Full spoilers for The Rings Of Power Season 1 finale, “Alloyed,” follow.
Mary & Blake recap and react to The Rings Of Power Season 1 Episode 8, “Alloyed,” as Galadriel discovers that Halbrand is Sauron, the Stranger learns that he is an Istar, Nori leaves the Harfoots for Rhûn, and Celebrimbor forges the Three Elven Rings.
The finale’s central revelation works because Halbrand’s identity changes the meaning of the relationship carrying the entire season. Galadriel spent her life hunting Sauron, found him without recognizing him, repeatedly saved him, gave him a royal identity, brought him back to Middle-earth, and delivered him directly to Celebrimbor’s forge.
Sauron responds by offering Galadriel the future they appeared to be building together. He will bind her to power, and she can bind him to the light. Galadriel rejects the proposal because she recognizes that his promise of healing still depends upon control. She also leaves the encounter carrying shame, temptation, and responsibility that she refuses to reveal fully to Elrond.
The finale then turns that emotional conflict into the creation of the Rings. Celebrimbor learns to coax metals together rather than forcing them. Sauron tries to create the same alloy with Galadriel. The title “Alloyed” describes the metal entering the forge and the relationship Sauron wants to create.
Mary’s rating: 5 rings out of 5. Blake’s rating: 4.78 rings out of 5.
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The Rings Of Power Season 1 Finale Recap: What Happens In “Alloyed”?
“Alloyed” opens with the Stranger encountering the three Mystics who have been following him. They call him Lord Sauron and attempt to restore the memories and identity they believe are hidden inside him.
Nori, Poppy, Marigold, and Sadoc intervene. Their attempt to protect the Stranger reveals that the Mystics have identified the wrong person. The Stranger is not Sauron. He is an Istar—a wizard whose purpose and identity are still emerging.
The Stranger uses the Mystics’ staff against them. Their physical forms dissolve into light and moth-like shapes, echoing the imagery associated with the magical beings throughout the season.
Sadoc is mortally wounded during the confrontation. He chooses to sit beneath the sky and watch the sunrise with his friends before dying.
The Stranger decides that he must travel east to Rhûn, where the stars are unfamiliar and answers about his identity may be waiting. Nori chooses to accompany him.
The Harfoots gather to say goodbye. Nori’s parents remind her of the practical lessons they taught her, while Poppy and Nori struggle with the separation of the friendship that has carried them through the season.
In Eregion, Galadriel arrives with the wounded Halbrand. The Elves heal him, and Halbrand quickly becomes interested in Celebrimbor’s work with mithril.
Celebrimbor has been attempting to use the limited mithril to create an object capable of preserving the Elves. Halbrand suggests that the material’s properties could be amplified by combining it with another metal.
The suggestion appears simple, but Celebrimbor immediately recognizes its value. Halbrand flatters his skill, presents the idea as a gift, and allows the legendary smith to develop the process.
Galadriel grows suspicious when Celebrimbor repeats language about power over the flesh that resembles words previously used by Adar. She asks for records concerning the royal line of the Southlands.
The records reveal that the line ended centuries earlier. There is no living king of the Southlands. Halbrand’s identity was built upon a symbol taken from a dead man.
Galadriel confronts him beside the water. Halbrand abandons the disguise and enters her mind, reshaping familiar memories and people to influence her.
He first appears as Galadriel’s brother Finrod, using her grief and longing for approval. He then returns them to the raft where they first met.
Sauron tells Galadriel that she saved him. She gave him hope, brought him back to Middle-earth, and placed a crown upon his head. He offers to make her a queen and rule beside her.
His proposal is built around the bond they formed during the season. Galadriel can connect him to the light, while Sauron can connect her to power.
Galadriel refuses. She sees no meaningful difference between saving Middle-earth and ruling it through domination.
Sauron threatens to expose her responsibility. The Elves rejected her before she begged Númenor for an army. He asks what they will do when they learn that she brought Sauron into their kingdom and helped restore his power.
Galadriel awakens in the water, where Elrond finds her. Sauron has left Eregion and begins traveling toward Mordor.
Elrond discovers the records Galadriel used to uncover Halbrand’s identity. He realizes that she has learned something devastating, but Galadriel does not tell him the complete truth.
She returns to Celebrimbor’s forge and insists that the Elves must create three objects rather than one or two. One object could corrupt its bearer, while two could divide the bearers against each other. Three can create balance.
The objects will be Rings because a circular form allows the power to flow continuously.
The creation also requires a sacrifice of pure metal from Valinor. Galadriel gives Celebrimbor the dagger that once belonged to Finrod.
The blade is melted with the mithril and other metals. Celebrimbor completes the Three Elven Rings as Galadriel and Elrond watch.
In Númenor, King Tar-Palantir dies while Míriel and Elendil are sailing home. Míriel returns blind, the expedition has failed, Isildur is believed dead, and Pharazôn is positioned to take advantage of a kingdom entering another political crisis.
The season ends with Sauron entering Mordor and looking toward Mount Doom. The identity hidden throughout Season 1 has been revealed, and the larger war for Middle-earth can begin.
The Rings Of Power Season 1 Finale Ending Explained
The ending places every major character on a path that will shape the future of Middle-earth.
Sauron has abandoned the Halbrand identity in Eregion and returned to Mordor. Adar currently controls the Orcs and believes that he killed Sauron long ago. Their inevitable confrontation will determine who controls the land created by the eruption of Mount Doom.
Galadriel remains in Eregion after rejecting Sauron. She knows who he is and understands how directly she contributed to his return. Her decision to conceal the truth from Elrond leaves the Elves vulnerable to further manipulation.
Celebrimbor has forged the Three without knowing that Halbrand was Sauron. The Rings may preserve the Elves, but the knowledge used to create them came through a relationship Sauron deliberately established.
Elrond recognizes that Galadriel has hidden something from him. The records prove that Halbrand was never the king she believed him to be. Elrond does not yet know the complete danger that entered Celebrimbor’s forge.
The Stranger has learned that he is an Istar and begins traveling toward Rhûn with Nori. The finale provides strong clues connecting him to Gandalf while stopping before giving him a familiar name.
Númenor is returning home without its promised victory. Míriel has lost her sight, Isildur is missing, Tar-Palantir is dead, and Pharazôn can use the failed expedition to challenge the Faithful.
The finale therefore closes the mystery structure of Season 1 and opens the conflicts that will drive Season 2: Sauron and Celebrimbor, Galadriel and Elrond, Sauron and Adar, the fate of the Rings, and the political fall of Númenor.
Is Halbrand Sauron?
Halbrand is Sauron.
The finale confirms the identity after Galadriel investigates the royal lineage of the Southlands. The records show that the final king died approximately one thousand years earlier and left no heir.
Halbrand never explicitly told Galadriel that he was the rightful king. She saw the crest, recognized its history, and created the identity around him.
Sauron repeatedly warned her that she did not know what he had done. He said that he had taken the crest from a dead man and resisted returning to the Southlands. Galadriel treated those statements as the shame of a reluctant king rather than evidence that her conclusion was wrong.
The reveal works because Halbrand’s lies were often built from omissions, selected truths, and interpretations supplied by other people.
Galadriel needed the lost king to exist. Sauron allowed her to turn him into that king.
Why Does Sauron Want Galadriel To Join Him?
Sauron’s offer grows from the real connection formed between them.
Galadriel and Halbrand met at moments when both characters were searching for direction. Galadriel had rejected Valinor and leapt into the sea because she could not abandon her war. Halbrand was drifting away from Middle-earth while carrying the history and identity he claimed to want to escape.
They recognized similar qualities in each other. Both are powerful, driven, proud, isolated, and convinced that they can impose order upon a world that repeatedly refuses to follow their plans.
Galadriel helped Sauron recover a sense of purpose. She fought for his release in Númenor, convinced him to return to Middle-earth, placed him at the head of the Southlanders, and brought him to Eregion.
Sauron believes their connection proves that they were brought together for a larger purpose. His offer turns the entire first season into evidence for the partnership he wants.
He also understands that Galadriel possesses qualities he can use. Her reputation among the Elves could legitimize him. Her strength could help him defeat his enemies. Her belief in healing Middle-earth could make his pursuit of control sound noble.
Sauron does not merely want a powerful queen. He wants Galadriel to validate the story he tells himself about his own intentions.
Was Galadriel Tempted By Sauron?
Galadriel appears tempted by parts of Sauron’s offer.
The scene places the audience inside her experience through direct framing, extreme close-ups, familiar memories, and images of the future Sauron wants her to imagine.
He does not initially present himself as the armored Dark Lord. He appears as Halbrand, the person who fought beside her, understood her obsession, and made her feel powerful.
His promise also speaks to desires Galadriel has carried throughout the season. She wants the strength to defeat evil, the authority to act without obstruction, and the ability to repair the damage she believes others have allowed to spread.
Sauron offers all of those things while claiming that she can make him better.
Galadriel rejects him when she recognizes that the distinction between healing and ruling has disappeared. Sauron’s version of peace requires everyone else to accept the order he creates.
Her refusal remains meaningful because the temptation was emotionally credible. Galadriel does not reject an obvious monster offering cartoonish evil. She rejects a future shaped around her own desire for power and certainty.
Why Does Galadriel Say, “I See No Difference”?
Sauron claims that he wants to heal Middle-earth rather than rule it.
Galadriel answers, “I see no difference,” because his method of healing depends upon control.
Sauron believes conflict exists because the people of Middle-earth lack a single order capable of directing them. His solution places himself above every kingdom, race, and individual choice.
He can describe that future as peace because opposition will be eliminated. Galadriel recognizes that eliminating opposition through domination is another form of tyranny.
The exchange also gives Galadriel a moment of self-recognition. She has frequently treated disagreement as an obstacle standing between her and the correct action. Sauron’s offer shows where that instinct can lead when power has no meaningful limit.
Why The Halbrand And Galadriel Relationship Is The Centerpiece Of Season 1
The finale reveals that the season’s largest consequences grew from the relationship between Halbrand and Galadriel.
Galadriel finds Sauron because she refuses to abandon her search for him. She then fails to recognize him because Halbrand becomes the answer to the story she wants to believe.
He gives her a lost king who can rally the Southlands. She gives him an army, a crown, legitimacy, passage back to Middle-earth, and access to Celebrimbor.
Neither character reaches the finale unchanged. Galadriel helped Sauron believe that he could return to power. Sauron forced Galadriel to confront how easily her desire for victory could be manipulated.
The relationship also creates consequences extending beyond romance or attraction. Their bond produces political decisions, military action, the return of Sauron, and the first stage of the forging process.
That is why the reveal matters. Halbrand being Sauron changes the meaning of nearly every major choice Galadriel made during Season 1.
Is Galadriel Responsible For Sauron’s Return?
Galadriel did not create Sauron, and she did not control every choice he made. She played a decisive role in restoring his access to power.
Halbrand says that he wanted to remain in Númenor. Galadriel repeatedly pushed him toward the Southlands. She convinced Míriel to provide an army and treated Halbrand’s reluctance as fear he needed to overcome.
Galadriel gave him the identity of a king and encouraged the Southlanders to recognize him. She later brought the wounded Halbrand to Eregion, where he encountered Celebrimbor and mithril.
Gil-galad’s warning therefore gains new weight. He believed Galadriel’s continued pursuit could help bring back the darkness she wanted to destroy.
Sauron remains responsible for using every opportunity placed before him. Galadriel remains responsible for the certainty that prevented her from seeing what Halbrand was telling her.
The finale gives her a failure large enough to define the next stage of her story.
Why Doesn’t Galadriel Tell Elrond That Halbrand Is Sauron?
Galadriel does not give Elrond the complete truth after he pulls her from the water.
Shame provides one reason. Elrond supported her, trusted her judgment, and helped her leave for Valinor. Galadriel returned after disobeying Gil-galad and brought the enemy she had sworn to destroy directly into Eregion.
Exposure could cost her authority and freedom. Sauron explicitly uses that fear against her by asking what the Elves will do when they learn that he lives because of her.
Galadriel may also believe that revealing the truth would stop the forging process. Elrond already distrusts the project. Learning that Sauron advised Celebrimbor would give him a powerful reason to destroy the work.
Galadriel wants the Rings completed. They may preserve the Elves, prevent their fading, and provide power she can use in the conflict ahead.
Her silence therefore combines embarrassment, fear, strategy, and desire. It protects her from immediate judgment while allowing the forging to continue.
The decision extends Sauron’s influence beyond his departure. He no longer needs to remain in Eregion to create division between Galadriel and Elrond.
Why Doesn’t Galadriel Kill Sauron?
Galadriel confronts Sauron inside a mental reality he controls.
She places her dagger against him during the vision, but the physical rules of the encounter remain uncertain. Sauron moves between the forms of Finrod and Halbrand, changes their surroundings, and eventually leaves Galadriel unconscious in the water.
The finale does not present a clear physical opportunity in which Galadriel can simply stab Halbrand in Eregion after discovering his identity. By the time she awakens, Sauron is gone.
Her deeper failure comes afterward. Galadriel does not immediately sound the alarm, explain what happened to Elrond, or stop Celebrimbor’s work.
Sauron escapes because he controls the final confrontation. His influence survives because Galadriel chooses secrecy.
What Does The Title “Alloyed” Mean?
An alloy combines different metals to create a new material with properties the individual components do not possess alone.
Celebrimbor initially attempts to force the mithril to work according to his design. Halbrand suggests treating the other metals as partners capable of amplifying the mithril’s power.
The smith must coax the materials together.
Sauron attempts the same process with Galadriel. He wants to combine his power with her light, reputation, strength, and desire to heal Middle-earth.
He believes their opposing qualities can create something stronger when joined. Sauron will give Galadriel the power to impose her vision, and Galadriel will give Sauron the moral identity he lacks.
The difference lies in consent. Celebrimbor learns to create a successful alloy by understanding how the materials can work together. Sauron begins with persuasion and moves toward threats when Galadriel refuses.
The title therefore describes both the forging of the Rings and the partnership that fails to form.
How Are The Three Elven Rings Forged?
Celebrimbor wants to use mithril to create an object capable of preserving the Elves in Middle-earth.
The amount of mithril is too small for the original design. Halbrand suggests combining it with another metal that can amplify its properties.
Celebrimbor begins developing an alloy with the help of the stranger he believes is the king of the Southlands.
After discovering Halbrand’s identity, Galadriel returns to the forge and insists that the power must be divided among three objects.
A single object would place too much power in one bearer. Two could create conflict between opposing bearers. Three can maintain balance.
The circular form allows power to flow without a beginning or end, leading Celebrimbor to create Rings.
The alloy requires metal from Valinor of exceptional purity. Galadriel provides Finrod’s dagger, which has carried her grief and mission throughout the season.
Celebrimbor melts the dagger with the mithril and completes the Three.
The finale ends before showing the Rings being distributed. Their future ownership and use become part of the story that continues in Season 2.
Why Does Galadriel Sacrifice Finrod’s Dagger?
Finrod’s dagger represents the grief that launched Galadriel’s pursuit of Sauron.
She has carried the weapon through battle, exile, the journey toward Valinor, the leap into the sea, Númenor, and the Southlands. It is the physical object connecting her to the brother whose death defined her life.
Celebrimbor says that true creation requires sacrifice. Galadriel gives him the dagger because its metal can complete the alloy.
The choice allows her brother’s memory to become part of something intended to preserve the Elves. It also marks a transition in Galadriel’s motivation.
She began the season carrying Finrod’s weapon while pursuing the enemy who killed him. She ends the season melting that weapon into Rings after discovering that she helped restore the same enemy.
The sacrifice closes one chapter of her grief while binding it to the consequences ahead.
Why Are Three Rings Made Instead Of One?
Galadriel argues that one object would corrupt its bearer through concentrated power.
Two objects could create opposition and division between the two people carrying them.
Three provides balance. No single bearer can control the complete power, and no pair can remain locked in a permanent conflict without a third influence.
The decision also allows the Elves to distribute responsibility among several leaders rather than placing the fate of their people in a crown worn by one ruler.
Galadriel reaches the conclusion immediately after rejecting Sauron’s proposal. He wanted two rulers joined together above everyone else. She answers that structure by creating three sources of power.
The Rings therefore become a response to the danger she has just witnessed, even though Sauron’s knowledge helped make them possible.
Does The Rings Of Power Finale Rush The Forging Of The Rings?
Blake’s primary criticism is the speed with which the forging develops.
The series is titled The Rings Of Power, yet the actual forging begins during the back half of the finale. Celebrimbor moves from a crown to two objects, then to three Rings within a relatively short section of the episode.
Celebrimbor is one of the most important figures in the entire story, but Season 1 gives limited time to his craft, ambition, relationships, and understanding of the project before Halbrand enters his workshop.
The finale communicates the necessary ideas. Mithril must be amplified. The metals must be coaxed together. Power must be divided. The circular form provides continuity. Galadriel’s dagger supplies the final material.
The sequence has less time to dramatize the experimentation, failure, temptation, and growing relationship that could make the creation feel inevitable.
That pacing leaves the finale with the momentum many viewers wanted earlier in the season. The most important story finally begins just as the season ends.
Does The Halbrand Reveal Work?
The Halbrand reveal works because surprise is not its only purpose.
Many viewers suspected his identity before the finale. Halbrand’s unexplained past, extraordinary abilities, manipulation, violence, interest in smithing, and repeated warnings made him an obvious candidate.
The value comes from what the reveal does to Galadriel.
She has dedicated her life to finding Sauron. She spends an entire season beside him, fights with him, saves him, and helps him regain power.
The reveal turns her apparent progress into tragedy. Every victory helped move the enemy closer to the place he needed to reach.
A completely shocking answer would have created surprise. Halbrand creates consequence.
Does The Show Lie About The Stranger Being Sauron?
The Mystics believe the Stranger is Sauron and call him by that name.
The Stranger does not confirm their conclusion. He is confused, frightened, and still trying to understand his identity.
The series presents evidence through characters who have interpreted it incorrectly. The audience is invited to accept or question that interpretation.
The distinction matters because the reveal grows from perspective rather than a narrator providing false information.
The Mystics see extraordinary power, fire, lost memory, and a being who arrived from the sky. They construct an explanation that fits their expectations.
They make the same kind of mistake Galadriel makes with Halbrand. Each group sees the person it expects to find and builds the identity around incomplete evidence.
Is The Stranger Gandalf?
The finale strongly suggests that the Stranger is Gandalf.
He is revealed as an Istar, develops an immediate bond with Harfoots, uses moth imagery associated with Gandalf, and tells Nori that the correct direction can sometimes be discovered by following your nose.
That final phrase echoes Gandalf’s guidance while traveling through Moria.
The series stops before giving the Stranger a name. The collection of references makes another identity increasingly difficult to imagine without the clues becoming intentional misdirection.
Mary and Blake are comfortable with the Stranger being Gandalf when the choice serves the emotional story. His relationship with Nori can explain the affection and trust Gandalf later places in Hobbits.
The more important question now concerns what the Stranger will experience in Rhûn and how those experiences shape the wizard audiences eventually recognize.
Why Does Nori Leave With The Stranger?
Nori has spent the season looking beyond the path established for the Harfoots.
She approaches the Stranger when others fear him, protects him, teaches him, and continues believing that he can choose goodness after his power causes harm.
The Stranger now needs to travel east to understand his identity and purpose. Nori recognizes that her own journey is connected to his.
Her departure also fulfills the tension between belonging and discovery that has defined her character. Nori loves her family and community. She also knows that remaining with them would require ignoring the part of herself that wants to see what lies beyond the next migration.
The Harfoots give her permission to leave because the journey has already changed her. Her father understands that the lessons he taught her were preparing her to survive beyond the community, even when neither of them knew that was where she was headed.
Why Doesn’t Poppy Go With Nori?
Mary sees Poppy as the Samwise figure in Nori’s story and believes the friendship should continue into the next journey.
Poppy has already lost her immediate family and possesses fewer reasons to remain with the caravan. She also understands Nori better than nearly anyone else.
The finale chooses to separate them so that the Stranger and Nori can become the primary pair traveling toward Rhûn.
Poppy may also have a different relationship with adventure. She follows Nori when her friend needs help, but that does not automatically mean she wants to abandon the Harfoots’ way of life permanently.
The goodbye gives the finale one of its strongest emotional sequences. Nori’s journey carries a cost because moving forward means leaving the person who has always moved beside her.
Why Does Sauron Return To Mordor?
Sauron enters Mordor after leaving Eregion because the land has become the natural base for his next attempt at power.
Mount Doom has erupted, the Southlands have been transformed, and Adar has gathered the Orcs under his command.
Adar believes that he killed Sauron. Sauron now knows that his former servant has taken the army and homeland he wants to control.
The return sets up a conflict between two competing visions for the Orcs. Adar views them as his children and wants a home where they can live. Sauron views them as the military force required to impose his order upon Middle-earth.
Galadriel and Adar may eventually share the same enemy. Both know how dangerous Sauron can become, and both helped create the conditions surrounding his return.
Will Galadriel And Adar Have To Work Together?
Mary and Blake predict that Galadriel and Adar may need to form a temporary alliance against Sauron.
Adar wants Sauron dead because he understands what will happen if the Dark Lord regains control of the Orcs. Galadriel wants to repair the consequences of bringing Sauron back to power.
They also have reasons to hate and distrust one another. Adar created Mordor by destroying the Southlands. Galadriel threatened to kill his children and force him to watch.
A shared enemy would not erase those histories. It would create an unstable partnership in which each person needs knowledge and power possessed by the other.
The possibility follows directly from the finale. Sauron is returning to the land Adar controls, and Galadriel is one of the few people who knows his current face and methods.
Why The Finale Recontextualizes Galadriel’s Lord Of The Rings Speech
Sauron tells Galadriel that he would make her a queen fairer than the sea and the sun and stronger than the foundations of the earth.
In The Fellowship Of The Ring, Galadriel uses similar language when Frodo offers her the One Ring.
The finale gives those familiar words a personal history. Her reaction to Frodo can now carry the memory of Sauron’s earlier offer and the future she once rejected.
The temptation of the One Ring does more than awaken a general desire for power. It recalls the relationship, shame, attraction, and possibility represented by Halbrand.
Galadriel’s eventual refusal gains additional weight because she has faced a version of the choice before. She understands where the promise of benevolent rule can lead.
Is Galadriel The Main Character Of The Rings Of Power?
The finale strengthens Galadriel’s position as the central character of Season 1.
Her choices connect the major storylines surrounding Sauron, Númenor, the Southlands, Eregion, and the Rings. The season begins with her pursuit of the enemy and ends with the discovery that she has been traveling beside him.
The emotional climax belongs to her confrontation with Sauron. The physical creation of the Rings follows from the choice she makes after that confrontation.
The series remains an ensemble containing Elrond, Durin, Nori, the Stranger, Isildur, Míriel, Arondir, Adar, and many others. Galadriel’s actions produce the broadest consequences during the first season.
Her story also carries the central dramatic question moving forward: what does a powerful person do after discovering that certainty, pride, and good intentions helped restore the evil she wanted to destroy?
Is Season 1 One Long Prologue?
Blake describes the first season as an extended prologue for the larger story.
The season introduces the kingdoms, relationships, histories, and identities required for the conflicts ahead. Mordor is created. Sauron is revealed. The Stranger begins his journey as an Istar. Númenor moves toward political division. The Three are forged.
Many of the events most closely associated with the title arrive during the finale. That structure can make earlier episodes feel like preparation for a story that has only begun.
Mary views the season as the first volume in a larger planned narrative. Individual chapters can serve the complete journey without resolving every dramatic thread on their own.
The distinction often depends upon how the season is watched. A weekly audience experiences pauses between chapters and expects each episode to generate its own momentum. A future viewer can move directly from one installment to the next and experience the season as a continuous fantasy story.
The finale gives the complete season a clearer shape. Season 1 is the story of how Galadriel’s search for Sauron helps Sauron return.
Our Final Verdict On “Alloyed”
Mary’s perfect 5 reflects how strongly the emotional conclusions work for her. Nori’s goodbyes, the Stranger’s identity, the relationship between Galadriel and Sauron, and the forging of the Three bring the season’s major ideas together.
Blake’s 4.78 reflects a finale containing the strongest sequence the show had produced to that point. The confrontation between Sauron and Galadriel uses performance, blocking, reflections, sound, and familiar language to turn the identity reveal into a character choice.
His reservation concerns the compressed forging story. Celebrimbor, mithril, the alloy, the number of objects, and the decision to create Rings develop very late in a season named for those objects.
“Alloyed” succeeds because the reveal changes more than Halbrand’s name. It changes Galadriel’s entire season.
She discovers that the enemy she pursued was the person she trusted. She rejects his offer, hides the truth, and helps complete the project he influenced.
Sauron leaves Eregion without Galadriel at his side. He still leaves with the knowledge that the Rings will exist—and that Galadriel’s shame has already begun dividing her from the people who could help stop him.
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