{"id":83452,"date":"2022-10-01T04:10:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T04:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/rings-of-power-how-mount-doom-mordor-were-created-in-battle-episode\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T04:10:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T04:10:06","slug":"rings-of-power-how-mount-doom-mordor-were-created-in-battle-episode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/rings-of-power-how-mount-doom-mordor-were-created-in-battle-episode\/","title":{"rendered":"Rings of Power: How Mount Doom, Mordor Were Created in Battle Episode"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tSPOILER ALERT: <\/strong>Do not read if you haven’t watched \u201cThe Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power\u201d Episode 6, titled \u201cUd\u00fbn,\u201d now streaming on Amazon Prime Video<\/em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
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\tWith three more episodes left in its inaugural season, \u201cThe Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power\u201d finally delivered the massive battle sequence for which fans of the epic fantasy franchise have waited patiently. While not quite as massive as the Battle of Helm’s Deep from the 2002 feature film \u201cThe Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers,\u201d the episode, \u201cUd\u00fbn,\u201d still considerably ramped up the scope of the action for the series, delivering nearly non-stop, near-death moments and ending on a massive cliffhanger that also establishes one of the most consequential events in the history of JRR Tolkien’s Middle-earth.<\/p>\n
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\tIn the episode, dark elf Adar (Joseph Mawle) and his orc army arrive at the mountain fortress where Arondir (Ismael Cruz C\u00f3rdova), Bronwyn (Nazanin Boniadi) and the Southland villagers are supposed to be holed up. They find it empty instead \u2014 until Arondir launches a one-man sneak attack and topples the stone watchtower on top of a good chunk of Adar’s forces. Arondir and his fighters regroup before an even bigger assault by Adar; the Southland villagers prevail, until they notice that some of Adar’s fallen minions are actually their fellow Southlanders who pled allegiance to Adar in the (false) hope of sparing their lives. Adar’s remaining forces ambush the villagers in a flurry of arrows as their leader searches for, and finds, the mysterious Sauron blade he’s been seeking all season.<\/p>\n
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\tThe day is saved (briefly) when Galadriel (Morfydd Clark) storms in with her N\u00famen\u00f3rean army. She and Halbrand (Charlie Vickers) apprehend Adar, who is revealed to be one of the first elves corrupted by the evil dark lord Morgoth. While Galadriel interrogates Adar, the human turncoat, Waldreg (Geoff Morrell), secretly arrives at the fallen citadel with Sauron’s blade and uses its mysterious power to unleash a cataclysm onto Middle-earth. the dam holding back a mountain lake opens; its water follows the canals dug by the orcs and their prisoners; and ultimately pours into the magma chamber of a nearby dormant volcano. It erupts, blanketing the Southlands in fire, ash and darkness. We’ve just witnessed the birth of the infamous Mount Doom of Mordor.<\/p>\n
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\tDirector Charlotte Br\u00e4ndstr\u00f6m \u2014 who’s directed episodes of \u201cThe Witcher,\u201d \u201cOutlander,\u201d \u201cThe Outsider\u201d and \u201cArrow\u201d \u2014 and Clark and C\u00f3rdova explained to variety<\/em> how the monumental episode, full of horseback knights and orcish invaders, came to be.<\/p>\n