Bear McCreary, Composer For 'The Rings of Power', Discusses Sauron's Evolving Theme Song
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(WARNING: ‘THE RINGS OF POWER’ SPOILERS AHEAD!)
Production of the second season of The Rings of Power is underway, and the people involved are starting to tease out their roles for the upcoming season. People who work behind the scenes are also willing to discuss their craft. Included in this is Bear McCreary, music composer. He has also created the scores of other movies, television programs, and videos games, such as God of War, God of War: Ragnorak, We Have a Ghost, The Walking Dead, Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge, and Godzilla: King of the Monsters, just to name some in his repertoire. McCreary was excited to share with Liam Crowley of Comicbook.com his twist on the theme music for one of movie and literature’s most well-known villains, Sauron. As it turns out for seven episodes of the first season, Sauron was onscreen, shifted into the character of Halbrand, played by Charlie Vicker. It was only in the last episode of the season that it was revealed that Halbrand was Sauron himself. McCreary says that his theme music for Halbrand was a hint to his true identity:
"One of the things that I had the most fun with was the Sauron theme. Spoiler alert, he is another character in season one. It turns out he's teased, but we also get to know him before we realize it's him and that character has a theme as well. That character's theme is the Sauron theme backwards. You've been hearing these notes. You already have this duality, this built-in subconscious trick that I used to sort of teach you that Sauron's here. You know him even if you don't know that you know him."
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Even with the unveiling of Sauron and hearing his own theme at the end of the last season, McCreary says that he’s not done yet with the music behind the character:
"Sauron is a shape-shifter. As he changes shape to manipulate in the surroundings to his own ends, his music is going to have to adapt. What I think is really cool is I've already conditioned the audience to expect that. I've already conditioned the audience. Whether you know it or not, your brain understands that this certain shape of notes, which is itself a little circle. It's this ring. It's the only theme that has this circular repeating thing. I think you're going to hear other variations of that in the next season that are going to be pretty cool."
The first season of The Rings of Power is currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
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Sources: Comicbook.com, BearMcCreary.com
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