The Rings of Power: The Fifth Episode "Farewells" reviewed

Created: 09/27/2022, 10:20 am

Durin (Owain Arthur) and Elrond (Robert Aramayo) in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power episode "Farewells" © Amazon Studios

Numenor sets sail, the Southlands brace themselves, Lindon plots mithrill-related intrigues, and the Harfeet make you wonder if the stranger with mysterious powers can be trusted.

All of this and more is discussed in the review of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Episode 5.

Numenor sets sail, the Southlands brace themselves, Lindon plots mithrill-related intrigues, and the Harfeet make you wonder if the stranger with mysterious powers can be trusted.

All of this and more is discussed in the review of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Episode 5.

In the fourth episode, it was still thought that the creative team would concentrate on three locations in Middle-earth per episode in the future.

A theory that throws "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" aka "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" from Amazon Prime Video with the episode "Partings" aka "Farewells" completely overboard, because in the fifth chapter almost all locations and characters are represented...

The Harfeet and the Stranger

The episode begins with a highlight of the entire season, as after Nori (Markella Kavenagh) makes the stranger (Daniel Weyman) consider whether he is helpful and good or dangerous and evil, the harfoot caravan encourages Poppy (Megan Richards) to to sing a hiking song.

To the sounds of "This Wandering Day" the viewers then see a wonderful migration montage and at the same time can wonder a little about the cryptic lyric including "trees of stone" and "eyes of pale fire".

Incidentally, the final line of the song “not all who wonder or wander are lost” refers to a Tolkien quote from “The Fellowship of the Ring”.

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The question of whether the stranger is good or bad comes up again as he protects the Harfeet from a pack of wolves, who, incidentally, are a lot better looking than the questionable CGI warg from the penultimate episode.

He uses frighteningly powerful magic that doesn't sit well with himself, and then heals himself with some sort of ice spell.

blue ice?

Blue wizard?

In doing so, however, he also affects Nori, who runs away in fright.

How this affects the status of the Brandyfoots in the harfoot community and the friendship with the mysterious stranger, we will probably only find out in the upcoming episode...

Meanwhile, eerie, robed figures arrive at the mysterious giant's original meteor landing site.

First and foremost, the character played by Bridie Sisson, who fans have dubbed Slim Shady since the Comic-Con trailer because she looks a bit like Eminem.

Are these Melkor cultists involved in Morgoth's Plan-B?

Or did the first of the two Blue Wizards already land in Middle-earth and establish their own cults in the East (as happened in one version of Tolkien's writings), which are now supposed to collect the second Blue Wizard?

In any case, it is striking that her scepter looks like an eye of Sauron and the star constellation that the stranger is looking for can also be seen on her ritual utensils... Read more atSerienjunkies.de.