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!'''As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff as per policy.]] Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned.'''

!''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower''


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!!Season 1
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** Upon hearing Galadriel's tragic backstory, Halbrand can only offer a heartfelt apology. This becomes a lot more significant once you watch the season finale.
-->''"I'm sorry. For you brother. For all of it. I'm sorry."''


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** It's at this point that we realise Adar's villainy wasn't entirely by choice. He and his offspring have been pawns of two dark lords who would gladly march them to their deaths. They're hated by all other races just for the way they were born. Adar is the only orc able to survive something as inconsequential as sunlight. Galadriel goes as far as to taunt Adar by saying she'll slaughter his offspring and leave him for last so she can savour his grief. He may have done some bad things, but Adar's motive wasn't power or sadism, but the desire to give his children a home.


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** Remember back in episode 5 when Halbrand apologised upon hearing how Sauron destroyed Galadriel's innocence when he killed her brother. Even though Galadriel had her back to him, the look on his face was one of genuine sympathy and in hindsight, ''remorse''. He really did want to atone in the time between the fall of Morgoth and his own ascension, which only makes it all the more tragic that he couldn't be redeemed.
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* Galadriel increasingly breaking down in a mixture of horror and pain upon realizing the man she'd fought alongside with, saved her life, and fell for is one in the same with Sauron, the dark lord which killed her brother and was the subject of her dogged hunt for centuries. While manipulation was certainly part of it, Sauron even seemed earnest in his confession of desiring to [[WeCanRuleTogether rule together]] and being bound to the light by Galadriel.

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* Galadriel increasingly breaking down in a mixture of horror and pain upon realizing the man she'd fought alongside with, saved her life, and fell for is one in and the same with Sauron, the dark lord which killed her brother and was the subject of her dogged hunt for centuries. While manipulation was certainly part of it, Sauron even seemed earnest in his confession of desiring to [[WeCanRuleTogether rule together]] and being bound to the light by Galadriel.
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* Adar turning against Sauron for using Orcs as fodder for his magical experiments obliquely brings to mind a passage from ''The Silmarillion'': "And deep in their dark hearts the Orcs loathed the Master whom they served in fear, the maker only of their misery."
-->'''Adar:''' For my part...I sacrificed enough of my [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes children]] for his...aspirations.
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* The Harfoots hold a ceremony the night before their Migration where Sadoc Burrows [[TheDeadHaveNames lists the names of all those who "fell behind"]] in prior Migrations. After each name the group repeats "we wait for you" to indicate they carry the memory of their fallen friends with them. During this we find out what happened to the Proudfellows, Poppy's family: all taken by a landslide. Poppy, sole survivor of the tragedy, is understandably crying as their names are pronounced. Later in the episode, we see the outcome of this as Poppy has to haul her cart entirely by herself. Even Sadoc Burrows, despite his curmudgeonly exterior as one of the leading elders, chokes up slightly when he reads off the name of another Burrows who was "taken by wolves" (either his wife or daughter).

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* The Harfoots hold a ceremony the night before their Migration where Sadoc Burrows [[TheDeadHaveNames lists the names of all those who "fell behind"]] in prior Migrations. After each name the group repeats "we wait for you" to indicate they carry the memory of their fallen friends with them. During this we find out what happened to the Proudfellows, Poppy's family: all taken by a landslide. Poppy, sole survivor of the tragedy, is understandably crying as their names are pronounced. Later in the episode, we see the outcome of this as Poppy has to haul her cart entirely by herself. Even Sadoc Burrows, despite his curmudgeonly exterior as one of the leading elders, chokes up slightly when he reads off the name of another Burrows who was "taken by wolves" (either (a later episode indicates that she was his wife or daughter).wife).
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* The fleet sails into the city, Miriel senses something is off, asking what's wrong. Elendil can't bring himself to tell the blind woman the harbor is filled with ships with black sails, meaning her father has died.

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