The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, episode 6: air of war

The last tip of The Lord of the Rings – The rings of power highlighted worrying structural deficiencies, attributable to the writer’s room and the inability of the writers to provide a solid and balanced narrative structure, compelling dialogue and depth characters. There sixth episode, Udûn in some ways it escapes the same judgment because it finally enters the heart of the action with an articulated series of battle sequences that move and shake the fantasy series of Prime Video. An increase in pace accompanied by the union of two narrative lines: that of the humans of the Tower led by Brownyn and Arondir and that of the army of Numenor led by Galadriel and Halbrand. The stories of the couple formed by Elrond and Durin and that of the migration of the foot legs accompanied by the Stranger are sacrificed.

The episode follows the battalion of orcs and humans enslaved in Adar as they march on Ostirith, the elven tower where Bronwyn, Arondir and the other members of the village have taken refuge. The battle promises to be short and fatal for humans, but the tower is abandoned, or rather, it has become a death trap against monsters. The victory is short-lived: having retired to a village where Bronwyn has set up a defense line, she, Arondir and the small group of humans seem to prevail over the orcs, when instead they are victims, in turn, of a deception. That the former prevail over the latter is implausible, given the ferocity and skill of the soldiers of Adar compared to peasant myths, but it has its own justification. Bronwyn transforming into a stalwart Xena warrior princess it is justified only if we later discover his past as a superfighter, while Arondir’s ineptitude in hand-to-hand combat (after all, he’s an archer) appears only as an excuse to further exasperate the superhero qualities of his beloved.