In The Rings of Power season 2, the elves are ‘taking a huge risk’ with the titular rings, one of the Prime Video show’s stars teases

The Rings of Power star Morfydd Clark has teased how Galadriel and her fellow elves are “taking a huge risk” with the newly-created elven rings.

Speaking to TechRadar before the Prime Video show’s return on August 29, Clark, who plays Galadriel, suggested that the first of the titular rings, which were forged in The Rings of Power‘s season 1 finale, will do more than split opinion among the immortal race’s major players. Indeed, the magical artefacts – Nenya, Nilya, and Vilya – might end up doing more harm than good as the increasingly desperate elves look for a way to save themselves.

How so? Well, if Robert Aramayo’s Elrond is to be believed, the fact that Sauron – who spent much of season 1 masquerading as the Southlands’ so-called exiled king Halbrand – helped to craft them is reason enough not to use them. If the Great Deceiver has imbued them with some form of dark magic, there’s no telling how the ring bearers could be manipulated by Morgoth’s successor. But, with the light of the Eldar fading in Lindon, Galadriel, Benjamin Walker’s High King Gil-galad, and Ben Daniels’ Cirdan the Shipwright think it’s a risk worth taking.

Will they be rewarded for their courage? It would be remiss of me to spoil anything to anyone who hasn’t read The Lord of the Rings books or other prominent J.R.R. Tolkien literature, such as the acclaimed author’s appendices and legendarium. Clark, though, indicates that the elves will be heading into uncharted waters when, not if, they decide to wield them in The Rings of Power season 2.