When The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy returns to Prime Video for its second season in August, it will possibly advance its storytelling in ways in which felt inconceivable 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.
Chatting with Empire Magazine, Rings of Power co-showrunner Patrick McKay known as Sauron’s rise “the good untold [J.R.R. Tolkein] story on the display screen,” and likened the character to different nice “villain-hero” protagonists, together with Breaking Unhealthy’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 mentioned. “We all know who he’s … The enjoyable is watching different folks get ensnared within the net.” That net of evil will unfurl all through the season and convey varied plot threads collectively, in the end weaving a narrative about “the best way 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 pieces Sauron does is to serve different folks, to enchantment to another person. In the identical approach the entire Halbrand factor was for Galadriel [in season one], this new look [as Annatar] is for Celebrimbor. That is one of the best ways to get him to do what he desires 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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