Rings of Power Trailer

Hi there folks,

I just analyzed the casting for the forthcoming “RoP” along with the very last trailers in order to see how far from canon the story could be…

about the timing :  It seems the series take place (not counting flashbacks) during the rule of the last king of Numenor, Pharazon, which makes in the last century of the Second Age, assuming Isildur is already born and young adult…

From the very last trailer :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8UAUAuKNcU

00:00-00:10
Well, there is first Will Fletcher as Finrod Felagund  (supposedly my father as Gildor 🙂 ) in what seems to be Dagor Bragollach, crying and hurling away… that must be for the sacrifice of his best friend Barahir, thus beginning the long friendship of Men and Elves…(and the ring of Barahir will surely make its appearence here)

00:11 -00:15 We then see Finrod dead, ripped by werewolves claws while normally imprisonned with Beren (son of Barahir) in Tol-in-Gaurhoth (the evil renamed first “Minas Tirith” he had himself built, but then conquered by Sauron…) Thus the hatred from Galadriel to Sauron more specifically as Sauron killed her beloved brother Finrod… a “Noldor hatred” which could be rendered as deep and hainous towards Sauron, as Feanor’s one against Melkor (Feanor being uncle of Galadriel…)

I don’t know how Galadriel (Morfydd Clarck) managed to retrieve his deady body… not completly devored… but well, this is Fantasy… and she takes as a souvenir his brother dagger (not mentionned anywhere in the books) which bears the design of the two Valinor trees both in silver and gold…. So far, lots of creativity, but nothing completly out of canon…

00:16 we see Galadriel arriving in an armada of ships to what appears to be Andunië in Numenor and 00:29 she meets with young future survivor and king Elendil (Lloyd Owen) ( son of Amandil the mariner, who was gifted with 7 palantiri from the Eldar of Tol Eresseä, stored in Andunië normally…and safeguarded after the fall of Numenor by Elendil who brought them for safety on Endor)

Then we see Prince Durin IV (Owain Arthur) (00:31) and just afterwars a NEW Character “Halbrand”, a man (invented for the show, played by Charlie Vickers).

00:39 : a scene with innocent children in white robes. I’d glady say it is a flashback with the first elves but they play around a … bridge, which is a mortal construction, and thus civilization already exists in this place, it cannot be the awakening of elves, and they are too “clean/immaculate/candid” to be “first Humans”… SO I’d say these are Numenorean children playing in the vales of Numenor…

00:41  we see three white … prophets or animists, certainly working for Sauron…. or one of them being actor Anson Boon, this has been assumed by fans that THIS is Sauron, but this has been said to be FALSE by the shows producer, so this is not Sauron… Eminem is not Sauron and who plays Sauron remains to be determined…)

00:47 : we see the “Stranger in hags” (Daniel Weyman) in a dark evil forest (can’t be Mirkwood, it does not exist yet…) surrounded by what looks like primitive Wargs, and defending a Harfoot girl ‘Elanor “Nori” Brandywood’ so this must happen along the north of Anduin… could finally be Mirkwood before the hour… (non canon…) and the guy being either an early Beorning, or worse, young Radagast (who is not even supposed to be on Endor yet)… we’ll see… This Stranger is the guy who appears in a crater, found by the Harfoots, so he must be a Maia, and a retcon uncannonical arrival of a proto-Istar before the end  of the Second Age 🙁 🙁 … thus creating a maia character not known about in the Tolkien Universe, but that is not impossible and would not be uncanonical… I would prefer that… rather an established Istar…

00:51 : we see Gil-Galad (Benjamin Walker) in what looks like future Lothlorien or maybe Lindon (not the sea part…)

00:53 : we see regent queen Tar-Miriel (Cynthia Addai-Robinson) (forced spouse of Ar-Pharazon) which, in this story seems to be the active ruler, darkskinned and not “submitted” to her husband king and who has kept her birthname, not renamed in Adunaïc Ar-Zimraphel… which changes the canon to a “wokism” way but why not…problem is : she seems good-hearted and in power, while in the story, her “forced husband” Pharazon was the one to bring the wrath of Iluvatar on Numenor… how could this happen here if a “good ruler” is on the throne?   Another non canoical fact, in this version, Ar-Pharazon and Tar-Miriel have a son, prince Kemen (Leon Wadham) while in the canon, they have no known children…

00:54 we see her husband, Ar-Pharazon (Trystan Gravelle) at the back of the audience, seemingly unhappy, and clearly with less charism and audience than herself, maybe Pharazon will create a revolt and throw down his wife and bring the wrath of Iluvatar later on?

00:57  we see yound Isildur (Maxim Baldry) still in his eighteens maybe, onboard a ship… nothing wrong about that 🙂

01:00 Another newcomer to the non-canon lore : Arondir (Ismael Cruz Cordova) , a wood elf (Nandor or Avari ?) is there any link with the Woodland Realm of the Sinda king Oropher (father of Tranduil, father of Legolas) who reigns in Greenwood, what will later become Mirkwood. Oropher rules during this period of time… and as there are chances we , at some poing see the Last Alliance, he will certainly be casted, as Oropher took part at the battle under the leadership of Gil-Galad.

01:04 focus once again on Halbrand… speaking to Galadriel, apparently he will be part of her “team” to track down… what remains to be seen… Apparently he carries a shame of it, as Galadriel asks him “whatever you did, be free of it”, a former rogue maybe

01:07 : princess Disa (Sophia Nomvette), bride of prince Durin IV at the time before his crowning.

01:19 : Elrond (Robert Aramayo) in a courtesy visit to the dwarf kingdom of Khazad-Dum at the time of its splendor.  It could be a flashback during Durin III reign with Elrond meeting with Moria dwarves in order to be helped for refugees from Eregion to go north, to found Imladris/Rivendell under the stewardship of Elrond, herald of king Gil-Galad at the time. (at that time, the guild or smiths of Eregion lead by Celebrimbor was very friendly with the dwarves of Khazad Dum, the friendship of Narvi and Celebrimbor bringing to life the famous Doors of Durin which opens… by the “water”… with a “melon” ahahah) This happened before the Sack of Eregion necessarily thus before the events of the tvshows.

01:21 : a small appearance of an aging ruling king Durin III (Peter Mullan) (maybe a flashback  linked to the description above)

01:24 : the White tree Nimloth, in Armenelos on Numenor…. with gust of winds taking of several leaves… with a worried Galadriel in regal gown for court visit…)

01:27 : Savage uruks from the Second Age, with bone armors, not yet Uruk-hai in the “age of metal”… running after a boy, maybe Theo (Tyroe Muhafidin), a new Human boy character who will certainly become very import. He is the son of Bronwyn (another new character), soon defended 01:28 by the elf Arondir (who seems to have some feeling for both the boy and his mother, see below)

01:34 a group of Harfoots travelling by, with the narrator speaking being Largo Brandywood (Dylan Smith)

01:36 an banquet, very important one it seem sin Khazad Dum, where we can clearly see Durin IV at end of table, Gil-Galad at other hand of table, and on one side Elrond, and Celebrimbor (Charles Edwards), maybe related to my speculation above about partnership between Khazad Dum and creation of Imladris… As Celebrimbor is present at this banquet, though he died at the sack of Eregion in SA 1697, this is necessarily a flashback…)

01:37 : Nori Brandywood, offering an apple to the Stranger that she just met after the meteorite crash Nori and her friend Poppy Proudfellow (Megan Richards) are the two harfoots who discover the “Stranger” at the fall of the meteorite coming from the West…(NB: Elanor mother is Marigold Brandyfoot, played by Sara Zwangobani) , some speculate that Brandyfoots are ancestors of Brandybucks, and Proudfellow ancestors of Proodfoot… invented for the show of course… after Merry & Pippin, now Nori & Poppy (two girls…)

01:41 appearance of Largo Brandywood, father of Elanor “Nori” Brandywood, the most adventurous hobbit of the Second Age…  Maybe the name Largo was inspired by the canonical name “Largo Baggins”, ancestor of Bilbo…

01:43 : a raft of desperate men at sea, including Galadriel, attacked by a large seamonster (Uinen? but for what reason? ) certainly in Belegaer…  maybe flashback of first age

01:46 someone offering help to an almost drown Halbrand

01:47 : twin peaks (no play on words…) forest covered, maybe Greenland, and directly after, Arondir again talking to Bronwyn with deep feelings (the man/elf romance of this series?) , mother of Theo. (see above) Is Theo half-elf?

01:54 : great cavalry running in the vale maybe near the later ford of Bruinen, (looks like the same place as in the Fellowship of the Ring)

01:57 a band of bowmen adventurers in deep ice (ressembles older trailers with Galadriel in the snow), the group seems to small to represent the exodus of the Noldor through Helcaraxe so this must be something else in the far north of Endor? I can’t recognize how they call Galadriel (commander, or something else in elfic) they are lead by Galadriel who asks them not to stop.

02:02 : Halbrand fiercely confronting Galadriel as she wears a court gawn. So this must happen in Numenor, making Halbrand a Numenorean of low birth (or the canon would be completly broken…)

02:03 : Galadriel fighting a savage troll (what else…) during the same adventure as the icy one above.

02:04 : Galadriel speaking to an assembly of Numenoreans, from what seems like Armenlos, to inform she is veeeeery angry , there is a tempest in her (like always…)

02:09 : Galadriel escalading using the dagger of her dead brother Finrod as an icepick… thus CLEARLY this is not the crossing of Helcaraxe 🙂

02:13 : Elrond asking Galadriel to stop fighting… (he has not read the script)

02:14 : Now this is interesting,  Horse lords of the Second age, I suppose from the region of Rhovanion, long time before the Rohirim, or even Eotheod, or even horse lords of Rhovanion dating back Vidugavia… Maybe ancestors of men who stood on Endor, never being blessed like those who went to Numenor with Elros, descendants of Hador Lorindol. they are clearly beating up bands of orcs in the region. (seems Rhovanion is quite central… Theo, Bronwyn, Arondir, the horse riders, the orcs…)

02:17 : introduction of Eariën (Ema Horvath), Numenorean,  a pure , non canonical invention… she is the daughter of Elendil, sister to Isildur and Anarion !!

02:17 Arondir, in chains, in an orc camp, trying to free himself

02:19 : Elrond and Durin IV in a Khazad Dum elevator

02:20 : an horselord .. playing Legolas… (no actor name or character name known)

02:21 : The Stranger, casting a wild spell of the forest definitly a Maia , if you ask me…

02:22  young Isildur, surprised or shocked.

02:23 Betrayal somewhere or revolt, as one of Galadriel ships explodes in the docks of Andunië. Something is wrong in Numenor…

02:24 : Galadriel fight with the savage troll using an elven longsword… that she plants in the ground just afterwards saying what would she be without a sword… “she does not know the power of the Forc….Rings” 🙂

and…. Cut!

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some little clips provide more info and insight on the show :

(apparently this claw is not a morgul blade mark from nazgul but a mark of Sauron himself… where… I don’t know, maybe in the caverns deep beneath what was Angband… where Balrogs may still remain… explaing the appearance in the trailer)

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1078236092835816

• This reply was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by Gildor.
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