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Elven smith with a penchant for manipulation and a head of luscious, glossy, luminous blond locks. There was also a flashback where he was, briefly, a small pile of black goo. Now, the time for camouflage is over. He’s gone full bastard. The new-look Sauron is emblematic of how things are being shaken up for this third run, moving ever-closer to the Middle-earth we’re familiar with. No messing about now. The gloves — or gauntlets — are off. “We have a full-on villain this season,” says the show’s executive producer and co-showrunner J.D. Payne. “In a way that was quite different before.” …
摘自《帝国》(Empire)第457期 · 2026年9月刊,John Nugent。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。