The Rings of Power on Prime Video: the recap of episode 5 where Elrond has a lot on the potato

We press “play” and off we go for an hour in the company of the disenchanted heroes of the Rings of Power.

The Pievelus are still in full migration. Nori takes advantage of a break to enrich the vocabulary of the Stranger who mumbles the key words she pronounces like a child learning a foreign language. In two episodes, he will give us full sentences.

The Brandyfoot family hits the road again with Poppy and we realize that they are far behind the Pievelus. But in a pretty song sung by Poppy, we see them travel tens or even hundreds of kilometers, crossing all sorts of lands sometimes strewn with pitfalls. And we say to ourselves that it is indeed the long journeys that only last the time of a song.

At the crash site of the meteorite that brought the Stranger, three sinister characters, hooded and dressed in white, seem to be investigating, CSI-style, the arrival of the one we still don’t know. identity. What if it was Gandalf? What if it was Sauron? The theories are going well, but we guess that we will not have the answer right away.

Among the Orcs, Adar stands out as a good candidate for the title of head psychopath. Resting his pale face in the sun, he asks one of his soldiers to expose his arm to it. It burns him. Adar asks what does it feel like. Well, wrong! Without surprise. He tells her to gather the troops because the time has come. To put Biafine on the burns? To stop being sadistic. (We bet not)

At the watchtower, Bronwyn improvises warlord and seeks to raise the troops. She launches into a brief speech, pledging to fight against the enemy namely Adar and his Orcs. Hands go up but without much conviction. All it takes is one contrary word from the infamous Waldreg – who urges everyone to submit to the enemy rather than fight – to turn the tide. The weathervanes! He even tries to turn Theo against his mother, the bugger.

In Númenor, we prepare for war. Isildur also wants to contribute. He solicits his father, Elendil, who rebuffs him outright. Isildur does not belong to the Sea Watch. He does not belong to any trade and does not live by the values ​​in which he was brought up. And Elendil turns her back on him. The boy is very sad.

Some of the people of Númenor are not ready to fight. At least not to follow an Elf and a man from the Lands of Sud. Chancellor Pharazôn is strongly challenged by the disapproving crowd, but he makes his way. Eärien, too, sees nothing good in this and asks Kemen to bring her father, the Chancellor, to his senses.

Halbrand, meanwhile, demonstrates his blacksmithing skills. But no time to show off, he is summoned by the Queen Regent, Míriel. She is in a council of war with Galadriel and Pharazôn. She calls him Lord Halbrand and she relies on him to go into battle as Galadriel supported him. Except that he is not motivated at all. Alone with Galadriel, he reproaches her for placing on his head a crown he does not want. (It will not be simple this war)

The stranger does a sleight of hand

Among the Pievelus, finally the Brandyfoot joined the others. All these little people find themselves crossing a disturbing forest. Concern Confirmed: Nori spots huge wolf tracks. She barely has time to warn Malva with Poppy that three wolves start chasing them. One of them is about to take a bite out of Nori, but is stopped short by the Stranger. By tapping a sharp blow with his arm on the ground, he throws the ugly creatures who flee. But his arm marks immediately afterwards, as if this expenditure of energy were consuming him.

In Númenor, Elendil is training her men in battle, but Galadriel is NOT at all convinced by their abilities. He then offers to take over. And whoever manages to touch her, will be promoted to lieutenant. As in the previous episode, Valandil is the first to apply. But he gets matrixed by Galadriel. She distributes her advice at the same time as her blows. They get into it in twos, threes, then four or five. She pushes them all away. Valandil manages to touch him and gets his promotion. For the first time, we see Galadriel surprised.

For his part, Kemen tries to dissuade his father the Chancellor Pharazôn from going to war. He goes so far as to accuse her of obeying an Elf. A pike little appreciated by Pharazôn who reveals his plan. Helping the Men of the Southern Lands will allow him to enrich Númenor by setting up a trade with them. In short, his plan is the Marshall Plan.

Míriel visits her father, the King. When she tells him to leave for Middle-earth and reconnect with the Elves, he advises her not to go there because she will find darkness there, he says with brass in the background which accentuates the threat.

Back in the forest. To cure his gangrenous arm, the Stranger puts his hand in the water while pronouncing a sort of incantation. He is in a trance, Nori observes the phenomenon. She sees the water turn to ice and reach the Stranger’s arm. She makes the mistake of putting her hand on his arm which also becomes a prisoner of the ice. She panics. The Stranger ends his shaman thing with a bang. Nori is thrown a few feet away, but her hand is back to normal. Just like the arm of the Stranger. But she gets scared and runs away.

wooden cross, iron cross

At Lindon, Durin is received by High King Gil-galad for what appears to be a gala dinner. They are supposed to celebrate their union, but the mood is tense to say the least. After dinner, Gil-galad passes Elrond to the question. Have the Dwarves found the precious ore? Elrond responds by swearing to keep his friend’s secret. Gil-galad then shows him the White Tree losing its light, a sign that the forces of Evil will soon destroy all peoples. And leaves him alone with his conscience.

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In Númenor, Isildur tries to convince his friends Valandil and Ontamo to recommend him to enlist in the expedition. Valandil is adamant. It’s no.

Kemen decides to sabotage one of the boats by setting it on fire but comes across Isildur who has decided to be a stowaway. The two men fight. The boat catches fire and then explodes, but Isildur had time to save Kemen to the amazement of his father Elendil.

Galadriel is disappointed. Míriel doubts and Pharazôn takes the opportunity to propose the time limit for the military operation. Míriel decides to convene the council the next morning which will decide.

Lindon. Elrond is cornered. Celebrimbor confides in him that he knows about the mithril. The High King too and ordered him not to tell Elrond anything. But now he must break his promise to Durin because mithril mining is the Elves’ only hope of regaining the light they are losing.

I’m going, I’m not going

Galadriel goes to see Halbrand to convince him to give her his vote at the council the next day. He confides in his past of which he is not very proud, fearing not to return to his lands like the liberator that Galadriel imagines. Overlaid on his confession are images of the villagers of Tirharad surrendering to Adar and the Orcs.

Galadriel in turn confides in her pain at having lost her brother, her thirst for revenge and her status as an exile. Rejected by the High King and Elrond as they could no longer distinguish her from the evil she fights.

Leading the villagers of Tirharad, Waldreg swears loyalty to Adar by calling him Sauron. Anger at being called that, Adar then puts him to the test: he must sacrifice a young man.

Theo gets to know Arondir, his possible future father-in-law, a little better. He shows her the evil sword. Arondir recognizes the object and discovers a sculpture in the rock of the watchtower: the same sword, complete, impaling a poor man. Then he explains to Bronwyn that she was created by an ancient magic of the enemy to enslave Men.

He also explains to her that the Orcs know that Theo has the sword and that they will come to retrieve it shortly. Bronwyn is ready to turn herself in to save her life, but they have a last-minute idea. It would be time, the Orcs set off in the direction of the watchtower.

In Lindon, Elrond empties his bag with Durin and confesses to him that he was sent on a mission by Gil-galad to find mithril. Above all, he tells her that the survival of the Elves depends on it and that their fate lies in his hands. Listening only to his heart, Durin agrees to help his friend and try to convince his father, King Durin, to mine mithril to save the Elves.

In Númenor, Halbrand has agreed to embrace his destiny. He goes in armor, like Míriel or Isildur to Middle-earth. Well, Isildur is in the mission but his father hazes him by making him clean the stables. This is where Galadriel comes into play in her Joan of Arc armor. Epic music, wind in the hair and a little slow motion of the camera. And all the soldiers are dazzled.

The three remaining boats unfurl their sails and head for Middle-earth. Generic.