The Siege of Eregion is as ruthless and devastating as it is impressive in its scale (Image credit: Prime Video)
The Rings of Power season 2's upcoming tentpole fight series is the “most enthusiastic endeavor we've ever tried.” That's according to co-showrunner Patrick McKay, who left me in no unsure terms about the size, scale, and scope of this season's action phenomenon.
Talking to TechRadar ahead of season 2's launch in late August, McKay opened the quantity of work that entered into bringing the Siege of Eregion to life. An era-defining fight, the bloody and terrible dispute is perhaps the most substantial of The Lord of the Ringsrenowned battles. Not just does it kick off the War of the Elves and Sauron that covers much of Middle-earth's Second Age, however it likewise forms occasions in the Third Age, the greatest of which were covered in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings motion picture trilogies.
A few of the fights illustrated in those movies, such as The Two TowersHelm's Deep and The Return of the King‘s Siege of Gondor, plainly affected aspects of The Rings of Power‘s take on the Siege of Eregion. Throughout our chat, McKay and co-creator J.D. Payne didn't elaborate on what motivations they drew from that duo that notified the Prime Video program's most current big-budget fight.
McKay and Payne desired to honor the multi-stage action-set pieces that Jackson and business adjusted for the huge screen and how the Siege of Eregion is explained in Tolkien's literary works.
Elrond takes spotlight throughout The Siege of Eregion (Image credit: Ross Ferguson/Prime Video)
“The Siege of Eregion is the most enthusiastic endeavor we've ever tried on this program,” McKay confessed, “Which is truly stating something, since whatever on this program is enthusiastic.”
“We wished to do a traditional, legendary, and rip-roaring Tolkienian fight with not simply 2 sides, however with several armies and numerous races clashing. Sieges do not take location over one day or night, however over a matter of weeks or months, so we desire you to feel that time. We desire you to feel the stages it moves through. We have an aerial barrage, damage of the city and the natural surroundings, [and] There's a horse charge and a ground attack. By the 8th episode, it degenerates into hand-to-hand street battling, like [the Battle of] Stalingrad.”
Adar leads his Uruk and orc forces towards Eregion as he tries to eliminate Sauron once again (Image credit: Prime Video)
That seems like a lot to load into the Amazon prequel series' last 2 episodes– which's before you even represent season 2's other stories in Númenor, Pelargir, Khazad-dûm, and Rhûn that likewise require some type of resolution before The Rings of Power leaves our screens once again.
