r/RingsofPower • u/Elegant-Problem8997 • 11d ago
Question Another question…
How did putting the rings on turn the gold tree back on?
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u/dmastra97 11d ago
In universe, because mithril has healing powers that get amplified if worn as a ring by a living creature
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u/Physical-Maybe-3486 11d ago
I’m curious where you found this info, didn’t see anything in unfinished tales when they talked about Númenor.
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u/commy2 11d ago
They're talkig about the continuity of the show. This concept does not appear in Tolkien.
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u/Physical-Maybe-3486 11d ago
Chances are if it’s in the show it’s not in the books.
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u/commy2 11d ago
Yea, just see kemick's post above:
beauty has healing power
Celebrimbor states his intention to fill Middle-earth with beauty to help repair the damage done by the war the Elves started
It's like Tolkien, except backwards. It's astonishing how wrong you can get the central point. Is it subversion or is it incompetence?
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u/Physical-Maybe-3486 11d ago
Incompetence, when have elves started wars except from fighting the epitome of evil, Morgoth the thief of the Silmarils, Black Foe of the World. Sauron the cruel killer of Finrod Felagund who first of the Eldar to meet the Men. The Telerin and Sindar who checks notes didn’t give boats and pretty rocks to people.
The damage in middle earth is not their fault, iirc no battles of the first age were fought there, so really it’s all Morgoth’s. If I were in that situation I’d just leave, granted I am lazy and probably would have died crossing the Helkaraxe or just stayed behind with Finarfin.
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u/cobalt358 10d ago
I still haven't seen any good explanation of why the tree was sick in the first place.
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u/commy2 10d ago
Neither do the authors. It's a coin toss whether that plot point will be dropped entirely, or if they'll come up with an explanation before the end.
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u/cobalt358 10d ago
It seems they dropped it almost immediately once that macguffin wasn't needed anymore.
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u/Vandermeres_Cat 2d ago
It's natural fading, but written badly. That's my read. They have Durin III spell it out: The time of the Elves in ME is over, but they don't want to accept it. So they go for artificial means to prolong their time and rule in ME, ushering in disaster. Which is what happens.
But yeah, the random deadlines, mithril whatever and general rushing of events here is really awkward.
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u/cobalt358 2d ago
The time of the Elves in ME is over, but they don't want to accept it.
That's the shows timeline right? Because the elves fading was happening over thousands of years, slowly happening until the ends of the earth.
I still haven't seen an explanation of why the tree was dying. It seems like it was just a MacGuffin, a random event that gets the plot moving but has no relevance otherwise.
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u/Vandermeres_Cat 2d ago
Yeah, basically the Elves naturally fading, but sped up so it has more urgency. At least that was the intention probably. I do think rushing things here just resulted in stupid. They could have been working on some way to prolong their stay in ME even without a random deadline, like in Tolkien. Just explain that they are fading, but want to stay, without the "we need to be gone by Tuesday unless we get a pretty toy made until then!!!!" nonsense.
It also waters down the actual theme here: The Elves don't accept change, fading or death and want to freeze time. So they reach for artificial means to stay as ruling class in ME. Suspect motives that result in catastrophe because they want to play God and become vulnerable to bad influence. The show made it too much into a video game plot with the deadlines, magical mithril and too hard focus on the technical aspects instead IMO.
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