Following an underwhelming first season, Amazon Prime’s Rings of Power has returned to Middle-earth’s Second Age, with hopes ...

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Showrunners JD Payne and Patrick McKay have clearly had a fun time reading between the lines and filling in the gaps to provide the proper background for Galadriel and Sauron’s shared story.

The Rings of Power‘s season two finale was chock-full of major events and long-awaited reveals. From the tragic ending of ...

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During the pair’s tense negotiations, Adar makes a point of Elrond’s background as an academic ... one of the original batch of Elves that Sauron’s former boss, Morgoth, transformed into ...

In season 2 episode 6, Tom Bombadil (Rory Kinnear) tells The Stranger: "Sauron rises in the West ... Rings of Power loves to create backgrounds and origin stories where they’re previously ...

But we all know nothing’s fine when Sauron is lurking in the background. This episode packs tension, chaos, and enough backstabbing to remind us why we love Middle-Earth’s mix of magic and mayhem. The ...

Sauron tricks them all by showing his hand bleeds red. Rian, who excels as one of the Elves’ best markswomen with a bow and arrows, is ironically killed by a half-dozen arrows. Some background from ...