Darkness will bind them– Plus a reward behind-the-scenes featurette capturing us up on all the characters.
Jennifer Ouellette – May 14, 2024 10:09 pm UTC
Charlie Vicker’s Sauron is front and center in the teaser for S2 of Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
Amazon’s Prime Video made a significant financial investment in The Rings of Power when it got the rights to the source product from the Tolkien estate, even dedicating to several seasons in advance. The casting was strong and the visuals were rather incredible (consisting of the opening credits). While the very first season had its minutes, personally I discovered it a bit plodding, frequently more worried with developing this abundant imaginary world and the characters within it than moving the story forward.
Showrunners J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay have stated that this was intentional. They wished to prevent a “villain-centric” story in S1 however guaranteed they would be diving more deeply into “the tradition and the stories individuals have actually been waiting to hear.” That would be the increase of Sauron (Charlie Vickers), the creating of the titular rings of power, and the last alliance in between fairies and guys to beat Sauron’s wicked machinations. Evaluating by the teaser that dropped today, we’ll be getting lots more action in S2, with the shape-shifting Sauron now easily camouflaged as a fairy. Reward: There’s an accompanying behind-the-scenes sneak peek of the 2nd season.
(Spoilers for the S1 ending listed below.)
Practically everybody thought long before the S1 ending’s expose that Halbrand (Vickers), king of the Southlands, was truly Sauron in camouflage. Fans even called him “Hot Sauron.” He made the most of the reality that the elvish light of Valar was fading, putting the race of fairies in risk of termination unless they went back to Valinor to protect their immortality. The discovery of the valuable ore mithril provided the fairies another alternative promoted by Elrond (Robert Aramayo), Galadriel (Morfydd Clark), and the elven smith Celebrimbor (Charles Edwards).
There was just a little mithril readily available considering that King Durin III (Peter Mullan) declined any additional mining. Galadriel unknowingly brought Halbrand into the fray, and he recommended bonding the mithril with another metal, declaring it would magnify the mithril’s power– when the reverse was real. The season ended with the creating of the 3 elven rings out of an alloy of mithril and the gold and silver of Valinor: Narya (the Ring of Fire), to be used by Gil-galad (Benjamin Walker); Nenya (the Ring of Water), to be used by Galadriel; and Vilya (the Ring of Air), to be used by Elrond.
Sauron left before that creating when his real identity was found, however Adar (Joseph Mawle in S1, Sam Hazeldine in S2), future daddy of the orcs, had actually currently produced the surge of Mount Doom to develop Mordor. The preliminary stages of Sauron’s master strategy are now in location.
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Sauron (Charlie Vickers) is now camouflaged as a fairy.
