Go westīack to the elves, and we saw Galadriel given permission to return to the Undying Lands by High King Gil-galad (Benjamin Walker). That said, the way he spoke to the fireflies (before they all dropped dead) was very reminiscent of Gandalf, on top of the Orthanc, speaking to the moth in The Fellowship of the Ring. My money is on him being an original character, not from Tolkien’s books. The actor playing the Stranger, Daniel Weyman, has stated that his character is an important one, pivotal to the creation of the titular rings. Who is the Stranger from the crash site, though? First thought is a younger version of Gandalf, although I think the hair and beard are red herrings – plus Gandalf, Saruman and the rest of the Istari weren’t sent to Middle-earth until some way into the Third Age, thousands of years after the events of this series. It was all pretty superficial in the first episode, and it wasn’t until the aftermath of the falling object from the sky that we learned more about Poppy and Nori’s characters. We saw Lenny Henry as Sadoc Burrows for the first time – interesting Irish accent, Sir Len– and were introduced to Nori Brandyfoot (Markella Kavenagh) and her pal Poppy Proudfellow (Megan Richards). (So far, it succeeds … but the line is a fine one.) Here, just as the hobbits do in Peter Jackson’s films, it seems the halflings will provide some much-needed light relief in a series potentially heavy with Ponderous Moments and dialogue that treads a fine line between emotive and horrifically po-faced. Harfoots are a type of hobbit – along with the stoor and fallohide – not written about a great deal by JRR Tolkien. Meet the harfoots (and their, erm, interesting accents)Īnd so to our first harfoot sighting. We picked up a few centuries later, when even Galadriel’s company, chiefly Thondir (Fabian McCallum), had lost faith in the mission – even after Galadriel killed a snow troll with such panache that I can’t wait for her to be ambushed again. Grieving, she took her brother’s dagger – and his pledge to kill Sauron. We met our heroine Galadriel as a grownup, played by Morfydd Clark (she won’t turn into Cate Blanchett for a good few thousand years yet). Then we were treated to a summary of events, explaining how the elvish people, Galadriel among them, travelled from their idyll in the west to the realm of Middle-earth to battle Morgoth and his armies. Presumably: “Pay attention to this bit about sinking, it’s going to come in handy at the end of the episode when you get cold feet about being on that boat.” He then whispered something in his little sister’s ear. Apparently it’s something to do with darkness and light – I’m sensing a theme here – rather than gravity and density. “Do you know why a ship floats but a stone cannot?” he asked. Just as she was getting the better of the boy who sank her sailboat, her elder brother Finrod (Will Fletcher) arrived to calm things down and issue some dubious advice. We were shown that young Galadriel (Amelie Child Villiers) was ready for a scrap. We began with a solemn voiceover from Galadriel, informing us that she remembers the times before it all went bad, when “the world was so young that there had not been a sunrise”, and something about darkness and light. Don’t get cold feet! … Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
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