Prime Video just dropped a first look at season three of its show. The teaser heavily featured Sauron creating the One Ring in the fires of Mount Doom – and it largely matched how J.R.R. Tolkien described the event in his books. However, the series has already added one new element to the established story.
The latest preview shows Sauron will use a special hammer—one previously owned by the Elven smith Celebrimbor, grandson of Fëanor—to create the One Ring. This will make the forging of the Ring, and the Ring itself, seem even more sinister than depicted in the original The Lord of the Rings story.
Fëanor and Celebrimbor Had Complicated Legacies in The Lord of the Rings
Sauron taking Fëanor’s hammer emphasizes his wickedness in two key ways. It links the One Ring to another well-known evil figure – Fëanor, who was featured in earlier seasons of The Rings of Power as the maker of the Silmarils, incredibly powerful jewels holding Valinor’s sacred light.
While The Rings of Power stayed true to Tolkien’s world, it left out some important details about Fëanor. In The Silmarillion, Fëanor is portrayed as arrogant, headstrong, and proud. When Morgoth – the original Dark Lord – stole the Silmarils, Fëanor became enraged. He and his sons made a solemn vow to recover them at any cost, an obsession that echoes in events from The Lord of the Rings.
Fëanor and his sons committed a terrible act of violence, attacking and killing another group of Elves simply to steal their ships. They needed these ships to pursue Morgoth and reach Middle-earth. This event, known as the First Kinslaying, was the first time Elves had ever killed one another. By the time Fëanor’s sons finally obtained the Silmarils at the end of the First Age, they had done so many wicked things that the sacred light of the gems actually caused them pain.
In The Rings of Power, the One Ring represents not only Sauron’s evil but also the legacy of Fëanor. The series reveals that the same forging hammer created both the Silmarils and the One Ring – two objects responsible for immense conflict throughout Middle-earth’s history.
Furthermore, Sauron’s use of Fëanor’s hammer will be the final step in his unsettling connection with Celebrimbor. As shown in the last season of The Rings of Power, Sauron tormented Celebrimbor with mental anguish, making him work constantly and concealing the ongoing war through illusions – all to convince him to forge the rings at the center of the story.
After finishing the task, Sauron slowly and painfully killed Celebrimbor. Now, as a final insult, he’s stolen Celebrimbor’s most treasured item. Sauron used the Elf’s own creation to forge the One Ring, forever staining the memory of a proud Elf who simply trusted the wrong person.
The Rings of Power Season 3 Will Show the Depths of Sauron’s Depravity
While not officially part of the original Lord of the Rings story, this new detail about the One Ring fits with a key idea in Tolkien’s writing. Tolkien thought evil couldn’t create anything truly new, only twist or ruin what already exists. This is illustrated in The Return of the King, when Frodo observes that evil can only imitate, not genuinely create, as he notes: “The Shadow that bred them can only mock, it cannot make: not real things of its own.”
Even though Fëanor would later become known for his wickedness, the Silmarils themselves were sacred objects. They held the light of the Two Trees of Valinor, which the powerful Valar created to bring light to the world before the sun and moon existed. In the next season of The Rings of Power, Sauron will use something originally made for good to achieve evil ends.
While the creation of the One Ring is a significant event in Middle-earth’s history, it wasn’t a central part of Tolkien’s books or Peter Jackson’s films. It mainly served as backstory. Now, The Rings of Power has the opportunity to really delve into this period and showcase how truly evil Sauron is.
During the first season of The Rings of Power, Sauron successfully tricked people into thinking he was a good guy. He repeated this tactic in Season 2, acting like Annatar. But starting with Season 3, he’s abandoning subtlety and outright deception. The creation of the One Ring will complete his transformation into the terrifying Dark Lord that The Lord of the Rings fans know and despise.
2026-07-27 17:40