The series' occasional set-ups for elements of the main Lord of the Rings saga go a long way in establishing the world about to be lost in Sauron's machinations.
and events, and setting up characters we know to be shaped into the people they’ll be by the time of the Third Age. Sometimes those connections are more subtle, sometimes they’re more direct, but its latest not-so-Easter-egg was a fun way to remind of us of the world that was… before the show begins to plummet it all into darkness.season two, catches us up on where the show’s disparate storylines in Eregion and Khazad-dûm are at, and unites them together briefly in a fun little moment.
We see those doors, of course, thousands of years later in the books and of course the movie adaptation of, and their magical riddle of “Speak friend, and enter” that initially puzzles Gandalf and the Fellowship. But it’s more than just a fun nod to the future here, it’s a reminder of the bright world we’re already losing inas darkness tightens its grip across Middle-earth, and the tragedies to come for both Eregion and Khazad-dûm in the wake of it.
The doors were enchanted with a simple spell. From the inside, they could be opened with a simple push like any other door, but to gain entrance you had to follow the instructions etched by Celebrimbor on the door’s surface in Ithildin, the specially forged form of Mithril that shone brightly in the light of the moon, and otherwise remained almost invisible: say the word “Mellon,” Sindarin for “Friend,” and they’d open up.
Even if we’ve only just seen the doors being built and offered as a moment of friendship—after everything Elrod and Prince Durin went through over Mithril, we’re already on the precipice of the dark events that would seal them for years to come in the show.
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