Sauron's Past & Future Role In The Rings of Power Teased By Director
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power director J.A. Bayona has teased Sauron's past and future role in the series. Sauron is a pivotal character in both Peter Jackson's cinematic trilogy and J.R.R. Tolkien's source material. He is the titular Lord of the Rings and the saga's primary antagonist. As told in The Fellowship of the Ring, Sauron forged the One Ring in the fires of Mount Doom in Mordor and sought to conquer Middle-earth by creating the Rings of Power. Though Amazon has been exceptionally secretive about its new Lord of the Rings series, the Dark Lord is expected to appear in some way.
Set thousands of years before Frodo Baggins departed the Shire to toss the One Ring into the fiery depths of Mount Doom, The Rings of Power will take place during the Second Age of Middle-earth. This period of time is famous for Sauron's rise to power, and this will be a major focus of the show. The series will feature a gargantuan cast of over 20 characters, though only a few have been revealed so far, including a young Galadriel and Elrond, played by Morfydd Clark and Robert Aramayo, respectively.
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As part of Vanity Fair's first look at the The Rings of Power, Bayona talked about what fans should expect from the highly-anticipated Lord of the Rings series. Though Bayona didn't mention Sauron by name, he hinted heavily at the villain's presence. For the series, the director drew from his own memories as child growing up in Spain when the country was recovering from civil war from decades before. This led to the title of The Rings of Power episode 1, which Bayona directed and is called “Shadow of the Past.” Read what he had to say below:
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