This post contains spoilers for The Rings of Power through Season 2, Episode 3. The new season of The Rings of Power opens with Sauron, though you may not know it. The first episode starts with a flashback to the beginning of the Second Age when Sauron attempts to seize power after the defeat of his master, the dark lord Morgoth, at the hands of angels called the Valar, elves, and men.