news culture The Lord of the Rings: The identity of Sauron is revealed in Episode 8 of The Rings of Power series!
It will have tried our patience during the first season… The series The Rings of Power, broadcast on Amazon Prime Video, has finally lifted the veil on the identities of two main protagonists of its story. If you want to know who Sauron is, don’t read the following and watch episode 8!
Who is Sauron? A question you will never hear again
Present since the world’s creation and able to take many forms to rule Middle-earth unbeknownst to those who actively pursue him, however, Sauron will have cast his shadow over the entire first season of The Rings of Power. From Maia descending upon Arda alongside Melkor/Morgoth to the immaterial form of the Great Eye in The Lord of the Rings, Sauron had to appear in this new series, but in what guise? Knowing that the Dark Lord happily changes his face throughout the Second Age in order to manipulate and corrupt all those who can allow him to achieve his goals, we suspected that seeing him would be difficult. And even if the craziest rumors sometimes foretold it, It was eventually the most frightening hypothesis of all that turned out to be correct…
The masks fall in Episode 8 of Rings of Power!
Final warning, if you haven’t finished watching Rings of Power season 1, the following text will spoil the most stunning element of the entire series. If you read on, you already know who Sauron is.. After an episode beginning that toyed with us to turn back when we really didn’t expect it anymore, the series finally deigns to drop the masks and tell us who Sauron is once and for all. Among all the new characters created for the series, Halbrand had everything about the archetype of the typical fantasy hero and some even saw him as a bad alternative to Aragorn, an impression almost confirmed when the charismatic thug turned out to be the King of the Southerners. Only here has the series deliberately lied to us and whoever has become Galadriel’s closest traveling companion is actually her worst enemy. Of course, there were clues (his innate talent for blacksmithing, his duality of character, etc.), but no one really wanted to believe them. And certainly not our heroine, who saved his life from the second episode (and vice versa), pulled him up to force him to bring out the best in himself. As she realizes who really stands before her, Galadriel is disfigured by the horror of this revelation.
Does the series then go too far by daring to propose the idea of an alliance that rebels the Elf to the max, with a Sauron claiming to seek redemption after causing so much evil in the past? Even if saving Middle-earth means for Sauron to rule it… It must be understood that this coincides with the time when, After the fall of Morgoth, Sauron pretended to renounce all his evil deeds to hide in Middle-earth and escape the judgment of the Valar before descending again into darkness. So the idea of seeing a Sauron as he is presented to us in the series at a time when he might never have been able to step into darkness again is anything but far-fetched.. Especially when we know what role Sauron will play a little later under the guise of Annatar, “the lord of gifts”. Definitely enough to rekindle interest in the show ahead of a second season, which sadly won’t come to an end just yet…
