The epic welcomes some old favorites and new friends to a growing Middle-earth.
probably doesn’t get enough credit for leaning into Tolkien’s inherent hokeyness. It’s something Peter Jackson got right in his original trilogy. The slow dimming of the Hobbits’ rosy-cheeked, Shire-born innocence as the halfling outsiders travel a cruel, dirty, and hostile world, where creature comforts don’t simply pop out of the ground, is an awakening for them.
Separation also plagues the Stranger, though he has no one to blame but himself. Searching the desert for Nori and Poppy, the Stranger follows his map to the stars to the door of Tom Bombadil and the stump of Old Ironside. For a character as beloved and frequently considered “unfilmable” as Old Tom, directors Louise Hooper and Sanaa Hamri don’t deliver the Bombadil we expect.
To the south, Arondir, Estrid, and Isildur search the forest for Theo and our final Tolkien first of the episode, the encounter with the Entwives. Of the multiple cameo appearances, the Ents come off best as they are the most reactive to the world shifting below them. Winterbloom and Snaggleroot are forest refugees attempting to escape the increased deforestation that’s sprung up since Mount Doom’s eruption.
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