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Speaker 3: In today's episode, oh baby, it's the Rings of Power.
Speaker 3: It's episode two oh six. There's only two episodes left
Speaker 3: after this, so.
Speaker 1: Things are really heating up. I hope you like Orcs.
Speaker 3: I hope you like Ada, and I hope you like
Speaker 3: Calibrimball because you know we do.
Speaker 1: So let's get into it. We open with our on
Speaker 1: Dear running through the Evil Woods in pursuit of the
Speaker 1: Orc Army Love the Evil Woods. He comes across a
Speaker 1: few stragglers, there's a big fight, and then quickly kills
Speaker 1: three Orcs. They're dead. He checks their corpses, little light
Speaker 1: looting from the elves.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm like, what we know now that caninically the
Speaker 3: Orcs have a family, So maybe just like have a
Speaker 3: combo just like.
Speaker 1: See you know, it was self defense.
Speaker 3: It was self defense. Okay, okay, well, Lee, I'm an
Speaker 3: Aaron defense and we'll go with that.
Speaker 1: He finds some intel, some important intel. It is a
Speaker 1: map of a reggaeon. We go to We go to
Speaker 1: a reggaeon where.
Speaker 2: Calabrimmon is struggling to produce the man rings, the nine
Speaker 2: rings for men that Anatar has.
Speaker 1: Basically convinced him to make. He's very frustrated and he's
Speaker 1: at a mythrill, which they need. So what's going on?
Speaker 1: The Dwarves are tardy with their deliveries.
Speaker 2: Merdonia, Merdonia, we're Donia?
Speaker 1: Who again? When we get our screeners, they don't have
Speaker 1: the handy X ray vision kind of drop down drop
Speaker 1: down menu like they did on Amazon Prime Video that
Speaker 1: allows you to see all the names of the characters,
Speaker 1: so you just have to wait for them to say,
Speaker 1: yea who she was?
Speaker 3: And we were calling her dark raying, we were calling
Speaker 3: it Daria, but Doanya not honestly that far off?
Speaker 2: Well, because I think they must have said Donya yeah
Speaker 2: as a in which they do yeah, and we took
Speaker 2: it as dark. So her name is Merdanya and she
Speaker 2: clearly like head offlined with the rest of the staff
Speaker 2: who were like, you're closest with Calibridmore, can you like
Speaker 2: talk to him? So she goes, she steps forward.
Speaker 1: She's like, hey, uh, Calibridmore, are you good because you're
Speaker 1: acting out of pocket. You're like very very high strung.
Speaker 1: You seem like something's going on. And he's like, who
Speaker 1: the fuck are you?
Speaker 3: We just buy the way, bro, Like she's definitely been
Speaker 3: your assistant for like a thousand years.
Speaker 1: He can't be real, like this is alf shit, Like
Speaker 1: he's just bad.
Speaker 2: He's just like, who wait up, excuse yeah, sorry, y.
Speaker 4: Who are you?
Speaker 1: And Anatar is like, okay, everybody take a break, let
Speaker 1: me talk to Kelibermore. Calibrinboor is losing it. He's like,
Speaker 1: what is going on?
Speaker 3: And this is working in Anatar's favor because he has
Speaker 3: been whispering, you know, parcel tongue style in Medagna's ea, saying, oh,
Speaker 3: Kelibrimbo is the darkness you saw, Calibrinbore is evil. Cali
Speaker 3: Brimble's falling apart. So this is just going great for
Speaker 3: old Anata.
Speaker 2: So Calibribo is forgetting things, as we have just seen,
Speaker 2: He's like leaving his coffee cup and his glasses and
Speaker 2: his little hammer different places all around the workshop, and
Speaker 2: he's like, where is that stuff? He doesn't remember, and
Speaker 2: Anatar is like, no, you know what it's that's just
Speaker 2: how focused you are.
Speaker 1: That's how that's just how you're in a floor vision.
Speaker 1: You're so immersed in your work right now. Now, listen,
Speaker 1: I need to tell you something. The people of a
Speaker 1: region who you are their lord. In addition to running
Speaker 1: this fucking sweatshop, which you might have forgot about. Yeah,
Speaker 1: in addition to running this this sweatshop of a forge,
Speaker 1: you also are like the governor of this entire city,
Speaker 1: and the people need to hear for you. Anders like,
Speaker 1: I'm too locked in right now. I gotta finish these mannerings.
Speaker 1: I don't have time for that. Can you just like
Speaker 1: deal with them? I deputize you, Anatar, and he makes
Speaker 1: like the side of the cross touches them on both shoulders.
Speaker 1: It's like and it's like, you are my deputy. Go
Speaker 1: do your the lord now, go talk to my subjects,
Speaker 1: and also get on the dwarves ass what pour some
Speaker 1: fucking ship down into the minds of Cose of Doom
Speaker 1: and get me my myth thrill. That sounds like it's
Speaker 1: not gonna go wrong at all. Anatar addresses the citizens.
Speaker 1: He's like, listen, I am lord Kelly. I just came
Speaker 1: from keller Brimbore, he said, I'm the guy now and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be the one you're dealing with, So please
Speaker 1: address all your concerns directly to me. I will funnel
Speaker 1: them to kelib Brimbor. He is, he's busy right now.
Speaker 1: Mordonia steps up and it's like, whoa, hey, you should
Speaker 1: know then as depity, Uh, we just found a dead
Speaker 1: elf outside of the walls of the city, a messenger,
Speaker 1: and come take a look at him. And Anatar takes
Speaker 1: a look at this corpse and there's like a there's
Speaker 1: runes carved into the chest of this messenger, and Anator
Speaker 1: clearly witch project answer can clearly read it, because he's like,
Speaker 1: hi that He's like, put that away. I don't want
Speaker 1: to say it. Oh it's a big red flag, babe.
Speaker 3: I'm interested in this Midga moment here as well, because
Speaker 3: I feel like earlier on they were kind of hinting
Speaker 3: that he was trying to like groom her to be
Speaker 3: his next Calibrimble. But here I think we're starting to
Speaker 3: see that Calibrimble is kind of the one who's falling
Speaker 3: for it, and Medonia maybe could see through it, maybe
Speaker 3: in the hopes of the future.
Speaker 1: I think you're right, And I also think Anatar slash
Speaker 1: Sarn is flying a little bit by the seat of
Speaker 1: his pants. His plan has been working wonderfully, like a
Speaker 1: like a finely tuned watch up until now. But now
Speaker 1: there's like a lot of things. The Orcs are coming,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of them. Yeah, the elves are going still,
Speaker 1: the elf army might go here, it might go there.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of things going on. So he's just
Speaker 1: kind of like improvising right now. Merdonia is like, what
Speaker 1: did the carving say? And he's and Anatar says it
Speaker 1: said where is he? Which clearly is like him, it's
Speaker 1: where Sarah? Where is Sarahn? So this means he knows
Speaker 1: the Orcs are here. We go to the southlands. Adar
Speaker 1: is chatting with Galadriel. He's like, so, let me ask you.
Speaker 1: You're still obsessed with sorrow? How's that going for you?
Speaker 1: How's that going for you? And there's like a little
Speaker 1: fun pissing contest here where uh where. Galadriel is like, well,
Speaker 1: you surrendered to him. You coward I never sawd her.
Speaker 1: I kept fighting him, you fucking bitch.
Speaker 3: You also like, uh, Galadriel, I wish Adan knew that
Speaker 3: you let him straight into fucking lynd On like your
Speaker 3: little boyfriends.
Speaker 1: Adar says, you know, I spent a lot of time
Speaker 1: thinking about sarn in the many many years since I
Speaker 1: last saw him. And here's the thing I know about him.
Speaker 1: He has a way of seeing the thing that you
Speaker 1: really want and using it against you. And he says, so,
Speaker 1: what did he promise you, Gladriel, And she's like an
Speaker 1: army and she asks what Sarren promised him? And he says, children,
Speaker 1: Oh babe. I'm like, is that gay?
Speaker 5: Or did you already have the children from the Orcs?
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like, well, Gladuo. Basically he says, yeah,
Speaker 1: you've got this army you so clearly it worked and says, listen,
Speaker 1: we got to kill this guy, soar On enough with him.
Speaker 1: Let's we can do it, and we can do it together,
Speaker 1: and we could do this, and he opens up a
Speaker 1: chest and he pulls out more Goth's crown and Galadriel
Speaker 1: is like whoa And Adar is like, I stabbed him
Speaker 1: with this years and years and years ago.
Speaker 5: This is what I meant.
Speaker 1: Bit he was. He was dead for a minute for
Speaker 1: like you can't kill kill, kill him, but if you
Speaker 1: can kill him for like.
Speaker 3: Five kill and then you could catch him in the jar,
Speaker 3: you could catch the goo in a jar or something.
Speaker 1: Adar asks, is is it true that the elves saved
Speaker 1: themselves with the rings? And Gladual kind of is very
Speaker 1: cagy about it, and he says, hey, we've got the
Speaker 1: crown of more Goth. We've got the rings, the rings
Speaker 1: plus the crown. That's like enough juice to kill Saarn.
Speaker 1: I know he's in Reggaeon. Adar also knows that hal
Speaker 1: Brand is sore on. That's a big reveal. You're small,
Speaker 1: and so he says, let's team up, team up with
Speaker 1: me or the good people, the good elves of a
Speaker 1: Reggaeon are gonna die. You know this. We go to
Speaker 1: New Minor, where it is just badly.
Speaker 3: Like you motherfuckers, this is you get The fall is coming.
Speaker 1: And you deserve it, honestly. Al Farizon, he of this
Speaker 1: mother of the Kenny Rogers, Salt and Pepper beard, that
Speaker 1: beautiful rush looking beard, thick hair. He does uh is
Speaker 1: presiding over the treason trial of Ellendale. Kevin his son,
Speaker 1: little little sniveling bitch ass is like smiling, smirking behind
Speaker 1: his dad's back. Arian Ellen Hill's daughter looks concerned naturally. Finally, finally,
Speaker 1: this is your doing. You are the one who's thought
Speaker 1: at this, so I don't want to hear it now,
Speaker 1: Parazone says. He looks. He's like, there's that guy who
Speaker 1: we another person whose name I don't think we know,
Speaker 1: who carries like the book of laws, the Book of
Speaker 1: the Valar. He's like, listen, I had this guy look
Speaker 1: through the book and these are serious charges. But despite that,
Speaker 1: we're gonna let Ellen Dill go. And everyone's oh now,
Speaker 1: and then he goes over quiet down. If he does
Speaker 1: two things. He says, I'm sorry for all my treasons.
Speaker 1: I renounced them, and he pledges his loyalty to me,
Speaker 1: and Ellen Dale says, okay, uh, regarding all of my
Speaker 1: treason is sorry, I apologize on that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, that was bad.
Speaker 1: As to the matter of me pledging.
Speaker 2: My loyalty to you yourself.
Speaker 3: And.
Speaker 1: He says, Queen Burial is the true queen and that
Speaker 1: Pharazon actually is a trader. And so they look into
Speaker 1: the book of the Velar and they say, look at this,
Speaker 1: there's like a there's like a big picture that I
Speaker 1: guess like it's like if you yeah, if you're if
Speaker 1: your criminal does the following crimes? Turn to page whatever.
Speaker 1: They turned to that page and there's just like a
Speaker 1: picture of like a guy getting eaten by a huge fish,
Speaker 1: delicious fish. This is you will be the fish. That
Speaker 1: is your punishment. We go to Ruin where tom Bombadill,
Speaker 1: Tommy Bombs and the Stranger are having a chat and
Speaker 1: we're still here led Zeppelin music. The stranger is getting
Speaker 1: flashes and visions of different things and he asks Thomas
Speaker 1: Bombs once again, help me harness my power, help me develop,
Speaker 1: help me use the power that I have. And Tommy
Speaker 1: Bombs puts on his wizard hat with a little wink
Speaker 1: that says, hey, recognize this does look familiar, and he says,
Speaker 1: why don't you follow the Bombster follow the.
Speaker 3: Bombs, like, see what happens. We take a little trip
Speaker 3: on a magic copetride. You know, see what happens.
Speaker 1: We go to the Haarfoots. Nori asks Gunda Balle Earthhuller,
Speaker 1: who is the chief of these Southern proto Hobbits, kind
Speaker 1: of the southern halfoots why don't her people just leave?
Speaker 1: Why don't you just leave? It seems bad here. The
Speaker 1: dark Wizards forces are like on on your shit all
Speaker 1: the time. They're threatening you. They slapped you like we harfoots.
Speaker 1: We'd like, we're in a place for six weeks and
Speaker 1: then we're out. And Gundabale says, I'm not leaving. I
Speaker 1: was born here, I was raised here. I buried my
Speaker 1: husband under that tree. I am going to be buried
Speaker 1: under that tree. We're not going anywhere. This is our home.
Speaker 1: Fuck that. Nori says, well, I feel like this is
Speaker 1: all my fault, and so she's right. She is a
Speaker 1: little right, and she's like, I got to figure out
Speaker 1: a way to get you all out of trouble. Poppy. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: Poppy and Nobody oh or continued, are vibing. The vibes
Speaker 1: are are very romantic, extremely like it's happening, Poppy. You
Speaker 1: can tell when Poppy asks Nobody why his name is
Speaker 1: nobody as he explains it that Poppy is like, they
Speaker 1: treat you like fucking shit really bad.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's like you think this is normal,
Speaker 3: but I'm from outside and I'm telling you, like, this
Speaker 3: is not normal, my friend, Like, this is a treat
Speaker 3: it badly, this is bad times.
Speaker 1: You don't realize like how much they are mistreating you.
Speaker 1: But she doesn't say anything about that. And then they
Speaker 1: start making out because again they that are feeling it.
Speaker 1: And this makes me feel like rosy. One of these,
Speaker 1: one of these is dying.
Speaker 3: Okay, look, and you know what, I'm sure nobody you
Speaker 3: seem like a nice guy. I'm gonna follow the abusive
Speaker 3: path of your life and say you bad die because
Speaker 3: Poppy bad will die.
Speaker 1: I'm a poppystan I like you. Though it shall be faced.
Speaker 1: It does feel like it. One of these is gonna die.
Speaker 5: Yeah, one of them is gonna book it.
Speaker 1: Put it on the odds. It's happening. Poppy tells Nori,
Speaker 1: don't turn yourself in, don't do anything crazy like that,
Speaker 1: just for these Southern harfoots. Let's fight the dark Wizard
Speaker 1: and his henchmen. We go back to Tommy Bombs. Tommy Bombs
Speaker 1: takes the stranger out to a valley with all these dead,
Speaker 1: desiccated trees in it, and tom Bombs says, hey, you
Speaker 1: want your wizard staff, you want your power somewhere in
Speaker 1: here is your true wiz Staff, and you've got to
Speaker 1: find it. You've got to figure out using this another
Speaker 1: riddle that I'm telling you which one it is. This
Speaker 1: man never just tells somebody something. It's always a riddle,
Speaker 1: always a query. Like so the stranger came off, looks
Speaker 1: over this pretty sizeable valley of dead trees and he's like, okay,
Speaker 1: Tommy b tom bombadil Tommy bomb to many bomb bomb bombs,
Speaker 1: tow many bomb bom bombs. I can tell this is
Speaker 1: gonna this is going to take up a lot of
Speaker 1: my time because a lot of things that look like
Speaker 1: Staff's here.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: And I have been separated from my friends Norian Poppy,
Speaker 1: and I got to make sure they're okay because I
Speaker 1: created a standstorm that swept them away, and that's my fault.
Speaker 1: Can I do that and come back and then we
Speaker 1: can do that? And Tom Bombs is like with like
Speaker 1: drops actually a bar. He's like sometimes life you come
Speaker 1: to a crossroads and you have to decide whether you're
Speaker 1: gonna go left or right. You were at that crossroads
Speaker 1: and you got to figure it out. You can't you
Speaker 1: can do one or the other. You cannot do both,
Speaker 1: and tom Bomb says, additionally, you know sare on, there's
Speaker 1: dark wizards, threats are orcs are back there in force.
Speaker 1: You need your staff, you need your power back. I
Speaker 1: don't think personally if you want my advice, no time
Speaker 1: for this haarfoot stuff. And then he's like, what's that
Speaker 1: over there? And the stranger turns out, look what the
Speaker 1: dead trees? It turns back and Tommy Bomb's like Batman,
Speaker 1: his fun.
Speaker 3: Batman's style, like I'm surprised he didn't throw I'm surprised.
Speaker 1: He didn't throw a smoke bomb. Yeah, and you know
Speaker 1: who else is going to disappear us for a minute,
Speaker 1: so you could listen to this these words from a response.
Speaker 4: We're back, We're back. We got a cause of do.
Speaker 4: Where the dwarves are digging through that.
Speaker 3: Sweet gold, oh the gold.
Speaker 1: And guess what man during the during the third is
Speaker 1: obviously heavily heavily crack addicted to his big, big, beautiful ring.
Speaker 2: But he's right, the gold is down there because they're
Speaker 2: pulling it up in pots.
Speaker 3: This man is like that very problematic Austin Power's three
Speaker 3: character gold member, Like this.
Speaker 1: Is like something really he loves gold Man. He just
Speaker 1: fucking loves gold. He wants the gold.
Speaker 3: And also I feel like the dwarves were never digging
Speaker 3: for gold before, so I feel like this is.
Speaker 5: Also like suspicious dark magic goal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, like is this gold only there to
Speaker 3: make them cause the crash that will inevitably happen when
Speaker 3: they hit all those load bearing rocks.
Speaker 2: Also, do they mind like it comes up in coin
Speaker 2: form or did they mint.
Speaker 3: The gold because it has been going Well, that's I did.
Speaker 1: It's coming up in full coin bring coin form? Is
Speaker 1: that meant to be?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 3: Oh, this is like how much you've lost yourself to
Speaker 3: the ring, Like you're not even questioning why there's just
Speaker 3: gold coins. But I'm also I'm like, how much time
Speaker 3: is passing. I don't know what's going on. Maybe they're
Speaker 3: just making some gold. If they're minting the gold, good
Speaker 3: for those workers. I hope you're keeping some of that gold. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you just pocket everybody, Just pocket everybody. Also, is this
Speaker 3: like real gold or is this that kind of like
Speaker 3: in a like I read a lot of books, Like
Speaker 3: there's a lot of great fantasy romantic books about like
Speaker 3: Faye and the Dark Faye and all these kind of
Speaker 3: things like the Holly Black series, and in those Elves
Speaker 3: and Fay and all these different creatures, they can kind
Speaker 3: of make a fake gold, an illusory gold that's really
Speaker 3: rocks or leaves or something.
Speaker 5: And I wonder if Sourn is doing something similar.
Speaker 1: Or also wondering if that's not the case. Considering we
Speaker 1: see Saron create a pretty significant illusion. His son, Prince
Speaker 1: ter and the Fourth comes through, obviously to discuss his
Speaker 1: father's recent behavior and his relationship to his ring. But
Speaker 1: before he can do that, Anatar is there, and Anatar
Speaker 1: is like, hey, uh, you're like two weeks two weeks
Speaker 1: later on the Mythril deliveries, what's going on? Sorry? Who
Speaker 1: are you? Why are you in my house? What do
Speaker 1: you mean?
Speaker 4: I don't know about this.
Speaker 1: I did not make an agreement with you. He's like,
Speaker 1: name your price, King Duran, how much? And King Duran
Speaker 1: says price, It's gonna be high because guess what, I'm
Speaker 1: rich now. I'm pulling coins up out of the minds,
Speaker 1: like full buckets of coins all the time. And so
Speaker 1: here's what's going on with the Mythrill. Hell no, Mythrill
Speaker 1: won't go get the fuck out. I'm rich, bitch.
Speaker 2: See ya?
Speaker 1: So interesting?
Speaker 3: To me, that ring that they made for that the
Speaker 3: rings they made for the elves, they don't necessarily.
Speaker 1: Lead them in Sauron's wake.
Speaker 3: You know, this ring has caused Duran to go on
Speaker 3: a kind of chaos of his own making. And it's
Speaker 3: interesting here that he won't give him the myth I
Speaker 3: think that tells us something that sometimes once the ring's
Speaker 3: got a hold of you, it can kind of lose
Speaker 3: its way from wanting to.
Speaker 5: Do Sourn's duty, you know. But he doesn't mind because
Speaker 5: he can see the future. That's right.
Speaker 1: Editar looks as he's getting like escorted out of Kazudoum.
Speaker 1: He like looks into the brasier that's brazier, the brasier
Speaker 1: that's like brazier brazier crane that's like near Duran's throne,
Speaker 1: and he sees in their a vision of the ball
Speaker 1: rog soon to arrive. Whoa king. Duran, meanwhile, is just.
Speaker 2: So excited about all this gold war coming, and he
Speaker 2: knows the war coming prices are gonna go up. He's
Speaker 2: gonna be able to jack up the market price of mythrill.
Speaker 2: And he's discussing this with his son, who all of
Speaker 2: a sudden is just like, Dad, take off the ring.
Speaker 3: He's like, you are acting crazy. You're given like logan from.
Speaker 1: Fucking succession, Like you saw of this guy.
Speaker 3: I thought you had all these sensible, you know, restrictions
Speaker 3: before on mining, and I feel like now you're just
Speaker 3: pulling up all these coins and I'm worried about you.
Speaker 5: It's it's going bad. It feels like you're addicted to
Speaker 5: the ring.
Speaker 1: Like, Dah, take off thring. And he's like, if you know,
Speaker 1: prove to me that you're not addicted to the ring
Speaker 1: by taking it the ring. Just take it off for
Speaker 1: a little bit and be hot. Yeah, And his dad's
Speaker 1: like doesn't even answer, just like turns his back on
Speaker 1: his son. So Duran like try to grab the ring,
Speaker 1: but then the power of the ring flows during across
Speaker 1: the room, just hurls him across the room. He goes
Speaker 1: to Desa and Lisa's like, Okay, well that's it. We
Speaker 1: have to do something. Let's chain ourselves to the mind entrance.
Speaker 2: Direct action, Yeah, baby, direct action power the people we.
Speaker 1: Take to the minds, humiliate the king.
Speaker 3: Lisa is in a situation here where like she's lost
Speaker 3: her purpose in life because now everybody's just mine is
Speaker 3: feeling there's no need for stone singers. There's also like
Speaker 3: no appreciation of the years that it took them to
Speaker 3: do the tuning and understand the rocks and keep everyone safe.
Speaker 3: Now everyone's just down in the mind finding some gold
Speaker 3: coins and obviously inevitably we know where this goes with
Speaker 3: Kuzan doom.
Speaker 1: So uh, Prince darn says, okay, well, let's die. Let's
Speaker 1: just dial back the rhetoric. That is my father, back
Speaker 1: the rectoric. Don't be chopping off this man's head. I
Speaker 1: don't know. That's no guillotines. That's my daddy. That is
Speaker 1: my dad you're talking about. Okay, So let's just I
Speaker 1: understand he's going through right now, but let's not let's
Speaker 1: not be mean rhetorically towards him. I can't go against him.
Speaker 1: And Liese says, well, you should think about your duty
Speaker 1: to the kingdom, not you're not the king. What about that?
Speaker 1: We go to Neumanor Arian tells her dad that she's
Speaker 1: like Dad, listen, according to the book, you're about to
Speaker 1: get fed to a seaworm. Ah oh, and do you
Speaker 1: hear those horns out there? That's them calling the seaworm
Speaker 1: right now? So wor I'm coming. Ellendill's like, listen, I'm
Speaker 1: not swearing period to that guy. He's like, do you
Speaker 1: understand how fine?
Speaker 3: Queen Maryel is like, do you know that there is
Speaker 3: a chance that me and Ha could be together? She
Speaker 3: reminded me to be faithful to the elves, and now
Speaker 3: I'm going to be faithful to Ha.
Speaker 1: That's right. I don't my my My loyalty is not
Speaker 1: something I sell cheaply, certainly not to fucking fucking Sizon Swoarth.
Speaker 1: The sarizon Arian Arian bags and Ellendell says, you don't
Speaker 1: know what you're talking about. You don't know about loyalty.
Speaker 1: You don't know about it. She doesn't know. That's true.
Speaker 1: He got that, like that's true. Yeah, he is as well. Okay,
Speaker 1: you will listen to me, listen to her. And then
Speaker 1: Muriel comes in. The queen says Ellendell, I order you
Speaker 1: as your queen Batney bend it too, Parison enough. We
Speaker 1: need you newman Or needs your strength, needs people like you.
Speaker 1: We're not gonna waste your life.
Speaker 2: I need you. I don't want to see you. Well
Speaker 2: here you get eaten by a sea worm. Okay, Ellendell says, well, listen,
Speaker 2: if the worm eats me, that's the will of the valor.
Speaker 1: And that's it. It's in the book. That's enough. We
Speaker 1: go to Kose Doom. The miners find Lisa standing in
Speaker 1: front of like the rock wall that they need to
Speaker 1: mine through to progress down to get more gold. They
Speaker 1: tell her to move or be moved, and then she's
Speaker 1: like no, and then she does the and they're like
Speaker 1: waiting for like an earthquake or something like is that it?
Speaker 1: And she's like no, this is it, And all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, all these avid gross bats called up from
Speaker 1: the deep come and they sweep the miners away. Duran,
Speaker 1: Prince Duran gets gets steamed up. Baby, he's a rouse.
Speaker 1: It's such a baddyow pitch, a badass. He's like he
Speaker 1: the there are hearts like floating out of his eyes and.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and husband and wife then stand ready to defend
Speaker 2: the minds. It's gonna be tough too, against the whole kingdom,
Speaker 2: but like they're ready to do it.
Speaker 4: We go to newman Or.
Speaker 1: It's feeding time. Ellen Dill is getting there, getting ready
Speaker 1: to push Ellen Dale into like this feeding pool kind
Speaker 1: of thing. Muriel says, guess what you guys didn't flip
Speaker 1: through the whole book. I have read that book cover
Speaker 1: to cover, and according to that book, I can take
Speaker 1: the place of Ellendill and get eaten by the worm.
Speaker 1: Ellen is ah wa, wait, no, hold on, this is
Speaker 1: not what we're gonna don't do it, and Farizon is like, fuck,
Speaker 1: that is the law. I guess, like, okay, So Murial
Speaker 1: goes down into the feeding pool and the seaworm arrives.
Speaker 1: It drags her down with it's like really gross tentacle.
Speaker 1: It's disgusting.
Speaker 3: Okay, So the tentacle is making me wonder And I
Speaker 3: did write about this when I saw this moment in
Speaker 3: the trailer, But like.
Speaker 1: Is this the Watcher in the water?
Speaker 3: Which is like the big creature that grips up the
Speaker 3: fellowship in the Fellowship of the Ring. It's very vague
Speaker 3: what Tolkien ever said about it, apart from the fact
Speaker 3: that it had a tentacle.
Speaker 5: It's usually more by the minds of Maria.
Speaker 3: But I do wonder if we're seeing a version of
Speaker 3: it here one of the nameless things, because as soon
Speaker 3: as that technacle popped out, I'm like, oh, is that
Speaker 3: the Watcher in the water. But it's very fun because
Speaker 3: like Tolkien didn't really say anything about it or where
Speaker 3: it came from. It's just a tentacled creature. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: it almost was snapping up the boys.
Speaker 1: So this really could be it.
Speaker 3: But I'm interested to see if they're gonna get deep out,
Speaker 3: especially off to what we see next.
Speaker 1: Yes, good point. Mm hmmm. So the the seaworm drags
Speaker 1: her down. It like oppositer. It smells, it smells her,
Speaker 1: It like screams in her face. She's holding her breath
Speaker 1: for a very long time, and then it spits around.
Speaker 1: It is like that's it, no thanks, charges you're in trouble. Fabrizon.
Speaker 1: Parizon is like you gotta hide it, because you gotta
Speaker 1: hide it. You could just look directly at him and
Speaker 1: be like wow. Pharion was really mad that Miria didn't
Speaker 1: get eaten by the sea worm. Later, Pharison now desperate
Speaker 1: to rest he's he's the king, but he can't even
Speaker 1: be satisfied with the fact that there are some within
Speaker 1: his kingdom that disagree with them. He must wrest their
Speaker 1: loyalty by force from them, and so he goes to
Speaker 1: the Palanteer.
Speaker 3: Oh my godness, this is what got Maurio kicked out, bro, Like,
Speaker 3: come on.
Speaker 1: He's clearly this is not the first time nor the
Speaker 1: last time he's going to be messed around with his paler.
Speaker 1: In the palanteer, he sees the eye of Sauron gaze
Speaker 1: at him, and he also sees Souren's human form and
Speaker 1: a tar Galadil back in the Southlands admits to a game.
Speaker 1: He's like, okay, I admit it. Halbrand is Sarn and
Speaker 1: you can tell she's kind of warming up to the
Speaker 1: idea of teaming up with this Uruk guy. She's considering it,
Speaker 1: she's thinking about it. He unlocks her cuffs and she goes, okay,
Speaker 1: listen to this. Here's the here's a pitch a dar
Speaker 1: check this out. El Rod is bringing my ring who
Speaker 1: named Nenya. We find out she named her ring. Oh
Speaker 1: I would would gil Gilo has all his rings named Yes, Bob, Sally, Divia, Tom,
Speaker 1: It's just like all of them. So Elron is bringing
Speaker 1: Nanya to Aragon with the elf Army. We go to
Speaker 1: a reggaeon the Army in el Ron Free Calibrin Bore
Speaker 1: and then when they cast out Editor, well they know
Speaker 1: who they know is Halbrand. When they cast out halbrand
Speaker 1: you and I go and we kill him, and then
Speaker 1: we destroy the rings that Sarahon touched, which notice she
Speaker 1: puts that that Saron touched, She's not not my ring.
Speaker 2: Let me, Claire, I'm talking about all the other rings,
Speaker 2: not mine, not min uh. And to be clear, we
Speaker 2: have to take a break for a word from responsibility.
Speaker 4: And we're back.
Speaker 1: So Adar asks, okay, say we do that. What does
Speaker 1: that mean for the Orcs? Will the High King will
Speaker 1: Hi King Gilglad take a second to stop gazing at
Speaker 1: his rings to decree that the Orcs can live in safety.
Speaker 1: Glad Reel, very very briefly wonders, is like if this
Speaker 1: I wonder if this is a mistake to trust a dar.
Speaker 1: But then she's like, no, I think it's fine. She's like, listen,
Speaker 1: here's the thing. You don't have enough Orcs to fight
Speaker 1: sura On. And Adar says, well, that's because you're only
Speaker 1: seeing the Orcs down here, like around my tent. Come
Speaker 1: up here with me, and he takes her up to
Speaker 1: this like little rise and she sees like a vast
Speaker 1: that vast vast Orc army, just like stretching to the distance,
Speaker 1: and Adar says, okay, so thank you for telling me
Speaker 1: what are gonna do and for telling me where your
Speaker 1: ring is going to be. I'll take it from here.
Speaker 1: I have don't Colasuel says, no, no, no, no, you don't understand.
Speaker 1: This is what Sauron wants you to do. He has
Speaker 1: set this all up. He knew that you would find
Speaker 1: out from me. You betray me, You betray me, and
Speaker 1: he wants you to go there.
Speaker 2: You shouldn't go there, because that's exactly what he wants.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Adara is like, what what the fuck ever?
Speaker 1: So what if he wants that? I like you to
Speaker 1: see how many orcs I go. I'm going get this,
Speaker 1: I'm going. He blows his war horn and the Orc
Speaker 1: army moves out. We go to a reggaeon where orcs
Speaker 1: are visible now in the tree line, approaching the walls
Speaker 1: of the city. The alarm goes up. People are running
Speaker 1: chaotically to and fro, screaming. Anatar meanwhile, is like cutting
Speaker 1: his hand, like very quietly cutting his hand, clearly about
Speaker 1: to cast the spot he call businesses. Meanwhile, Calebrimble, he's
Speaker 1: at his sketch pad. He's just drawing rings and then
Speaker 1: crossing him out He's like no.
Speaker 2: And a tar comes in to be like, how's it going, Hey,
Speaker 2: how are you? And calib Brimbore is like, hey, I'm
Speaker 2: I'm working on the rings, but I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't help. But notice there seems like there's a
Speaker 1: commotion outside, screaming are we under siege? And everything good?
Speaker 1: Antis is like that, don't worry. I've as your deputy.
Speaker 1: It's under I don't worry about it. It's fine. They
Speaker 1: start arguing, gets very caddy. Anatar says, listen, hold on now.
Speaker 1: If you I'm just gonna say this, If you stop
Speaker 1: working on the man rings, I'm gonna tell everyone that
Speaker 1: you're the reason that men were defeated by Saren Like
Speaker 1: it's good wins, I'm gonna tell everybody it's kel Brimble's fault,
Speaker 1: that our one because of what you're doing right now.
Speaker 1: Kelibrinbor is like, no, I'm leaving this workshop. I want
Speaker 1: to see what's going on outside. These are my people,
Speaker 1: he storms out. As he's storming out, Anatar casts the
Speaker 1: spell that he had been working on, and Kelibrinmore finds
Speaker 1: nothing but an idyllic scene outside, kids playing drawing pictures
Speaker 1: of horses, like knitting sewing, sewing, brushing their sheep. Everything
Speaker 1: is one. I would like to be that it was
Speaker 1: as how I would like to go on a vacation.
Speaker 2: That Anatar is like, see it's it's better, in fact
Speaker 2: than the last time you came out here.
Speaker 1: You came out here like this was not looking this good.
Speaker 1: It's great. Kelibrin Boor is like, okay, that does look good,
Speaker 1: but don't forget Anatar. We're at a Mithril and antas well.
Speaker 1: Good news. I'm just back from Cosetoom. And he had
Speaker 1: and we did not see this happened so clearly he
Speaker 1: stole it. He hands kelib Brimbore a big bag of
Speaker 1: mythroll that he got somehow, we don't know how. And
Speaker 1: then he says he switches it up. Now, he says,
Speaker 1: you know, I know I was gonna snitch you out
Speaker 1: and blame you for the fall of Middle Earth. And
Speaker 1: you know what, I changed my mind. Now when people
Speaker 1: ask me, hey, did you know Keller Brimble, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say that kellib Brimboor and his rings are the greatest
Speaker 1: thing that ever happened to Middle Earth in this age
Speaker 1: knows how to play him or any other age. And
Speaker 1: the name Calabrimbo Will Calabrimba, will lay it out through history.
Speaker 1: Keleb Brimbore, with a big smile on his face, goes
Speaker 1: back to work.
Speaker 2: And then when the illusion feeds, it's bad. The streets
Speaker 2: of a Reggaeon are are filled with panic and there
Speaker 2: now are flaming projectiles being hurled into the city streets
Speaker 2: by the orcs, and the orcs are approaching the city
Speaker 2: walls and it's it's and Editor goes up there and
Speaker 2: he's like fuck, He's like.
Speaker 3: Drinking his like Starbucks, like watching them, watching them lasage
Speaker 3: to the sea.
Speaker 1: He's like, this is fantastic. And that was episode six,
Speaker 1: a fun one. It is again it is Amazings are
Speaker 1: heating up, baby, things are literally heating up.
Speaker 5: Literally.
Speaker 1: The battle for Regaon is going to take up the
Speaker 1: last episodes of our season.
Speaker 3: And I'm definitely interested to see if they do a
Speaker 3: Game of Throne style battle next episode.
Speaker 5: And then you know finale that is.
Speaker 3: Kind of kneeling with the battle and the clean up
Speaker 3: and kind of what it lays out. Also interested to
Speaker 3: just see like how far is sour I'm going to
Speaker 3: get with this plan. I think the original season order
Speaker 3: for this when Amazon approved.
Speaker 5: It was like five seasons.
Speaker 3: I think that's already done, so we're gonna We've definitely
Speaker 3: got time.
Speaker 1: Also, will we see what are we gonna?
Speaker 4: Are we gonna see.
Speaker 3: The stranger kind of come into his own, are we?
Speaker 3: I'm very interested to know what is occurring, and there's
Speaker 3: I feel like there's some loose there's some loose threads,
Speaker 3: but I'm interested to see how they come together. Also,
Speaker 3: let's talk a little bit about obviously a fantastic super producer,
Speaker 3: Joel was asking us before kind of like what are
Speaker 3: Sourn's motivations? Because I do think this is when you're
Speaker 3: watching a big prestige TV show like this, it can
Speaker 3: be easy to kind of forget that this is like
Speaker 3: a story that's like one hundred years old. So this
Speaker 3: is the archetype that a lot of other things are
Speaker 3: built on. So like, it's not necessarily like watching The
Speaker 3: Penguin or you know, the Sopranos or whatever prestige TV
Speaker 3: that you're watching, where there's kind of this deep, complex plan, Like, so,
Speaker 3: what are sounds motivations? What is the endgame? His endgame
Speaker 3: is he just wants to be like a god king.
Speaker 3: He wants to rule over everything. He wants to subdue
Speaker 3: the people I'm rule.
Speaker 1: It's a very classic old school type villainy where he's
Speaker 1: just purely evil. He's just evil. I think the other
Speaker 1: thing is Saren is very interested, as you noted, in control,
Speaker 1: as we saw from the Lord of the Rings books,
Speaker 1: from the movies, right, Yeah, one of the most iconic
Speaker 1: visuals is Saron's eye. Saren's eye sees all, but Saren's eye.
Speaker 1: While it sees all, it also can only see all
Speaker 1: of the thing that it is looking at. He's significantly
Speaker 1: blind and trying to rule an area that is vast
Speaker 1: that he doesn't really trust anybody to govern for him.
Speaker 1: And so you know, he has the nasgool who are
Speaker 1: like his his managers that he'll send out to deal
Speaker 1: with specific things, right he doesn't have those right now.
Speaker 1: So in my mind, part of the thing with the
Speaker 1: Rings is it's a way for him to exert control
Speaker 1: over a wide area and understand and know that people
Speaker 1: are following his orders and doing his will in places
Speaker 1: that he can't directly see because he can't he can't
Speaker 1: really be there, and he can't really concentrate on or
Speaker 1: or see more than the thing that he's concentrating on
Speaker 1: at any given time, he's vastly powerful the but the
Speaker 1: the drawback of that power, of that evil power, is
Speaker 1: he has to try to be everywhere at once, And
Speaker 1: I think the rings are an attempt to be everywhere
Speaker 1: at once.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's a really good point because then
Speaker 3: he knows that his will is being spread, even if
Speaker 3: it's he can't always tell how it's going to work out.
Speaker 3: That is an option for him to feel like he's
Speaker 3: got his little feelings into mid Left. But yeah, I
Speaker 3: also I do think this is like maybe like Tolkien's
Speaker 3: response to like and I'm sure there's many Tolkien academics
Speaker 3: we've written about this, but he's in his response like
Speaker 3: industrialization as well, because it's this idea of sour on
Speaker 3: as like the evil is that he wants everything to
Speaker 3: be efficient, and he wants everyone to be subdued and
Speaker 3: just do his will and run like a perfect version
Speaker 3: of mid Earth. But he doesn't care if making Middle
Speaker 3: Earth perfect or efficient destroys like the beautiful pastoral land.
Speaker 3: So it feels very pointed in that way to me.
Speaker 3: And yeah, but he's just that he's just the evil
Speaker 3: guy who wants to be the god King of mid
Speaker 3: Earth and of the entire world. And also, you know what,
Speaker 3: he's just like a styly little villain and I love him,
Speaker 3: and I love you, Anata, and I love to watch
Speaker 3: you do this.
Speaker 5: So I can't wait to see the next two episodes.
Speaker 1: He's just such a joy to watch.
Speaker 2: And I love God King of Negging the way he's
Speaker 2: the god King of Negging. This man is a gas light,
Speaker 2: like gas light is happening at all times. He is
Speaker 2: lighting that guess, and he's telling Calibrinbot everything they needs
Speaker 2: to hear.
Speaker 1: He's setting up Old Daria Darnia to potentially come in,
Speaker 1: but I feel like maybe she's seeing through him a bit.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I have to say, I do think.
Speaker 3: That whatever complains people had of season one of this show,
Speaker 3: season two is really delivering with like a pace that
Speaker 3: is rolling like a boulder down a hill, like everything
Speaker 3: is building and building and building, and I'm really excited
Speaker 3: to see how it comes to play out for these
Speaker 3: past for these final two episodes, because also, like whatever
Speaker 3: issues people had with the first season, that reveal, even
Speaker 3: though we knew it was coming, that Hallibrand was sour
Speaker 3: on and that Galadriel had led Suran into Lindon was
Speaker 3: like such a good way to end the season. I'm
Speaker 3: very interested to see how they replicate that here, and
Speaker 3: also like are we gonna see Estrid again? And are
Speaker 3: we gonna see isildaor and Aaron Deer's kind of like
Speaker 3: growing romance. Are we gonna see Theo especially with that
Speaker 3: interesting theory you brought up. So I'm very interested to see,
Speaker 3: like how they bring these threads together, because there is
Speaker 3: a lot of stuff going on in this show, and
Speaker 3: even with these longer episodes, it's hard to get them
Speaker 3: all in. But yeah, I wanna I want to see.
Speaker 3: I want to see is the Stranger gonna come out
Speaker 3: with his little stuff? Is he gonna be doing some magic?
Speaker 3: Is he gonna remember his name is Gandalf.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be interesting to see.
Speaker 3: Also very funny that we have two shows right now
Speaker 3: with this and Agatha all along that have like characters
Speaker 3: with a name teen or Stranger where it's quite clear
Speaker 3: to us like who they are, And it's very funny
Speaker 3: that that is like the mystery. So yeah, I'm very
Speaker 3: excited to dig into this more. When we continue our
Speaker 3: coverage of Prime videos, The Lord of the Rings the.
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