The Rings of Power Episode 8Allies, the final chapter of The Lord of the Rings series, has only one thing to explain in my opinion: how the dagger with which Sauron killed Finrod (Will Fletcher), the brother of Galadriel (Morfydd Clark), the blacksmiths of the three rings. Obviously, Celebrimbor (Charles Edwards) needs gold and silver from Valinor, and Galadriel’s dagger is made of exactly those two materials from that peculiar geographic area. But why did the series finale give so much weight to Galadriel’s dagger? Is it because of his link to Sauron? If you’ve looked closely all season, every time Galadriel lost the dagger, Halbrand/Sauron (Charlie Vickers) insisted on returning it to her (at sea and when he takes it from Elendil -Lloyd Owen-). Why? And the deeper question: if the rings in the books were never dagger-forged (except for mithril), why do they introduce into the series an element to which they have attached so much importance (regardless of material)?
The Rings of Power Episode 8 End Declared: The Dagger, The Rings and Sauron’s Plan
We’re going to tiptoe over the fact that Celebrimbor forged them in secret (he didn’t ask Galadriel for Valinor’s gold or silver), or at least he didn’t do it under the watchful eye of great conspirators like Galadriel and Elrond ( Robert Aramayo). The answer is obvious. Season 1 has basically turned out to be the story of Sauron’s origin according to Amazon Prime Video, taking advantage of the unfilled holes left by JRR Tolkien in his books and stories. The rings have always been closely associated with Sauron, not just these three, but all the rings. These three would be connected only in so far as they were forged according to the technique Sauron had taught Celebrimbor.
The reveal of Sauron’s identity in the season finale is the least, whether you expected it halbrand (if you were aware of leaks and theories in forums related to the Tolkien universe or if you just suspected it). by the plot), as if not. The important thing isn’t the reveal, but what exactly Sauron wanted from Galadriel in the series: ruling with his help from him was easier, but it wasn’t strictly necessary either. The series has managed to give us a different version of the books, but with the same result: the rings are forged under the indirect tutelage of Sauron so that he can then control them. Nothing more nothing less. The dagger must be for the most ignorant viewers to find out. The fact that the ring’s forge is merging with Sauron’s eye on its whirlwind journey to Mordor is a sure sign that they want the viewer to bond with each other. Let’s put aside the fact that in the books Sauron doesn’t know these rings exist at first.
Does this mean Sauron somehow corrupts the dagger? He thinks that after killing Finrod, the corpse and dagger reach Eregion. Why stab a dagger and let it lie? There are only three explanations: one, bad mucus; two, you have so many daggers that you like to flaunt and, three, you have bewitched her and like a poisoned apple or a Trojan horse you send her like one who doesn’t want the thing. From the creative decisions of the series, we suspect we are moving to the third pitch. Since we also suspect that the series will also skip canon and take two rings in advance on Galadriel’s fingers, King Gil-Galad and Cirdan (who is the one who later gives the ring to Gandalf), a character the showrunners are already advanced that has a lot of weight in season 2. Although the three rings of the elves,
In the series, we’re told that Sauron already knows there are rings. Most likely, given the way the series is built, once he has gathered his troops in Mordor, he will declare war on the elves of Eregion in Season 2. Although a hundred years pass in the books, we believe they will make it through the Arc de Triomphe (mainly because if you think about it, we already have the human Isildur, who has to cut off Sauron’s finger with that one ring, and since he supposed that he didn’t have to live and since he doesn’t live more than 100 years either… well, you get the idea). In Season 2, Galadriel wears the ring and feels Sauron as he forges the one ring for him. And then everyone goes to war. The scene of the dagger and the forge are the catalyst to speed up that confrontation (in which Sauron doesn’t get the rings, by the way).
Let’s see, the dagger can only be an emotional gesture from Galadriel, who has to give up the dagger with which she wanted to avenge her brother in forging the rings that were supposed to save her people. But that’s not so much fun to theorize, is it? We also shouldn’t focus much more on the identity of the Stranger, who we already have quite clear is Gandalf. Now the fun part is why he’s going to Rhun with Nori now. The idea we have in the beleaguered Esquire newsroom is that it’s the… Stranger character as close to Sauron as possible, whether it makes sense geographically or not. The stranger = Gandalf goes to Rhun and since Gandalf never set foot on those lands in the books, there’s not much more to say.
