TheRingsofPower: Does anyone like elves? Read kphipps3000's recap of episode 4
like elves? Anti-elf sentiment looks to be a common element throughout Middle-earth and Numenor. The dwarves don’t trust them. The humans of the Southlands resent them for keeping a watchful eye on them for centuries after the defeat of Morgoth and Sauron, a conflict that found some humans fighting on the side of darkness .
All this sounds pretty troubling to Arondir, and understandably so. Adar has somehow won the hearts and minds of the orcs, who look to him as a god and gratefully receive his mercy killing. In many ways, the character feels like a riff on Kurtz from. He’s an elf who has abandoned whatever mission he was given to set up a little kingdom for himself built on a cult of personality that allows him to bend others to his will.
Ominousness hangs over much of the land in this episode, which opens with Míriel dreaming of the great flood promised in the title. That helps explain why she’s in such a bad mood even before Galadriel really peeves her by asking for an audience with the king. As a result of her sedition, Galadriel finds herself imprisoned and, however involuntarily, receiving advice from Halbrand, who counsels her to use Míriel’s anger and discomfort over her reference to the king to her advantage.
Meanwhile, over in Lindon, Elrond learns that Celebrimbor knew his father, Eärendil, and that his father told Celebrimbor that his future would one day be in Eärendil’s son’s hands, info he might have shared before. That said, it seems it doesn’t take much to make Elrond think of Eärendil. Later, he’ll advise Durin IV to make up with his father, Durin III, while they still have time together.
• About that Sauron enthusiast: He plays a bit like the Middle-earth version of a Nazi true believer who’s quietly never let go of his fascist ways. There’s an even more direct — maybe a bit too direct, really — piece of real-world mirroring in the opening scene, when the Númenoran drumming up anti-elf sentiment warns about an influx of elves taking Númenoran jobs.
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