Think of the Harry Potter series' Voldemort and his horcruxes — while the One Ring existed, Sauron could never truly die.

While Sauron starts off under Morgoth's thumb, when he gets his shot as the Dark Lord spot, he quickly shows that his resume, skill set, and past training meet the demands of the job description.

When we first meet Sauron in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings, it's in a flashback to the very end of the Second Age, which is when Prime Video's The Rings of Power is set (where ...

Other Sauron Forms We Might See on The Rings of Power During the height of his powers, in the First Age of Middle-earth, Sauron would shapeshift into a serpent, a vampire, and even a wolf.

Along with Sauron changing into his Elf disguise, The Rings of Power season two trailer also confirms that more rings will be forged. The new season will show the creation of the seven Dwarven rings.

In these scenes, young Sauron will be portrayed by Jack Lowden, and the show will also establish the beginning of his rivalry with Adar (Sam Hazeldine), the primary villain of Season 1.

Sauron's powers are drained, and his physical form collapses in on itself, defeated for the time being. In the canon of the LOTR films, Sauron is again incapable of taking a physical form until he ...

Sauron is not the only well-known Maia in The Lord of the Rings â Middle-earth either. Before being known as Gandalf, the wizard was Olórin, just as Saruman was once the Maia known as Curumo ...