Season 2, Episode 4: Eldest
The Stranger meets Tom Bombadil. Elrond's company fights the Barrow-wights on the road to Eregion, Isildur and Arondir meet the Ents, and Adar captures Galadriel.
Who went where
The Stranger
Rhûn desert → Bombadil's house
Taken in by Tom Bombadil.Nori & Poppy
Rhûn desert → Stoor village
Nori and Poppy find a village of Stoors.Elrond
Lindon → Barrow-downs → the road to Eregion → outside Eregion
Leads the company; they fight the Barrow-wights, then see Adar's host near Eregion.Galadriel
Lindon → Barrow-downs → the road to Eregion → outside Eregion
Gives Nenya to Elrond, draws off the orcs, and is captured by Adar.Adar & the orcsroute inferred
Adar's stronghold → outside Eregion
His army has marched north to Eregion.Isildur
Pelargir → Ent forest
Searches for Theo with Arondir and Estrid; they meet two Ents.Arondir
Pelargir → Ent forest
Unmasks Estrid as one of Adar's people.Bronwyn & Theo
Pelargir → Ent forest
Held by the Ents in the forest.Estrid
Pelargir → Ent forest
Unmasked as one of Adar's people, she helps search the forest for Theo.Tom Bombadil
Stays in Bombadil's house
Takes the Stranger into his home.Advertisement
Key moments
The Barrow-wights
On the road to Eregion, Elrond's company is attacked by the dead and wins by using the old kings' own blades.
On the road to Eregion, Elrond's company is attacked by the dead and wins by using the old kings' own blades.
Tom Bombadil
The Stranger is taken in by Tom Bombadil, who begins to teach him.
The Stranger is taken in by Tom Bombadil, who begins to teach him.
Galadriel captured
Galadriel draws Adar's army away so the others can escape with Nenya, and is taken prisoner.
Galadriel draws Adar's army away so the others can escape with Nenya, and is taken prisoner.
Places in this episode
Rhûn desert — the well approx.
The arid lands of Rhûn, where the Stranger and the Harfoots are hunted by the Dark Wizard's servants.
📖 Books: Rhûn is a vast eastern land Tolkien says little about.
The arid lands of Rhûn, where the Stranger and the Harfoots are hunted by the Dark Wizard's servants.
📖 Books: Rhûn is a vast eastern land Tolkien says little about.
Tom Bombadil's house approx.
The Stranger is taken in and taught by Tom Bombadil here, in the show's version of Rhûn.
📖 Books: Tom Bombadil lives in the Old Forest near the Shire, far to the west.
The Stranger is taken in and taught by Tom Bombadil here, in the show's version of Rhûn.
📖 Books: Tom Bombadil lives in the Old Forest near the Shire, far to the west.
Stoor village approx.
A settlement of Stoors — relatives of the Harfoots — where Nori and Poppy find shelter.
📖 Books: Stoors were one of the three hobbit-kinds, living near the Anduin in the Third Age.
A settlement of Stoors — relatives of the Harfoots — where Nori and Poppy find shelter.
📖 Books: Stoors were one of the three hobbit-kinds, living near the Anduin in the Third Age.
Lindon — Gil-galad's court
The Elven realm west of the Blue Mountains, ruled by High King Gil-galad. Its great tree fades until the Three Rings restore it.
📖 Books: The last Elf-kingdom west of the Blue Mountains, ruled by Gil-galad.
The Elven realm west of the Blue Mountains, ruled by High King Gil-galad. Its great tree fades until the Three Rings restore it.
📖 Books: The last Elf-kingdom west of the Blue Mountains, ruled by Gil-galad.
Barrow-downs (Tyrn Gorthad)
Haunted burial mounds between Lindon and Eregion. Elrond's company fights the Barrow-wights here in Season 2.
📖 Books: The burial mounds of ancient Men; in the books the wights are sent there much later, in the Third Age.
Haunted burial mounds between Lindon and Eregion. Elrond's company fights the Barrow-wights here in Season 2.
📖 Books: The burial mounds of ancient Men; in the books the wights are sent there much later, in the Third Age.
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.
Pelargir
An old Númenórean harbour town where the Southland refugees settle in Season 2; Kemen later seizes it as an outpost.
📖 Books: A great haven founded by the Faithful of Númenor in the later Second Age.
An old Númenórean harbour town where the Southland refugees settle in Season 2; Kemen later seizes it as an outpost.
📖 Books: A great haven founded by the Faithful of Númenor in the later Second Age.
Forest of the Ents approx.
Woods near Pelargir where Isildur, Arondir and Estrid find Theo held by two Ents in Season 2, Episode 4.
📖 Books: Ents dwell in Fangorn and the old forests; their wives were lost in the Second Age.
Woods near Pelargir where Isildur, Arondir and Estrid find Theo held by two Ents in Season 2, Episode 4.
📖 Books: Ents dwell in Fangorn and the old forests; their wives were lost in the Second Age.
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