THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER Season 2 Trailer (2024)

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER Season 2 Trailer (2024)

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER Season 2 Trailer (2024) Fantasy Series
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The new season of The Lord of the Rings on Amazon Prime Video focuses on JRR Tolkien’s legendary villain Sauron as he darkens Middle-earth.
Amazon Prime Video unveiled the first look of the upcoming season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Season two of the web series will focus on Charlie Vickers’s Sauron, something the OTT platform made clear by releasing a special character poster after the trailer was launched. (Also Read: Peter Jackson, Andy Serkis' new Lord of the Rings movie to focus on Gollum)

Charlie Vickers' Sauron will be at the centre of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
Charlie Vickers' Sauron will be at the centre of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
Return to Middle-earth
The Rings of Power will stream in multiple languages like English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada from August 29 this year. Charlie returns as Sauron, one of the greatest literary villains penned by JRR Tolkien, who wrote the LOTR books. He will appear in a whole new form to deceive the people of Middle-earth, say the makers. The trailer takes viewers on an action-packed adventure to the Second Age, showing Sauron and his quest for power. The trailer also sees the return of Galadriel, Elrond, Prince Durin IV, Arondir, and Celebrimbor.

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A press note shared by Prime Video reads, “In season two of The Rings of Power, Sauron has returned. Cast out by Galadriel, without army or ally, the rising Dark Lord must now rely on his own cunning to rebuild his strength and oversee the creation of the Rings of Power, which will allow him to bind all the peoples of Middle-earth to his sinister will. Building on season one’s epic scope and ambition, the new season plunges even its most beloved and vulnerable characters into a rising tide of darkness, challenging each to find their place in a world that is increasingly on the brink of calamity. Elves and dwarves, orcs and men, wizards and Harfoots… as friendships are strained and kingdoms begin to fracture, the forces of good will struggle ever more valiantly to hold on to what matters to them most of all… each other.”

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Not everyone seemed impressed by Charlie’s first look as Sauron though. One fan wrote, “Ah yes we all wanted SAURON THE EMBODIMENT OF EVIL to look hot.” Another even went as far as calling the makers evil, “This isn’t lord of the rings…the people who made this show are evil!” One even called The Lord of the Rings series fan-fiction, writing, “Lmao this isn’t Lord of the Rings. This is fan-fiction.” But some seemed impressed, one of them wrote, “Sexy Sauron back on the menu.” Another wrote, “the hair line is not a good look.. still hot tho. And evil.”
“Prepare yourselves.”

That’s what a sword weilding Galadriel (Morfydd Clark) declares to Elrond (Robert Aramayo) and her other warrior companions in the just released teaser trailer for Season 2 of Prime Video‘s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power – see below:

Season 2 of the J.R.R. Tolkien adaptation is coming on August 29, and “prepare yourselves” just might be an understatement.

One word: Sauron. Another word: Unleashed.

Much grittier and darker than most of Season 1, the just released peek at Season 2 also gives a brief look at the Charlie Vicker’s portrayed Mordor master’s Dark Tower. As well, there’s some new rings and their creation in there too, and one Hell of an explosion that could rival Mount Doom’s big blow-up in Season 1. Or, as Khazad-dûm Prince Durin (Owain Arthur) puts it in said minute-long teaser: “an evil, ancient and powerful has returned” — as you can see above.

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As well as the teaser look at the fate of Elves and dwarves, orcs and men, wizards and Harfoots, Prime Video at their Upfront presentation today also dropped a short Season 2 behind-the-scenes featurette and some LOTR key art.

If you had any doubt that Vicker’s evil Sauron was the center of the upcoming season, this poster should put that to rest.

With much flourish, the J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay showrun LOTR: The Rings of Power premiered on Prime Video on September 1, 2022 with two premiere episodes, and ran for until October 24 that year. After a vast battle for Middle Earth in the preceding episodes, the finale had a jaw dropping reveal that Sauron had been hiding in plain sight the whole time.

A big swing by the Jennifer Salke run streamer, the first season of Rings of Power cost about $700 million, when you include the cost to obtain the rights from the J.R.R. Tolkien estate.

Over the run of the first season, Deadline took fans behind the scenes on LOTR; The Rings of Power with our exclusive video aftershow Inside the Ring. Garnering a dust-up between Neil Gaiman and Elon Musk, among many reactions, the eight-episode first season had been watched by over 100 million viewers globally by the last week of 2022, according to Amazon. Trivial Pursuit moment: that viewership made the series the most watched ever at that time on the Jeff Bezos-founded steamer.

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 2 is executive produced by showrunners Payne and McKay.

Fellow EPs on the epic scale multi-season series are Lindsey Weber, Callum Greene, Justin Doble, Jason Cahill, and Gennifer Hutchison, along with co-executive producer and director Charlotte Brändström. Kate Hazell and Helen Shang produce too, with co-producers Clare Buxton, Andrew Lee, Glenise Mullins, and Matthew Penry-Davey. Season Two of LOTR: The Rings of Power also sees Sanaa Hamri and Louise Hooper among its directors.
Sauron is on the rise in the first trailer for Season 2 of the Prime Video series “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,” which premieres on Aug. 29. Amazon unveiled the trailer and the premiere date in New York City on Tuesday as part of its upfront presentation to advertisers.

The action-packed first look focuses on the rise of the fearsome and powerful villain during Middle-earth’s Second Age, as Sauron (Charlie Vickers) disguises himself as an elf to aid Celebrimbor (Charles Edwards) in the forging of the titular rings of power. All sorts of menacing creatures — orcs, creeping tree vines, an oozing morass of wormy goo — appear to pollute the land, while many of the characters from Season 1 ready themselves for battle, including Galadriel (Morfydd Clark), Elrond (Robert Aramayo), Arondir (Ismael Cruz Córdova) and Isildur (Maxim Baldry).

The preview also includes a brief shot of the character known as the Stranger (Daniel Weyman) wielding a wooden staff. In the Season 1 finale, he was revealed to be one of the wizards (a.k.a. the Istari) who later populate Middle-earth. Although the Stranger hasn’t been officially confirmed to be an early version of Gandalf, the most famous of Middle-earth’s wizards, the show hasn’t exactly disabused that impression, either. Other key “Lord of the Rings” cameos include Mount Doom, one of the Great Eagles, what could be the Watcher in the Water (or one of its early progenitors), and what appears to be Barad-dûr — a.k.a. Sauron’s central fortress in Mordor.

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Season 2 of ‘The Rings of Power’ started filming late 2022 and was shot in the U.K., as opposed to the first season’s shooting locations in New Zealand.

It’s been a big week for “Lord of the Rings” fans. On May 9, Warner Bros. announced that Andy Serkis will return as Gollum in the first of two new live-action “Rings” movies. Serkis will also direct the film, tentatively titled “The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum,” and the studio has slated it for release in 2026. Peter Jackson, director of the original trilogy, will produce the movie.

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An animated movie titled “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim” will hit theaters on Dec. 13. It will star “Succession” actor Brian Cox as Helm Hammerhand, the king of Rohan.

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Sauron’s rise in Season 2 of “Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” will begin August 29 when the new installment of Amazon Prime Video’s fantasy series based on J.R.R. Tolkien IP arrives on the streamer. Prime Video released a teaser trailer and behind-the-scenes featurette Monday. Based on parts of Tolkien’s posthumous “The Silmarillion,” the series has a planned arc of five seasons.

What is ‘Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” Season 2 about?

The drama series takes place thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings” books with an ensemble cast of familiar faces mixed with new characters. Set in the not-for-long peaceful Second Age of Middle Earth, the show marks a first-time venture into the adaptation of Tolkein’s history of the fabled period. Villain Sauron (Charlie Vickers) will be “out and about doing his thing” in Season 2.

“We filmed the first two episodes then went on hiatus, and then with maybe two months to go of the hiatus before starting episode 3, the showrunners said ‘We want to have a meeting with you,'” Vickers told Deadline in Episode 8 of the “‘LOTR: The Rings of Power’ After Show ‘Inside the Ring'” after the finale had aired. “They took me into the set that Galadriel discovers in the first episode with the orcs through the walls and Sauron’s sigil on the forge. They took me in there and said ‘This is your world. You’re playing Sauron.'”

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Who is creating ‘Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ Season 2?

Showrun and executive produced by developers J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay, “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” is also executive produced by Lindsey Weber, Callum Greene, Justin Doble, Jason Cahill, and Gennifer Hutchison, along with co-executive producer and director Charlotte Brändström. Kate Hazell and Helen Shang produce too, with co-producers Clare Buxton, Andrew Lee, Glenise Mullins, and Matthew Penry-Davey. Season Two of LOTR: The Rings of Power also has enlisted Sanaa Hamri and Louise Hooper among its team of all-female directors. Charlotte Brändström, who directed episodes 6 and 7 of Season 1, will return as well.

“We weren’t trying to reproduce what had been seen in the [Peter Jackson] movies, or what was seen by some other concept artist for Tolkien’s work,” production designer Ramsey Avery said of the show in an episode of Deadline’s craft series The Process. “So, it was all coming up with fresh and new ideas that told a very specific story.”

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When will Season 2 of ‘Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ be released?

Season 2 of the fantasy show arrives on Amazon Prime Video August 29. Production on the follow-up installment continued in the UK during the writers strike in the summer of 2023. The episode release rollout hasn’t yet been outlined, but Season 1 premiered Sept. 1, 2022 with two episodes, followed by a new episode every week until October 24.

How many episodes are in ‘Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ Season 2?

Season 2 is looking to have eight episodes, just like Season 1.

How to watch ‘Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ Season 2:

Both seasons will be available exclusively via Amazon Prime Video.

Which actors will return for ‘Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ Season 2?

Alongside Charlie Vickers as Sauron, Morfydd Clark will return as Galadriel, Robert Aramayo as Elrond, Owain Arthur as Prince Durin IV, Ismael Cruz Córdova as Arondir, Ema Horvath as Eärien, Benjamin Walker as High King Gil-Galad, Peter Mullan as King Durin III, Markella Kavenagh as Nori Brandyfoot, Maxim Baldry as Isildur and Sophia Nomvete as Princess Disa to name a few.

Are there new characters in ‘Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ Season 2?

Fifteen actors were added in recurring roles at the end of 2022.

Sam Hazeldine takes on the role of Orc leader Adar in a recasting in the Prime Video series, replacing Joseph Mawle, who portrayed the character in Season 1. The recasting decision was made months ago, and Mawle did not participate in any of the worldwide promotional events for the series.

Additional new cast members are Gabriel Akuwudike (Hanna), Yasen ‘Zates’ Atour (The Witcher), Ben Daniels (Jupiter’s Legacy), newcomer Amelia Kenworthy, Nia Towle (Persuasion), and Nicholas Woodeson (Silent Witness). Oliver Alvin-Wilson (The Bay), Stuart Bowman (The Pact), Gavi Singh Chera (The Undeclared War), William Chubb (Vampire Academy), Kevin Eldon (Game of Thrones), Will Keen (Ridley Road), Selina Lo (Boss Level), and Calam Lynch (Bridgerton) also joined the series in December 2022.

How much does the series cost to produce?

Season 1 added up to almoat $700 million, when obtention of the rights from the J.R.R. Tolkien estate is factored in. Season 2 has been teased as much grittier and darker than Season 1.

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The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power aired its final episode of Season 1 all the way back in October of 2022. Amazon’s Lord of The Rings fanfic TV series was divisive to say the least, earning mixed reviews with critics and audiences alike.

Now, the story of Middle-earth’s Revised And Compressed Second Age is poised to return, though we don’t have a firm release date yet. That could change tomorrow when the very first Season 2 teaser trailer drops.

The teaser trailer itself was teased teasingly by a teaser-for-the-teaser-trailer trailer today on Twitter:

There’s no footage in this pre-teaser, but we do know that the actual trailer will drop on Tuesday, May 14th. I suspect it will land in the morning. As much as I ended up truly despising everything about Rings Of Power (which got worse with every episode of the season) I am intrigued, at the very least, to see what Season 2 has to offer.

Season 1 ended strangely, rushing some major plot-points in the finale and tying everything up far too neatly by the end. The amount of contrived, overly-convenient story beats were truly astonishing. Few shows with this kind of massive budget screw things up so badly so quickly. It took Game Of Thrones seven seasons to start really screwing the pooch.

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I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t excited to write about—and make videos about—another season of Rings Of Power. But I also genuinely hope that showrunners Patrick McKay and JD Payne listened to the criticism and not just to sycophantic praise and made some big changes to the series. (I hope the same thing for whatever new season of True Detective follows the disastrous Night Country, but I’m not holding my breath . . . ).

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I’m also looking forward to impressionist and YouTuber Charlie Hopkinson’s videos. His Rings Of Power videos were the highlight of that entire show. Sometimes, even the very worst shows have surprising silver linings.

Soon we’ll get more Harfoots leaving their sick and elderly behind; more of Galadriel’s weird facial expressions; more speeches that crib lines from Lord of the Rings proper; and probably more sexy Sauron. Will we get anything even remotely resembling Tolkien’s work?

That remains to be seen.

I’m just glad that we’re also getting House Of The Dragon Season 2 this summer. That’s one I’m genuinely excited about.
Attendees at Amazon’s inaugural upfront presentation this morning in New York City were transported back to Middle-earth as Prime Video unveiled a first look at the upcoming second season of the hit series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. The series’ first season was an unprecedented global success and one of the top original series for Prime Video, viewed by more than 100 million people worldwide, and driving more Prime sign-ups worldwide during its launch window than any other previous content to date.

Prime Video also announced that Season Two will debut globally on Thursday, August 29, 2024, in more than 240 countries and territories in multiple languages.

Stunning new Season Two key art was also revealed today, featuring the return of Charlie Vickers in the role of Sauron, one of the world’s greatest literary villains, appearing in a new form - one that will aid him in deceiving the denizens of Middle-earth.

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The debut teaser trailer takes viewers on an action-packed journey back to J.R.R. Tolkien’s Second Age, and shows the ascending evil presence of Sauron as he continues his vengeful quest for complete power. Showcasing the cinematic splendor that the series is known for, and heralding the return of many fan favorite characters, including Galadriel, Elrond, Prince Durin IV, Arondir, and Celebrimbor, this first-look also reveals the much-anticipated creation of more Rings.
In Season Two of The Rings of Power, Sauron has returned. Cast out by Galadriel, without army or ally, the rising Dark Lord must now rely on his own cunning to rebuild his strength and oversee the creation of the Rings of Power, which will allow him to bind all the peoples of Middle-earth to his sinister will. Building on Season One’s epic scope and ambition, the new season plunges even its most beloved and vulnerable characters into a rising tide of darkness, challenging each to find their place in a world that is increasingly on the brink of calamity. Elves and dwarves, orcs and men, wizards and Harfoots… as friendships are strained and kingdoms begin to fracture, the forces of good will struggle ever more valiantly to hold on to what matters to them most of all… each other.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season Two will be available in English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada exclusively on Prime Video.

To view and download The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season Two teaser trailer and key art assets, as well as additional series information, please visit the Amazon MGM Studios press site."Darkness will bind them." Here we go again! Prime Video has revealed an epic first teaser for Season 2 of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power series. It's start to launch in late August during the fall - just like Season 1 did back in 2022. The Rings of Power brings to screens for the very first time the heroic legends of the fabled Second Age of Middle-earth's history. For Season 2, as we all know from the finale of Season 1: Sauron has returned. Cast out by Galadriel, without army or ally, the rising Dark Lord must now rely on his own cunning to rebuild his strength and oversee the creation of the Rings of Power, which will allow him to bind all the peoples of Middle-earth to his sinister will. Building on Season 1's epic scope and ambition, Season 2 plunges even its most beloved and vulnerable characters into a rising tide of darkness, challenging each to find their place in a world that is increasingly on the brink of calamity. The ensemble cast for Season 2 features Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Robert Aramayo, Owain Arthur, Maxim Baldry, Nazanin Boniadi, Morfydd Clark, Ismael Cruz Córdova, Charles Edwards, Trystan Gravelle, Ema Horvath, Markella Kavenagh. So far so good, this footage rocks! This looks much more darker than Season 1, with even more action and greater stakes with Sauron menacing all of Middle Earth.

First look teaser trailer for Prime Video's The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power, from YouTube:

The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power Trailer

In Season Two of The Rings of Power series on Prime Video, Sauron has returned. Cast out by Galadriel, without army or ally, the rising Dark Lord must now rely on his own cunning to rebuild his strength and oversee the creation of the Rings of Power, which will allow him to bind all the peoples of Middle-earth to his sinister will. Building on The Rings of Power - Season One's epic scope and ambition, the new season plunges even its most beloved and vulnerable characters into a rising tide of darkness, challenging each to find their place in a world that is increasingly on the brink of calamity. Elves and dwarves, orcs and men, wizards and Harfoots… as friendships are strained and kingdoms begin to fracture, the forces of good will struggle ever more valiantly to hold on to what matters to them most of all... each other. Look good so far?

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is a series developed by Amazon Studios, in cooperation with the Tolkien Estate & Trust, HarperCollins, New Line Cinema. J. D. Payne & Patrick McKay are showrunners and developed the streaming series adaptation, set in the Second Age of Middle-earth before the events of the Lord of the Rings novel and the previous films. Featuring episodes in Season 2 directed by Charlotte Brändström, Sanaa Hamri, Louise Hooper. Executive produced by Lindsey Weber, Callum Greene, Justin Doble, Jason Cahill, Gennifer Hutchison. Amazon debuts The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - Season 2 streaming on Prime Video starting August 29th, 2024 later in the year. Stay tuned for updates.