J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay answer questions about Sauron's epic journey in the second season's premiere episode — and explain one apparent difference from the books.
on Thursday and opened with a 20-minute cold open sequence filling in Sauron’s journey from the First Age into the Second Age. Now,The sequence saw Sauron — played by Jack Lowden at first — as he was betrayed and brutally “crowned” by Orc leader Adar . Sauron’s physical form was destroyed, and fans saw how The Dark Lord spent many,years slowly recovering before being able to retake human form .
So what made doing this backstory appealing, and how long was this sequence — like, how many years did it take Sauron to regain his physical form?So this was originally a sequence that we talked about doing in season one. We talked about it being the cold open to episode six when Adar and Halbrand meet. We were going to give you this big backstory, and then we were like: This is going to end up feeling jammed in. We didn’t feel like we had the space to do it in the terms we envisioned it.
Does Sauron feel physical pain? I was surprised he didn’t cry out when the crown thing happened, but there are other times later when he’s being beaten by Adar’s men when he does — I wasn’t sure if he’s just pretending to feel pain when playing in human form.So the rules operating and governing his powers, his abilities: We know he can’t be killed by any normal means. He can return — Tolkien writes about that a lot. But also beings of his class do feel pain.
Got it. So did Sauron cause the sea monster to attack the ship in order to meet up with Galadriel? Or was that random?This is a question about the cosmology of Tolkien’s universe and the show. I think one could make a very strong case that the Gods caused the sea monster to attack for him. But, we’re not privy to the intentions of the Gods. We only see what happens and comment, “Gosh, maybe that’s what’s going on.
One more question from the premiere. In the books, Círdan the Shipwright was simply gifted his ring by Celebrimbor. But it’s arguably more interesting to have what you did with Celebrimbor making the rings, Elrond running off with them, giving them to Círdan to destroy,When you’re in the Third Age, you have almost every day, to a certain extent, spelled out — like what Frodo had for breakfast, and what time he left this place, and where they slept that night.
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