Waldreg is responsible for using the Morgul blade that destroys the dam, destroying his own way of life in the process. This selfish desire to survive no matter what happens to anyone else dooms them all, though. This implies that there are still people among them that would complacently allow evil to take over the world, even going as far as to help them with the hope that they won’t be killed if they do. Many of the Southlanders, when faced with the option of fighting or joining the enemy, opt to surrender and do Adar’s bidding. This begins the final stage of the plan that was staged by Morgoth’s servants in the First Age. After using his blood to activate the Morgul blade, Waldreg inserts the sword into a slit in the stone beneath the carved visage of Sauron. While Galadriel ( Morfydd Clark) and Halbrand ( Charlie Vickers) believe they recovered the hilt shard and stopped Adar’s plan, Adar has secretly swapped the hilt for a hatchet and sent Waldreg to the Tower of Ostirith. Once the Númenorians arrive, all hell breaks loose, and it seems that Adar is going to get away with the shard.

When the orcs finally regroup and return to the village, the battle culminates with Adar’s orcs killing hostages one by one until they give him the shard. Arondir ( Ismael Cruz Cordova) begins smashing it with the hammer in an effort to destroy it but finds that it's magically indestructible. The hilt shard of the Morgul blade that Theo ( Tyroe Muhafidin) found under Waldreg's ( Geoff Morrell) floorboards has a much darker purpose than being a magic weapon powered by blood.

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