Rings of Power: What does the Mark of Sauron mean in The Lord of the Rings?

Spoilers – Warning, the article below contains potential spoilers. If you do not want to know the content, please do not read the following…

Although we’ve already been able to see it a few times in the first two episodes of The Rings of Power (available on Amazon Prime Video since last Friday), this strange symbol evokes the dark wizard Sauron – and which Galadriel believes is proof that the enemy Not completely defeated – it seems to have a hidden meaning.

Appearing on the remains of Finrod (Galadriel’s older brother) in an abandoned castle in the north, then on a mysterious sword found by young Theo in Tirharad, the mark has piqued the curiosity of many fans, and several theories have surfaced online. .

Namely, created by the YouTube channel The ring nerdThe most interesting and convincing of these starts from the principle that the famous symbol – viewed horizontally – actually represents the contours of a map, and not just any map: Mordor, Sauron’s future kingdom. South of Middle Earth.

Indeed, the brand seems to represent the mountain range that surrounds this terrible country, with a small mountainous projection in the center, corresponding to the site of the citadel of Minas Morgul, the future stronghold of the Maghreb.

But we can also imagine that by leaving it upside down, this symbol simply evokes Sauron’s terrifying spiked helmet seen in the prologue of the series as well as in Peter Jackson’s trilogy.

Finally, if we turn it all the way around, we can see the “M” representing Mordor, or simply Morgoth, the true Lord of Darkness, who was defeated by the Valar at the end of the First Age, and of which Sauron is the only one. successor.

(re)discover the series trailer…