History Recap / TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPowerS1E5Partings

* PassiveAggressiveKombat: The exchange between Durin and Gil-galand at the banquet.

* ConflictingLoyalty: Elrond realizes that it is in hands to decide what to do with the mithril, he has to chose between keeping a promise and dooming his people, or break his promise and destroy the trust of a friend, possible forever. He ultimately decides to TakeAThirdOption.

* AnIcePerson: The stranger uses ice magic to soothe the pain in his arm after driving away the wolves. In his meditation, he doesn't notice Nori touching his arm, and unconscionably freezes her hand, almost harming her. She becomes afraid of him after this.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: The horse hanging in the air while the Númenoreans are preparing to sail to Middle-earth might looks silly and random at first, but in the XVIII century, people used to hoist off cavalry horses from ships and disembark them on the land with the help of equine slings.

* LampshadeHanging: When Gil-Galad asks Elrond if he has heard of the myth about mithril, Elrond responds that the myth is ''apocryphal''.

* FeudEpisode: Halbrand has a fall out with Galadriel because she lied the Queen that he agreed to join them in their military expedition and him wanting to unite his people. He feels used by Galadriel and accuses her of being a FalseFriend. She gets offended that Halbrand is upset at what she did and not appreciative of her efforts.

* GreyAndGreyMorality: Director Wayne Che Yip and writer Justin Doble intended in this episode to mud the morality of otherwise good people by making their choices more complicated than "good" or "bad". Elrond being conflicted over his duty to his friend versus his obligation to his people, Gil-galad manipulating Elrond to find the secret of the dwarfs for him because he is convinced that the salvation of the elves are in the hands of the dwarfs, Bronwyn’s deciding to accept the enemy's proposal in the face of impending genocide, or Nori telling the Stranger he is a good man only to get scared of his power when he accidentally hurts her, and Galadriel using Halbrand's royal origins to push her agenda of convincing Numenor to join her quest when he just wanted a peaceful life.

* TravelMontage: A classic one happens showing the migration of the Harfoots, with shots of map with lines appearing on it to mark the route and the locations they travel through (the Grey Marshes, Trout Bend, The Braids), while Poppy is singing her mother's walking song.
* TheQuisling: Waldreg eagerly takes the Adar's offer of being spared if he swears fealty to them. When Adar reacts poorly to him mentioning Sauron by name Waldreg quickly amends himself.

* TheVoiceless: The Dweller seeking The Stranger and its two followers don't say a word while tracking him.

* TheGadfly: Durin makes a show of claiming that the table the Elves are dining at is made of marble that is sacred to Dwarves. After Gil-Galad promises to repatriate it, Elrond realises Durin was making the whole thing up to mess with them. And because he needed a new dining room table.

* LightningCanDoAnything: In Gil-Galad's myth of the origins of mithril, the light of the last Silmaril was mixed together with the unyielding virtue of an unnamed Elven warrior and the relentless evil of a Balrog of Morgoth when a lightning struck the combatants, creating the supernatural material with miraculous properties. Whether there's supposed to be any truth behind this myth is left unanswered, though.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Valandil tells Isildur that he hopes one day, Isildur will be willing to sacrifice everything for. The Precious is coming.