Warning: spoilers ahead for The Rings of Power season 2.The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 1 finale saw Sauron refer back to his earliest beginnings, there remains some ambiguity about his origins. Sauron was like a Middle-earth mystery shopper in Amazon’s The Rings of Power season 1 – everybody knew he was coming, yet nobody knew what he looked like. Season 1, episode 8, unveiled Charlie Vickers’ Halbrand – the supposed King of the Southlands – as the hidden Dark Lord, but when Galadriel confronted him, Halbrand didn’t speak his name. Instead, he admitted, “I have been awake since before the breaking of the first silence.”