After delving into the context and the presentation of his characters, The Rings of Powerof Prime Video, showed the real ambition of his story. Episode 6 is not only the closest to the sense of JRR Tolkien’s epic, but also the most elaborate and well-constructed. As if that wasn’t enough, he revealed two of his biggest seasonal mysteries in one puzzling endingwhich will mark milestone in the argument.
The script managed to link two of its main stories into a single setting. As the inhabitants of the Southlands fought mercilessly against the Orcs, Galadriel and the men of Númenor came to their aid. It was about the moment of greatest action in the series. Also, the one who built what is undoubtedly a precise scenario for what is announced as a major conflict.
In its sixth chapter, The Rings of Power made several essential points clear. Especially its ending, showed a bleak landscape that was familiar to many of the fans of the British work. Furthermore, he provided an explanation to a very specific mystery. What function did the hilt of Sauron’s sword serve? Was this just a memory from darker times or something more elaborate? The script made a decision to build something more meaningful and unique to answer those questions.
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A key to unlock the darkness
The unnerving and dark twist at the end of the chapter begins when Theo discovers what was contained in the bundle that kept the Sauron’s sword. Until then, the dangerous object was wrapped and hidden from the eyes of the locals inside a cocoon of cloth. Arondir, worried about his influence on them, hid him. However, Theo later gave him up during the siege of Adar to save his mother’s life.
The corrupted elf managed to flee with the dark relic, until Halbrand stopped him and Galadriel snatched it from him. At least, that was what happened on screen or what the script hinted at. But actually, Adar had the opportunity to deliver the artifact to Waldreg, one of the men from the South who swore allegiance to him. Even in the chapter he mentions that he has “a mission of considerable importance” for the renegade of the village. It is the latter who finally takes the magical artifact and takes it to the inexplicable lock of wood and metal, discovered in the previous chapter.
The next scene where we see the dark hilt is in Waldreg’s hands. The aforementioned does not hesitate to use his blood as a sacrifice to make the mechanism work. A fact that he already knows because, in the previous chapters, he made it clear that he already knew what function the object could have.
Without anyone suspecting what was happening, the traitor put the magic piece in the space indicated by Adar in the same episode. Furthermore, he managed to unlock the mechanism from him with a single well-aimed move that was no doubt explained earlier by the corrupted elf.
Sauron and his mysteries in the new chapter of the Rings of Power
Back in episode five, Arondir explained that the hilt was a cam, custom-made for other similar artifacts by dark magic. Furthermore, he stated that he most likely had a direct relationship with Morgoth. Which leads to a momentous event in the following episode of The Rings of Power.
The mechanism that Waldreg made work triggered a series of situations simultaneously. First, collapsed stone dam built in the Ephel Dúath mountains, which caused a destructive surge of the river it contained. But, even more revealing, it finally provides an explanation for the laborious work of the Orcs of Adar during the most recent chapters.
The platoon of creatures spent time and effort building a network of tunnels whose usefulness, until now, had been unknown. That proves, in turn, that the map that Galadriel found in Númenor was true. Morgoth’s plan, followed by Sauron in turn, included creating a territory of his own.
The above is something that Adar says at the beginning of the episode, so it is obvious that everything that happened next was under his plans. Including, of course, being caught — a dark trick that Sauron will pull off in the future — and allowing Galadriel to interrogate him. This prevented the Elf Lady from being able to bring her attention to the dark weapon she had just salvaged.
But once Waldred activates the mechanism, the whole storyline comes together in a single image. The tunnels built by the Orcs fill with water and rush to destroy everything in its path. It then becomes clear that each excavation was aimed at redirecting the river water from Ostirith to a nearby volcano.
The possible birth of The Mountain of Destiny and Mordor
Quickly, all the underground river lines end up converging under a huge volcano near Tirharad. The effect causes an eruption that destroys everything in its path and bursts the mouth of the mountain into ash. As the whole debacle unfolds, the trapped Orcs, and even Adar, begin chanting the word “Udûn” in unison.
According to Tolkien’s works, Udûn is a vast valley in Mordor which runs through the northwest of the territory to Isenmouthe. what happened in The Rings of Power builds, then, the profile of evil in Middle-earth. One that shows what the footprint that Galadriel tirelessly searched for in the previous chapters meant, and also the map that he found in Númenor.
With unexpected skill, the series wrapped up several of its story arcs and opened up a few new ones. Evil awaits in the Southlands, which makes the question unavoidable. Is the King of Darkness in Tolkien’s work already in the region?