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are his successor welcome back everyone is charlie this will be my full lord of the rings rings of
power episode 3 video there were a whole bunch of easter eggs so we'll break it all down if you're
brand new to the channel i will be doing videos for all the episodes be sure to subscribe to
get them careful for spoilers from the episode if you haven't seen it yet we'll just start at
the beginning and work our way through shot by shot talking about easter eggs and wtf moments
starting with the title the title was adar he's the fallen elf character played by joseph mawle
who most of you remember as benjen from game of thrones the way they're using him on the show
they've explained is that he's sort of like the mid boss on the way to sauron eventually so he's
not meant to be another form of sauron he's like a completely separate character they created for the
show he's not somebody from the books because of galadriel's prologue at the beginning of episode 1
talking about how things never are evil in the beginning i think he was also one of the elf
children that were there in the prologue you see a very fuzzy version of his face teased at
the end of the episode the actual episode felt like it was more about setting up numenor and
setting up the place that will become mordor in the southlands here and confirming the mark
of sauron is also meant to be a map of what mordor will eventually become the whole reason why sauron
decided to make mordor here make his realm here is because the natural mountain range provided
this natural protection just making it easier for him to defend the area during the episode when
arandir looks up around at all the devastation that the orcs have wreaked on the area that is
foreshadowing the devastation that sauron's forces will wreak in this area so that eventually it will
look more like this as you see it during the events of the lord of the rings movies a lot
of people also been calling this southland's area before door because it will eventually turn into
mordor which i think is kind of funny before door the other real big reveal too is what's going on
with hal brand's character and now i actually kind of think that he might turn out to be the witch
king of angmar or it might wind up happening is theo might turn out to actually be his son
and he might wind up becoming the witch king later in the timeline i already explained how hal brand
is connected to the southlands like the sigil that he wore around his neck was the same sigil that
we saw in the southlands and galadriel also finds the documents in their hall of records the ancient
records that reveal that's the mark of royalty in that area previously the same kings that
swore fealty to morgoth during the first stage so the kind of setting up hal brand is the reluctant
leader kind of like aragorn during the events of the lord of the rings movies where at first he
doesn't want to have anything to do with it he's very reticent because he's worried about falling
to darkness the same way that his ancestors did the same way that aragorn is kind of worried about
falling to darkness the same way that a silder who we also meet during the episode his ancestor
fell to the influence of the one ring so i think in this episode they soft confirmed that hal
brand is not going to be a version of sauron and also adar is not meant to be a version of sauron
either there's a couple of characters that wonder if that's the case because he is an elf but he's
meant to be a fallen elf completely different character than sauron so we probably have not
seen sauron yet i think the whole idea is they're setting up adar here to be the boss of season one
and then towards the end of season one then maybe they'll reveal what's going on with sauron and up
to that point we'll just see his mark all over the place and his influence be felt but the
episode begins with the orcs capturing iran deer and taking him back to their camp where we find
out they're holding everyone captive forcing the men to work in their tunnels making them bigger
basically slowly turning the area into what will eventually become mordor with all this
devastation you can see their path just extending for miles all the other elves that he meets in
here are the same elves that were working at the tower who have also been captured since then
then we check back in with galadriel and hal brand who wake up on the numenorian ship on the way back
to numenor confirming that it's allendyl's ship he's isildur's father who recognizes her as one
of the eldar the eldar is the ancient name that the valar gave to the elves just in general so
even though there are many groups of elves all over different parts of the world they're all
referred to as eldar it'd be like calling all the people on earth humans of earth the reason
he uses this term at the beginning is because they want to set up his connection to the elves in the
valar in general i'll talk about this throughout the episode as they reference some of these things
but there are a lot of references to the faithful and a lot of the things that happen in the books
but obviously you can see they've compressed the timeline because the isildur that we remember
is actually during the war the last alliance the one who cuts the one ring off of sauron's hand and
in the books that's like thousands of years later but numenoreans only live for about 200 years
so there's like this massive time compression during the second age so it's a little bit harder
to follow if you're going by book events so we'll just have to see what stuff they all throw into
the pot here that winds up being the actual show but the other big connection between his family
and the elves are through elrond's character so numenor was founded by elron's twin brother elrose
when they sail in here the giant statue that's looking out over the bay is a statue of elrond's
twin brother elrose they were both born half elven and they were given the choice to either live
life as an elf and they would gain immortality like the rest of the elves or they would live
life as a human and they would live normal human lifespan elrond chose to live life as an elf
and thus he continues to live for thousands of years but his brother elros chose to live life
as a human married an unnamed woman we don't know who his wife was in the books and they founded the
nation of numenor the statue in the prison area here might be of elrose's wife or his mother in
elrond's mother l wing and as they explain the island of numenor is kind of like an atlantis
in the world of tolkien but the island itself and this longer lifespan was given to them as a gift
by the valor because of their service during the war of wrath in the first stage like the
valar literally rose the island out of the water and they just gave it to him say hey this land
belongs to you now and we're also doubling your lifespan so like a normal member of their race
might live for about 200 years aragorn for example is one of the last descendants of a sealed dirt in
his father orlando that's why he's about 210 years old when he dies because he has numenorean blood
in his veins he was also about 87 years old during the events of return of the king so obviously it
looks very good for his age during this part of the timeline in the world of tolkien a normal
human lifespan like the southlanders is more like 90 years when galadriel refers to numenor as the
land of the star that's because their island was brought up by the sea by umo as a gift to the dane
for their part in the war against morgoth it was also called star wards because the dane were led
to it by the star of arundel and because the island was in the shape of a high-pointed star
you actually see the five-pointed star symbol on a lot of their weapons and armor too when they sail
in it looks fantastic love the special effects on this obviously spend a bunch of time and a bunch
of money on this part but if the architecture looks familiar that's because most of the major
structures like the castles the towers in middle earth later in the timeline during the events of
the lord of the rings movies are all built by the numenoreans after they came to middle earth or the
ones that survived the doom and new manure for example gondor founded by a sealed door in his
family after they came to newman or obviously one of the major events in the show they're building
towards is the creation of the rings of power but the other major thing is the downfall of numenor
sauron was also mostly responsible for the downfall of their race by tricking them
into invading valinor like i said though a lot of the events of that in the creation of the
rings of power are like two completely different parts of the timeline but i think that they've
compressed that because they're compressing the timeline for the show itself so we'll see how
long it is before they actually forge the rings of power or they start forging the rings of power
and how soon we actually see the downfall of numenor that might wind up being like the very
last season of the show when both of those things happen like they might just have those happen
in the same season it sounds like the way that sauron is going to trick the elves like the
promises he's going to offer them in creation of the rings will be similar to the promises that
he offers to the numenoreans that will lead them to try and invade valinor to their great doom i
didn't get too much into this in my episode 1 and episode 2 video but the whole idea is that keller
brimbore says that he wants to create something that will last and that's why they need to create
the world's greatest forge basically the whole idea is that during this period the elves actually
want to find a way to preserve their realms so that they'll be everlasting in the way that their
own lives are everlasting because even though they continue living like they're functionally immortal
all the life around them like the cities that they live in the land that they live on
those things decay like you would normally expect and the elves want to find a way to make it be
a little bit more like it is back on valinor so the whole idea is that sauron is able to trick the
elves into creating the rings of power because one of the effects of the rings is to preserve life so
that's probably what he's going to tell them like look i found a way we can preserve everything but
we have to create these special rings in the whole idea with the downfall of numenor because
even though they have longer lifespans they kind of set this up during the episode this hatred that
they have for the elves and for the valar when they're talking about the previous king being
deposed because he actually liked elves and he was trying to take them back to more pro-valar stance
what basically happened is that over time over the centuries the numenoreans eventually grew to
regret not having the same immortality as elves and started to resent them for that
so sauron basically lets himself be captured by the numenoreans and eventually tricks them
into worshiping morgoth thinking that if they do they will gain immortality by invading valinor
there are a couple references to this later in the episode and a group of numenoreans
that they call the faithful like they literally mention the word the faithful during the episode
i'll explain a little bit more about that in a second we'll get to that part of the episode
during the first episode though when galadriel almost sails back to valinor and this big veil
seemingly opens up this very magical looking veil and you hear this song in the background
it feels like for the show they've actually kind of moved things around in the timeline and they've
sort of upgraded what they call the ban of the valar on valinor like they basically ban everyone
from sailing to valinor so like if you had a ship during a certain part of the timeline you
could still try to sail there now you'd probably get killed if you came with inside of it but you
could still do it after the downfall of numenor literally a louvitar basically cracks the earth
and changes its shape to around like the earth used to be flat before the downfall of numenor and
separates the entire continent of valinor from the rest of the world so the only way to reach it is
through magic so even if you did have a ship after the downfall of numenor you couldn't just sail to
valinor if you wanted to your ship would just get lost in the sea here everyone probably recognizes
the white tree similar to the white tree of gondor the white tree of gondor was basically taken from
seedlings from this particular white tree the whole thing with the white trees is that they're
like the same species of tree as the original two trees that were destroyed by morgoth in
the giant spider angolian the only difference is they don't give off the same light that the
original two trees did but they are the same type of trees the really cool ability that these trees
have though is that the white trees will shed their petals when they sense the evil is afoot
during the trailer you see the white tree of numenor shed its petals i think that's the
whole idea that sauron has started walking around the earth in the tree is sensing that evil later
in the episode when a lendil is at the hall of records with galadriel and says that it was barely
survived from being destroyed by the previous king one of the things that sauron tries to do once
he eventually twists the numenoreans towards the side of morgoth is to cut down the white tree the
reason why there's a white tree in gondor later in the timeline though is because a sealeder is able
to steal some of the fruit from the tree and they use the seeds from that to plant a new white tree
also later in the timeline after aragorn formally becomes the king of gondor and unites the realms
of men he also finds another sapling of the white tree and plants a new white tree during most of
the events of the movies their white tree has already died then we meet pharazon and his
wife tarmurial the current queen region pharazon is important because he's the person who
basically presides over the numenoreans trying to invade valinor he's like the person responsible
directly for the downfall of numenor even though sauron tricked them into doing it muriel is the
right-born daughter of the previous king pharazon kind of usurps her power when she's forced to
marry him so you get this whole xenophobic vibe going on in numenor it just gets worse and worse
and worse until they eventually try to invade valinor they say muriel's father is trapped in the
tower sort of like an exile within numenor just forced to live out the rest of his days there his
name was tar palantir which will remind you of the palantirs which we actually saw in the trailers
those are the seeing stones that you see later during the events of the movies they were created
by feyenoor who also created the silmarils which they mentioned in episode 1 and episode 2. there's
all these scenes with hal brand having this silver tongue trying to talk his way into staying on
numenor but it's all i think a misdirect because he's kind of this reluctant king type figure
kind of like aragorn like he gives galadriel's dagger back and they become a little bit closer
previously he was like number one on my sauron watch list like it just seemed so deceiving here
but now i think it's actually more likely that he winds up either becoming the witch king of angmar
or one of the nine kings of men that become ring race one of the advantages that the show
has in doing the origin of the witch king in the nazical is that there isn't a whole lot
about their backstory that the books get into so it's sort of like a wide open area like in
the books they never reveal who the witch king of angmar was before he became the witch king
also he has a flaming sword that looks a lot like the flaming sword that theo was using in episode
2. when they mention allendale's son we see isildur for the first time famous eventual king of
gondor who cut the one ring off of sauron's hand like i said after his father was killed and then
fell to the one ring's influence the thing you have to remember and they kind of mentioned this
later in the episode is that he has a brother named anarion and then many generations later
you have aragorn one of the major additions that they did on the show though is that they gave them
a sister so a silder has a sister on the show but not in the books we'll see if she becomes a big
part of the plot like i don't know why they would include her on the show if she wasn't in the books
if she wasn't going to be a big character on the show isildur hears a very ethereal woman
whispering his name from a distant island you can let me know in the comments what you think
that is a reference to i couldn't find any direct references but i think it's all meant to tie in
with the idea that a silders family elendio's family is part of the faithful and that's one
of the reasons why they're able to survive the downfall of numenor because like right after
this you hear muriel talking literally mentioning the word faithful the faithful are basically the
people amongst the numenoreans race that still are loyal to the valor the ones who were not tricked
by sauron into worshipping morgoth so later in the timeline they're the ones that leave to colonize
middle earth and eventually build gondor and a lot of the other major structures that you see during
the events of the war of the ring alandel explains the origins and the meaning of his name it means
elf friend in quenya the language of the elves is because his family the area that they come from
on numenor are still faithful to the valar even though the way they explain it in this episode
largely the numenoreans have become very xenophobic when they visit the
hall of records you see galadriel make a lot of references to elrond and elros
i already explained their backstory how he basically chose to live a mortal life and founded
numenor in elrond chose to live life as an elf the other funny thing too is that galadriel is way
way older than elrond elrond and his brother were actually born on middle earth many years after the
elves sailed to middle earth in the wars with more gothic started as i mentioned earlier they also
confirmed that the mark in addition to a couple other things is also meant to be a map marker and
they explain how there was this contingency plan that sauron developed in the case of morgoth's
defeat when she says the language of the plan is the black speech it's basically the exact same
language that's written on the one ring of power the main language they speak in mordor eventually
obviously they're still making mordor as we speak slowly terraforming the southlands i think
the more interesting thing now to theorycraft though in the creation of mordor what's going
to be happening during the end of the second age the war the last alliance the war of the ring is
that it actually implies that hal brand or his son theo like if theo really does wind up being his
son will be unsuccessful like galadriel is trying to give him this motivational speech the same way
that elrond later in the timeline tries to give to aragorn but because we know what happens later
in the timeline it kind of seems like hal bran's story ends in a super big downer moment you guys
can let me know in the comments do you think that he becomes the witch king of angmar or one of the
nazgul or do you think that it's theo that winds up becoming the witch king or one of the nazgul
i am positive there's going to be a huge twist with that storyline later we check back in with
the harvest when they say they've heard of beings turned into stars they might actually be referring
to the silmarils because one of the summariles basically turned into something that they call
the star of arendelle that becomes this star that the elves eventually worship a lot of what happens
in the episode is setting up the idea that i think nori will leave to go with this meteor
man possibly a wizard character to go find this place where they're creating mordor the whole
idea is that the constellation that he created in episode two was meant to be like a map marker
he's probably looking for the place where they're creating mordor in the southlands when her mother
says the stars reached down and touched her that's a reference more to meteor man literally being
like one of these fallen angel characters in the tolkien lore like she kind of did physically get
touched by a star in a way then when muriel goes to visit her father the previous king that got
deposed in the tower when she says the moment they feared is here because galadriel has arrived the
thing they fear is probably the return of sauron like they're probably worried more about that
and this is kind of a misdirect like she seemed very standoffish with galadriel i think that's a
misdirect i think eventually she's gonna try and help galadriel my big theory right now for meteor
man is that he's either one of the blue wizards or he's like a brand new wizard that they just
created for the show i don't think that he's going to be gandalf or like one of the pre-existing
major wizards from the third age i don't think they want to break the timeline that much
then at the end of the episode they have that cool elves versus orcs fight a lot of cool chain kata
they also show you that orcs are literally burned by the sun and that's why they spend so much time
burrowing through the earth that's why they live underground because they can't walk around during
daylight the work that they unleash on them is the same type of larger wolves that were featured in
the hobbit movies and as they almost escape they reveal the adar character the fallen elf played
by joseph molly like i said i think he's just an underling of saurons and currently head of their
faction right now until sauron himself surfaces and takes command which might not happen to like
the very end of the season or season two i don't think it'll happen for a little while now i am
thinking that we won't actually see sauron himself for a while but if you spotted any other easter
eggs or references in the episode that i didn't talk about in the video just write them below in
the comments there's like a thousand things that they reference from the lore here so you could
watch the episode like 10 times and still find new little details my episode 4 video will post
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