Editor’s note: The below contains spoilers for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.The Rings of Power is showing the origins of many of the famous villains from J.R.R.
Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
One of the main stories in the series is Galadriel (Morfydd Clark) and company’s mission to find out what form Sauron has taken and where he is at this point in the history of Middle-earth.
The series has also fleshed out the backstory of the orcs through the character Adar (Joseph Mawle) and a Balrog was shown in via flashback, with another appearance by one of the fiery beasts teased by the series’ trailers.
That only leaves a few major mystical villains from Tolkien’s trilogy and Peter Jackson’s films they inspired unaccounted for.
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