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Sauron's revealing ring gives The Broken Sword an adaptation problem

The new lore video traces Annatar's deception before questioning how The Rings of Power rearranges its crucial revelation.

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What Happened When Sauron First Wore the One Ring?

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0:40Sauron adopts the guise of Annatar and teaches Eregion's Elven-smiths to make rings.
3:35Celebrimbor makes the Three Elven Rings without Sauron's direct involvement.
4:55Wearing the One Ring alerts the Elves to Sauron's intentions, and they remove their rings.
7:34The narrator argues that the adaptation's reordered forging timeline weakens the original story's revelation.
10:55The narrator expresses fatigue with the series and asks whether viewers want weekly livestreams.

Putting on the One Ring was supposed to complete Sauron's plan, not expose it. The Broken Sword's newest illustrated essay follows the moment the Elves recognise his intentions and remove their rings, turning an apparent triumph into a warning heard across his carefully constructed deception.

"What Happened When Sauron First Wore the One Ring?" drew roughly 33,000 views within nine hours, making it the most watched of the channel's two new uploads. It follows Annatar into Eregion, considers Galadriel's suspicions and explains Celebrimbor's creation of the Three without Sauron's direct involvement.

Then comes the adaptation question. The narrator argues that The Rings of Power undermines that revelation by exposing Sauron and destroying Eregion before the One Ring is forged. It's a more specific criticism than simply saying the series changes Tolkien: the order of events changes what the Ring's first use can accomplish.

That discussion also has a personal wrinkle. "I find the show tiring, and not necessarily the content I want to create," the narrator says, before asking whether viewers want weekly livestreams. Several commenters discuss whether the channel should cover the adaptation at all; others ask about Celebrimbor's family history and the Nine Rings. Earlier upload "Can The Rings of Power Ever Succeed?" had already opened the subject for live discussion.

Away from Eregion, the Saruman breeding essay and September's Gandalf magic video remain the next busiest uploads. The channel added a thousand subscribers over the week, although daily views are below their usual pace. Fellow Tolkien channels Nerd of the Rings and Men of the West are also drawing fewer daily views than usual. For The Broken Sword, the fresh Sauron essay is currently attracting the strongest daily audience.

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Where was Celebrimbor when his dad, his uncles and his granddad uttered the oath of Fëanor. That's something I would like to know. From what I can tell, he was adult at the time, but never mentioned in that context.
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6:38 What about the nine in this instance?
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