The Rings of Power season 2 begins with a grim, somber 20-minute prologue outlining Sauron's previous assassination at the hands of Adar and his subsequent re-emergence. It's a powerful mission statement for what's to come: this is Sauron's world, and we're just living in it.
Much of the core of the sophomore season's narrative, then, revolves around Charlie Vickers' Lord of the Rings – but not quite as you might expect. Instead, Sauron-Halbrand enters the walls of the elven realm of Eregion after his unmasking and re-invents himself as the pale, wily Annatar, the 'Lord of Gifts', in a ruse to trick Celebrimbor (Charles Edwards) into aiding in his plan to "perfect" Middle-earth and bring it to heel.
