Season 1, Episode 7: The Eye
Survivors stumble through the ash. Míriel is blinded and Isildur is believed lost. Galadriel takes the wounded Halbrand north for Elven healing, and Adar gives the burned land a new name: Mordor.
Who went where
Galadriel
Tirharad → the wilds of Eriador
Survives the eruption with Theo, then rides north with Halbrand.Halbrand / Annatar (Sauron)
Tirharad → the wilds of Eriador
Badly wounded, carried toward the Elves.Míriel & Elendil
Stays in Tirharad
Míriel, now blind, and Elendil set sail for home.Isildur
Stays in Tirharad
Missing; his horse Berek returns to look for him.Bronwyn & Theo
Stays in Tirharad
Reunited with Bronwyn among the survivors.Adar & the orcs
Tirharad → Adar's stronghold
Calls his orcs to their new home and names it Mordor.Elrond
Stays in Khazad-dûm
Durin IV defies his father over mithril; something ancient stirs in the deep.The Stranger
Stays in Harfoot trails
Sent away from the Harfoot camp.Nori & Poppy
Stays in Harfoot trails
The Harfoots set off after the Stranger when the mystics appear.Advertisement
Key moments
Mordor is named
Adar calls his orcs to the burned land and gives it a new name: Mordor.
Adar calls his orcs to the burned land and gives it a new name: Mordor.
Places in this episode
Tirharad
Bronwyn and Theo's village in the Southlands. Site of the battle with Adar's orcs in Episode 6.
📖 Books: Not in Tolkien’s writings.
Bronwyn and Theo's village in the Southlands. Site of the battle with Adar's orcs in Episode 6.
📖 Books: Not in Tolkien’s writings.
Adar's Mordor stronghold
After the eruption, Adar claims the burned land as Mordor. Halbrand bargains with him here at the start of Season 2.
📖 Books: Sauron’s realm long before the War of the Last Alliance; Mount Doom is already active and Barad-dûr is built in the Second Age.
After the eruption, Adar claims the burned land as Mordor. Halbrand bargains with him here at the start of Season 2.
📖 Books: Sauron’s realm long before the War of the Last Alliance; Mount Doom is already active and Barad-dûr is built in the Second Age.
Khazad-dûm
The great Dwarf kingdom under the Misty Mountains, home of King Durin III, Prince Durin IV and Princess Disa, and of mithril and a Balrog.
📖 Books: The greatest Dwarf-city. In the books its Balrog is awakened much later, in the Third Age, when Dwarves mine too deep for mithril.
The great Dwarf kingdom under the Misty Mountains, home of King Durin III, Prince Durin IV and Princess Disa, and of mithril and a Balrog.
📖 Books: The greatest Dwarf-city. In the books its Balrog is awakened much later, in the Third Age, when Dwarves mine too deep for mithril.
Harfoot trails (Rhovanion)
The wandering Harfoots migrate across the wilds of Rhovanion each season.
📖 Books: Harfoots are Third Age hobbit ancestors; hobbits do not appear in Second Age histories.
The wandering Harfoots migrate across the wilds of Rhovanion each season.
📖 Books: Harfoots are Third Age hobbit ancestors; hobbits do not appear in Second Age histories.
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