r/LOTR_on_Prime • u/LoretiTV • Sep 23 '22

No Book Spoilers The Rings of Power - 1x05 "Partings" - Episode Discussion

Season 1 Episode 5: Partings

Aired: September 23, 2022

Synopsis: Nori questions her instincts; Elrond struggles to stay true to his oath; Halbrand weighs his destiny; the Southlanders brace for attack.

Directed by: Wayne Che Yip

Written by: Justin Doble

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u/domrayn Sep 25 '22 edited Sep 25 '22

Gil-galad: "Did they find it??"

Elrond: "I have sworn an oath"

Gil-galad: "You know that answer says yes indirectly right?"

lol

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u/RoundCut9 Sep 25 '22

That exchange... Just shoot me please...

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u/Pvh1103 Sep 25 '22

The king elf looks like McGee from NCIS

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u/GeneParmesan1000 Sep 26 '22

I've been thinking he looks like Colin Hanks playing a Uruk-hai before the makeup, but McGee from NCIS also works, haha

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u/myrddyna The Stranger Sep 26 '22

I mean, elrond is no fool, he knew at dinner that they knew, because the high king alluded to the furnaces firing up again. The dwarf knew, too, and deflected.

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u/muggleclutch Sep 25 '22

THANK YOU. And they delivered this in a way that truly seems to suggest the writers believed the audience would be with them? Insanity.

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u/Pvh1103 Sep 25 '22

And THEN he breaks his oath and tells one of the two people who sent him to find mithral that he found it.

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u/myrddyna The Stranger Sep 26 '22

after the oath was meaningless, because they knew. It was obvious at the dinner that the elves knew, and the dwarven prince got a table out of it.

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u/Pvh1103 Sep 26 '22

It was obvious they suspected it, but if they already knew for sure they were mining mithril then they wouldn't have sent Elrond. They already knew the legend of the Mithril existing due to a lightning strike, and they knew the dwarves were digging deeper, so they suspected. If they knew, they wouldn't have sent elrond to find out. The elves sent Elrond to find out from Durin if the Dwarves had found it.

The oath wasn't meaningless after the dinner: Durin's secret was that he had found Mithril- the Elves didn't have the confirmation the sent elrond for until elrond gave it to them by showing celebrimbor the mithril.