The second season of Amazon’s Rings of Power plunges Middle-earth into war.
Just over 25 miles from central London, Bray Film Studios has a rich and storied history as the setting for the mid-20th century Hammer remakes of iconic Universal horror films:It is unsurprising then, that we are ankle deep in muddy sludge on a bloody battlefield, surrounded by the bodies of Orcs, the broken and evil foot soldiers of Sauron, the necromancer whose ambition is to become the Dark Lord of Middle-earth, a fair land of elves, dwarves, humans and halflings.
“We also always knew season two was going to be dominated by Sauron,” McKay adds. “We had to be incredibly disciplined to keep Sauron in the box in season one, knowing that the minute he was out, he would become dominant.” “We like being bold, and we’re not afraid of being bold if we feel that there is grounding in the text for those choices,” McKay says. “Galadriel is beloved as the wise Lady of the wood, but Tolkien talks about how she was prideful and covetous, and she tells Frodo how she’s drawn to the darkness and been tempted by the ring all her life.
Payne says that despite the prominence of the rings in the title of Tolkien’s work, the rings themselves remain quite mysterious. “You see them, you know the elves got three, the dwarves got seven and the humans got nine, and the nine turned the humans into wraiths, but you don’t really know what the three did for the elves,” he says.
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