**Spoiler Warning** Rings of Power S2E8 - "Shadow and Flame"

[Gil-Galad]

Another season finale and another post full of thoughts. This time around I decided to wait for the ending before compiling my thoughts for this season, which i will add below and edit as I go along.

I filled out all my thoughts and the page timed out, so i lost it all and will have to find time and energy to re-write and re-think all my thoughts later.

Quick thoughts on this episode:

- Durinsbane was long known, but the rise and fall of the Durins was done quite well.
- Dark Wizard told us what we already knew and then left with nothing new, thus making him and the stranger/harfoots storyline a bit flat.
- Oh yeah Numenor was there too

[Oddwen]

Uh oh, is prince Durin going to collapse the mine on himself and his father?


Drums in the Deep!


There are so many really thin walls in Khazad-dum.


He was a burned dwarf.


"Pity will not defeat Sauron" - hahaha.


Sauron's thinks he's showing off, but he's just being a conjurer of cheap tricks.



Nothing really new in this episode. The strongest and the weakest parts were no surprise. RIP Celebrimbor. Now that was a well-done prophecy.



So do uruks/orcs have free will or not? Did all of them decide to turn on Adar at once? Why not turn away from Sauron immediately since it only took like ten minutes to betray them?

Originally Posted by Gil-Galad

Dark Wizard told us what we already knew and then left with nothing new, thus making him and the stranger/harfoots storyline a bit flat.

Very disappointing. Ciaran Hinds is no slouch as an actor and he was wasted this season. Maybe he'll be the "Adar" level large bad next season?

Originally Posted by Gil

I filled out all my thoughts and the page timed out, so i lost it all and will have to find time and energy to re-write and re-think all my thoughts later.

I am sorry. I've had that happen too many times to count.