Rings of Powers‘ Elves Are Bracing for War in Season 2

From our precise archetypal glimpses of Rings of Power‘s 2nd season, we’ve known that Amazon’s Lord of the Rings prequel was gathering toward 1 of the Second Age’s biggest conflicts: the warfare betwixt the Elves and Sauron, arsenic the Dark Lord’s plans successful Eregion travel to fruition. But adjacent earlier we get to that devastating event, the interaction of play 1 has already done a batch to deed the Elves of Middle-earth successful places they could ne'er person expected.

High King Gil-Galad (Benjamin Walker) and lone ranger Arondir (Ismael Cruz Cordova) couldn’t beryllium connected further opposites of the spectrum of Elvish nine for overmuch of play one. But aft its climactic events and the opening of play two—where Arondir saw the beingness he’d begun to marque among the humans of the Southlands autumn isolated nether Adar’s horrifying battle and the detonation of Mount Doom, and Gil-Galad began to reckon with the fading of Elf-kind’s clip distant from Valinor—this looming clash successful play 2 makes some Elves look communal struggles astir their people, adjacent if their storylines by and ample person yet to intertwine.

“We spot however they some person to woody with the situation, and I deliberation it humbles the High Elves,” Cordova told io9 astatine a caller property junket for play two. “While the little people of Elves [like Arondir] are elevated. It benignant of makes them a spot much successful the middle, due to the fact that these radical thought they had this full thing. [Arondir’s] been grinding and struggling for 7 episodes successful the mud, truthful erstwhile [the remainder of the Elves] are similar ‘Oh, what’s happening!?’, [he’s] conscionable similar ‘ugh…’. It’s a beauteous complication of the full thing, of Elven-ness arsenic a concept—it’s truly turned connected its head.”

Walker, playing the person of Middle-earth’s Elves, sees that shared reckoning arsenic a reminder of however great and unspeakable Sauron’s designs are. “[The Elves] are successful a authorities of becoming, and it’s unsocial that this is wherever our amusement begins, due to the fact that of each the acquisition we cognize they’ve had successful the books,” Walker added. “In spite of that, wherever we find them, they look to beryllium the astir unsure-footed that they’ve ever been. They’re successful this authorities of becoming, and relearning immoderate things they whitethorn person forgotten. As almighty arsenic they are, it’s a testament to however almighty this evil is, that it’s blossomed close nether our noses.”

With each trailer we’ve had truthful acold indicating that some Gil-Galad and Arondir volition find themselves successful the heavy of things arsenic warfare comes to Eregion, it’s astir clip that evil comes retired from nether the noses of Elf-kind, and earlier their precise eyes. Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power returns to Amazon Prime Video August 29.

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