Is Sauron In The Rings Of Power? Where Is He During LOTR's Second Age?
What does Sauron get up to during The Lord of the Rings' Second Age, and will he appear in Amazon's upcoming The Rings of Power TV series? Previous adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantastical literary world have pulled directly from books published during the author's lifetime — i.e. Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit movie trilogies are directly based upon novels bearing the same name. Amazon's The Rings of Power is a different box of balrogs altogether. Set during Tolkien's Second Age thousands of years earlier, The Rings of Power will draw from disparate stories mostly collected in The Silmarillion (but not in a form that vaguely resembles a traditional book.)
This looseness gives Amazon some canon wiggle-room with The Rings of Power, but one unmistakable Second Age truth is that Sauron was the era's main antagonist. The Lord of the Rings depicts Sauron as a returning force — terrible long ago, and now attempting to restore that strength. The Second Age is that «long ago» period where Sauron reigned supreme at the height of his fearsome influence.
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It seems inevitable, therefore, that Sauron will appear in The Rings of Power — a story set primarily within Tolkien's Second Age. And yet the Dark Lord hasn't featured in any pre-release trailers or marketing materials. A strange omission indeed, unless Sauron is hiding in plain sight, of course… Here's Sauron's Second Age role explained, and whether he'll make trouble in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
Sauron begins Lord of the Rings' Second Age fairly low-key. The First Age ended with the Dark Lord's boss, Morgoth, suffering a brutal defeat at the hands of the
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