It’s a problem we’re all too familiar with.

And it’s always this fine line that you’re balancing."

But characters can hardly carry around torches for close-ups during those key emotional moments.

Sauron as Annatar (Charlie Vickers) glancing down and to his left at a fire with the silhouette of a balrog inside in Rings of Power Season 2

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Hey, Special Effects Department, can you light a fire six feet from his head?

And so it actually makes it seem, feel darker than it actually is.

We use all those tricks."

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Epic drama set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’ and ‘The Lord of the Rings’ follows an ensemble cast of characters, both familiar and new, as they confront the long-feared re-emergence of evil to Middle-earth.

The first seven episodes ofRings of PowerSeason 2 are streaming now on Prime Video.

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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power