The Dwarves were more or less unaffected by Sauron’s influence - though the rings did fill them with an insatiable desire for gold - but the nine men were all easily corrupted and became the Nazgûl/Ringwraiths. The Elves managed to keep their three rings from him, but the Dwarves and the Men did not. They responded by hiding their Rings, which led to an open war between the Elves and Sauron. Sauron’s plan went awry when he put on the One Ring for the first time - alerting the Elves to who he truly was and what his intentions really were.

His plan was to use the power of the One Ring to rule over all the other Rings of Power - essentially giving him power over all of Middle-earth through the various ringbearers. Saurons greatest territorial expansion, during which he nearly succeeded in conquering Middle-earth. tricked) them into creating 19 Rings of Power (three for the Elves, seven for the Dwarves, and nine for Men), all while he himself was forging the One Ring in secret. The War of the Elves and Sauron was the period of. He managed to trick many of the Elven smiths, and “helped” (i.e. Meet Annatar - Annatar was a form Sauron took up when he attempted to seduce and corrupt the Elves. Sauron as Annatar in Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor. However, the show’s official synopsis states the series will take place when “the greatest villain that ever flowed from Tolkien’s pen threatened to cover all the world in darkness.” And to many Lord of the Rings fans, that means the series will depict Sauron when he was appearing in his “fair form” and called himself Annatar, the Lord of Gifts. (For context, Frodo’s journey and the entire War of the Ring takes place in the Third Age.) That means the series could, conceivably, tell a lot of different stories. The Second Age lasted for over 3,000 years and essentially ended when Isildur cut the Ring from Sauron’s finger. The Theory - Amazon has revealed the upcoming series will take place during the Second Age of Middle-earth. There's some compelling evidence to suggest the series will follow Sauron before he became the all-powerful warlord shown briefly in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films.

That includes the big bad himself - Sauron. Virtually none of the characters from the Lord of the Rings movies are expected to appear in the Amazon series, and those who do may not be immediately recognizable. While the streaming giant has released few details about the upcoming live-action series right now, what we do know hints toward a very different story than the Peter Jackson film trilogy. Amazon’s Lord of the Rings series may have a few surprises in store.

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