The penultimate episode of the Rings of Power Gives just as much as it leaves to be desired.
You see once again the Deceiver plays his role well in that he deceives, and we learn that the Mithril he gave Celebrimbor was actually his own blood.
But while the above line is a pretty good representation of the Cycles of Abuse that permeate society, and the fighting is pretty and the actors act well, I can't shake the feeling that, well we know what is going to happen, so can we get to it already?
I mean don't get me wrong the fall of Minas Ithil to Minas Morgul took quite a while in Shadow of War, and if you have read the Lord of the Rings books or seen the movies, you know that Minas Morgul exists and belongs to the witch King of Angmar, but the ensuing time was filled with otherwise interesting things.
We learnt a lot of new things that we otherwise wouldn't have, here it feels like a lot of build up to what we know is coming, And I can't shake the feeling that a lot of it would have been better if it came first, like if we didn't know that Sauron was going to succeed in making the Nine.
Or the lengths Sauron can and has gone to in order to further himself.
We do however learn his motive behind the Rings.
He controls the Lords, and through them, controls the people, he can't just control whoever he want's people have to let him in, but they always do, for he is after all the Deceiver.
Adar will fall, Galadriel will Survive, and while the episode ends with a cliff hanger, we know that Kazad Dum will release the Balrog of Morgoth, and we know Elrond doesn't die yet, and Gil Galad does.
No the writing is interesting, its just we already know the interesting bits, so its not.
And what of Nori and the Stranger? I mean Tom Bombadil left him with quite a choice, you have to wrap up the fall of Eregion and this story line in One episode, and while the Length permits it, its... gonna be a mess thematically speaking.
I mean they had the sense to merge the Arondir and the Elves and Eregion Story lines, this one is still somehow strangely disconnected, Regardless, I still believe if they had followed Tolkein's original Story this could have been better, we could have developed our connection to Eregion and this would be like the Battle of Hogwarts, but Alas, it was not to be.
No you know what, this would have been better than the Battle of Hogwarts, cause we literally do not know who to root for, Good and Evil aren't clear, I mean in terms of Choices, Sauron would have achieved what no Other Darklord could have, moral Ambiguity in a finale.
I mean he did kind of Achieve it, but like, people don't as much as they should.... sooo...
But Alas... It was not to be...
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