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    Sauron’s Third Persona: Mairon – Let’s Get Nerdy!

    Ashley Victoria RobinsonBy 6 Mins Read

    Amazon Studios The Rings of Power is here. The Second season is on its way. We want all Spoilerites to have the best viewing experience possible and have the widest knowledge base about the Second Age of Middle-Earth. This is a weekly Let’s Get Nerdy article series highlighting a different piece of Tolkien I think you need to know about!

    This post contains potential spoilers for The Rings of Power’s second season. At the time of writing these are simply rumours, but if you may want to avoid spoilers come back later and see if I was right!

    There’s been a lot of Sauron talk in these recent weeks, which feels both appropriate and frustrating given the increasingly swirling rumours of his tremendous presence in The Rings of Power season 2. This week I want to write about the name Mairon who has cropped up increasingly in the online discourse – particularly in the spoilers TheOneRing.net leaked.

    Sauron — in Mairon form, and called such — is NOT Halbrand (Charlie Vickers) or Annatar (Gavi Singh Chera).

    Mithrandir (Gandalf) is “almost” convinced to support Mairon’s (Sauron) agenda.

    Mairon gives an epic speech, “The One has blessed me more so than all of you to see the potential of His creations, and what better way to forge their mettle than by allowing them to face Melkor’s discord and grow beyond what they think capable!”

    Why should we care who Mairon is? 

    Well, if you recall from a couple weeks ago there’s a pretty persistent rumour of three Sauron personas being the point of view characters throughout The Rings of Power season 2. At the time I wrote that article I felt confident about who two of the three actors were playing (Sauron or Halbrand returning as we remember him from the first season and Annatar), and now I’m confident Mairon will be the third persona at play.

    Mairon

    A quick history: before Sauron was Sauron he was known as Mairon and was a member of the Maia of Aulë the Smith (remember him from a previous week’s feature article?), which taught him the skills to partner with Celebrimbor’s talent and enabled him to forge The One Ring.

    Where actors are concerned of the three actors who are rumoured to be slated to play the Sauron personas my guesses are: Charlie Vickers asr Halbrand, Gavi Singh Chera as Gavi Singh Chera as Annatar, which leaves us to wonder who will step into this third part? Who is also rumoured to maybe-also-be-Celeborn?

    Things are getting really messy in The Rings of Power land!

    Oliver Alvin-Wilson

    *insert side eye emoji here*

    Reddit thinks actor Oliver Alvin-Wilson will round out of collection of Saurons. As of the time of writing Alvin-Wilson is credited with being cast in The Rings of Power per his IMDB, however he is only credited as “Actor” which is just mean! His past credits include: Henry VI, The Bay, and Collateral.

     

     

     

     

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