Will Good Overcome Evil in RINGS OF POWER Season 2?
By Movieguide® Contributor
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: RINGS OF POWER cast are talking about what the show’s theme of good versus evil means to them.
“It’s really interesting because I think we’ve always got to be kind of like making sure that we’re checking ourselves and rethinking [how we discern good versus evil],” Morfydd Clark, who plays Galadriel, told Movieguide® at Comic Con in San Diego. “Also, I think something that I love about this work is that it’s good to be hopeful. It’s easy to have cynicism. We’ve got to water our hope. Hope is beautiful.”
“I think it’s interesting, the constant battle between the two,” Megan Richards, who plays Poppy Proudfellow, added, reflecting on light versus dark, “and I think also between personal relationships as well. Battling the inner conflicts that you have, and I think this season there’s a lot of the evil. I mean, Sauron is here and has arrived, and you really get to see how those elements infuse the rest of all of the worlds and how sort of the chaos ensues from that.”
Movieguide® previously reported on what fans can expect from Season 2:
“Cast out by Galadriel, without army or ally, the rising Dark Lord must now rely on his own cunning to rebuild his strength and oversee the creation of the Rings of Power, which will allow him to bind all the peoples of Middle-earth to his sinister will,” the synopsis says.
“Building on Season One’s epic scope and ambition, the new season plunges even its most beloved and vulnerable characters into a rising tide of darkness, challenging each to find their place in a world that is increasingly on the brink of calamity,” it continues. “Elves and dwarves, orcs and men, wizards and Harfoots… as friendships are strained and kingdoms begin to fracture, the forces of good will struggle ever more valiantly to hold on to what matters to them most of all… each other.”
Working on the show has impacted the actors personally as well.
Maxim Baldry, who plays Isildur, shared what his character has taught him. “I talk about this sort of — and I think it’s very Tolkienian as well — it’s the sort of perseverance, of seeing the sort of hope in things,” he said, “and I think Isildur, as much as he is a pessimistic at times, I think there’s a perseverance and resilience to him that I find quite inspiring, and I take that with me actually a lot with my day to day.”
Richards admires her character’s “loyalty and her strength to fight for what she genuinely believes in and what she wants.”
“I think that’s an incredible quality to have and also a brave quality to have and especially being someone so small in a place that’s so much larger than what she can even imagine so to keep hold of that is so important,” she added.
Check out the rest of Movieguide®’s interviews with the RINGS OF POWER cast here:
Season 2 will debut on Prime Video on Aug. 29.
Movieguide® previously awarded RINGS OF POWER Season 1, Episode 8 a Teddy Bear Award®, praising its “Very strong allegorical Proto-Christian, redemptive worldview of Good versus Demonic Evil.”
