Nori cannot leave her friend, but he begs her to get away from him, fearing he’ll hurt her again. The Dweller lifts him twisting into the air with her staff and tosses him down, then puts both of her soot-caked hands into the fire and blows lashing flames into the trees sheltering the fleeing Harfoots. The Stranger - the real Stranger - rises and sends a tremor through the ground. Suddenly, the wind kicks up, and thunder rumbles. The Nomad buries a dagger in Sadoc’s chest, red blooming across his shirt. The ruse becomes clear: The bound Stranger opens his icy blue eyes, and his cloak sloughs away like dead leaves to reveal the Dweller. But then Marigold stumbles upon the Stranger on the forest floor, somehow both tied to the tree and lying here in the tall grass. Marigold distracts the women, while Nori and Sadoc untie the unconscious Stranger. It’s Sadoc ( Lenny Henry), camouflaged and spying with Nori, Poppy ( Megan Richards), and Marigold ( Sara Zwangobani). #Far beyond the shadows of doubt Patch#It is too much - The Dweller knocks him out, and the Ascetic and the Nomad bind his wrists to a tree.Ī patch of moss moves in the background. But as they speak, the elements wake for the Stranger, embers circling and the very trees shaking violently. The Ascetic and the Nomad ( Edith Poor) assure him: “Every being that walks or crawls shall be your slaves, for you are Lord Sauron.” Methinks the creepy magic ladies doth protest too much, personally. But they’re not here to hurt him: “We come to serve you,” the Ascetic ( Kali Kopae) whispers, “Lord Sauron.” We’re getting right down to business here in the finale - unless we are all of us deceived.īack in the Greenwood, the women tell the Stranger that his mysterious constellation can only be seen in Rhûn, their home. She folds in on herself and then unfurls again as The Dweller ( Bridie Sisson) as the other two mysterious figures emerge from the trees. But when she blinks, her eyes turn icy blue. You’re good.” A branch cracks, and he turns to see a familiar cloaked figure. In his head, he hears Nori’s long-gone assurance: “You’re not a peril. In the Greenwood, the Stranger ( David Weyman) makes his way through moss and stone and tree. Can we choose who we are, no matter our past, or are there deeds that must mark us forever? In the Season 1 finale of Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, what we choose to be - and what we cannot choose - leads to friendships sundered and solidified, powers forged and felled, and long-simmering secrets revealed. “You choose by what you do,” Nori ( Markella Kavenagh) insists to the Stranger in a moment of crisis.
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