What about Isildur? This detail in “The Rings of Power” episode 7 probably reveals his fate

When Galadriel (Morfydd Clark) was devoured by a cloud of fire at the end of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power”, Episode 6, the shock was short-lived, as Amazon revealed in the immediately following Episode 7 trailer. that the Elven warrior survived. It’s different with Isildur (Maxim Baldry), who seems to be the only prominent victim of the Mount Doom eruption – but this cliffhanger is just as easy to see through: Anyone who has seen Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings movies knows that Isildur must have survived.

Because Isildur plays an important role in the future events in Middle-earth. He is the one who – as seen in the prologue to The Fellowship of the Ring – cuts the One Ring from Sauron’s hand, but then succumbs to temptation and is unable to destroy the Ring in the fires of Mount Doom.

So he must have survived the collapse of the burning house in “The Rings of Power” episode 7, if only to get involved in the big battle against Sauron a few years later. But that’s not all fate has in store for Isildur. And what that is is already suggested in episode 7…

For where has Isildur gone? We have an idea – and it has to do with a name that Bronwyn (Nazanin Boniadi) mentions in Episode 7: Pelargir is, as Bronwyn puts it, a colony of the Númenoreans and as such a safe haven for the remaining people of the Southlands, as well as for any survivors of the volcanic eruption who only later find their way out of Mordor (and Isildur is probably one of the ). ).

But Pelargir is also important because the colony is one of the cities that later became the kingdom of Gondor. became, which we also know from the “Lord of the Rings” movies. and Gondor was founded by Isildur and his brother Anárion, who has also been mentioned.

It seems that those responsible for the series have once again found a gap in JRR Tolkien’s stories and are now preparing to fill it: Why doesn’t Isildur go later with his father Elendil (Lloyd Owen), who did, founded the kingdom of Arnor further north? A possible explanation: because he has been living in Pelargir for a while and knows the land and the people.

Of course, that’s still speculation at this point, but we’re pretty sure the mention of Pelargir isn’t a coincidence. And it should be no coincidence that Bronwyn and Co. want to move there. Because there are a few established characters when Isildur ends up in Pelargir in episode 8 of The Rings of Power. And if he goes back and founds Gondor in a next season, Bronwyn and his company may still be living there.

But a lot still needs to be done for that. We have already summarized in this article what exactly is happening in Númenor, so that in the first place the exile kingdoms of Arnor and Gondor are established: