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  TRoP – “Light & high beauty forever beyond its reach”  When Tirharad is preparing for the Orc attack in Ep.6, Theo asks Bronwyn to repeat a saying he remembers from his younger days: Bronwyn: "In the end, this shadow is but a small and passing thing. There is light and high beauty forever beyond its reach. Find the light... and the shadow will not find you." After escaping Cirith Ungol, Frodo & Sam rest as they make their way over the Ephel Dúath. “There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty forever beyond its reach. His song in the Tower had been defiance rather than hope; for then he was thinking of himself. Now, for a moment, hi...

  TRoP – Orodruin, Mount Doom “[There] was a fiery mountain in that land that the Elves named Orodruin. Indeed for that reason Sauron had set there his dwelling long before, for he used the fire that welled there from the heart of the earth in his sorceries and in his forging; and in the midst of the Land of Mordor he had fashioned the Ruling Ring.” The Silmarillion, Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age Morgoth created Mount Doom in the First Age. It was a tall mountain alone on an empty plateau. Orodruin was the primary reason Sauron chose the land of Mordor as his dwelling-place in the Second Age. Orodruin is more than just a "huge mass of ash and slag and burned stone, out of which a sheer-sided cone was raised into the clouds." It responded to Sauron's commands and his presence, lapsing into dormancy when he is away from Mordor and becoming active again when he returns. The Sammath Naur ("Chambers of Fire"), located high up in the mountain's con...

  TRoP - Númenórean Guilds “Thereafter seafaring became the chief enterprise for daring and hardihood among the men of Númenor; and Aldarion son of Meneldur, whose wife was Vëantur's daughter, formed the Guild of Venturers, in which were joined all the tried mariners of Númenor....” Unfinished Tales, ‘Description of the Island of Númenor’ The Guild of Venturers was a guild of mariners and seamen formed by the great Númenórean adventurer Aldarion in the year Second Age 750. The Guild was headquartered on the ship Eämbar normally anchored off the island of Tol Uinen in the bay of Rómenna. The Guild sailed east across the Great Sea to the distant shores of Middle-earth, visiting Gil-galad in Lindon, and exploring the coastlands into the far south. The Guild of Weaponsmiths was a guild of Númenor comprised of skilled forgers of weapons. The founders of the Guild of Weaponsmiths originally acquired great knowledge and skill from the Elves in the forging of swords, axe blades, sp...

  The Fading of Elves In The Rings of Power universe ·          Every Elf is imbued with the light of Valinor ·          Over many centuries, this blessed illumination fades away and, if allowed to extinguish, the Elves will fade along with it. ·          Gil-galad says the decay of Lindon's trees reflects an "inner reality" which Gil-galad describes as the "light of the Eldar fading" ·          If this blight isn't halted, Middle-earth's Elves will diminish completely, and The Rings of Power presents this fate as tantamount to dying. ·          The discovery of mithril by the Dwarves containing the light of the Two Trees of Valinor from a Silmaril will halt this decline From Tolkien’s Lore ·          Only some Elves spent time in...

  TRoP - Harfoots Migration Route In episode 5 Nori tells us about the Harfoot migration route: “We winter in Old Forest, and mid-summer, we make for Norfield Glen to snail while the snailing is good. And at the first blush of oak leaves, we head to the Grove. A whole orchard, popping with bar apples, plums, apricots, carrots...” Old Forest – This can’t be the Old Forest in LotR where the Hobbits met Tom Bombadil. That is located northeast in Eriador. Nori may be referring to Greenwood the Great, later known as Mirkwood in the Third Age. Old Forest may have been were the Harfoots were eating snails in episode 3. Norfield Glen – Not shown on TRoP maps. Norfield Glen is probably somewhere in the northern part of the hilly region to the south of Greenwood. Weedbrook - a branch of the Anduin River. Possibly were the conversation between Nori and the Stranger occurred at the beginning of episode 5. Undercliffs - a few thousand years later, they would almost have been able to...

  Poppy’s song, “This Wandering Day,” Sung by Megan Richards, written by Bear McCreary The sun is fast falling beneath trees of stone, The light in the tower no longer my home, Past eyes of pale fire, black sand for my bed, I trade all I’ve known for the unknown ahead. Call to me, call to me, lands far away, For I must now wander this wandering day. Away I must wander this wandering day. Of drink I have little and food I have less, My strength tells me no but the path demands yes, My legs are so short and the way is so long, I’ve no rest nor comfort, no comfort but song. Sing to me, sing to me, lands far away, Oh, rise up and guide me this wandering day. Please promise to find me this wandering day. At last comes their answer through cold and through frost, That not all who wonder or wander are lost, No matter the sorrow, no matter the cost, That not all that wonder or wander are lost. A key line in the song takes inspiration from one of J.R....