The digital file sat innocently on Silas’s desktop, titled simply "The Lord Of the Rings S01 - 07.mp4." Silas was a film archivist and an avid collector of lost media, but this file was a phantom. No television series of that name had ever been produced in his reality. The date on the file property read September 2, 2022, but the run time was blank. Silas double-clicked the icon.
The episode picks up immediately after the cataclysmic events of the previous chapter. The Southlands have been transformed into a wasteland of ash and fire, visually inspired by real-world wildfire photography. The Lord Of the Rings S01 - 07.mp4
: They find their destination, the Grove, destroyed by the volcano. The The digital file sat innocently on Silas’s desktop,
" . Released on October 7, 2022, it serves as the penultimate episode of the season and focuses on the grim aftermath of the volcanic eruption of Mount Doom (Orodruin). Silas double-clicked the icon
