Rings of Power Season 2 Episode 2 returns to Khazad-dûm, where a gulf remains between the two Durins. Meanwhile, Celebrimbor tries to resist Sauron’s Halbrand-shaped persuasion..
. and fails. After the over-stuffed first season, Season 2 Episode 2 wisely paid attention to just three groups: Elrond, Galadriel, and Gil-Galad; Sauron and Adar; and the Stranger and Nori as they journeyed into Rhûn with Poppy.
Galadriel and Elrond are at odds with each other over the titular Rings of Power ; she believes they’re the key to defeating Sauron (they also restored the light of Lindon’s tree, so she’s definitely onto something), but Elrond is frightened of Sauron’s influence, even passively before they were forged. This debate continues in Episode 2, but the show’s scope widens to the Dwarves of Khazad-dûm – and we get a big “ Lord of the Rings ” name-drop. Khazad-dûm goes dark We open on Prince Durin and Disa shopping for groceries, forced to “tighten their purse strings” after the argument with his father.
“You married a prince, now you’re bound to an outcast,” he says, but she tells him she’s “bound to the Dwarf she loves.” Disa tells him he should talk to his dad, but Durin says he’s too stubborn. Moments later, Khazad-dûm begins to shake, with rocks and boulders falling from above.
But it gets worse: all of its light passages are covered too, submerging the Dwarves in near-total darkness. Galadriel pleads to chase Sauron Back in Lindon, .