The Eagles Are Coming
Back on Númenór, there’s a very strange sight: Ar-Pharazôn (Trystan Gravelle) looking rather worse for wear as he makes his way through a crowd at Númenór’s ruling chambers… backed up by a great eagle. At the end of season one, Queen Miriel (Cynthia Addai-Robinson) returned home to the news that her father and the former king, Tar-Palantir, had succumbed to illness, so everything’s a bit tumultuous in the island nation, it seems—and we know things are inevitably going to go bad for Númenór and Ar-Pharazôn after they help capture Sauron.
But an eagle? Actually not all that surprising. Three of Manwë’s eagles were believed to guard Meneltarma, the sacred mountain at the heart of Númenór, and before Eru Ilúvatar turned sour on the Númenóreans for their part in Sauron’s plot to assault the Valar, there was an eyrie in Númenór’s capital home for two of the majestic beasts.
