Warning: Major spoilers ahead for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2 finale!
Sauron’s efforts to claim possession of Middle-earth have taken a devastating step forward The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 2 finale. The final season of the prequel to JRR Tolkien’s iconic novel saw Sauron working with Celebrimbor in his elven form of Annatar to create the titular rings, manipulating him into believing that the rings were meant to bring peace to the world. Sauron, meanwhile, has kept Celebrimbor in a state of hallucinatory peace, keeping the region seemingly idyllic, when in reality, the Uruk army is advancing on the city and is in an all-out war with the Elven army.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power The season 2 finale sees Celebrimbor, freed from the Dark Lord’s influence, keeping Sauron at bay by refusing to tell him where he hid the nine rings of power made for men. Sauron tries to recover the information through torture, eventually determining that Galadriel has them and tracks her down along Adar, having turned the Uruk against him and killed him. After a gripping fight, Galadriel jumped off a cliff before turning over Nenia to Sauron, and was recovered by Gil-galad and Elrond and taken to a new elven land.
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Charlie Vickers returns to the ensemble Rings of power Season 2 cast as Sauron/Annatar/Halbrand, alongside Galadriel’s Morfid Clarke, Elrond’s Robert Aramayo, Durin IV’s Owain Arthur, Isildur’s Maxim Baldri, Celebrimbor’s Charles Edwards, Arondir’s Ismael Cruz Cordova, Disa’s Sophia Walker Nomvete and Many others. . Expertly raising the stakes and leaving viewers on a devastating, but hopeful note for the show’s future, the finale is an appropriately grand send-off.
before his earning, Screen Rant Interviewed Charlie Vickers to discuss The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 2 finale, how it felt together the death and torture scene of Celebrimbor, training for Galadriel and Sauron’s emotional fight, why Sauron does not immediately kill Galadriel and take the rings, and watching his co-stars play darker versions of their Letters.
The last scene of Sauron and Celebrimbor was “Very emotional“For Vickers & Edwards
“… It was our last time to share the screen after a really long journey.”
Screen Rant: The last two episodes really set the bar so high on the show. I would like to start with what it was like filming the final sequence between Sauron and Celebrimbor. Because it was such a heartbreaking one, obviously, as we are supposed to feel sad about Celebrimbor’s death, but we also see Sauron appear heartbroken by the death?
Charlie Vickers: Yeah, it’s really special. This was the last scene we shot together, so it was our last time to share the screen after a really long journey. So, it was emotional for us, but it was really demanding, because it was a challenging scene. It was a long scene, there was a lot of action in it, and, yes, the emotion just came out in the characters in that way. We’re both really excited to tell that part of the story because it’s in the books, the Arrow and the whole sequence. So, that was really, really special.
Vickers worked closely with the show’s lead director and stunt coordinator for Galadriel’s fight
“We wanted to … motivate all the action to be linked to this emotional dance …”
I would also like to talk about the fight with Galadriel, because, again, what an emotionally turbulent sequence, but also so well choreographed. I talked to Vic, and he talked about working with her to really hone in on the fight. What was it like for you training for the fight and then actually being in it with Morfydd on the day?
Charlie Vickers: It was awesome, we spent so much time training. I would finish on set, and then go and train in the evening. The stunt crew was amazing, and they would come out to the set wherever I was filming, and train at lunchtime, or train on wrap or whenever. It was quite a few months of preparation to make this scene really make sense, and it took a lot. We wanted to – in working with Vic and Charlotte – motivate all the action to be linked to the emotional dance that the characters do, seeing each other again for the first time, with such a great story between them.
Sauron has a certain reason for not killing Galadriel (but is unhappy with her)
“… He will have to have some trouble with you again in the future …”
So I love how the fight, as you say, is an emotional dance, and that Sauron is almost playing with her more than actually trying to kill her for most of the fight. Why do you think that is? He is so power hungry, wants to get the nine rings, as well as her own ring, what makes you think he doesn’t just go that extra step and take her out?
Charlie Vickers: I think it’s because he wants to have this conversation with you. Maybe there is a part of him that still thinks and says: “The door is still open.” There’s a part of him that still thinks he can still get her, and I think that’s the big difference between where we end this season and where we ended the first season. I think after this confrontation, he knows there is no hope.
She resisted him again, and he will have to have a conflict with her again in the future, but there is no chance that you join him, and he almost dances with her, in a way, and wants to punish her for, like, “Look what I’ve become. It could have been you if you’d joined me in the first place. So, there’s that element of him wanting to make you feel bad and take revenge, almost, for not listening to him. .
Filming Sauron’s Multiple Transformations was a unique experience for Vickers
“I had a weekend to try and grow a pathetic attempt at some stubble for half-round…”
I would also like to hear about Sauron’s multiple transformations in the final fight, the editing was so fluid between them all, especially when going from Annatar to Halbrand. Can you talk to me about making the quick changes for the sequence?
Charlie Vickers: Yeah, it was cool. I had a weekend to try to grow a pathetic attempt to make a piece for Half Rand, and then they drew some. [Chuckles] And then we filmed Halbrand in the morning, and then jumped back to Anatar in the afternoon. But the whole time, it was cool to see Morfid come out and try to do an imitation of me, and then the same thing with Charlie.
I think they both really enjoyed playing the other sides of their characters, or being their characters, but they’re on a different path, and it’s all about trying to reinforce and prove Sauron’s power. So, these days filming are really special, and they are very technical. Morfid was attached to a swingy rope line the whole time she was up there, and so was Charlie. So, it was cool to watch them get hyped up over and over again.
About The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 2
In Season Two of The Rings of Power, Sauron has returned. Cast out by Galadriel, without army or ally, the rising Dark Lord must now rely on his own cunning to rebuild his strength and oversee the creation of the Rings of Power, which will allow him to bind all the nations of Middle-earth to his Evil will. Building on the epic scope and ambition of Season One, the new season plunges even its most beloved and vulnerable characters into a rising tide of darkness, challenging each to find their place in a world increasingly on the brink of Disaster. Elves and dwarves, orcs and men, wizards and harefoots… As friendships are strained and kingdoms begin to crumble, the forces of good will fight ever more valiantly to hold on to what matters to them most of all… each other.
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