We see that Sauron is emotional in that scene — killing Celebrimbor is not easy for him. What does that tell us about his character?
It’s funny, it’s one of those things where I did the scene and I wasn’t expecting to get emotional. It’s not like it was a planned thing. It just happened. And then when you talk about it, you have to go back and try and unpack why, and sometimes there is no explanation for these things. But in thinking about why he might have been feeling like that, there’s a lot of different things. I think you do see him kill people in this show, and he often kills them quite matter of factly, let’s say. It’s different with Celebrimbor because he has been a partner in crime and someone [Sauron] really respects and someone he could have used.
There’s also this huge anger in himself in this moment that he’s been defeated because Celebrimbor has hidden these rings. Sauron needs the rings, yet Celebrimbor wants to die before he tells Sauron where these rings are. And Sauron says, “There are many ways of keeping you alive,” something like that. So he clearly wants to torture him until he finds out, but it’s just like the way Celebrimbor tells him that he’s now a slave to these creations. I think it probably hits home for Sauron, and he loses control and kills him. And I think that makes him really angry and upset, because it’s so un-Sauron to be out of control. It is more interesting to watch than him just dispatching everyone.
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