‘Lord of the Rings’: Why is Sauron featured in Peter Jackson’s films?

The Amazon Prime Video series, “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power”, showed Sauron as one of its main characters in its storyline during its first season, presenting the face and body of this villain for the first time. because in the films of this franchise made by Peter Jackson, he appears only as a great eye of fire.

It is important to point out that the Amazon Prime Video Series It is set thousands of years before what is shown in Peter Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings” films, therefore, in these productions Sauron is represented very differently, as he is in the second age of Middle-earth in the story created by JRR. Tolkien, where this villain’s physical body is completely destroyed.

After the destruction of the body is Sauronsomething that didn’t appear in ‘The rings of power’ from Amazon Prime Videothis villain needs the unique ring to have physical form, and as revealed in the first few minutes of the Peter Jackson films, once Isildur cuts off this character’s finger, thus losing the ring, he becomes some kind of evil entity in the form of a fire eyewatching everything from Mordor.

For this reason, it is that in the trilogies of ‘The Lord of the Rings’and’ The Hobbit ‘, this villain tries again to get the ring, likewise, this is why the Fellowship of the Ring wishes to destroy this powerful artifact, which leads to the dangerous and long adventure from which Frodo lives the region on the mountain of destiny.

It is important to remember that it is very likely that the Amazon Prime Video Series’The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power ‘never show Sauron represented as an eye, as, as we pointed out, this production is set thousands of years before the films, so this title would deal with the origins and motivations of this villain.

Sauron, the protagonist of the second season of The Rings of Power

It is worth mentioning that following the huge success of the first season of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power”, it was revealed that this production will have a second season on the Amazon Prime Video streaming service, which would even be recorded. where fans would see Sauron as the main protagonist of this episode.

The new episodes of the Amazon Prime Video series would feature the story of Sauronsomething that has not been addressed in any film production of the past, so it definitely aims to be very interesting, however everything seems to indicate that the wait to see these episodes will be very long, as it is said that it would be released on the Amazon streaming service until to 2024.