With Tolkien, his demise was much more gruesome

Warning, massive spoilers for season 2 of the Lord of the Rings series follow: The latest season of Amazon’s fantasy series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is over and yet the twists and turns in it still concern many fans. In particular, saying goodbye to Celebrimbor (Charles Edwards) may not only have been difficult for Sauron actor Charlie Vickers. But if you had known that his The sad ending in JRR Tolkien’s original is even more gruesome is?

Celebrimbor’s death is a big Lord of the Rings loss, but The Rings of Power is still merciful…

While many are already looking forward to Season 3 of The Rings of Power, where much-anticipated new characters will be introduced and Sauron will gather his Ringwraiths, it is first worth taking a look back at the characters who left us in Season 2. In addition to Bronwyn, Waldreg, Valandil, Mirdania and King Durin, we also had to say goodbye to Adar and Celebrimbor. Especially that of Sauron himself murdered elven blacksmith Many will probably miss the brilliant interaction between actors Charles Edwards and Charlie Vickers.

In Amazon’s series The Rings of Power, ringsmith Celebrimbor discovers Annatar’s identity in the finale and discovers that he has been working with Sauron the entire time. He can hand over the nine human rings to Galadriel, but the Dark Lord will tortured to deathwithout revealing their whereabouts. Riddled with arrows and impaled on a spear, Celebrimbor finally dies at the hands of Sauron. But not without first mocking his opponent as “Lord of the Rings” and prophesying his end through a ring.

The loss of the Lord of Eregion ends up making even Sauron cry. But actually it works Celebrimbor’s death story in Tolkien is even more brutal further.

Horrible Lord of the Rings farewell: This is how Celebrimbor’s series death differs from Tolkien’s original

Also in JRR Tolkien’s Legendarium, Celebrimbor is captured, tortured and then killed by Sauron during the Battle of Eregion. In the Lord of the Rings author’s literary original, however, it is the three elven rings that the blacksmith protects from Sauron and not the human rings. After his death Sauron hangs Celebrimbor’s arrow-riddled corpse on a flagpole and carries it in front of him as a banneras he attacks Elrond’s army at the Gray Havens. You definitely don’t want to see a dead friend again.

If you want to know what such a horrific scene could look like in a series, it’s best to look at the aftermath of the Red Wedding at the end of Game of Thrones season 3, where Robb Stark’s corpse is carried through the streets with a wolf’s head sewn onto it. The Desecration of corpses as a standard of war

would probably have gone too far for the Lord of the Rings series. With the long spear on which Sauron lifts Celebrimbor at the end, there is definitely one in the finale of season 2 hidden series allusion to the gruesome book death. However, it is unlikely that the corpse parade scene will be added later in season 3. At a certain level of violence, the Amazon series draws a line.

Lord of the Rings series podcast: Rings of Power finale and what awaits us in season 3

After 8 episodes, the second season of Amazon’s big fantasy series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power has come to an end. Middle-earth fans Esther from Moviepilot and Sebastian from Filmstarts draw conclusions after the grand finale and discuss highlights and missteps of the return.

Did the wizard reveal succeed? Does the great battle deliver what it promised? And what do Sauron, Galadriel and Co. plan to do next as we look at Season 3 theories?