Beware, dear readers: The tale to be spun within these words doth reveal secrets from the latest installment of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” Season 2, Episode 6, entitled “Where Is He?”.
In this latest chapter, titled “Where Is He?”, the viewers are tantalized with hints of Adar’s grand schemes involving the crown once worn by Morgoth, the former lord of Sauron. The air is thick with foreboding – but does Morgoth’s crown hold significance in J.R.R. Tolkien’s original literary world as well?
The mystique of Morgoth’s crown first graces our screens in Season 2, Episode 1, in a flashback of Sauron’s ill-fated coronation. Little did we know then that the crown adorning Sauron’s brow was once borne by his former master, Morgoth. It is an ominous sight indeed, with spikes sharp enough to be wielded as a weapon by Adar, who uses them to deliver a traitorous blow to Sauron. Though slightly diminished in size to fit Sauron’s head, Adar reveals in Episode 6 that Morgoth’s crown could also find its place upon his own head. However, Adar harbors no desire to wear it; instead, he envisions a union between the crown and Galadriel’s Ring of Power, Nenya, to forge a formidable weapon capable of vanquishing Sauron.
The threads of lore woven by Tolkien also speak of Morgoth donning an iron crown in both “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Silmarillion,” embellished with the legendary Silmarils much like Adar’s tale. While Adar’s whispers of freeing the Silmarils align with Tolkien’s narrative, the swift manner in which it transpires diverges from the original. Yet, the notion of fusing Morgoth’s crown with a Ring of Power branches into imaginative realms unsupported by Tolkien’s canon – for in his verse, the crown meets a different fate.
In Tolkien’s magnificent tapestry, following Morgoth’s downfall in the First Age, the Valar cast him into chains and convert his crown into a collar, extracting the final Silmarils before fashioning it around Morgoth’s neck as a mark of his impending judgment. Thus, according to Tolkien’s sacred texts, Morgoth’s crown metamorphoses into a relic of legend, its regal form forever altered. Adar’s words in Season 2, Episode 6 acknowledge this dissonance, indicating a divergence in continuity where the collar narrative is but a whispered myth.
And so, the saga of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” Season 2 unfolds, a tapestry of intrigue and divergence from the hallowed tales of Tolkien. Venture forth and witness the twists and turns of this fantastical realm, now playing on Prime Video, with each new episode unveiled on Thursdays.
