*Warning: This article contains spoilers for The Rings of Power season 1 episode 8*
After teasing The Lord of the Rings fans throughout the entire season, the mysterious identity of Sauron was finally revealed in a shock twist in the finale of The Rings of Power.
The JRR Tolkien adaptation, set in the Second Age of Middle Earth, started with a red herring, with the mysterious three witches finally catching up with The Stranger (Daniel Weyman).
The creepy trio proclaimed him as Sauron and captured him as they attempted to teach the being that fell from the sky in a meteor to harness his powers.
But that didn’t last long, with the harfoots, including Elanor ‘Nori’ Brandyfoot (Markella Kavenagh) and Sadoc Burrows (Sir Lenny Henry) hiding in the bushes.
After ambushing The Dweller (Bridie Sisson), The Ascetic (Kali Kopae) and The Nomad (Edith Poor), Nori manages to convince The Stranger to chose his own, and way less evil, path.
The Stranger, realising that he is ‘good’, then turns the three witches to butterflies, but not before they sadly manage to fatally wound Sadoc.
Declaring he is a wizard, suggesting he probably is Gandalf, The Stranger and Nori depart the harfoot community, with her family’s blessing, to go spread some good in Middle Earth.
Meanwhile, the elves are busy working out how best to use the mithril extracted from the dwarves’ land.
Struggling to create anything from the life-giving material, Lord Celebrimbor (Charles Edwards) takes sage advice from a newly recovered Halbrand (Charlie Vickers).
Melding the mithril with another substance makes it even more powerful, but the High King Gil-Galad (Benjamin Walker) has serious concerns about the mithril and advises the elves to drop their plans.
Celebrimbor and Elrond (Robert Aramayo) naturally ignore this and go on to make the magical Three Rings, with Galadriel (Morfydd Clark) recommending they make three as: ‘one conquers, two divides but three is balance’
Meanwhile, Galadriel and *cough* Halbrand have a heart-to-heart, where he reveals he has been deceiving her all this time.
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Yes, it turns out the Dark Lord is actually ‘Halbrand.’
While he informs a shocked Galadriel about his real identity, he somehow manages to infiltrate her mind, taking her back to see her dead brother and that fateful day she encountered him at sea.
Sauron asks Galadriel if she will be his Queen and stand beside one another to rule Middle Earth, which, with all her venom, she declines.
Making up from this nightmare-ish revelation, Galadriel is taken back in by Elrond and does not inform her fellow elves about Sauron/Halbrand, while her nemesis is nowhere to be seen.
The Rings of Power ends on the final creation of the Three Rings, including the almighty One Ring, and with those in existence and Sauron finally unveiled, peace in Middle Earth is sure to be short-lived.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is available to stream on Prime Video.
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