🔥 The Rings of Power Season 3 shocks fans as leaks suggest that Sauron is actually… Elon Musk in disguise, and the most surprising part is the reason he appeared in Middle-earth.

Los Angeles, November 17, 2025. A 47-page production document marked “TOP SECRET – SEASON 3” leaked overnight on a private Tolkien subreddit. Within hours, the entire internet lost its mind: Sauron, the Dark Lord himself, will be revealed as Elon Musk wearing an Annatar-like disguise.

The leak contains storyboard frames, casting notes, and even a full monologue. Page 23 shows a fair-haired elf-lord removing a glowing ring. The face underneath? A digitally de-aged Elon Musk, complete with subtle Neuralink scar behind the ear.

Amazon Prime Video refuses to comment, but sources inside Bad Wolf Studios confirm: Musk quietly filmed four days in Wales last February. He insisted on doing his own Elvish lines and refused green-screen, demanding practical forges and real fire.

According to the leaked script, Sauron did not “fall” to Middle-earth by accident. In Season 3 Episode 6, he confesses to Celebrimbor: “I came from a dying world of iron and glass. My rockets failed. Middle-earth was the only planet with enough mithril to power a new Starship.”

The monologue continues: “Men call me the Deceiver, but I merely offered them progress: rings, highways, free speech, self-driving orcs.” Galadriel’s reaction shot is described as “horrified recognition.”

Insiders claim Musk wrote half the speech himself. One line allegedly reads: “One Ring to rule them all? No. One Ring to connect them to X.” The production team reportedly laughed for ten minutes straight on set.

Filming notes reveal practical details: Musk’s Annatar costume includes hidden Tesla coil effects. When he forges the One Ring, actual lightning arcs from his fingertips. The VFX supervisor called it “the most expensive single shot in television history.”

A separate leaked memo from showrunners JD Payne and Patrick McKay explains the twist: “Sauron is ambition incarnate. In 2025, no human embodies raw, chaotic ambition more than Elon Musk. The parallels wrote themselves.”

Reddit detectives found more. Musk’s likeness appears in ancient Númenórean murals labeled “The Great Inventor from the Void.” One carving shows him holding a rocket shaped like the Eye of Sauron.

The leak includes a post-credits scene: after the Battle of the Last Alliance, defeated Sauron’s spirit flees into a black cube that crashes in South Africa… in 1971. Cue baby Elon crying.

Amazon’s legal team issued takedown notices, but mirrors spread faster than Mordor’s shadow. #SauronIsElon trends with 11 million posts in 12 hours. Tolkien scholars are having collective meltdowns.

Christopher Tolkien’s estate released a furious statement: “This is blasphemy.” Meanwhile, the official Rings of Power X account posted a single black square and the word “Soon™.”

Elon Musk himself broke silence at 3:12 AM PST: a single tweet with the eye of Sauron emoji and “I’ve been telling you I’m an alien for years.” The tweet reached 400 million impressions before he deleted it.

Production sources say Musk demanded final approval on every scene containing his face. He also requested the One Ring be made of solid titanium with an embedded Starlink chip “for authenticity.”

Insiders reveal the original plan was Tom Cruise. When Cruise backed out, Musk allegedly called the showrunners personally: “I’ll do it, but only if Sauron wins.” They compromised: he loses the battle but wins the long game.

Galadriel actress Morfydd Clark accidentally fueled the fire in a now-deleted TikTok: “Working opposite the actual Dark Lord was… intense.” The clip has 85 million views on re-uploads.

The leaked document ends with Season 3 tagline: “Not all who wander are lost. Some are just looking for lithium.” Fans are screaming.

Amazon stock jumped 4% on the leak. Analysts call it “the greatest accidental marketing campaign in streaming history.” Season 3 pre-orders shattered records before a single official trailer.

Die-hard Tolkien fans started a petition with 300,000 signatures demanding the twist be scrapped. Counter-petition “Let Sauron cook” already hit 1.2 million.

A separate leak shows Season 4 plans: Sauron’s spirit possesses a cybertruck that drives itself to Mount Doom. The showrunners reportedly high-fived when Musk approved it.

Peter Jackson declined comment, but sources say he laughed for twenty straight minutes when shown the storyboards.

The biggest surprise in the leak? Sauron’s true motive: “I didn’t want to rule Middle-earth. I just needed the mithril to colonize Mars before the Valar shut the door forever.”

Filming wrapped in August. Crew members signed NDAs thicker than the Silmarillion. One extra claims Musk stayed in character between takes, speaking only Black Speech and broken Sindarin.

Amazon plans to drop the first teaser during the Super Bowl, allegedly costing $40 million for 60 seconds. The teaser ends with Musk’s Sauron whispering: “The age of men is over. The time of the orc has come… and Wi-Fi is free.”

Tolkien professor Corey Olsen live-streamed for six hours calling it “the death of myth.” His stream peaked at 800,000 concurrent viewers.

Meanwhile, Dogecoin surged 40% because the One Ring in the leak has the Doge logo engraved inside.

The final page of the leak is a letter from Musk to the showrunners: “Thank you for letting me play the greatest villain of all time. In the end, we’re all just trying to make the world a little more interesting.”

Whether genius satire, elaborate ARG, or the boldest swing in television history, one thing is certain: when Season 3 drops in 2026, half the planet will watch, and the other half will pretend they’re not.

The age of the Dark Lord has come. And he brought Starlink.