Don Marshall
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Isildur is never seen again by any eye in Middle-earth.
So you can kind of figure out what happens from there.
What a way to be written out of your own story right away.
Pretty incredible moment, really.
And though Isildur is invisible, the light of the Elendilmir is decidedly visible.
In fact, it seems to be even stronger in this moment that Isildur puts the ring on.
And instead of being a white gem, as it's usually described, here it, quote, blazes forth red.
That's an interesting one.
We don't have an explicit answer.
And we'll talk shortly about why it's visible at all, because I think that's a separate question.
But why it's blazing forth red is really interesting.
It seems to me like it detects sort of the evil nature of the ring.
It's some sort of... Is it...
reflecting that in a way is it is it like a lightsaber where the kyber crystal it's the kyber crystal that's the problem it's the equivalent of the kyber crystal in star wars yes yeah to me it feels like the elendil mirror is responding to the mere presence of the ring oh i like that like now that it's being wielded right i mean it was one thing what it was in the wallet around his neck but if it's being wielded by anyone