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The Prime Video series “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” will return with its second season on August 29.

 

Amazon unveiled a teaser and key art for its new show at the inaugural upfront presentation in New York City. The show is based on the appendices of "The Lord of the Rings," specifically describing Middle-earth's Second Age, and features younger versions of key characters from the original trilogy.

 

Set thousands of years before the events of JRR Tolkien's famed book series, the series follows the forging of the original rings of power that allowed the Dark Lord Sauron to spread evil across Middle Earth.

 

Darkness will bind them. The Rings Of Power returns August 29 on @PrimeVideo.
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— The Lord of the Rings on Prime (@TheRingsofPower) May 14, 2024

 

“The Rings of Power” premiered on Prime Video with its first season in September 2022. According to a press release, the sophomore chapter will plunge its most beloved and vulnerable characters into a rising tide of darkness, challenging each to find their place in a world 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 official logline read.

 

Actor Charlie Vickers will return as Sauron, one of the world’s greatest literary villains, in the show, alongside Morfydd Clark as Galadriel, Robert Aramayo as Elrond, Owain Arthur as Prince Durin IV, Ismael Cruz Cordova as Arondir, and Charles Edwards as Celebrimbor.

 

The second season of "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" is produced by showrunners and executive producers JD Payne and Patrick McKay.