The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Coming to the end of its first season, the final episode “Alloyed” provided answers to some of the biggest questions fans asked during the first eight episodes. Some of those answers blew fans’ minds, and ComicBook.com had the opportunity to ask Jennifer Hutchison, who co-wrote the episode, some questions. spoilers for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of PowerThe final episode of season one, “Alloyed,” continues. rings of strengthThe Season 1 finale reveals two identities: the mysterious stranger learns he is a witch, as many fans have suspected since the beginning, and Galadriel discovers that Halbrand is Sauron, possibly repentant, in disguise.
These discoveries developed two main stories for rings of strengthSeason 2, which has recently begun filming: The Stranger, with Nuri Brandefoot at his side, departs for Rhûn in search of additional answers about his nature. Meanwhile, Sauron, now revealed to Galadriel, enters the newly founded Mordor.
We’ve asked Hutchison what he’s revealing, Galadriel’s temptation, and what the show’s next season might hold. That’s what she had to say
The episode begins with this fake with The Stranger. I wonder, should we still call him the stranger? We now know that he is an Istar wizard. Shall Gandalf call him now? Because he looks a lot like Gandalf? Or are we still playing this puzzle?
Jennifer Hutchison: Well, he doesn’t really know his name yet. So I guess until he knows his name, I don’t think we really know his name either. So I still call it weird.
fair enough. There are changes from the source material in rings of strength. Can you explain to us what’s going on with the witches on the show at this point? Because Sauron’s servants of Rin identify him as Istari, which suggests that there are other magicians somewhere.
Well, I guess it really is… I can basically tell you that what we’ve revealed is that he’s a wizard, Astar. And the thing is, we discover it with him. That’s really the point of this character, and this story is to build this world as he and Nori discover it, and as far as he’s heading into the future, that’s open to fans to think about in the respite between seasons. But I will say that they are clearly going this way to find out who he is and why he is here.
The episode indicates that Stranger’s next task, whether he deviates from his path or not, is to head to Rhûn, where there may or may not be two friends dressed in blue to help him. Can you say anything about what his story was like in season two?
I can’t go into details. I can only say that he and Nori are having an adventure together to answer these questions, now that he has a slightly better idea of who he is.
The other big reveal in this episode is, obviously, that Halbrand is Sauron. He talks about repentance, something based on Tolkien’s writings, but it’s never clear if he’s sincere or if it’s all part of his game. How much can you say about what fans should read in his claims out there?
Oh yes. No, it’s fun, and I think we really wanted to feel open to interpretation, specifically, as we’ve been going through the season and building his character and story. Because if you go back, we wanted it to be internally consistent for both Halbrand and Sauron. And even in the room, we were going back and forth. Is he honest? Is this part of the manipulation? And I think part of the beauty of a character like Sauron and that attitude is that it’s really how you read it. And I’d like fans to be able to offer their own interpretation of that. Obviously, I think the actor has his own. We all have our own feeling. Is it real or not? And I think that’s a bit of its beauty that it can go either way.
The other thing is we see him walking back to Mordor, which sounds like a meme now that I say it out loud.
[Laughs] We do. My God.
One of the boldest things I thought this season did was touch the orc and how he sees elves, even Tolkien struggled with how he introduced orcs. Will we see it more when Sauron most likely comes to Mordor and tries to exercise his influence and control over this nation created by Adar?
Well, leaving the state of the world as it is–as you say, Adar and Orkeh created Mordor; Sauron has crowned the high in it – these are clearly the storylines that were left open at the end of the season. So I would say it is safe to assume that there will be more explorations in this world as we go forward.
There’s the sequence where Halbrand/Sauron tries to lure Galadriel, and it’s hard not to see that sequence and think about tempting Galadriel with the ring and Frodo in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. These two scenes seem to be in conversation with each other, at least to me as a viewer. Was that a conscious choice in the writer’s room, or was it accidental?
Oh, sure, it was. I’m so glad this came for you. Because yeah, that scene was, we’ve been thinking a lot and painting over the seduction scene in fellowshipAnd you really think about it, she feels so relieved when she passes that test, but she really shows that side of herself that was surprising at the time. And so you really want to include in this idea, what have you been through? where are you from? And in a way, you’re probably trying to build up more of the backstory for that moment. So when you look at that moment right now, you might think about it like, “Oh, my God. This is more of an important test for her,” because it’s like closing one last door to this thing we started here. We talked about this scene all the time.
Halbrand arrives at Eregion and tempts the elves, who make up the three rings, all in the course of this episode. I feel like another version of the show where Sauron manipulates elves while Galadriel searches for Halbrand’s origin is an entire season arc. What were the discussions about that? Has there been discussion about drawing the plot of the story further into a multi-episode arc? Or was there a desire to keep it brief and reach that big reveal this season?
Well, I think there have been many discussions. I think this story, really, was about the three episodes. All I’m going to say is that there are more episodes to be made.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 1 is now streaming on Prime Video. The second season is in production.
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