Rings of Power‘s Massive Season 2 Battle Will Span Multiple Episodes, For Good Reason

If Rings of Power’s archetypal play was each astir paving the mode for the return of Sauron, play 2 volition beryllium each astir watching the returned Dark Lord’s large plans for the Elves autumn into place–not conscionable the forging of those titular rings, but the fallout of the find of Sauron’s treachery, and the brutal battles that come successful the aftermath of it. Battles that will, apparently, span a batch of the season’s chronology.

“We emotion a bully battle,” Rings of Power co-showrunner told Empire Magazine successful a caller interview, teasing that the Lord of Rings prequel’s sophomore play volition absorption connected bringing a large struggle from Tolkien’s works to life. “The program with play 2 would beryllium to bash thing overmuch bigger, connected a overmuch grander standard that would instrumentality spot not conscionable overnight, but implicit aggregate days, weeks, months, and episodes.”

That conflict, of course, is thing we’ve seen teased successful the small footage we’ve seen from play 2 truthful far: what was simply called “The War of the Elves and Sauron” successful Tolkien’s works, the clash of the forces of Mordor and the combined forces of the Elven kingdoms of Eregion and Lindon aft Sauron’s ruse arsenic Annatar, the Lord of Gifts, is discovered. In the archetypal chronology, this conflict–which leads to the constitution of Rivendell, Sauron’s find of the existent powerfulness of Númenór, and radically rebalances the look of Elven powerfulness crossed Middle-Earth with Eregion’s near-eradication–takes spot implicit fractional a decade, with aggregate large sieges and battles on the way.

The Rings of Power is already doing a batch to condense the timeline of the thousands of years the Second Age took spot across, but this is simply a struggle that can’t truly beryllium condensed into a singular clash betwixt the Elves and the hosts of Mordor–and thankfully it won’t be, it seems, erstwhile The Rings of Power returns to Amazon connected August 29.

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