The Lord of Gifts
“I think he’s been here among us all along,” a shaky, presumably elven woman says, as we smash cut into that elven disguise: Charlie Vickers, no longer Halbrand, but as Annatar: the form Sauron took to ensorcel the Elves of Eregion into forging his magical, mysterious trinkets. While Halbrand’s face was known to Celebrimbor, after they briefly met at the climax of season one, it was only Galadriel that learned his identity as Sauron returned—and Sauron was clearly capable of a vast array of illusions and deceptive magic as he tried to worm his way into her head, so it’s probably not going to be too much of an issue for Annatar to trick Celebrimbor.
