When The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy returns to Prime Video for its second season in August, it might advance its storytelling in ways in which felt unattainable in season one so long as a sure huge secret—that “Halbrand,” the character performed by Charlie Vickers, is actually Middle-earth’s big bad, Sauron—was being saved secure. Together with the viewers, the present’s creators feel a sense of relief about this.
Talking to Empire Magazine, Rings of Power co-showrunner Patrick McKay referred to as Sauron’s rise “the nice untold [J.R.R. Tolkein] story on the display screen,” and likened the character to different nice “villain-hero” protagonists, together with Breaking Dangerous’s Walter White and The Sopranos’ Tony Soprano. In season two, Sauron might be performing within the guise of an Elf named Annatar, and this time round, “the viewers is in on the con,” McKay stated. “We all know who he’s … The enjoyable is watching different folks get ensnared within the internet.” That internet of evil will unfurl all through the season and convey varied plot threads collectively, finally weaving a narrative about “the way in which the re-emergence of Sauron touches all people and threatens the entire world.”
Actor Vickers can also be excited to have his character’s true id on the market on the desk. “All the things Sauron does is to serve different folks, to attraction to another person. In the identical manner the entire Halbrand factor was for Galadriel [in season one], this new look [as Annatar] is for Celebrimbor. That is one of the simplest ways to get him to do what he needs him to do: make a bunch of rings that’ll dominate everybody else.”
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy returns to Prime Video August 29.
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