They’re definitely Easterners. So, Sauron cultists.
Ooh! The Stranger is a replicant!
Maybe he looks so haunted because he dreams of electric sheep.
I had totally forgotten that part. In my defense, I had just finished working a football game that had gone into overtime. The fact I was awake for the whole show is a minor miracle in itself.
So, could the tree dying in the Elf lands be because they did not head Galadriel’s warning, rather than give her a swift boat ride to Valar?
They don’t need Mithril, they need to be less aragont.
The show was made for people who were fans of the movies, have maybe read the books, but probably haven’t delved much deeper than that.
I’ll agree that it would in many ways make more sense to have the already known characters in the background, and the focus is on new characters that have to react to how those characters are moving the world under them.
But that’s gotta be balanced against fan service. “You like Galadriel? Well now you get to see her as a bad-ass warrior!” “You know the guy that lopped of Sauron’s finger and then couldn’t throw the ring in the volcano? Here’s his story.”
People want to see characters they know, and if it was all new characters, there’d be less interest. Why do we care about a little band of Harfoots? Because they had an encounter with someone interesting. (And I bet that if you polled people who have only seen the movies and this show, 95% of them will say it’s obviously Gandalf, it’s only those who know more about the lore who question it.)
I seem to remember that Tolkien once metadescribed his writings as “Found literature” or somesuch. That he was not the writer, but the translator of ancient histories and accounts. And just like historical accounts in the real world, there are inaccuracies and disagreements. So, even though I know more than the average viewer, but certainly not as much as many of you here, I can enjoy this particular account on its own merits, not on how well it agrees with others.
That said, I do have some issues with some of the writing and decisions made in the show, but not enough to keep my from watching the final episode, and depending on how that goes, looking forward to the next season.
Me either. I’m still able to enjoy it for what it is, even if I’m disappointed that it isn’t what it could be.
If the Stranger is Sauron, then they set fire to the settlement of a group that has been harboring, and is now protecting, the greatest evil in Middle-Earth.
“If your quarry goes to ground, leave no ground to go to.”
That said, I don’t see how it’s the Blue Wizards, as there are three, not two. Unless that’s simply another difference in accounts, not that we know much about them at all.
They’re also not blue!
You know the Mighty Maiar Power Rangers need to wear the right colors.
Distances are hard to determine.
That has yet to be see what is going on.
Again, yet to be seen, that just seems to be foreshadowing.
I concur.
Did Sauron die when Morgoth was captured? I thought he escaped.
One of the differences between good and evil is that good doesn’t murder innocent bystanders.
I don’t know if you caught the significance of the phrase, but it was uttered by someone who believed they were doing the greater good.
I will point out that they did not murder anyone, even if their actions may lead to death. The Harfoots are also not innocent bystanders, they are harboring and protecting the greatest evil in Middle-Earth(under the “Stranger is Sauron” speculation). They didn’t burn the wagons unprovoked, they were lied to by Nori, and threatened by her father.
Not cool, certainly, but I don’t know if you can judge angels chasing an escaped devil with mortal ethics.
I did not.
Is it Napoleon or something?
…but then Father killed him, apparently.
It’s said by The Operative in Serenity.
Adar certainly believes he killed Sauron. He might even be right, from a certain point of view. It’s going to make for an awkward reunion when his old boss shows up again.
Hence the “apparently”. Of course, Maiar can’t be killed. Just disembodied. But I don’t know if Adar knows that (or if anyone in Middle-Earth does, actually).
Oh, yes.
I can imagine Adar, standing there basking in his accomplishments, when a shadow comes up behind him, says (In dark speech), “Thanks for the digs, kid.” and snaps his neck.