In just one month, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power will return to Amazon Prime Video with Season 2 and the series creators are already giving concrete insights into what is to come: This is how the Middle Earth reunion will apparently look start with a decisive flashbackThere, Sauron is played by a new actor who has now leaked.
The Rings of Power: Season 2 begins with a dark flashback
Everything we know about the second season suggests that the much darker new season will focus on the rise of Sauron (Charlie Vickers). After his half-rim deception in season 1, this time we are watching his manipulations from a knowing position. The trailer already showed him as the blond elf Annatar, who is driving forward the forging of the Rings of Power.
Also the Conflict between Sauron and Orc father Adar (recast with Sam Hazeldine) will be highlighted in more detail in season 2 and the Lord of the Rings showrunners have already revealed the concrete start of the series’ return to Total Film:
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Sauron meets Adar in Season 1 of The Rings of Power
Do you want to see the opening [von Staffel 2] know? We begin in darkness. A wall of Orcs enters and we see thousands of Orcs gathered. Someone is about to be crowned and presents his vision of Middle Earth. And just before the crown touches his head, his right hand man, Adar, turns everything upside down and stabs him in the back. It is the murder of Sauron.
Already season 1 brought the orc leader Adar together with Halbrand/Sauron and hinted at a larger background storyThe shared past of the two characters is now being explored in Season 2. And the fact that Adar did not recognize Sauron in the form of Halbrand was apparently because someone else embodied him in this flashback.
Lord of the Rings doppelgänger: Jack Lowden to play Sauron as second actor
In Tolkien’s work Sauron a shapeshifter and so the theory has been circulating for a long time that the villain in season 2 would be played by more than one actor. The information leaked last year that Gavi Singh Chera would play the Dark Lord turned out to be deliberately spread misinformation a few months ago. Now, however, the fansite Rings of Power Era claims to have discovered that, in the best deceptive manner, a second actor will take on the role of Sauron: Jack Lowden.
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The 34-year-old British-Scottish actor Jack Lowden is known to series fans as the lead actor in the highly acclaimed spy series Slow Horses, but has also starred in films such as Benediction, Mary Stuart and Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk. It is not yet known whether he will be seen in more scenes than the season 2 opener of The Rings of Power.
When does season 2 of the Lord of the Rings series start on Amazon?
From the 29 August 2024 Season 2 starts on Amazon Prime * and then shows the 8 new episodes every Thursday.
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Amazon’s big fantasy series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is returning and wants to take a closer look at more than just Sauron in a season of villains. We discuss what is known about Season 2 so far.
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In addition to a slightly changed cast, legendary Tolkien characters such as Tom Bombadil and probably also the giant spider Shelob await us in Middle Earth in Season 2. We classify the rumors and theories that promise a dark return.
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