Welcome to the Lord of the Rings lore cast, the show that explores the background of Tolkien's, the second age comes to a with the destruction of the ring,

the second age comes to a close.

I want you to think about moments in time like this.

These extraordinary moments, where all of a sudden everything you've been working for, everything everyone around you has been hoping for comes into being.

Have you ever had one of those moments where you worked so hard and you finally got the job that you wanted?

Or got the attention of that very special someone?

And they agreed to go on the date with you.

Or maybe they proposed.

There are times like this where in a moment,

it feels like the entire world changes. And maybe it does.

Maybe it does for you.

And maybe it does for the entire world.

In this moment, Sauron was defeated. The ring was taken, and the last alliance between men and elves served its purpose. And I'm sure they were ecstatic to be able to throw down the Dark Lord.

But there were still some issues.

What about the ring?

What about the lands of Gondor, the kingdoms of men, the elves?

But most importantly for this episode, what about Isildur? What would he do now that he was the

last remaining of his family and in possession of the one ring. This part of the story, this part of this final chapter of the Sumerillian begins like this.

Thus began the Third Age of the World, after the eldest days and the black years. And there was still hope in that time,

and the memory of mirth. And for long, the white tree of the elder, flowered in the courts of the

kings of men. This begins with a feeling of hope. As we've seen so many times, a white tree flowering

is a good sign. It represents the will of the valar. It represents humanity in line with Iluvatar.

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