually many references in the books
11:37to Iluvatar acting directly in the story,
11:40like literally stepping into the story.
11:41Most of the time later in the timeline,
11:43he's very hands-off with these kinds of things.
11:46Really good example is making the world round
11:48and seeking the island of Numenor
11:50and then later when Gandalf is killed by the Balrog
11:52or killed during his fight with the Balrog,
11:54he resurrects him,
11:55basically turning his spirit back around
11:57and sending it back to Middle-earth
11:59where he becomes Gandalf the White.
12:01There's a lot of other little examples like that
12:03throughout the entire timeline
12:05from beginning to end of Lord of the Rings.
12:06But the idea here is that Tom Bombadil
12:08is basically saying that Iluvatar is telling him
12:11what's going to happen.
12:12Then they begin his wizard training montage.
12:15Nori separately has a conversation with the Gundabali
12:18making it sound like most of their village
12:20will stay here in their little hobbit holes
12:22and only some will travel back to Middle-earth
12:24and eventually create the Shire.
12:27Nobody explains why he's called Nobody to Poppy
12:30because his parents just waited till too long
12:32to give him the name and by then nobody had stuck.
12:34So it just continued being his name.
12:37Also their whole relationship thing here
12:39I think is to set up the idea
12:40that he does travel back west with them
12:42and helps create the Shire.
12:44They make it sound like the stranger
12:46is going to find his staff at some point soon.
12:48But when Tom Bombadil says
12:50many that died deserve life.
12:52Some that live deserve death.
12:53Who are you to give it to them?
12:55That's the same line that Gandalf tells to Frodo
12:58later in the timeline.
12:59When he says he has all the time that he needs
13:01that's because he's immortal as a Maiar.
13:04He literally has all the time that he needs.
13:06Like if you want to spend hundreds of years
13:07searching for a staff, you actually can do that.
13:10Then he says if he leaves to go save Nori and Poppy
13:13he won't be able to continue on this path.
13:16Like either you learn to become a wizard as an Istari
13:18like you come fully into your powers,
13:20fight Sauron, fight the dark wizard
13:22or you go save your friends.
13:24Tom Bombadil also basically tells him
13:26that they'll never meet again after this.
13:29Which also makes me think that the stranger
13:31might not be Gandalf because later in the timeline
13:33Gandalf does spend a lot of time with Tom Bombadil
13:35during the events of the Hobbit.
13:37We will see the argument about
13:39who the stranger is continues.
13:41Like some people really do think that he's Gandalf
13:43but there's some evidence that he's not Gandalf
13:45and he's one of the other blue wizards.
13:47But this whole twist of him choosing one or the other
13:49is sort of like the Mandalorian with Grogu
13:51in Luke Skywalker.
13:52Like choose the lightsaber or choose the path
13:55of the Beskar armor and go back to Mando.
13:57When Tom Bombadil just disappears Batman style
14:00this makes me think that this is the last time
14:02we'll see him this season.
14:03Like he won't come back.
14:05Back at Khazad-Dum everyone's busy
14:07taking advantage of the light
14:08giving over the extra ring tax to King Durin
14:10and we see Sauron has come to twist them
14:13more around his finger talking about
14:14more rings on fingers metaphors here
14:16and get his Mithril.
14:18Durin the fourth very clearly calls him out
14:20thinking that he's doing some shady stuff
14:22with the rings.
14:23But the reminder here is that he doesn't know
14:25that it's Sauron.
14:26He just thinks he's doing something shady
14:27with the rings influencing his father.
14:30Interesting detail here about Sauron's master plan.
14:32So like I said he's trying to sow division
14:34amongst the different races of Middle-earth.
14:36If you remember a couple episodes ago
14:38we saw that the Ents were absolutely pissed
14:41that the elves were cutting down trees.
14:43Like how dare you cut down the trees
14:45and Arondir swore that they wouldn't do that anymore.
14:48Sauron very quickly tells Durin
14:50that they'll give them all the timber
14:52that they need for their mines
14:54which is using the ring to basically
14:56cause him to want to over mine their mountain.
14:59So if Sauron gets his way
15:01it'll basically cause the elves to piss
15:03the Ents off even more.
15:04But also the idea is that Durin turns him down.
15:07Now Sauron gets mad at this for a second too.
15:09There's also a cool Balrog reference too.
15:12But the idea is that Sauron knows
15:13that he's going to eventually get his Mithril
15:15and Durin is getting more and more greedy
15:18just holding out for more money from the elves.
15:20When he offers him something more precious
15:22I think that's meant to be a reference
15:23to the Noglamere
15:24which itself contained a Silmaril.
15:26It was a work of the dwarves and the elves
15:29in partnership
15:30but wound up causing a huge fight between them.
15:33When he sees the Balrog in the fire
15:35I think that's him just referencing
15:36that eventually he knows the Balrog is there
15:38and it will wind up kicking the dwarves out
15:41basically destroying most of Khazad-dum
15:43like just wait for it, wait for it.
15:44We'll see that Balrog soon.
15:46Sauron is basically causing everyone to hate each other
15:49while also getting what he wants
15:51which is ultimately the nine rings.
15:53Later we see Durin III crying
15:55about going against his father.
15:56I think they just want to tease
15:57that he might have to usurp him at some point
15:59because I do think that we will see the dwarves
16:01fighting with the elves
16:02because canonically that did happen
16:04like eventually they did fight together.
16:06Early theory we will see Durin IV
16:08using his axe fighting with Elrond
16:11maybe in the last couple of episodes
16:13but at some point Durin IV will become the king
16:16and he'll be able to make those calls
16:17just meaning that his father has to die
16:19at some point in the next season or two.
16:21So R.I.P.
16:22Back at Numenor, Elendil says
16:24he's being asked to set his integrity aflame.
16:27This is meant to be a reference to the Kingsmen
16:29in Farazond burning the white tree
16:31which they focus on very heavily in a shot like
16:33ooh you want to be worried about that white tree
16:36in the books they wound up burning that
16:37as an offering to Morgoth
16:39after Sauron had convinced them to worship Morgoth.
16:42It kind of seems like Elendil is slowly
16:44emotionally letting Aeorian his daughter go
16:46not because he hates her
16:47but you can see that Farazond
16:49is trying to twist her against him
16:50like he said that you would say this
16:53Meriel comes, acknowledges her feelings for him
16:55so I think they're just setting up the idea
16:57that she will eventually be his queen
16:59when they go back to Middle-earth
17:00and create their own kingdom
17:02she makes a bunch of references to the faithful
17:04and then basically takes the sentence from him
17:07submitting herself to the judgment of the Valar
17:09in the big sea monster
17:11this is just more to set up the idea
17:12that she will help lead the faithful
17:14back to Middle-earth
17:15they just want to show you the deepening division
17:17between the different peoples in Numenor
17:20I think part of the scene here
17:21where she gets pulled underwater by the sea creature
17:23is that it sort of stares into her soul
17:26and she is ultimately saved by the Valar
17:29she's also got some crazy lung capacity
17:31and how nice of it is of the sea creature
17:33to basically throw her up higher on land
17:35like no no we're not going to make you
17:36crawl up out of the rocks here
17:38I'll put you on the steps
17:39so this just catalyzes more people
17:42to the side of the faithful
17:43and obviously you still have a bunch of the haters
17:45who are part of the Kingsmen Farazond supporters
17:48then we see him using the palantir
17:50seeing the fires of Mount Doom
17:52he sees Sauron in his Halbran form
17:54in front of a fireplace
17:55maybe after he comes to Numenor
17:57and teasing more of that storyline from the books
17:59because there's a big period in the books
18:01when Sauron is on Numenor
18:02twisting them, tricking them into invading Valinor
18:06just because of the way the palantir work
18:08this also implies that Farazond
18:09learns that Halbrand is Sauron
18:12and that might lead to them capturing him eventually
18:14and bringing him back to Numenor
18:16there's just a couple ways they have to explain
18:18the downfall of Numenor
18:19and in order for a lot of that to happen
18:21it involves Sauron being on Numenor
18:23so we'll see how they accomplish that on the show
18:26at some point he has to return
18:28and also because he's supposed to give
18:29one of the rings for men to one of the Numenoreans
18:32which seems like it's going to be Kemen
18:34that feels like a season 3 kind of thing
18:36just based on the way they're building up
18:37towards the final battle of Eregion
18:39during the last couple of episodes
18:41then for like a brief hot second
18:42you think that the elves are going to ally with the orcs
18:45when Galadriel's like okay fine
18:46we'll team up against Sauron
18:48but he basically plays her
18:50saying that you already gave me all the information I need
18:52which is where the ring
18:54like her ring Nenya is going to be
18:55because he wants to steal that
18:57and it sounds like he wants to be the one
18:58to use Morgoth's crown in combination with the ring
19:01to defeat Sauron
19:03which also itself feels like them doing
19:05exactly what Sauron wants them to do
19:07like he's playing them
19:08causing them to bring the rings in the crown to him
19:11Sauron wants his crown and he wants the elven rings
19:14it'll be way easier for him to take those
19:17if they bring them to Eregion
19:18rather than Sauron having to trek all over the world
19:21hunting all this stuff down
19:23and it seems like Adar does not want to believe
19:25when Galadriel tells him exactly that
19:27like we're playing into his hand
19:28he's like I don't know what you're talking about
19:30the other important thing here too
19:32is when he raises the idea of what happens to the orcs
19:35if they do team up
19:36like after the battle
19:37if we do defeat Sauron
19:39what are you going to do to the orcs
19:40will you let us live in peace
19:42which is actually something that George R.R. Martin
19:44talking about game of thrones
19:45completely different story universe
19:47has actually talked about a lot
19:48so he said the idea in the lord of the rings story
19:51is that the books never really get into the details
19:53of what Aragorn did with the rest of the orcs
19:56after the last battle in return of the king
19:59did he let the surviving orcs live and thrive
20:02or did he go around killing all the orcs
20:04the orc women all the orc babies
20:07what happened to all the orcs
20:09then we see Adar's army start their siege engines
20:12actually starting the battle of Eregion
20:14the siege of Eregion
20:16Sauron cuts his palm to weave an even stronger illusion
20:19because remember the nine rings have not been completed yet
20:21so he really needs Celebrimbor to finish that work
20:24so he traps them in an even more powerful illusion
20:27the reason why he hands him Feanor's hammer
20:29and he wasn't using it before this
20:31like why Celebrimbor didn't use Feanor's hammer
20:33is because it's sacred to him
20:35remember he created the Silmarils
20:37it's basically like the most treasured possession that he has
20:40I'm also kind of wondering
20:41if the trying to set up the idea
20:43that Sauron will take Feanor's hammer
20:45and use that to craft the one ring of power eventually
20:48the other cool connection like big lore Easter egg here too
20:51is that both Sauron and Feanor were apprenticed to Owlay the smith
20:56that's how both of them became such great smiths
20:59that was actually what Sauron was doing
21:01before Morgoth came around and twisted Sauron to join his side
21:05originally Sauron was not evil
21:08love the transition here too
21:09after Celebrimbor goes back inside to continue his work
21:12where the illusion drops
21:13and you see what's really happening
21:14it is basically all out war with siege coming to Eregion
21:19Sauron then uses his power
21:21seeming like he raises what is like a fog of war
21:23I think basically just to help the orcs lay siege to Eregion
21:26like he just wants it to happen faster
21:28it seems like based on the pacing
21:30most of the last two episodes
21:32will be the actual battle itself
21:34with maybe like a bit of the aftermath
21:35at the end of episode three
21:37also to set up the idea with him taking the nine rings
21:40and finding the different nine men
21:42across the different kingdoms to give them to
21:44that'll probably like the season three teaser
21:46because like that's the next big step
21:48is that him actually finding the nine
21:50that will eventually become the Nazgul
21:52so early theory they don't actually tease him
21:54forging the one ring of power
21:56to like the end of season three
21:58or like some point during season four
22:00so probably still going to be a while
22:01before we see the one ring of power
22:03there's a bunch of stuff happening in the episode
22:04so if there's anything you spotted
22:06any Easter eggs or references
22:07that I didn't talk about in the video
22:08just write them below in the comments
22:10in my full episode seven video
22:11will post next week after they release it
22:14big reminder too
22:15we also have the penguin episodes in the DC universe
22:17it's meant to be a Batman Robert Pattinson spinoff
22:20my episode one video for that will post next
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22:28season three videos
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22:31rings of power episodes
22:33thank you so much for watching
22:34and I'll see you guys in the next one!