But as the centuries pass, it’s not clear that Sauron is even still alive. Galadriel’s brother, Finrod (Will Fletcher), is killed during the war against Morgoth, and a mysterious symbol associated with Sauron is left on his skin.įrom then on, Galadriel grows completely obsessed with destroying Sauron, commanding an army of Elves across the world to track him down.
The Rings of Power will ultimately lead to an alliance of men and Elves taking on Sauron, as seen in The Fellowship of the Ring‘s prologue. But there was still the matter of his servant, Sauron, who commands legions of orcs and goes into hiding after Morgoth’s defeat. The war lasts centuries, but Morgoth is finally defeated, and Tolkien wrote that the Valar banished him into the Void, never to return. During the First Age, the Elves wage war against Morgoth, leaving Valinor and traveling to Middle-earth. Morgoth was the master of Sauron, the big bad from The Lord of the Rings and a Maia (a spirit, like Gandalf and the other Wizards). Morgoth stole the Silmarils at the beginning of the First Age, but they were eventually retrieved and scattered into the earth, sky, and sea. Fëanor, an Elf, also created jewels known as the Silmarils containing light from the trees. The Trees of Valinor were the sources of light in the world, and when they were destroyed, a flower and fruit from the trees were used to create the Moon and the Sun. As Galadriel (Morfydd Clark) explains, the Elves lived peacefully in Valinor (with permission from the Valar) until the light of their home was destroyed by Morgoth, an evil Valar who became the first Dark Lord before Sauron.Īccording to Tolkien lore, Morgoth used a giant spider, the Ungoliant, to destroy Laurelin and Telperion, those two trees we see over the horizon in Valinor. But the premiere first opens with some crucial background.
The Rings of Power mostly takes place in the Second Age, thousands of years before the events of The Lord of the Rings, which was set in the Third Age. Frodo and Bilbo are among the only mortals who have been allowed in. Valinor might seem sort of like the afterlife, but it’s an actual location on the map, across the sea from Middle-earth. Fans will recall Frodo, Bilbo, Gandalf, and the Elves sailing there at the end of Return of the King, but it has never been depicted in all its majesty on screen - and boy, is it majestic. But The Rings of Power brings us an unfamiliar sight: Valinor, the Undying Lands, where immortal beings like the Elves and the god-like Valar reside.
That’s a familiar sound for fans of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy , in which Cate Blanchett played the immortal Elf. It begins, as it often does, with a Galadriel monologue. Let’s break down the first two episodes and some theories about those mysterious new characters: A long time ago…
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The most expensive TV series of all time is here: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, which kicks off with a visually stunning two-hour premiere.
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