Beware the sea worm! In The Rings of Power Season 2, the sixth episode finds things in Númenor getting even tenser than before. After seizing power, and murdering some innocent Númenorians in the last episode, the power-mad Pharazôn (Trystan Gravelle) and his conniving son, Kemen (Leon Wadham), now have decided it’s time to feed their enemies to a sea monster.
And so, Pharazôn decides that the true test for Elendil (Lloyd Owen) — and later Míriel (Cynthia Addai-Robinson) — will be for them to face the sea worm, which lives right out there in the sea beyond their island kingdom. If you think this sounds a bit like a sandworm from Dune, you’re not entirely wrong. Although there’s a tiny bit of Tolkien canon precedent for the recent sea worm in Rings of Power Season 2, the truth is, this creature is more of an Easter egg for Season 1 than anything in The Lord of the Rings books.
