This entire episode is the siege of Eregion, which could have been awesome. However, thanks to inept writers, totally unable to create any kind of tension or fun action, it becomes an hour-long bore, instead of something exciting. To be fair, stuff happens, and both elves and orcs (a few horses) get their throats cut. Yet, it’s made boring since the flow of battle is hard to follow, and has horrible cinematic direction.

Whoops. Seems I made a mistake in my post about episode 5. Celebrimbor is not going away after all. I got that all wrong. Apparently, he is making the 9 rings himself to somehow compensate for the 7 corrupted rings. Oh well. It seems making those 9 rings is a pain in the butt though, since every attempt has failed so far, even managing to run out of mithril. Celebrimbor is showing some reluctance to the whole thing still, and is slowly going a bit nuts in the process. The manipulation by Sauron continues unabated, and he even succeeds in getting more mithril somehow, despite being denied for more material by the dwarven king.