Sauron is approaching the point where he must forge the One Ring inThe Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Powerseason 3, and twoLord of the Ringscharacters will help him do it. Sauron finishedThe Rings of Powerseason 2 with most of the Rings of Power completed.The three Elven-ringswere finished but out of his grasp, the seven Dwarf-rings were made and distributed, and the nine Rings of Men were made and ready to be given out. After giving them out, Sauron has just one Ring of Power left to forge - the One Ring.
The Rings of Powerseason 3 must open with Sauron giving out the Rings of Men and must cover Sauron forging the One Ring. Only after that can the show’s story evolve into the tales from “Akallabêth” and “Ofthe Rings of Powerand the Third Age” that it is destined to cover. TheseSilmarillionchapters dive into Sauron’s misadventures with the One Ring in tow. Before that, Sauron will be looking to two ofLord of the Rings’most powerful characters for guidance in forging the One Ring.
Sauron Will Be Using Techniques From Celebrimbor And Morgoth To Forge The One Ring
Sauron Will Look To Morgoth And Celebrimbor For The One Ring’s Design
Sauron will be looking to Celebrimbor and Morgoth for inspiration and guidance in forging the One Ring inThe Rings of Powerseason 3. This will be based onThe SilmarillionandMorgoth’s Ring, two compilations of Tolkien stories published posthumously.Sauron learned a lot from CelebrimborinThe Rings of Powerseason 2, especially the importance of sacrifice, as he stated. Sauron poured his literal blood, sweat, and tears into the Nine. Although the many tears Sauron cried in season 2 may not have fallen into the rings, the Nine were imbued with Sauron’s blood and physical touch.
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Dark Lord Sauronproved to Celebrimbor that he was prepared to make his own blood sacrifice to empower the rings. Sauron had also liaised with Celebrimbor at a top level at the start of the Rings of Power’s ideation, giving Celebrimbor the necessary lore.Celebrimbor and Sauron swapped techniqueswhile making the Three and Seven, while Celebrimbor did most of the manual labor on the Nine. Either way, Sauron will be taking a lot of Celebrimbor’s technical know-how to Mount Doom when he forges the One. However, it is Morgoth’s blueprint that Sauron will use to start the One Ring.
The Dark Magic Sauron Needs For The One Ring Was Used Once Before
Arda Was Morgoth’s Ring In The Lord Of The Rings
In forging the One Ring,Sauron will be copying a ritual attempted by only one other beingin the history of Middle-earth. Onlythe Vala Morgothwas deranged enough to attempt a full merge of his own being with another physical substance. Despite Sauron coming away from Eregion with Celebrimbor’s technological advancements and idea of sacrifice, it is Morgoth’s evil genius that he will be attempting to replicate with the One Ring. If Celebrimbor really did teach Sauron sacrifice, it seems that good and evil in the show may use the same fundamental principles to craft objects of immense power.
…Morgoth poured his being into the fabric of Arda, ensuring his lasting influence, even after his defeat. The result was Arda Marred…
Long before the events ofThe Rings of Power, Morgoth warred with the Valar inthe Battle of the Powers. This cosmic fight entailed the Valar building Middle-earth and its wider world from the ground up, while Morgoth corrupted, distorted, and destroyed what they built. At this time, Morgoth poured his being into the fabric of Arda, ensuring his lasting influence, even after his defeat. The result was Arda Marred - the world forever marred until its breaking and remaking in the final battle, the Dagor Dagorath. WhileSauron would attempt this process with metal, Arda was Morgoth’s Ring.
Without Celebrimbor, Morgoth’s Incarnation Blueprint Will Be Sauron’s Downfall
Celebrimbor Could Have Helped Sauron Forge A Better Ring
Celebrimbor and Morgoth were both trying to teach Sauron a lesson about sacrifice in creation, but it didn’t pay off. Perhaps an inspiration for Voldemort’s Horcruxes inHarry Potter,Morgoth and Sauron’s soul-splitting bound them to their physical forms. “Ósanwe-kenta” inMorgoth’s Ringexplains how evil deeds were binding when it came to Ainur shapeshifting and regeneration. The furthering of personal purpose gradually eroded this ability. However, as perMorgoth’s Ring, evenMorgoth’s defeatcouldn’t remove his soul from Arda, leaving much of it with a “Melkor-ingredient” with an innate corruptibility:
Morgoth’s power was disseminated throughout Gold… It was this Morgoth-element in matter, indeed, which was a prerequisite for such magic and other evils as Sauron practised with it and upon it.
The One Ring’s gold contained the Melkor-ingredient. In a way, it contained Melkor himself. Sauron followed Morgoth’s incarnation blueprint and poured so much of his being into the One that he was hugely empowered with it, but so bound by the draining process that he could never again take a physical form after its destruction. Through his dark magic,Sauron became bound to his physical form,just like Morgoth. But Sauron’s plan had a fatal vulnerability that Morgoth’s didn’t. Morgoth was bound into the whole world and no one would destroy that; at least, until its prophesied end.
InThe Rings of Powerseason 2 finale, Celebrimbor told Sauron that the rings were his master, triggering Sauron’s rage and getting him killed. Ironically, keeping Celebrimbor alive may have helped Sauron avoid this.
The One Ring could and would be destroyed, leaving Sauron’s final body destroyed along with it and his soul with no means of returning to the Seen world.Celebrimbor did most of the Nine’s forgingand could have helped Sauron craft a better One Ring. But Sauron killed him in a rage and went back to Morgoth on an atomic level, joining him within the ring. Whatever relationship the two had inThe Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, perhaps it was justice that they ended up together in Sauron’s final speaking moments on Middle-earth.
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Set in the Second Age of Middle-earth, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power explores the forging of the iconic rings, the rise of the Dark Lord Sauron, and the epic events leading up to the stories in J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic novels. The series chronicles the creation of legendary characters and the historic alliances and rivalries that shape the fate of Middle-earth.
