Rings of Power Season 2 Will Explore The Making of Kings

Most of the conflict in the Rings of Power so far he has focused on the machinations of Sauron and his oldest enemies in Middle-earth, as he plots his way to overthrow the Elven kingdoms. But alongside his resurrection and return, we also saw another great power of Arda come to the fore: the island of Númenor, and with it, two very interesting people who are ready to start facing their destiny.

We are talking about Elendil and Isildur. Played by Lloyd Owen and Maxim Baldry in Rings of Powerthe father and son we met in season one were far from the fallen Kings of Men we met in Galadriel’s prologue Engagement Ring. Elendil, a hardy sailor and soldier with the ear of Queen-Regent Miriel (Cynthia Addi-Robinson), and Isildur, her rebellious son eager to prove himself and explore the world beyond his island, both provide a striking contrast to their more famous futures. itself—differences grew when the season climaxed by separating them after the disastrous Númenorean intervention in the war in the Southlands.

But now that they are separated, the two men can slowly begin their second season journey as the men who will lead the Final Alliance to Doom Mountain itself at the end of Season Two. For Elendil, this involves forming an even stronger bond with Miriel, after she was blinded after the battle of the Southlands and returned to Númenor to hear of her father’s death, throwing the island into political turmoil. “If he’s blind, Elendil should be his eyes,” Owen told Entertainment Weekly as part of a new cover story. “So he sees and he knows, he interprets what he sees, that’s how Elendil learns. This is the leader in training where we finally have to find him.”

Isildur’s path to heroism is a bit loftier, and less glamorous. “I was woken up in a cave and had to fight my way through Shelob to safety, which is a dirty way to start the season,” added Baldry. “It’s a story of survival and it’s a story of ‘be careful what you wish for.’ He’s growing from a boy to a man and he has to learn who to trust and who not to trust.”

The majority The Lord of the Rings fans watching Rings of Power you already know how the story of Númenor, with Elendil and Isildur goes, but it will be interesting to see that, in the context of what they set up with these characters in the first season, the series begins to draw them slowly but surely. more understanding of them.

Rings of Power returns to Amazon August 29.

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