The stranger (Daniel Weyman) was introduced in the first scene of the last chapter as Sauron, at least to three mysterious white-robed witches who were following in his footsteps. Quickly (and to no one’s surprise) we see that this is not the case. The stranger is revealed as an Istar (the wizards who came to Middle-earth), due to his appearance and his relationship with the hairy ones (ancestor of the hobbits), everything indicates that he is Gandalf.
The last of the candidates is the one who is finally revealed to be Sauron, and that is none other than Halbrand (charlie vickers). The human, and false king of the southern lands, was the most obvious choice for all those who watched the series, and that was the great fault of The Rings of Power. J. D. Payne Y patrick mckay Those responsible for the most expensive series in history so far bet on a mystery that showed its threads from the beginning.
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In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter Payne and McKay discussed Sauron and what they tried to do with the character: “What’s in [los libros de El Señor de los Anillos] it’s an all-encompassing evil that everyone fears, and it’s so powerful it doesn’t even have to manifest itself physically,” says McKay.
“He is the image of an eye in the movies [El Señor de los Anillos de Peter Jackson], is the eye in the tower. We feel that Sauron should be a character in his own right. We wanted to explore the currents that run within him in a way that would hopefully reward audiences as they continue to advance him to become the Dark Lord. You now know him as a person outside of the name ‘Sauron’. In a way, we wanted to do an origin story for Sauron. We didn’t want to make a show that was about hunting Sauron, but we love the idea of Sauron as an impostor who could hopefully fool some of the audience.”
“In Tolkien’s work, Sauron is an impostor and we know that in the Second Age he appears in ‘good form’. So what if he sneaks up on you and is able to make you like him and get you to agree with him so that once you realize who he is, he already has you hooked? So it’s not as easy as, ‘This person is mean, I’m going to back off,’ because you’ve already formed a certain level of attachment to him. What if we could take the audience through a similar journey?” Payne said.
The differences between the Amazon Prime Video series and Tolkien’s work
It is known that during the Second Age, Sauron takes the form of Annatar, the Lord of Gifts -something that has a little wink in this episode-, an elf who will first try to deceive and persuade Gil-galad in Lindon and who will be rejected by the mighty king even though he presented himself in his quarters as an envoy of the Valar.
Later, after being expelled from Lindon, and after receiving the distrust of Galadriel and Elrond, Annatar would end up in Eregion, under the tutelage of Celebrimbor and the Gwaith-i-Mírdain, blacksmiths of great skill, who wanted, above all things, , knowledge. The blacksmiths and the elf welcomed Annatar with open arms, since as a maia of Aulë’s entourage, she was able to understand the motivations of her new companions. She there she seduced everyone for the forging of the rings of power.
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In this first season of the series we have seen the Dark Lord adopt a different form, that of a man who manages to seduce different characters, including some who were not fooled like Gil-galad, Galadriel and Elrond. The timing of the forging of the rings has also been changed, with the Three Great Rings arriving first and changing the flow of events a bit.
Unfortunately and beyond the intentions of its creators to bet on the intrigue and that this leads to a great revelation, the execution of what was this first season of the series of Amazon Prime Video no event occurred. It feels like The Rings of Power It was a somewhat wasted opportunity that will have to improve its ways of telling if it wants to live up to a story as rich as the one written by Tolkien.
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