Gotta love that Sauron's strategy for when he loses is to turn into a cute twink and hope it all works out Also gotta love that it keeps working.... "He can't keep getting away with this!"
I feel like the scene where Sauron pretending to surrender to the human king is the closest we're gonna get to see what it's like seeing Sauron pretending to surrender to Ar-Pharazon and the mighty armies of Numenor.
I have a feeling that this is exactly that event. The one Sauron gave the ring to was llikely a Numenorian general. I am pretty sure the city they showed is Umbar.
i agreed. n the scene where some group of men came to that king n asking the king, i think that group was probably "The Faithful" Numenorian. the depiction where Sauron whispered to that king was somehow accurate to the part where Sauron had been given a position of Ar Pharazon advisor in book.
No we’ll probably get to see it in the Amazon series. Right after Sauron starts identifying as non-binary, he’ll surrender and then seduce the king into being his gay lover.
So every time Sauron tricks someone to wear his ring he has to kneel before them first, pretend to be weak. He has to do this 9 times. Thats some dark lord dedication right there.
Suits him perfectly seeing that he deceived the nine kings of men to do his dirty work, giving each of them a powerful ring that corrupted them one by one, like a wolf in sheep’s clothing, not just him running around in black armor.
@@Crusader-Ramos45 you do realize that he has two different visible forms in the second age and in the late third age, when LotR takes place, and that both this portrayal here and Peter Jackson's portrayal are perfectly canonical and that they game devs didn't come up with something new and creative?
I am neither a Catholic nor a Christian. I have always admired the Gothic architecture of cathedrals like the Notra Dame , but whenever I see one, I can't help but imagine that the Pope is the Dark Lord and the Cardinals are Nazguls. I never had such thoughts before knowing this game though
@@MisterRorschach90 You would pour molten gold into a cast and smooth it out and engrave it with finer tools. you don't hammer gold with a blacksmiths hammer. It's a soft metal. Just as you don't drive a nail with a sledgehammer.
A bit late on this, but I think the hammer is imbued with magic. So that when he hammers a ring, its to imbue it with the magic he desires or plans to put into it. Thats at least the only passable theory I got that makes sense.
Fun fact, although it probably wasn't Tolkiens intent: In Finnish, "Annan" means "I give". In Scandinavian languages, "Tar" means "Take". So Annatar could be "I give and I take".
This game and this series definitely deserve more attention. The music to cinematics to gameplay, all done flawlessly. I put it on the shelf next to Skyrim and God of War.
@@misterwabbit4690 They removed the microtransactions and the major bugs got patched eventually. The game is quite nice and epic mostly due to its nemesis system. The story is decent as well.
@@banishedmum The story is anything but decent. It's a complete disservice to Tolkien in terms of lore and themes. The Nemesis system was neat, albeit not very well incorporated into the story at all.
The nazgûl that was providing all of those visions (shown at around 1:56) has a different mask from the others. Looking into the game files, the mask was indeed called "arpharazon". This was indeed the case you mentioned.
Yeah they were the Numenorians i think atleast they could be its not explicitly said but it lines up with the tolkien and books they were basically Super humans on par with the elves if not better minus the immortality They were ready to throw down it was why sauron pretended to serve them he could not actually take all of them on
WAIT!!! Look at this guys hands. He's got like 10 rings on each finger already, there's no room left! What the hell is he gonna slip that ring on to- uh.....OHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! That uh... that explains the kneeling!
I was under the impression that the 9 rings 'extended' life by stretching it out until there was no longer enough 'essence' to maintain a visible physical form. Eventually the last strands of essence dissolved their bonds and the wearer became a wraith held together and given shape only by Sauron's will/power.
Rings given to men prolonged lives of their wearers for centuries before turning them into wraiths. I think eventually Golum would be a wraith too. Just like Frodo if he wasn't healed in Imladris.
@@professorx3060 Gollum would have turned into a wraith a long time ago, but he stopped wearing the Ring (or even keeping it near him most of the time). Part of his hobbit resiliency... he instinctively realized he should keep it at a distance except on VERY rare occasions. And Frodo was being transformed by the Morgul blade shard in his arm that was working toward his heart. He hadn't had the Ring nearly long enough to be wraithed by it. (Bilbo was JUST starting to feel the stretching effect, but he was also a few hundred years away from wraithdom.)
Yeah watch battle of the five armies and how Galadriel has been destroyed by amazon. Just copy and paste that character into a show.she was all powerful and fully dependant on her comrades. Who was that show for? Not book fans, not movie fans, and not fantasy lovers. They ignore Peter Jackson but he is why you said yes to $1,000,000,000 budget.....i dont think they spent that much to make it, all the cast probably gets paid the bare minimum bet they only spent 80,000,000.
@@vahlen5281 In your opinion. Objectively speaking, the programs production value is extremely good; the story is coherent, the acting is fantastic, the set, props and CGI are all fantastic, I usually find TV show cgi to be shocking, but this is one show where it is actually on par with a feature length movie, the characters are fleshed out and have depth, I throughly enjoy the world building, anybody new to lord of the rings won't have a hard time understanding what is going on and why, and given the limited ability of the crew to use source material, they've built a believable Lord of the rings universe. I genuinely can't understand why salty little bitches have such a problem with it. No shit if they can't use all the source material, the accuracy of the lore is going to be different to that of the books. But you folks worship the films, can you say how accurate the films are to the books? Honestly you're all like whiny fucking toddlers who need to grow up. I'm not one for mindless consumerism, I'm a star wars fan myself so I have an understanding, but I enjoy star wars, so I watch it. My enjoyment outweighs my lack of. I can still appreciate a story for how good it is whether or not it agrees with previous lore.
@@mckenanbundy3578 Wooden acting, incredibly cheap costumes and CGI, a storyline bereft of highlights, constant lore breaks. Good for you if you get some enjoyment out of it, but let's not pretend it is anything more than an attempt to make some quick buck by selling an amateurish project under the name of big IP.
King: dude, your giving me a magical ring? Awesome Will it give me cool super powers? Sauron: oh definitely ( and it will turn you into a wraith that will do my bidding and assist me in my conquest of this world) King: huh? Sauron: no, nothing. Your good
"They were once Men, great kings of Men. Then Sauron the Deceiver gifted to them nine Rings of Power. Blinded by their greed, they took them without question, one by one falling into Darkness. Now they are slaves to his will. They are the Nazgûl, Ringwraiths, neither living nor dead. At all times they feel the presence of the Ring, drawn to the power of the One. They will *_never_* stop hunting you!"
@@Charmedsas1 Fairly certain it's not going to look as good. Elves with short hair is not Tolkien. Sauron's fair form is much in line with the books that what everyone expects that human is in Rings of Power.
Anyone noticed that the king's City skyline is Florence...or at least you can clearly see Chatedral Santa Maria del Fiore with Giotto's bell tower and Brunelleschi's Dome at min. 1:16
@@samueldelacruz2659 he came to them as Annatar Lord of Gifts. It's never really mentioned if he was an Elf or a Man. These games didn't use the name Annatar due to copyright infringements, and they are also bullshit fan fiction based on the movies with copycat characters.
@@dantrag2890oh ho??? Is that true, then I suggest that you take these games as a prequel to the movies and the books as a different universe or two different ways to told a story about The Lord of the Rings and all of his myth.
@@rodolfosanchez3397 yeah it's AR pharazon who gets tricked and corrupted by sauron. They just haven't the rights to use this name, so they call him sulladan
well, most of them that calling Sauron is an elf weren't a hardcore Tolkien's book reader, while some of us (n i'm pretty sure u know this too) already knew Sauron was a Maiar, a same race as those Ishtari (Gandalf/Radagast/Saruman) n Balrogs of Morgoth. so, please forgive them for their lack of knowledge 🙏🏻
Sauron could take whatever form he pleased in the Second Age. He could be an Elf, a rock, a Dark Lord clad in black armor or a Man. It doesn't matter, he looked like an Elf but his essence was always that of a Maiar
@@richardhambel648 yeah, that's why i said "probably", n there's no telling that king was Ar Pharazon himself since the game itself kinda deviated from the books too. but, the idea Sauron surrendered himself to that king was exactly same as the time he pretended to give in to Ar Pharazon so he can corrupted Numenorians from within.
it's funny after all this time even though this might not be lore accurate. To see a Video Game that shows More Respect and More Accurate, than billions of dollars tv show; 📺 what have we come to. Also still love this game after all this time.
Actually the game uses the vagueness of the origin of the nazgul quite well, that is either a king of the south or east, also sauron fled with the rings to the east and south after beign defeated by the numenoreans after the fall of eregion, so it makes sense they don't really know him that much and the king was cautious about him, thats when the annatar form comes in to show himself as harmless.
Like his master, Morgoth, Sauron possessed the ability to shapeshift for much of his life. However, he lost the ability to shapeshift when he had created The One Ring. So you're also correct in that he shouldn't have been able to appear as an elf to the people of Middle-Earth at a time when one of the Kings of Men was being influenced by one of their 9 Rings of Power.
@Alfred Pennyworth There are people that hate this game ? Damn i never knew. It just seems so damn good..It's exactly what i wanted out of a lord of the ring game, and it's the only licence we have like that. All the great licences have barely passable or just good games to their names. lotr had barely anything really known and then boom, it dropped that game like it was on crack
@@drb5538 hammer it into shape before you put the fine details in then. I'm not having it that a powerful sorcerer is enchanting something by smacking it with a massive hammer. He'd surely do some kind of forbidden esoteric elf ritual stuff instead.
I believe in the beginning he was some kind of primordial spirit that could manifest itself physically made of aether before he lost his ability after his first defeat. Tolkien described him not of flesh either man or elf. people perceived him differently but it seems as though elven was his favorite form to take.
I think I went out on a date recently with Sauron ...... he was a little intense and kept obsessing about my ring. No one gets my ring on a first date :D 🤔😜🤣
This scene is based on canonical story in the books, in the books the King's name was Ar-Pharazon and at first he took Sauron as a captive, but throughout the years, decade after decade, Sauron's deceiving nature managed to corrupted him, because Numenorians were jealous of Elven immortality, so Sauron at the latest stage of Ar-Pharazons life, managed to convince him to make a decision that would result into doom of Numenor.
Basically. From what I understand they were originally going to put Ar-Pharazôn himself there, but seemed to run into some sort of copyright issue regarding the name. As such, they changed his name to Suladân and made him into a Harad king. From what I read the files regarding him were saved under Ar-Pharazôn. At the very least this takes heavy inspiration from Sauron surrendering to Númenor.
@@apokemontrainer2873 It was probably because it was changing the original story which tolkien's son guarded agianst probably why amazon waited for him to die before releasing there series
@@apokemontrainer2873 indeed The Betrayer - Cursed long ago for yielding the Southlands to Sauron's rule, the Betrayer is driven by malice and self-hatred that knows no bounds. Of all the Nazgûl, the Betrayer is amongst the lowest of Sauron's lieutenants, for even the Dark Lord is wary of placing trust in one who betrayed his kin so readily. The Betrayer was once one of the Haradrim, as seen by the ancient turban that he still wears.
nahhh, this game kinda deviated from most of its original lore from book. only my guessing is that the scene where Sauron surrendered himself n bow to that king was probably the closest if not exact same situation where he surrendered to the armies of Numenor n their king Ar Pharazon (yes this one came straight from the book).
Gotta love that Sauron's strategy for when he loses is to turn into a cute twink and hope it all works out
Also gotta love that it keeps working....
"He can't keep getting away with this!"
handsome squidward moment
You consume to many microplastics
“Stupid sexy Sauron!”
@@phoenixrose1192 why did I read that in the voice of Homer Simpson? 😝
@@feduntu That’s a crossover we all didn’t realise we needed! 😆
I feel like the scene where Sauron pretending to surrender to the human king is the closest we're gonna get to see what it's like seeing Sauron pretending to surrender to Ar-Pharazon and the mighty armies of Numenor.
I have a feeling that this is exactly that event. The one Sauron gave the ring to was llikely a Numenorian general. I am pretty sure the city they showed is Umbar.
i agreed. n the scene where some group of men came to that king n asking the king, i think that group was probably "The Faithful" Numenorian. the depiction where Sauron whispered to that king was somehow accurate to the part where Sauron had been given a position of Ar Pharazon advisor in book.
No we’ll probably get to see it in the Amazon series. Right after Sauron starts identifying as non-binary, he’ll surrender and then seduce the king into being his gay lover.
@@hugh_jerection 🤣🤣🤣
@@hugh_jerection There it is, the One Joke!
Blinded by their greed, they took them without question. One by one, fallen to Darkness. Now, they are slaves to his will
They are the Nazgûl, ringwraiths. Neither living nor dead.
@@apokemontrainer2873 At all times they feel the presence of the ring, drawn to the power of the One.
@@UchihaOokami2596 they will never stop hunting you.
Not the drawfs
And their farts will clear any room
So every time Sauron tricks someone to wear his ring he has to kneel before them first, pretend to be weak. He has to do this 9 times. Thats some dark lord dedication right there.
No, it happened only once. The other rings have other stories told ingame
@@Loxias1989 Oh ok I got it
The way they design Sauron for this game was perfect
Suits him perfectly seeing that he deceived the nine kings of men to do his dirty work, giving each of them a powerful ring that corrupted them one by one, like a wolf in sheep’s clothing, not just him running around in black armor.
@@Crusader-Ramos45 Makes Darth Vader and Lord Voldemort look like teenagers in their goth faze
Much better looking than Eminem at home.
@@AmeanAbdelfattah Sauron after all is a Maiar, in SW terms he and Morgoth are the only true 2 Sith Lords
@@Crusader-Ramos45 you do realize that he has two different visible forms in the second age and in the late third age, when LotR takes place, and that both this portrayal here and Peter Jackson's portrayal are perfectly canonical and that they game devs didn't come up with something new and creative?
I like how when sauron approaches the king he's so tall that it scares the king into unsheathing his sword.
Lies again? Russia Invasion
More like he was an enemy and when an enemy approaches, you unsheathe your sword
@Aziri e If he didn't unsheathe the sword and the enemy killed them, then he would be brave by your understanding?
No, he would be stupid.
@Aziri e lol stick it to the man
I live in Florence, Italy, and I can easily spot our cathedral in the cityscape. I didnt know we had a nazgul here :D
lmao, greetings from cali suburbia
Greetings from Florence… Alabama. XD
So do we think this guy is a Medici then? Lorenzo maybe?
Hahahahaha l'ho notata anche io
I am neither a Catholic nor a Christian. I have always admired the Gothic architecture of cathedrals like the Notra Dame , but whenever I see one, I can't help but imagine that the Pope is the Dark Lord and the Cardinals are Nazguls. I never had such thoughts before knowing this game though
Bro human king legit look like a clash of clan character 💀
Love how they make a gold ring by hammering it the same way you would a sword.
Back then you wouldn’t have a lathe. You would make a ring by hammering it like a sword.
@@MisterRorschach90 You would pour molten gold into a cast and smooth it out and engrave it with finer tools. you don't hammer gold with a blacksmiths hammer. It's a soft metal.
Just as you don't drive a nail with a sledgehammer.
Of course that isn't just any ring. Might not actually be gold, maybe some strange fantasy stuff.
@@MisterRorschach90 the ring will end up being flat
A bit late on this, but I think the hammer is imbued with magic. So that when he hammers a ring, its to imbue it with the magic he desires or plans to put into it.
Thats at least the only passable theory I got that makes sense.
Fun fact, although it probably wasn't Tolkiens intent:
In Finnish, "Annan" means "I give".
In Scandinavian languages, "Tar" means "Take".
So Annatar could be "I give and I take".
He was a linguist, so apparently he had a certain meaning
@@user-wv7ni9rc4kKnowing Tolkien, yeah honestly it wouldn’t be surprising that you are correct
It means “The Lord Of Gifts”
The armor design of those "Not Numenoreans" is stunning.
This game and this series definitely deserve more attention. The music to cinematics to gameplay, all done flawlessly. I put it on the shelf next to Skyrim and God of War.
Are you serious? The game was littered with bugs and glitches, not to mention pointless microtransactions. Definitely not comparable to God of War.
@@misterwabbit4690 bugs don't change the fact that it was an amazing game
@@misterwabbit4690 They removed the microtransactions and the major bugs got patched eventually. The game is quite nice and epic mostly due to its nemesis system. The story is decent as well.
@@banishedmum The story is anything but decent. It's a complete disservice to Tolkien in terms of lore and themes. The Nemesis system was neat, albeit not very well incorporated into the story at all.
These games were horrible man lol especially the 2nd one
They were once men, great kings of men
Then Sauron the deceiver gave to them nine rings of power. Blinded by their greed, they took them without question. Now they are slaves to his will.
But they were all of them deceived, for another ring was made
IN THE LAND of MORDOR!!!
Definitely not wise kings
@@devilpupbear09 greed does that to greatest Kings and Queens
"pure what? I wonder"
That line hits hard
Sauron be like: "youre all my bitches now"
Pretty much
LOL
Wow, the ghost of Nihilus Kryik looks surprisingly human.
Seriously, though, Alistair Duncan's voice is freaking epic.
Saren's rings were designed to subjugate their-
Wait a second.
This is the closest thing we get sauron in his Annatar form corrupting the ar phazaron king of numneor to attack vallinor.
The nazgûl that was providing all of those visions (shown at around 1:56) has a different mask from the others. Looking into the game files, the mask was indeed called "arpharazon". This was indeed the case you mentioned.
If only anything in rings of power was this good...
Okay the king saw sauron show up like that and went yeah seems legit.
Yeah they were the Numenorians i think atleast they could be its not explicitly said but it lines up with the tolkien and books they were basically Super humans on par with the elves if not better minus the immortality
They were ready to throw down it was why sauron pretended to serve them he could not actually take all of them on
The scene is cool but yeah, is not very probable he would accept this fucking demon as counselor after see his dark Lord form.
This literally was (sorta) In the books. Ar Pharazon.
@@inyalgaico1563 The Game is not canon, Sauron Gortaur surrendered to Ar-Pharazon, and didn't turn him into a Nazgul.
@@noahtylerpritchett2682 literally sort of?!
WAIT!!! Look at this guys hands. He's got like 10 rings on each finger already, there's no room left! What the hell is he gonna slip that ring on to- uh.....OHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! That uh... that explains the kneeling!
What?
A cock ring?
I was under the impression that the 9 rings 'extended' life by stretching it out until there was no longer enough 'essence' to maintain a visible physical form. Eventually the last strands of essence dissolved their bonds and the wearer became a wraith held together and given shape only by Sauron's will/power.
This game isn't canon.
@@user-zg5ey5xo9i
Yeah it’s shit lore wise
I think what you said is exactly it. Men of Númenor lived long lives and wouldn't look like a total geezer in just a few years - Ring or no Ring.
Rings given to men prolonged lives of their wearers for centuries before turning them into wraiths.
I think eventually Golum would be a wraith too. Just like Frodo if he wasn't healed in Imladris.
@@professorx3060 Gollum would have turned into a wraith a long time ago, but he stopped wearing the Ring (or even keeping it near him most of the time). Part of his hobbit resiliency... he instinctively realized he should keep it at a distance except on VERY rare occasions.
And Frodo was being transformed by the Morgul blade shard in his arm that was working toward his heart. He hadn't had the Ring nearly long enough to be wraithed by it. (Bilbo was JUST starting to feel the stretching effect, but he was also a few hundred years away from wraithdom.)
this game has better story telling than the tv show
Anyone here after masterflop s1 of rop alongside trailer of s2?
This was better than the first 3 Episodes of Rings of Power
Yeah watch battle of the five armies and how Galadriel has been destroyed by amazon. Just copy and paste that character into a show.she was all powerful and fully dependant on her comrades. Who was that show for? Not book fans, not movie fans, and not fantasy lovers. They ignore Peter Jackson but he is why you said yes to $1,000,000,000 budget.....i dont think they spent that much to make it, all the cast probably gets paid the bare minimum bet they only spent 80,000,000.
This video has more sensible dialogue than the Flop Amazon's Rings of Power.
I like the new show 🎉
@@mckenanbundy3578It’s terrible. I’m sorry but it’s really bad. Look at the Rotten Tomatoes audience rating.
It took Grima Wormtongue AND Saruman to do what Sauron did alone. Infect the Kings mind and bend him to his will
When this scene alone feels more Tolkien than rings of power
RiNg Of PoWeR bAd
@@cadkls Well, it is. On multiple levels.
@@vahlen5281 In your opinion.
Objectively speaking, the programs production value is extremely good; the story is coherent, the acting is fantastic, the set, props and CGI are all fantastic, I usually find TV show cgi to be shocking, but this is one show where it is actually on par with a feature length movie, the characters are fleshed out and have depth, I throughly enjoy the world building, anybody new to lord of the rings won't have a hard time understanding what is going on and why, and given the limited ability of the crew to use source material, they've built a believable Lord of the rings universe.
I genuinely can't understand why salty little bitches have such a problem with it.
No shit if they can't use all the source material, the accuracy of the lore is going to be different to that of the books.
But you folks worship the films, can you say how accurate the films are to the books?
Honestly you're all like whiny fucking toddlers who need to grow up. I'm not one for mindless consumerism, I'm a star wars fan myself so I have an understanding, but I enjoy star wars, so I watch it. My enjoyment outweighs my lack of. I can still appreciate a story for how good it is whether or not it agrees with previous lore.
@@vahlen5281 except it really isn’t that bad
@@mckenanbundy3578 Wooden acting, incredibly cheap costumes and CGI, a storyline bereft of highlights, constant lore breaks. Good for you if you get some enjoyment out of it, but let's not pretend it is anything more than an attempt to make some quick buck by selling an amateurish project under the name of big IP.
youtube things this is god of war 💀💀
Better than Amazon
That scene is not even in the show, sauron is not even in the show...omfg when will you people just freaking let it go.
@@Charmedsas1 Halbrand is Sauron
@@Charmedsas1 We prefer quality.
you mean cheap Celebrimor come on man 😂@@Charmedsas1
Still watching it tbh, I like LOTR content 🤷🏾♂️
1:15 Ah yeah the Dome of Florence, the top tourist attraction in middle earth
King: dude, your giving me a magical ring? Awesome
Will it give me cool super powers?
Sauron: oh definitely
( and it will turn you into a wraith that will do my bidding and assist me in my conquest of this world)
King: huh?
Sauron: no, nothing. Your good
King: Of course.
Sauron just smiles with no one looking.
Sauron: *Troll face*
@@Bicorn711 LOL
In elf form he is called Annatar, the "Lord of Gifts"
I truly wish that Rings of Power "shitstorm" would be gorgeous as this video.
"They were once Men, great kings of Men. Then Sauron the Deceiver gifted to them nine Rings of Power. Blinded by their greed, they took them without question, one by one falling into Darkness. Now they are slaves to his will.
They are the Nazgûl, Ringwraiths, neither living nor dead. At all times they feel the presence of the Ring, drawn to the power of the One. They will *_never_* stop hunting you!"
The cathedral from Florence is in the shot of him looking over his armies
Wow this is better than Rings of Power!
Omg omg did this scene happen in the show already? 😱 that's crazy. Link please...
@@Charmedsas1 Fairly certain it's not going to look as good. Elves with short hair is not Tolkien. Sauron's fair form is much in line with the books that what everyone expects that human is in Rings of Power.
Anyone noticed that the king's City skyline is Florence...or at least you can clearly see Chatedral Santa Maria del Fiore with Giotto's bell tower and Brunelleschi's Dome at min. 1:16
Sauron isn't an Elf.
He is a Maia the same race as Gandalf and Saruman
But he takes the form of an elf to deceive.
@@samueldelacruz2659 he came to them as Annatar Lord of Gifts. It's never really mentioned if he was an Elf or a Man. These games didn't use the name Annatar due to copyright infringements, and they are also bullshit fan fiction based on the movies with copycat characters.
@@dantrag2890oh ho??? Is that true, then I suggest that you take these games as a prequel to the movies and the books as a different universe or two different ways to told a story about The Lord of the Rings and all of his myth.
Sauron could take the form of an elf the same way Gandalf and Saruman could take the form of a "man". It is a vessel and not their true form.
@@0predaking0 in my opinion, Middle Earth based games should have a character creation engine that work around the lore, not the lore around them.
This one clip has better direction than the entire Rings of Power series.
2:20 Why does Celebrimbor sound like someone who standing here he realizes he's just like him trying to make history?
I wonder if Saruman was trying to turn King Theoden into a Nazgûl aswell when line possessed him, but then Gandalf arrived and stopped him.
🤦🤦
That has no resemblance to what was actually happening to the men who became Nazguls.
Did you notice the detail of when Sauron gives Suladan the ring and he puts it on, Sauron's eyes glow.
Lol did they really put The Duomo into middle Earth XD 1:15
Elf sauron?call him annatar at least
this 3 minutes are far better than what Rings Of Powers showed us in 3 hours
I remember how I angry I was about the lore breaks of the game. After rings of power I appreciate the game so much more...
I mean technically this scene in particular happened if i remember correct.
@@rodolfosanchez3397 yeah it's AR pharazon who gets tricked and corrupted by sauron. They just haven't the rights to use this name, so they call him sulladan
What do you expect them to do without any of the rights?
Lol what? This game butchers the lore much more than Rings of power (so far), which is much worse since the story is set much closer to Lotr.
@@scandalf4209 RoP has nearly nothing to do with Tolkiens world. Just a made up fantasy world without soul
They're just calling the form "Elf Sauron." No one is saying Sauron is an elf. God damn you people.
well, most of them that calling Sauron is an elf weren't a hardcore Tolkien's book reader, while some of us (n i'm pretty sure u know this too) already knew Sauron was a Maiar, a same race as those Ishtari (Gandalf/Radagast/Saruman) n Balrogs of Morgoth. so, please forgive them for their lack of knowledge 🙏🏻
@@annieleondhart680 It isnt about a lack of knowledge. Its about EVERYONE having to say "sAuRon IsNt aN eLF" to try and sound smart for 5 seconds.
@@cherub3624 It's because they are all unfuckable hate nerds who have never known the touch of a woman irl
Sauron could take whatever form he pleased in the Second Age. He could be an Elf, a rock, a Dark Lord clad in black armor or a Man. It doesn't matter, he looked like an Elf but his essence was always that of a Maiar
1:16 my man is the king of Florence?
There is so much history in this ip
I wish the people who directed/casted these games would have directed Rings of Power
that scene Sauron surrendering to that human king probably the reenactment of Sauron surrendered himself to Ar Pharazon n the mighty Numenorians army.
Maybe but handing him a ring is not from the book.
@@richardhambel648 yeah, that's why i said "probably", n there's no telling that king was Ar Pharazon himself since the game itself kinda deviated from the books too. but, the idea Sauron surrendered himself to that king was exactly same as the time he pretended to give in to Ar Pharazon so he can corrupted Numenorians from within.
it's funny after all this time even though this might not be lore accurate. To see a Video Game that shows More Respect and More Accurate, than billions of dollars tv show; 📺 what have we come to. Also still love this game after all this time.
You do realize there are parts of the books they CANT use. Yal are a bunch of whining babies. Loser
I wish Rings of Power was more like this
Dude this is the Numenorians i think bro Numenor was badass this guy was ready to throw hands with sauron
Actually the game uses the vagueness of the origin of the nazgul quite well, that is either a king of the south or east, also sauron fled with the rings to the east and south after beign defeated by the numenoreans after the fall of eregion, so it makes sense they don't really know him that much and the king was cautious about him, thats when the annatar form comes in to show himself as harmless.
Love the Sephiroth hair and vibes from elf Sauron in this game
I appreciate these scenes even more since the show that shall not be named came out.
THIS is ANNATAR. Not the Eminem wannabe in the trailer 🤦♂️
Did the showrunners tell you that? 🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️
1:14 LOL Ringwraith is from Florence
this game 1000x better than rings of power show
Sauron is not an Elf. He's a Maia.
Like his master, Morgoth, Sauron possessed the ability to shapeshift for much of his life. However, he lost the ability to shapeshift when he had created The One Ring. So you're also correct in that he shouldn't have been able to appear as an elf to the people of Middle-Earth at a time when one of the Kings of Men was being influenced by one of their 9 Rings of Power.
Sauron disguise as elf or of any kind
It’s referring to the form Sauron is taking not what he actually is
@@LordBloodraven *he lost the ability when his body was destroyed in the fall of numenour. Not because of the creation of the one ring
Sauron has also reigned as a vampire during i believe the second era.
@0:13 Is it me or does he look like Handsome Shrek?
This man king looks like Robar III - main character of Gothica series !
Better that Rings of Power.
That King looks like MMA Fighter James Thompson
I would sooner watch this than the awful Rings of Power Amazon series any day.
Was so difficult for Amazon to do something like this stunning work? !!!!!
At 1:14 you can clearly see they used an asset of Florence Cathedral, perhaps from AC2?
future halbrand
Sauron in elf form looks like shrek in human form 🤣
He used his fair form not elven form since that form does not exist
"Pure what, I wonder." yeah, boi...
Sauron looks so fine. DAMN HE İS FİNE
So that's what Sauron looked like. No different to the elves
He was shapeshifter.
@@eldararnautovic2797😂
They should make a third game, change my mind
@Alfred Pennyworth I don't even closely understand what you are talking about. Were you aiming for another comment and just got mine ?
@Alfred Pennyworth There are people that hate this game ? Damn i never knew. It just seems so damn good..It's exactly what i wanted out of a lord of the ring game, and it's the only licence we have like that. All the great licences have barely passable or just good games to their names. lotr had barely anything really known and then boom, it dropped that game like it was on crack
@Alfred Pennyworth
You mean trash which disney brands as "canon"
but we get Halbrand... yay ¬_¬
02:12 Mimir without accent
Uh huh
2:00 - Nothing is true, everything is permitted. We are....
Assassins.
Nothing is true. Everything is permitted
You mean annitar lord of gifts
I'm to believe they put the finishing touches to an intricate jewelled ring with a massive hammer?
It is a magic ring so the hammer may be how it is imbued with said magic. It is reasonable to also assume it isn't made with standard materials.
@@drb5538 hammer it into shape before you put the fine details in then. I'm not having it that a powerful sorcerer is enchanting something by smacking it with a massive hammer. He'd surely do some kind of forbidden esoteric elf ritual stuff instead.
Wild. So are all these scenes done with mo-cap now?
Sauron’s elf form reminds me of Sephiroth from Final Fantasy 7. They have that same fear factor.
Yes CZcams, this is God of War!
This was definitely straight from the books. So this has to be one of the Numenorian kings that he corrupted
yeah they just didnt have the rights so they couldnt use the names... how wonderfull 3 minutes are a lot better than amazon's rings of power...
And this is what led to the fall of Numinor.
Mordorian here: can confirm!
This is Ar Pharazon. Though with copyright issues of the name they slightly changed it to Suladan.
Annatar Lord of gifts.
I love that game !
Ringcraft itself is Saurons magic. Anything (see the elven 3 for example) Caledipshit crafts is gonna have a bit of Sauron Stank.
To be nit picky, Sauron was never an elf
YOU'RE NOT AN ELF!!!
Agreed but I know he took many forms
He could appear as one if he wanted to. That's basically what he was when he was teaching the elves how to forge the rings of power.
I believe in the beginning he was some kind of primordial spirit that could manifest itself physically made of aether before he lost his ability after his first defeat. Tolkien described him not of flesh either man or elf. people perceived him differently but it seems as though elven was his favorite form to take.
Annatar and Tar-Mairon were forms he took during the Second Age
You mean “Annatar” that’s the elf name Sauron gave himself.
I think I went out on a date recently with Sauron ...... he was a little intense and kept obsessing about my ring.
No one gets my ring on a first date :D 🤔😜🤣
Lord Of The Ring Game 😯
Not cannon but yah 2 of them shadow of mordor and shadow of war
I can't believe someone would fall for such a obvious trick
Greedy
@@rodolfosanchez3397 well i guess his greed got the better of him id have known something was up when sauron came out and bowed to me like that.
This scene is based on canonical story in the books, in the books the King's name was Ar-Pharazon and at first he took Sauron as a captive, but throughout the years, decade after decade, Sauron's deceiving nature managed to corrupted him, because Numenorians were jealous of Elven immortality, so Sauron at the latest stage of Ar-Pharazons life, managed to convince him to make a decision that would result into doom of Numenor.
Now they just need to make elf Sauron short haired in show and thats it 😔
Better than fucking We Wuz Kangz of Power.
Isn't sauron a maia, a wizard like Gandalf and saruman?
That was quite my thought
Is this depicting Sauron’s surrender to the king of Neumenor?
Basically. From what I understand they were originally going to put Ar-Pharazôn himself there, but seemed to run into some sort of copyright issue regarding the name. As such, they changed his name to Suladân and made him into a Harad king. From what I read the files regarding him were saved under Ar-Pharazôn. At the very least this takes heavy inspiration from Sauron surrendering to Númenor.
@@apokemontrainer2873 thanks for the info!
@@apokemontrainer2873 It was probably because it was changing the original story which tolkien's son guarded agianst probably why amazon waited for him to die before releasing there series
@@apokemontrainer2873 indeed The Betrayer - Cursed long ago for yielding the Southlands to Sauron's rule, the Betrayer is driven by malice and self-hatred that knows no bounds. Of all the Nazgûl, the Betrayer is amongst the lowest of Sauron's lieutenants, for even the Dark Lord is wary of placing trust in one who betrayed his kin so readily. The Betrayer was once one of the Haradrim, as seen by the ancient turban that he still wears.
@@ronanwaring3408 for real. now I hate amazon even more
Firenze Duomo on Numennor...
Looks like Sam Witwer
Do I need to read all of the books in order to play this game so that I'm not completely lost?
No, it's very unfaithful to the lore.
@@cholst1 thank you
nahhh, this game kinda deviated from most of its original lore from book. only my guessing is that the scene where Sauron surrendered himself n bow to that king was probably the closest if not exact same situation where he surrendered to the armies of Numenor n their king Ar Pharazon (yes this one came straight from the book).