The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of PowerSeason 2’s blockbuster finale featured major revelations about the show’s greatest mysteries, while also setting up the next few seasons ahead. While Season 3 has yet toreceive an official greenlight, fans of the series can already get a taste of what’s to come thanks toCelebrimbor’s final words.The Rings of Powerhas been building towards an endgame that will unite all of Middle-earth, as well as the eventual demise of the Dark Lord Sauron (Charlie Vickers).
ThroughoutThe Rings of PowerSeason 2, Celebrimbor is slowly manipulated and tortured by a disguised Sauron to forge the titular Rings of Power. The gifted elven-smith does indeed make them, but eventually uncovers the twisted reason for their creation during the siege of Eregion. In one last act of defiance,he confronts his former friend Sauron (who names himself Annatar, the Lord of Gifts), revealing one last vision of the Dark Lord’s defeat as a result of the rings' existence. Celebrimbor actor Charles Edwards spoke withVultureaboutThe Rings of Powerfinale, explaining his point of view on the prophecy shared by his character to Sauron.
“I was thinking it was similar to the vision Galadriel has of Celebrimbor at the beginning of season two. It’s a flash. There could be an idea of enslavement with the rings as well. Now that he’s gotten far enough with the process, he understands that Sauron’s going to need control to make these rings work. Maybe he’s pieced that together as well. But I saw it as a kind of flash, a vision in my head, and he just says it.”
Edwards aptly compares his character’s final words to the brief vision Galadriel (Morfydd Clark) has at the beginning of Season 2, in which he is overtaken by darkness and left dead on a tree. However, his final scene ends up being far more hopeful than Galadriel had imagined,since Celebrimbor accurately predicts the conclusionThe Rings of Poweris quickly heading towards.
The Rings of Power’s Endgame is Now Clear
The Rings of PowerSeason 2 finale is great in its own right, but it does a lot to set up for an earth-shattering future that is rapidly approaching. As seen in the opening ofThe Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings,Amazon’s streaming series will cover theWar of the Last Alliance, the major battle that featured Sauron’s defeat and brought about the ending of the Second Age. Since the Nine Rings of Men have been created, the only step left for Sauron is to create the One Ring. Celebrimbor’s final words tease how Sauron’s obsession with the magical jewelry will lead to his own demise,a precursor to the Dark Lord getting his own finger cut off by Isildur at the end of the War of the Last Alliance and losing the One Ring.
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Of course, if a third season ofThe Rings of Poweris confirmed, the final war will not be seen untilthe already-planned fifth season. Until then, expect to see Sauron, who will now be the main villain after Adar’s death,continue to spread his influence across Middle-earth and set the apocalyptic-level event into motion. Celebrimbor will not be returning, sadly, but his prophecy will now lead audiences into the most epic parts of the story, which unveils the never-before-seen history of the Second Age.
The Rings of Power
This epic drama is set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and takes viewers back to an era in which great powers were forged, kingdoms rose to glory and fell to ruin, unlikely heroes were tested, hope hung by the finest of threads, and the greatest villain that ever flowed from Tolkien’s pen threatened to cover all the world in darkness. Beginning in a time of relative peace, the series follows an ensemble cast of characters, both familiar and new, as they confront the long-feared re-emergence of evil to Middle-earth. From the darkest depths of the Misty Mountains, to the majestic forests of the elf-capital of Lindon, to the breathtaking island kingdom of Númenor, to the furthest reaches of the map, these kingdoms and characters will carve out legacies that live on long after they are gone.
