The dark lord Sauron, scourge of Middle-earth, is giving a pep talk to his army of orcs when he is betrayed and seemingly slain by one of his lieutenants.
Even before it began, the show faced a nearly impossible task: How do you turn a few pages of novel appendices into compelling television with exciting plot arcs, lovable characters, and a scary villain?
The series is trying to manufacture suspense by dragging out the story. In many ways, the second season follows many of the same patterns as the first.
The show has condensed Tolkien's nearly 4,000-year timeline of events down to a few decades so that all the key players in the saga of the One Ring can be on-screen at once.
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