Well, it’s not an invasion force; the idea is that the Numenoreans are going to try to organize the Southlanders under Halbrand.

Into the Keanuverse is the crossover event I want most--how else could you get a movie featuring Johns Wick and Constantine, Jonnys Utah and Mnemonic, and Jack Traven? Throw in Jonathan Constable’s accent work and you’ve got yourself a blockbuster without even leaving the Js!

We shall see what he means, whether it’s just a grandiose declaration, desire to be worshipped as a god (in which case he could dictate what people are allowed to believe), or if he literally intends to ascend beyond his physical limitations to a higher state of being somehow.

A specific number is not mentioned, but nor is anywhere suggested that any would have been lost in the Downfall. And since they were meant as a secret among the Faithful, a larger number would have been counterproductive.

Adar started going on about the river after Arondir’s alarmed reaction—i.e. whether Arondir’s answer was meant to be pointlessly vague or deflective, Adar’s got a pretty good idea of where Arondir’s people live(d).

According to the Silmarillion, the Palantíri were a gift from the Elves to Elendil’s father, Amandil.

Well, fwiw, I had two potential reads on Adar’s thing:

The show is obviously compressing that aspect of it, so the more central drama will be around Miriel getting deposed/forced to marry Pharazon, which I don’t blame them for.

Though interestingly, the latest episode mentioned the city of Armenelos.

You’re not wrong, and in the context of the parent comment, it’s worth noting that as far as the Appendices are concerned, the other two silmarilli ‘were lost at the end of the First Age. Of these things the full tale, and much else concerning Elves and Men, in The Silmarillion.’

Sure, I’m not claiming any comprehensive knowledge. The only Tolkien I’ve read in the last 10+ years have been the Appendices and most of the Silmarillion. But Hurin, when freed, went around spreading that curse like it was his job.

(of Eressëa or Lindon, it’s not established), there were no more at any point in Middle-Earth, or at least none are ever mentioned.

And the show has shown surprising amounts of lore accuracy in matters where it really didn’t need to.

Hurin wasn’t so much ‘physically and emotionally scarred’ as straight-up cursed. Gwindor’s the person we see most as an example of somebody broken but not corrupted by his time in Angband; when Turin finds him he looks like an elderly man, and when they return to Menegroth, his former love Finduilas starts making eyes…

TBF, there’s not much ‘summary’ about a judgment if it involves witnesses and multiple days of arguments.

Yeah, I more meant to keep it in terms of the politics of the show since it’s not clear what the changes from the text mean.

If she’d just told that she’d learned of orcs invading Southlands, I’m fairly sure that Míriel could have gotten her off the island the very same day.

I assume the reason they had Galadriel take a detour into Numenor was to setup seeing Ar-Pharazon eventually usurp the throne.

I’m guessing this is taking place around year 3230-3250 or so of the Second Age.

I have no idea why he’s a deposed king rather than a dead one, but the political split in Numenor is such that the side currently in power is the one that allies with Sauron. That’s the context behind Miriel’s taunting Elendil about the White Tree and his only speaking Quenya in the Hall of Lore.