In the mournful penultimate episode of TheRingsOfPower Season 1, the aftermath of Mount Doom's eruption stirs both guilt and bravery.
Over and over again, creatures of Middle-earth have urged the hopeless to turn to the light. But as he crouches under a dead tree in his ruined homeland, Theo has a simple question: “What light?” In the mournful penultimate episode of Season 1 of Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, "The Eye," the light is all but hidden behind sun-killing smoke, despair, rancor, and crushing guilt.
Speaking of friendship: In Khazad-dûm, Elrond makes his case to King Durin III for mithril. He’s brought the poisoned leaf from the great tree in Lindon, as well as riches and the promise of timber and grain in exchange for access to the mines. But it doesn’t matter what Elrond promised or how much he means to Durin ; he will not agree to mine mithril. “We do not dig in earth that cannot support it…tempting shadow, rock, and mine to bury us all beneath the mountain,” King Durin says.
Cut to the Grove, Sadoc sends the Stranger over the ridge to “the Big Folk settlements” and gives him the star chart with the mysterious constellation, hoping the humans can help him. The Stranger heads in one direction, Sadoc in another, but the Stranger’s influence remains: A yellow flower blooms brightly in the singed trunk of the tree. Nori offers him a precious apple, big and red, for the journey. Even if he’s a peril, after all, she can’t send him away empty-handed.
Poppy’s still singing about snails, munching on an apple in the morning light. Her joy has good reason: The burned trees are now crowned with green leaves and adorned with fruit. Berry bushes have sprung up from the singed dirt overnight. The Stranger, it seems, has brought the grove back to bursting life. But that night, Nori and Poppy watch as the mysterious figures shrouded in white approach the tree that the Stranger healed, looking just as intense as they did at the meteor's crater.
On a rocky outcropping, Míriel sits with Elendil, a red cloth bound around her unseeing eyes, as he presses for a swift exit. Galadriel arrives, seeking only to apologize for leading them into such pain. “Do not spend your pity on me, elf,” Míriel admonishes. “Save it for our enemies, for they do not know what they have begun.” Hell yeah, Míriel. She vows that Númenor will be back, and Galadriel promises the elves will be ready.
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