![]() One of the Harfoots, a race seen in The Rings of Power and ancestors to Hobbits. It's long been suspected that Galadriel was either banned from returning to Valinor or didn't believe she deserved to return to Valinor, due largely to this line in Galadriel's Song of Eldamar: We know that some Men did serve Morgoth, whose fortress Udûn existed in the northeast part of the area that later became Mordor, so it isn't a stretch that Men would've settled here after the wars. This episode lays out how the descendants of Men who served Morgoth settled in the surrounding area, and the Elves keep a close eye on them out of concern that corruption may once again enter their hearts. The name Tirharad is a mashup of "watch" and "south" in Sindarin, which makes some sense given the way the village is essentially policed by the Silvan Elves from their watchtower. We know there were Men living in what was then called the Southlands, because Tolkien wrote of how Shelob would prey upon Men and Elves before Sauron claimed the land as Mordor. Tolkien didn't create Tirharad, but he didn't create anything in this area that would later become Mordor. If the name of this village didn't sound familiar to you, you weren't alone. If you're curious, read the ninth chapter of the Quenta Silmarillion titled Of the Fight of the Ñoldor. There could've been an entire season of this show dedicated to just that handful of sentences, recapping how the Elves found themselves in Middle-earth. ![]() The Elves left Valinor to wage a thousand years of war across much of Middle-earth, which led to Morgoth being stopped and Sauron going into a sort of hiding.īut my goodness did this scene leave a lot out. There's nothing technically wrong about this scene. Do I still want one of those daggers? Absolutely. At age 90, Galadriel would have looked at least a few years older than what's shown on screen. Elves physically mature in the first 100 years of their existence, and then age far, far slower after that. According to Tolkien, Galadriel was born around 90 years before the creation of the Silmarils. Where things get a little fuzzy is Finrod having that dagger in the initial scene with Galadriel. Finrod was a major part of the conflicts surrounding the destruction of the trees and the Oath of Feanor, so having a symbol of those events on him is totally plausible. There appear to be three similar spheres on the dagger, in between the silver and gold trees, which would almost certainly be a representation of the three Silmarils. It's clearly a representation of Telperion and Laurelin, the twin trees of Valinor, which created sunlight and moonlight for the world before they were destroyed and their last remaining fruit and flower were turned into the sun and moon for Middle-earth. The dagger isn't something Tolkien wrote, but it's also plausible he'd have a dagger like this. But we also know he was nobility, and in the few pieces of pre-Rings of Power art we have of Finrod he's got some beautiful nonstandard jewelry and weaponry on him, including the Ring of Barahir, which eventually finds its way to Aragorn's hand. Canonically, we know Finrod had a sword and a bow. ![]() This dagger is beautiful, but there's no evidence of it having existed in any of Tolkien's work. This scene is the first time we see Finrod's dagger, which Galadriel takes as her own while she seeks out the enemy responsible for his death. In our opening scene, young Galadriel's beautiful boat is destroyed, and her big brother stops her from beating the guilty party within an inch of his life for being such a tool. This episode broadly introduces the world, and a handful of the separate stories seemingly destined to intersect.
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