Note: Below are spoilers for the first season of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.”
While Amazon’s “Lord of the Rings” series takes place thousands of years before the events depicted in JRR Tolkien’s books “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings,” there are some very familiar names the band has been about. Chief among them is Sauron, the Big Bad of “The Lord of the Rings” and the threat looming over the events of “The Rings of Power”.
But how and why does Sauron fit into the story of the Amazon series, where has he been and where has he come from? Everything you wanted to know about Sauron but were afraid to ask is answered below.
What was Sauron before he was Satan?
As depicted in the foreword to “The Rings of Power”, Sauron was a lieutenant for Morgoth, who waged war on Middle-earth and had many men aligning himself with his efforts. But when Morgoth is defeated, Sauron escapes.
The Bible from Tolkien’s Chronicles shows that Sauron was originally an angel known as the Ainur before signing up with Morgoth and beginning to wreak havoc on the world. This explains why Sauron still exists thousands of years after his defeat at the hands of Isildur.
How Sauron Factors In “Rings of Power”
When “The Rings of Power” begins, Galadriel (Morphid Clark) has been hunting Sauron for a long time – so long that most people believe she’s hunting a ghost, that Sauron is no longer out Is. But she’s strong, and we get a sense that Sauron – or at least her presence – is doing some deeper bidding.
He comes in the form of his broken sword that the human child Theo crosses, which he hides from his mother. We see that when Theo’s blood touches the sword, some kind of power kicks in and she begins to rebuild herself.
There is also the matter of the Orcs, who were created by Sauron and who seem to be hunting down his sword, led by Adar who claims to have killed Sauron and who seeks to create a new world for his orcs to follow. He succeeds, creating Mordor in the process.
So is Sauron in “The Rings of Power”?
Yes. Sauron’s identity was kept a secret for most of the season, but in the season finale it was revealed that Sauron is actually the character we know as Hallebrand (Charlie Vickers). When Galadriel found him, he was distraught, and appeared genuine in his remorse (or at least regret) for his actions under Morgoth. But when Galadriel brings Sauron to the Aregion, he convinces Selimbor to create the first rings of power. The last time we saw him, he was walking in Mordor (as does any bus).
What happens to Sauron in the books?
consider this spoiler alert Because this area will almost certainly be covered in the later seasons of “The Rings of Power”, but in Tolkien’s books, after Sauron is defeated the first time, he returns in disguise and persuades the Elves into his service. . In order to eventually rule Middle-earth, Sauron consults the Elves of the Eregion—including Selimbor with whom Elrond is working in the second episode of “Rings of Power”—by magic methods, eventually helping them. Helps to create Rings of Power. We see Sauron doing this in the season finale of the show.
But at Mount Doom in Mordor, Sauron secretly forged the One Ring, which would rule over all the other Rings. When he put on the Ring, his forearm collapsed and war broke out, taking control of the Eregion and capturing seven of the nine Rings of Power. The three he did not capture belonged to Gil-Galad, Galadriel and Cerdan, who were then reinforced by a mighty army of Numenor to defeat Sauron.
Sauron surrenders to Numenor, corrupts the city from within, but is then beaten Again to Mount Doom. The final attack on Sauron from Isildur and Enarion – as depicted in the iconic prologue to “The Fellowship of the Ring” – is defeated by Isildur cutting off the One Ring from Sauron’s finger.
Of course, Isildur failed to destroy the Ring, thus making it possible for Sauron to return to the events of the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy.
So yes, Sauron is a bad dude who has a habit of being “defeated” only to return. Have we already met him in “The Rings of Power” and we don’t know it yet? We’ll have to stay tuned to find out.
