{"id":89858,"date":"2022-10-07T12:58:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T12:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-reveals-the-origins-of-mordor\/"},"modified":"2022-10-07T12:58:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T12:58:01","slug":"the-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-reveals-the-origins-of-mordor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-reveals-the-origins-of-mordor\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power reveals the origins of Mordor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The penultimate episode of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power<\/em>‘s first season packs an all-too-familiar reveal for fans of the Lord of the Rings, using its final scene to bring an old favorite into the world of the show. We knew it was coming with the forced eruption of Mount Doom last week, but \u201cThe Eye\u201d makes it clear without any character actually saying the word. <\/p>\n

Because none of them Bell<\/em> say the word yet. <\/p>\n

[Ed. note: <\/strong>This piece contains spoilers for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power<\/em> episode 7, \u201cThe Eye.\u201d]<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Eye\u201d is all about the fallout from the eruption, as the Ostirith villagers, N\u00famen\u00f3rean troops, and our elven characters pick themselves up and confront their new reality. But at the close of the show, we come back to the architect of all this destruction, Adar, who encourages his orc children to take off the cloaks and helmets that used to protect them from the sun. With the ash and smoke constantly spewing from Mount Doom, they won’t need them anymore. This is their new home, a land made for them. <\/p>\n

Waldreg, the Sauron-loving villager, starts up a cheer of \u201cHail Adar, lord of the Southlands,\u201d but Adar tells them that the Southlands no longer exist. When asked what they should call it, Adar doesn’t answer, but just gazes off happily at Mount Doom, as the text \u201cThe Southlands\u201d appears on the screen and burns away to reveal \u201cMordor.\u201d <\/p>\n

It’s a nice dramatic moment, but it’s also kind of funny when you consider Adar probably wouldn’t call it Mordor anyway. <\/p>\n

Wait, isn’t it Mordor? <\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Yes, it’s definitely Mordor. Sauron settled in Mordor in the Second Age, amassing power and building the foundations of Barad-d\u00fbr, aka the big eye tower in The Lord of the Rings<\/em>. Sometime after that he ventured out in disguise to manipulate Celebrimbor into teaching him how to make rings of power, and he wasn’t discovered until he went back to Mordor to forge the One Ring in Mount Doom and put it on for the first time. Which is all to say: Adar’s little anti-Sauron orc community may not be long for this world. <\/p>\n

But the crux here comes from the most fundamental \u2014 and nerdiest \u2014 origin of The Lord of the Rings<\/em>: JRR Tolkien was a professor of linguistics. And so most of the things in Middle-earth don’t just have names, but names in the setting’s multiple invented languages. The name \u201cMordor\u201d itself didn’t come from orcs or any of Sauron’s forces. Dwarves called it \u201cNarg\u00fbn,\u201d and Middle-earth’s elves coined the word \u201cMordor,\u201d which means \u201cdark land,\u201d that was subsequently adopted by humans as well. <\/p>\n

Adar, a guy who defiantly refers to himself by the orc word for orc \u2014 uruk \u2014 rather than an elven label, doesn’t seem like the type to name his new land something elvish, much less to name it something negative. It also wouldn’t make much sense if he came up with the name that elves would later use for Mordor on the spot. As an original character, Adar’s further arc is largely unknown, but it seems safe to say that he’s not going to have a huge effect on elven language evolution. <\/p>\n

In this way, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power<\/em>‘s \u201cThe Eye\u201d may have been the first time in cinema history where carefully abiding by the linguistic rules of a setting made a scene more dramatic. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The penultimate episode of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power‘s first season packs an all-too-familiar reveal for fans of the Lord of the Rings, using its final scene to bring an old favorite into the world of the show. We knew it was coming with the forced eruption of Mount Doom last …<\/p>\n

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