It was a good run, but after many pleasantly uneventful decades it would appear we need to add “Lord of the Rings” to the ever-growing list of toxic fandoms. What sent some “Rings of Power…
that “Our world has never been all white, fantasy has never been all white, Middle-earth is not all white” in a message sent across the show’s social channels yesterday. The statement was Amazon’s response to the “relentless racism, threats, harassment, and abuse some of our castmates of color are being subjected to on a daily basis. We refuse to ignore it or tolerate it.”
Not that ours is the only world with problems. Arondir has been captured by orcs, dear reader, and taken to a labor camp run by his captors — “for Adar,” one of them says, referring to this episode’s namesake. He and his fellow elf prisoners are being made to dig a path through scorched wilderness for reasons unknown by their sunlight-averse enemies, with one of them theorizing that Adar is the successor to Morgoth and possibly another a name for Sauron himself.
“Since when did men like me build kingdoms such as this?” asks Halbrand; Galadriel responds that “These men are not like you.” It’s true: The Númenorians allied with the elves long ago and were well rewarded for it, though the alliance wore thin generations ago. That’s evident enough from their reception by Queen Regent Míriel , who’s none too pleased by Galadriel’s arrival — and disinclined to grant her request of a ship to sail herself back to Middle-earth.
Across the Sundering Sea, the Harwood migration is about to take place. This would appear to be a fraught affair, doubly so because Nori’s father Largo is nursing an ankle injury, and Nori herself continues to harbor Comet Dude in secret. The hobbitses remain a lighthearted delight nevertheless, reminding us that Middle-earth’s smaller, more earthbound creatures are no less important than its sword-bearing heroes.
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