The prologue of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring has always stood out, even though the whole movie is nearly perfect. It provides a window into a bygone age, showing Sauron’s defeat in the Second Age, with Isildur (Harry Sinclair) claiming the One Ring for himself and refusing to destroy it. But we were all of us deceived, for another heir of Elendil (Peter McKenzie) was made. The prologue doesn’t show it, likely because of narrative or time constraints, but Isildur had a brother, Anárion, who was even more important to Gondor than he was and who could’ve denied Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen) the throne—had he survived the War of the Last Alliance.
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