When The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy returns to Prime Video for its second season in August, it may well advance its storytelling in ways in which felt inconceivable in season one so long as a sure massive secret—that “Halbrand,” the character performed by Charlie Vickers, is actually Middle-earth’s big bad, Sauron—was being stored 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 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 Unhealthy’s Walter White and The Sopranos’ Tony Soprano. In season two, Sauron shall 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 individuals get ensnared within the internet.” That internet of evil will unfurl all through the season and produce numerous plot threads collectively, in the end weaving a narrative about “the best way the re-emergence of Sauron touches everyone and threatens the entire world.”
Actor Vickers can also be excited to have his character’s true id on the market on the desk. “The whole lot Sauron does is to serve different individuals, to attraction to another person. In the identical means the entire Halbrand factor was for Galadriel [in season one], this new look [as Annatar] is for Celebrimbor. That is the easiest way 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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