The Legends make like the Council of Elrond and enlist the help of J.R.R.
Tolkien in World War I
It began with the forging of the Spear of Destiny.
This Spear was bound the strength and the will to govern reality.
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One Spear to rule them all.
Alright, you get the point.
TheLegendsfound a young, pre-Lord of the RingsJ.R.R.
Their headquarters, it turns out, are located at the Vanishing Point, outside of time.
It’s a place they last saw in the season 1 finale and destroyed, thanks to Captain Cold.
Atom, keeping watch over Thawne, raises the alarm when the speedsterfinallylearns of the breach.
(Power in the hands of the unworthy, after all, was the lesson of season 1.
RI-the-opposite-of-P, Vandal Savage.)
Northern France is a large area, so where should they even start?
A clue may come from the theory’s author: Tolkien himself.
…He pops up pretty much immediately in 1916 France, where the Legends arrive to track down Tolkien.
He chases his former partner outside, but he considers Snart an illumination er, sorry, ahallucination.
Now all they need is a library to consult and luckily, the Waverider canalwaysgiveth.
Well, not always.
Still, Amaya isn’t the only one haunted this week.
Mick gazes longingly at the Spear, but Stein stops him from looking at it for too long.
They follow the instructions and find the skeleton kept behind a wall, still in his armor.
The Legends turn on Mick further, but Mick still sticks with them.
“You actuallycareabout these losers,” Snart scoffs as Mick backs away.
Mick starts to doubt how much he should trust his team.
She’s considering changing her destiny, because she’s been raised to care about her legacy.
Before they can think about it further, Sara gathers the team to talk about their next step.
Gawain’s map points to the middle of no man’s land, between trenches, between heavy fire.
Yeah, it’s nuts.
“One cannot simply walk into the middle of a war zone,” Stein says.
Everyone else disagrees, but Mick comes to Amaya’s aid only to be shut down quickly and painfully.
For Frodo!!!!
I mean for humanity.
This is Earth, not Middle-Earth.
(Oh, Mick, if you only realized Sara handed it to you because she trusts you!
Not yet, anyway.
The battlefield surelookeddangerous, but the stakes never felt all that high.
Nate is Frodo, in a way, because he’s the one who sparked the journey.
And as for Stein and Jax?
I’m being lazy and calling them Merry and Pippin.
Why not, you know?
Though being Firestorm would make them enemies in the Ents' eyes… No one on Legends is Gandalf.
If anything, they could use one.
On to un-reality next week, folks!
