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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Recap: Dark Times Come to Khazad-dûm
It’s another setup-heavy episode, but Sauron’s plan is becoming clearer and it’s nice to have the dwarves back in the picture.
It’s there that the Dark Wizard — styled to look a lot like Saruman as played by Christopher Lee in the Peter Jackson films — holds court in a moth-filled room attended to by servants whose blood he uses to summon the Dweller, the meanest looking of the three witches who followed the Stranger around in the previous season. The Harfoots believe they’ve found a shortcut, but the Stranger cautions that his preference “would be to avoid that part in which we would run out of water the first day and die of heat in the second.” Then again, any route would seem to have its dangers, particularly given that they’re being followed by trackers who come this close to catching them. The relationship between Durin and Disa (and the performances by Owain Arthur and Sophia Nomvete) continue to be highlights, while the Khazad-dûm segments strike a nice balance between high seriousness and earthiness that some of the other sequences can’t always find (though the Harfoots always help on this front).
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