SPOILER ALERT: This text comprises main spoilers for the Season 2 finale of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy,” now streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
The huge orc assault on Eregion reached its devastating conclusion within the Season 2 finale of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy,” and all the elves now stand united in opposition to one frequent foe: Sauron (Charlie Vickers).
In a stunning betrayal, the orcs murdered their chief Adar (Sam Hazeldine) and pledged their loyalty to Sauron, their true darkish lord. With Adar’s military of orcs now beneath his management, Sauron is Center-earth’s deadliest foe. He presents a near-unbeatable enemy for the elves, however fortunately they’ve some assistance on the way in which: The newly topped King Durin IV (Owain Arthur) and his dwarves.
The episode begins with the dwarves in Khazad-dûm, the place King Durin III (Peter Mullan) has been corrupted by his ring of energy. He’s been mining for extra mithril, the earlier metallic used to create extra rings, and ignoring the pleas of his son. All of the mining has woken up the colossal Balrog, and Prince Durin lastly will get by to his father and convinces him to take off the ring. Nevertheless, it’s too late. Because the Balrog unleashes its fiery whip, he grabs maintain of the dwarven king, who sacrifices himself to save lots of his son, and Prince Durin IV formally turns into the brand new ruler.
The opposite main dying of the episode is Celebrimbor (Charles Edwards), the grasp blacksmith, creator of the rings and Sauron’s unwitting puppet. The 2 have an intense dialog, throughout which Sauron types himself the grasp of the rings, however Celebrimbor says he’s merely their prisoner. Together with his dying breath, Celebrimbor calls him “the lord of the rings” — which has a greater “ring” to it!
After taking good care of Celebrimbor and Adar, Sauron turns his sights to Galadriel (Morfydd Clark). The 2 have a trippy showdown as Sauron transforms himself to resemble Celebrimbor, his previous alter-ego Halbrand and even Galadriel herself. He features the higher hand when he stabs Galadriel with the cursed crown of Morgoth, Center-earth’s authentic darkish lord. Galadriel escapes Sauron by leaping off a cliff into water, however the crown leaves her with a non secular wound that Elrond (Robert Aramayo) and Gil-galad (Benjamin Walker) should heal after the elves lose the battle of Eregion. Sauron and his new orc military are victorious, and the elves collect in a brand new sanctuary that’s protected by their rings. With all of the elves reunited, together with warrior-archer Arondir (Ismael Cruz Córdova ), they will take one other stand in opposition to Sauron.
That closing scene is how Season 2 of “The Rings of Energy” concludes — and the elves’ present of drive ends the season on a hopeful notice. “ what I name them? I name them the Aveng-elves,” Córdova instructed Selection in an interview breaking down the season’s penultimate episode, revealed on Sept. 26.
Notably, the finale additionally eventually reveals the id of the Stranger (Daniel Weyman), which followers have theorized about since earlier than the sequence even got here out. Identical to many individuals speculated, he’s, in actual fact, Gandalf. In a scene with fellow wizard Tom Bombadil (Rory Kinnear), the highly effective sorcerer regained his reminiscence and received his magical employees.
Prime Video hasn’t formally renewed “Rings of Energy” for Season 3, however Córdova mentioned it must be coming quickly. He hasn’t seen any scripts but, however he did inform Selection the place he hopes to see Arondir go subsequent.
“This season, Arondir has been a bit of bit quieter than the primary season, however I feel he’s confirmed himself by this level. I’d love for him to have a tactical, increased place,” Córdova mentioned. “I feel he’s able to command, strategize, be in these rooms and for his enter to be heard and used. I might like to see him actually be woven into the story with the opposite characters. Proper now, he’s been a bit of peripheral from the lore, however on the finish of this, I’m in with the established characters that we all know from the books. I feel it’d be an awesome asset to see how these two worlds collide and the way possibly it will humble down the relationships. These higher-ups want to truly join with the individuals, so I’m actually wanting ahead to that. I’ve my concepts, however the factor is that if I let you know one, and it’s really what they’re fascinated about, I’m scared that they’re gonna assume I spoiled it and do one thing else.”