Sauron’s speech to the Orcs in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2 didn’t go over so well, but there may be much more to this moment than it initially seemed. The season premiered with a flashback scene in which Sauron, played in this instance by Jack Lowden, announces his intention to be crowned the new Dark Lord following Morgoth’s downfall. Of course, Adar and the Orcs rejected his claim, murdering the villain so that he had to spend the following centuries as a slimeball until he could regain a body. Given the threatening speech Sauron delivered in Rings of Power, this isn’t much of a surprise.
