The world is changing…
I hear it in the water…
I feel it in the earth…
I smell it in the air…
That which once was, is lost…for none now live who remember it…
It began with the forging of the Great Rings, crafted by the greatest smith of the Second Age.
Celebrimbor, Lord of Eregion...
An image is shown of the Elf Lord as he works relentlessly over the Rings of Power, and behind him is the one known as Annatar, the Lord of Gifts.
Three were given to the Elves, immortal, wisest and fairest of all beings…
The Three Elven Lords are shown gazing upon their gifts.
Seven, to the Dwarf Lords, great miners and craftsmen of the mountain halls…
The Dwarf Lords all gaze upon their gifts before holding them aloft.
And Nine…Nine rings were gifted to the race of Men…who above all else…desire power…
The Nine Kings of Men donned in black robes and their crowns kiss their rings before placing them upon their fingers.
For within these rings was bound the strength and will to govern each race…
But they were all of them, deceived…
For another Ring was made…
In the Land of Mordor, in the Fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron forged in secret…
A Master Ring…To control all others…
Sauron stands in Mount Doom in his black armor, a silver smithing tool in his left hand and the Ring on his right.
And into this Ring, he poured his cruelty, his malice, and his to dominate all life…
One Ring to Rule Them All…
Sauron stands out at the entrance of the Mount Doom and raises his right fist into the sky.
However Celebrimbor foresaw the creation of the One Ring and gave the Elven Rings to their masters in secret…
Celebrimbor hands the rings to the Elven Lords and they vanish into the night.
Upon discovering this treachery, Sauron himself besieged Eregion…
Sauron is seen facing Celebrimbor before swiftly defeating him.
And took him and his family to Mordor…
The three elves are taken away after Celebrimbor gets a good terrified look at the One Ring.
There he was forced to perfect the One Ring, making The Dark Lord even more powerful…
But Celebrimbor did more than Sauron even asked for, given the ring a mind of its own…before taking the Ring for himself…
Thus the Bright Lord was born…he used his new power to claim half of Mordor and waged his own war against the Dark Lord in hopes of freeing his family and ending the darkness once and for all…
Celebrimbor stood over the Dark Lord preparing to strike…when the ring slipped off his finger…and directly onto Sauron's, who then defeated the Bright Lord.
But Celebrimbor's own alterations to the One Ring Betrayed him and so fell the Bright Lord…leaving Sauron free to do as he willed…
One by one the free lands of Middle Earth fell to the power of the Ring…but there were some who resisted, a Last Alliance of Men and Elves marched against the armies of Mordor…
Elven and Men armies face off against the dark forces of Sauron.
And on the slopes of Mount Doom, they fought for the freedom of Middle Earth…
The fighting became vicious, many fell left and right, though the Dark Lord's forces were being driven back.
Victory was near…
Elendil lets out a victorious battle cry…but all commotion dies down as Men and Elves see the dark figure striding toward them.
But the Power of the Ring…could not be undone…
Sauron stands before them before utilizing his full power and wiping out his enemies left and right, including the King of Men.
It was in this moment, when all hope had faded, that Isildur, Son of the King took up his father's sword…
Isildur reached for the blade only for Sauron to stomp on it, shattering it under foot. And when Sauron reached for him, he used the broken blade to slice off his fingers and causing the Dark Lord to explode.
The Ring came to Isildur, who had this one chance to destroy evil forever…but the hearts of Men are easily corrupted, and the Ring of Power, has a will of its own.
Isildur and his men are attacked by orcs, Isildur uses the Ring to flee and swim away, but the Ring slides off and he is shot by three arrows, slaying the newly made king.
It betrayed Isildur to his death…and some things that should not have been forgotten were lost, history became legend, legend became myth, and for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge…until when chance came, it ensnared a new barer…
The Ring came to creature Gollum, who took it deep into the Misty Mountains…and there…it consumed him…
The Ring brought to Gollum unnatural long life, for five hundred years it poisoned its mind. And in the gloom of Gollum's cave…it waited…
The Ring then abandoned Gollum, but surprisingly was picked up the most unlikely person imaginable…a Hobbit…Bilbo Baggins of the Shire…
He held onto the Ring for a long time, and like Gollum was given long life, living easily to 111 before giving the Ring to his nephew Frodo Baggins.
Frodo was then thrust into a mission that was not of his own making, for it was then that Gandalf discovered the identity of the ring Bilbo and now Frodo possessed.
And so the War of the Ring had begun, battles were waged…
Heroes fell…
Enemies defeated…
And finally the Ring destroyed by Frodo Baggins, ending Sauron's reign…
Or so we believed…the Dark Lord became a harmless spirit, yet even then he proved his resilience…and it was then that he was given the chance to return…to his own time. And there, the world would face the darkest of times since the first three ages of the world.
Sauron looked upon those who defeated him, he cursed their names, especially the hobbits. He looked among them and wished death upon them.
???: It's been a long time, Mairon.
In front Sauron appeared a beautiful woman. She had long gray hair and wore a sumptuous palace dress. Although her ears were pointed, she was not an elf. Her magnificent appearance was marred by a sad expression, although she stood before the Dark Lord, her eyes showed no anger, only pain. Even Sauron felt uneasy seeing the beautiful sad woman
Sauron: Does a great Valar really deserve to waste his time with a being as corrupt as me? This place is not for you Yavanna, Queen of the Earth.
Yavanna: Don't think we don't feel anything to see you like this. Aulë himself would have come to get you if he had the strength. But your betrayal caused him such great sorrow that he didn't have the courage to come and see you, Mairon.
Sauron: Stop calling me that! I renounced this name a long time ago.
Yavanna: "sigh" You can't imagine the pain I feel seeing you like that, I still remember the passion in your eyes when you forged magnificent objects in the forges of Valinor. That's why you were Aulë's favorit.
A brief flash of regret passed through the mind of the maia, sometimes he regretted this simple era. But he quickly erased the thought, he had long accepted what he had become.
Yavanna: Unfortunately, I'm not here to talk about the past. I must lead you to your judgment.
Sauron: If you think you can just drag me into the Void, then you've a come on a fool's errand .
Yavanna: Mairon stop fighting in vain, do not increase the crimes that you have already committed.
The woman snapped her fingers preventing Sauron from acting against her by an invisible force field, the ground under the feet of the two spirits seemed to be moving quickly. They headed to Valinor where the other Valars awaited the greatest judgment since Melkor.
In the past, Sauron could have struggled to free himself from his jailer. But the destruction of the ring had deprived him of his power.