If Rings of Energy’s first season was all about paving the best way for the return of Sauron, season two might be all about watching the returned Dark Lord’s main plans for the Elves fall into place–not simply the forging of those titular rings, however the fallout of the invention of Sauron’s treachery, and the brutal battles that come within the wake of it. Battles that can, apparently, span a variety of the season’s chronology.
“We love an excellent battle,” Rings of Energy co-showrunner informed Empire Magazine in a brand new interview, teasing that the Lord of Rings prequel’s sophomore season will give attention to bringing a serious battle from Tolkien’s works to life. “The plan with season two could be to do one thing a lot larger, on a a lot grander scale that might happen not simply in a single day, however over a number of days, weeks, months, and episodes.”
That battle, in fact, is one thing we’ve seen teased within the little footage we’ve seen from season two up to now: what was merely known as “The War of the Elves and Sauron” in Tolkien’s works, the conflict of the forces of Mordor and the mixed forces of the Elven kingdoms of Eregion and Lindon after Sauron’s ruse as Annatar, the Lord of Presents, is found. Within the authentic chronology, this battle–which ends up in the institution of Rivendell, Sauron’s discovery of the true energy of Númenór, and radically rebalances the face of Elven energy throughout Center-Earth with Eregion’s near-eradication–takes place over half a decade, with a number of main sieges and battles alongside the best way.
The Rings of Energy is already doing lots to condense the timeline of the thousands of years the Second Age befell throughout, however it is a battle that may’t actually be condensed right into a singular conflict between the Elves and the hosts of Mordor–and fortunately it received’t be, it appears, when The Rings of Energy returns to Amazon on August 29.
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