{"id":965982,"date":"2026-01-03T19:16:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T19:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/?p=450477"},"modified":"2026-01-03T19:16:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T19:16:26","slug":"the-rings-of-power-episode-5-finally-does-something-with-its-rings-of-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/the-rings-of-power-episode-5-finally-does-something-with-its-rings-of-power\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rings of Power episode 5 finally does something with its Rings of Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/the-rings-of-power-episode-5-finally-does-something-with-its-rings-of-power.jpg\" \/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">For a story built on temptation, <em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em> is largely defined by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/lotr-rings-of-power\/446640\/rings-power-trop-morality-lord-rings\">its clear-cut morality<\/a>. The same can\u2019t be said of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/lotr-rings-of-power\"><em>The Rings of Power<\/em><\/a>, which has leaned into the moral ambiguity and questionable choices of its sprawling ensemble pretty much from the jump. And so it is with season 2\u2019s fifth installment, which continues the show\u2019s recent run of form by devoting most of its run time to people doing the right thing for the wrong reasons. The result is more than just the strongest hour of TV the season has mustered so far (although it\u2019s certainly that). It\u2019s a springboard for episode 5 to illustrate the seductiveness of the Rings of Power \u2014 and the baddie behind them \u2014 in ways that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/year-of-the-ring\">Lord of the Rings media<\/a> rarely (if ever) does.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">[<strong>Ed note:<\/strong> This article contains spoilers for <em>The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power<\/em> season 2, episode 5.]<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s original Middle-earth lore is pretty clear on the top-level <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/23403117\/lord-rings-power-elven-rings-powers-galadriel-elrond\">details of Sauron\u2019s long con<\/a>. The dark lord hoodwinks Celebrimbor and the other elf-smiths with his \u201cmission from God\u201d Annatar schtick, and suckers everyone else in by playing to their arrogance, avarice, or both. As a backstory for <em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em>, this more than does the trick. However, as a story in its own right, it leaves plenty of room for fleshing out. Even in his \u201cfair\u201d guise, how did Sauron keep the famously wise elves on the hook long enough to crank out so many rings? And how did he convince the infamously insular dwarves to accept them?<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">It\u2019s questions such as these that episode 5 devotes most of its run time to answering \u2014 and to directors Louise Hooper and Sanaa Hamri and writer Nicholas Adams\u2019 credit, answering pretty well. It gives us an up-close look at why anyone would remain on board the Rings of Power train, despite it being steered by an enigmatic cat like Annatar (yes, people are finally starting to twig that something\u2019s up with Eregion\u2019s self-proclaimed \u201cLord of Gifts\u201d; we\u2019re no longer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/lotr-rings-of-power\/445583\/lord-celebrimbor-sauron-annatar\">in pure myth logic territory<\/a> anymore). And in every instance, it boils down to folks fooling themselves into believing \u2014 needing to believe, even \u2014 that making or wearing a ring is in service of a greater good.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Take Celebrimbor. Sure, he\u2019s driven by his vocation, as well as a familial inadequacy complex which barely dares speak its name (thanks to rights issues <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/23330717\/morgoth-rings-of-power-war-lord-rings-silmarillion\">keeping <em>The Silmarillion<\/em> off-limits<\/a>). But just as importantly, Celebrimbor still buys into the rings as Middle-earth\u2019s best shot at a brighter future. He even goes along with Sauron\u2019s rickety logic that ramping up production is somehow the solution to the dwarven rings\u2019 obvious, inherent flaws. Why? Because the alternative \u2014 that he\u2019s betrayed his king and struck up a partnership with a <em>bad<\/em> dude \u2014 is too horrible to face up to. It\u2019s the most human arc of <em>The Rings of Power<\/em> season 2, and Celebrimbor actor Charles Edwards makes the most of it. There\u2019s a real sense of tragedy to his character\u2019s corruption. Not even the elf-smith abruptly shifting gears from \u201cconflicted yet scrupulous\u201d to \u201cjerk boss\u201d is enough to diminish these scenes\u2019 overall effectiveness.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/the-rings-of-power-episode-5-finally-does-something-with-its-rings-of-power-1.jpg\" alt=\"Durin looking up and looking skeptical\" title=\"Durin looking up and looking skeptical\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Photo: Ben Rothstein\/Prime Video\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">The goings on in Khazad-d\u00fbm are likewise some of the stronger material in <em>The Rings of Power<\/em> season 2 so far \u2014 and again, that\u2019s thanks to some ring-centric faux-virtue. Like Celebrimbor, Durin III\u2019s stated goal this episode is noble. He slips on a ring because Khazad-d\u00fbm needs sunlight; otherwise, it\u2019s game over for the underground kingdom. But it\u2019s not long before greed replaces need. Durin III pivots from installing skylights to imposing ring benefit taxes and scaling up mining operations to dangerous, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/23387845\/lord-rings-power-balrog-moria-gandalf-durin-origin\">balrog-waking levels<\/a> in no time at all. He sugarcoats it as safeguarding Khazad-d\u00fbm from want, yet it\u2019s naked profiteering, pure and simple. Admittedly, this transition happens almost too quickly. Yet it nevertheless jibes not only with Tolkien\u2019s writings regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/23403117\/lord-rings-power-elven-rings-powers-galadriel-elrond#:~:text=Rings%20never%20really%20worked%20on%20the%20dwarves%2C%20because%20they%20%E2%80%9Cproved%20tough%20and%20hard%20to%20tame%2C%E2%80%9D%20according%20to%20The%20Silmarillion.\">the dwarves and their rings<\/a>, but also with episode 5\u2019s overall mission of making us fully appreciate the rings\u2019 allure (beyond the supernatural): They\u2019re the solution to all your problems. Until, that is, they become a problem in their own right.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">None of the above explicitly applies to events over in N\u00famenor, which continue to play out like a post-credits scene that escaped and took on a life of its own. But these scenes are at least thematically on point: Elendil ignoring M\u00edriel\u2019s advice to fly under the radar, resulting in Valandil finding himself on the wrong end of something pointy, is a fairly literal expression of where unchecked moral certainty can get you. Yet \u2014 as with everything in season 2 not directly tied back to the Rings of Power \u2014 it suffers for want of one key player: Sauron.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">As much as <em>The Rings of Power<\/em> is about its titular jewelry, it\u2019s also about the mastermind who unleashed them on the world. This is arguably the show\u2019s true selling point: Unlike in <em>The<\/em> <em>Lord of the Rings<\/em> proper, <em>The Rings of Power<\/em>\u2019s Sauron isn\u2019t a largely offstage, inscrutable entity \u2014 he\u2019s present and knowable. That matters, since (as with the rings themselves), it explains Sauron\u2019s persuasive effect on those around him, something only gestured at in Tolkien\u2019s core narrative and Peter Jackson\u2019s big-screen blockbusters. If you only know Second Age Sauron as an oversized dark lord in spiky armor \u2014 Satan 2.0, basically \u2014 it\u2019s hard to imagine why anyone would fall for his shit, let alone some of Middle-earth\u2019s more savvy operators. But as Tolkien\u2019s wider writings make clear, many of Sauron\u2019s biggest wins during this era were grounded in flattery and mind games, not whaling on extras with a mace. Episode 5 reflects this better than any episode of <em>The Rings of Power<\/em> thus far. Watching Charlie Vickers\u2019 \u201cAnnatar\u201d cajoling Celebrimbor into making the Nine, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/24204312\/lord-rings-power-new-character-reveal-mirdania-sauron-celebrimbor\">putting the moves on Mirdania<\/a>, Sauron\u2019s knack for knowing just what buttons press comes into sharp focus. Who <em>wouldn\u2019t <\/em>get behind the rings, when the guy promoting them always seems to know just what to say?<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">That Sauron\u2019s seductive persona coexists with his better-known, overtly demonic incarnation in <em>The Rings of Power<\/em> results in easily the most fully fleshed-out version of the villain, outside of Tolkien\u2019s own. Other adaptations primarily depict the future lord of Mordor in fairly literal terms; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/lord-of-the-rings\/22724426\/lord-of-the-rings-sauron-eye-explained\">he\u2019s an all-seeing eye<\/a> or a nasty black cloud, both of which, for all their metaphysical substance, are characterized by what they actively do (even if that amounts to \u201cstares <em>really<\/em> hard\u201d). By contrast, <em>The Rings of Power<\/em>\u2019s Sauron is an altogether more insidious proposition; he makes bad shit happen just by <em>existing<\/em>. Whereas in earlier installments, Galadriel constantly attributing any misfortune to Sauron verged on unintentional comedy \u2014 we know he\u2019s been busy with the rings, not blowing up bridges \u2014 when Mirdania briefly clocks Sauron\u2019s true self in the unseen world, his dual nature reveals itself. He\u2019s at once the puppet master figure in Eregion and a terrifying, cosmic virus spreading misfortune and ill will throughout Middle-earth itself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">This is broadly true to Tolkien\u2019s canon; Sauron\u2019s perceptibly corrosive aura comes up at least once in <em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em>. And even if it weren\u2019t, it\u2019s exactly the sort of thing <em>The Rings of Power<\/em> should be doing, rather than redundant wizard origin stories and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/lotr-rings-of-power\/447883\/trop-suza-t-tolkien-lotr-stoor-what-is\">Shire foreshadowing<\/a>. Giving viewers a better appreciation of the full extent of Sauron\u2019s menace raises season 2\u2019s stakes and drives the overarching story forward. It leaves us wondering what dubious decisions our heroes will make \u2014 what right things they\u2019ll do for the wrong reasons, or vice versa \u2014 to stop him. The Galadriel\/Adar alliance teased as episode 5\u2019s credits roll suggests whatever they land on will be pretty monumental. Whether this bodes good or ill for Middle-earth remains to be seen, but it\u2019s an undeniably solid platform for <em>The Rings of Power <\/em>season 2\u2019s final three episodes to build on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/lotr-rings-of-power\/450477\/trop-episode-5-review-sauron-celebrimbor-why\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a story built on temptation, The Lord of the Rings is largely defined by its clear-cut morality. The same can\u2019t be said of The Rings of Power, which has leaned into the moral ambiguity and questionable choices of its sprawling ensemble pretty much from the jump. And so it is with season 2\u2019s fifth installment, which continues the show\u2019s recent run of form by devoting most of its run time to people doing the right thing for the wrong reasons. The result is more than just the strongest hour of TV the season has mustered so far (although it\u2019s certainly that). It\u2019s a springboard for episode 5 to illustrate the seductiveness of the Rings of Power \u2014 and the baddie behind them \u2014 in&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/the-rings-of-power-episode-5-finally-does-something-with-its-rings-of-power\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":965983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-polygon"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Rings of Power episode 5 finally does something with its Rings of Power | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"For a story built on temptation, The Lord of the Rings is largely defined by its clear-cut morality. 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