Lavish The Rings of Energy S2 trailer debuts at San Diego Comedian-Con

Among the many many highlights of final weekend’s San Diego Comedian-Con was the official full trailer for the second season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy. Sauron has returned and is plotting his takeover of Center-earth. Will donning the titular rings make the wearers his adversaries—or his collaborators?

(Spoilers for S1 beneath.)

As beforehand reported, Prime Video made a significant funding in The Rings of Energy when it acquired the rights to the supply materials from the Tolkien property, even committing to a number of seasons upfront. Just about everybody guessed lengthy earlier than the S1 finale’s reveal that Halbrand (Charlie Vickers), king of the Southlands, was Sauron in disguise. Followers even dubbed him “Scorching Sauron.” He took benefit of the truth that the elvish mild of Valar was fading, placing the race of elves in peril of extinction until they returned to Valinor to protect their immortality. The invention of the valuable ore mithril gave the elves an alternative choice championed by Elrond (Robert Aramayo), Galadriel (Morfydd Clark), and the elven smith Celebrimbor (Charles Edwards).

However there was solely a bit mithril obtainable since King Durin III (Peter Mullan) refused any additional mining. Sadly, Galadriel unwittingly introduced Halbrand into the fray, and he urged bonding the mithril with one other steel, claiming it might amplify the mithril’s energy—when the alternative was true. The season ended with the forging of the three elven rings out of an alloy of mithril and the gold and silver of Valinor: Narya (the Ring of Hearth), to be worn by Gil-galad (Benjamin Walker); Nenya (the Ring of Water), to be worn by Galadriel; and Vilya (the Ring of Air), to be worn by Elrond.

Darkness will bind them

S2 will discover the results of Galadriel’s actions within the S1 finale. We additionally know that the Harfoot Nori and The Stranger will journey to the land of Rhûn within the east of Center-earth, a brand new setting for the sequence, and apparently, there will likely be a “huge” two-episode battle. Per the official premise:

Sauron has returned. Solid out by Galadriel, with out military or ally, the rising Darkish Lord should now depend on his personal crafty to rebuild his power and oversee the creation of the Rings of Energy, which is able to permit him to bind all of the peoples of Center-earth to his sinister will. Constructing on Season One’s epic scope and ambition, the brand new season plunges even its most beloved and weak characters right into a rising tide of darkness, difficult every to seek out their place in a world that’s more and more on the point of calamity. Elves and dwarves, orcs and males, wizards and Harfoots… as friendships are strained and kingdoms start to fracture, the forces of excellent will wrestle ever extra valiantly to carry on to what issues to them most of all… one another.

The primary S2 teaser dropped in Might, with a tantalizing shot of “Scorching Elf Sauron” creating Barad-dûr towards the teaser’s finish. The brand new trailer opens with Galadriel’s voiceover telling us that Sauron “sees himself as grasp of all of Center-earth. He seeks to rule it not solely via conquest however by bending the minds of all its peoples to his personal. And for that he wants not armies, however rings.” We see Galadriel placing on one of many rings over Elrond’s strenuous objection. And she or he’s not the one one. “In selecting to put on these rings, you may have all develop into his collaborators,” Elrond says, insisting the rings should be destroyed.

Galadriel begs to vary, believing her ring is guiding her.  The opposite bearers are reluctant to surrender their rings as properly, however finally, they band collectively to tackle Sauron’s forces, and we get some eye-popping footage of the aforementioned mega-battle. Keep in mind: “When the darkness falls, there are at all times some who rise forth and shine.”

The Rings of Power S2 premieres on August 29, 2024, on Prime Video. You too can take a look at a featurette beneath, introducing a bunch of creatures: Barrow-wights, Hill-trolls, and Sea-worms, in addition to Orcs, Ents, and the youthful model of the ravenous large spider Shelob.

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