Rings of Power‘s Epic Comic-Con Trailer Brings War to Middle-earth

The archetypal play of Amazon’s Lord of the Rings prequel, Rings of Power, heralded the dread return of the Dark Lord Sauron. Now, he’s back: and play 2 volition spot each of Middle-earth reckon with the emergence of specified a unspeakable darkness. Oh, and immoderate radical volition prime up immoderate fancy costume jewellery that we’re definite volition person perfectly nary wide-ranging interaction connected anyone involved.

During its San Diego Comic-Con sheet today, Amazon lifted the lid connected a brand-new trailer for Rings of Power play two up of its merchandise adjacent month. And honestly? No 1 connected Middle-earth is going to beryllium having a particularly great time, it seems, unless they’re immoderate spirit of evil carnal and/or Sauron himself. Or, arsenic he’s going to beryllium known to immoderate successful play 2 successful his elven disguise arsenic Annatar, the Lord of Gifts.

It’s a immense trailer, and portion erstwhile footage from the play has mostly focused connected the elves’ peculiar struggle with Sauron, arsenic helium worms his mode into Celebrimbor’s interior ellipse to assistance forge the remaining rings of power, this 1 truly gives america a batch to chew connected for each the myriad stories crossed Middle-earth this season. We get to spot the Stranger and Nori arsenic they travel to Rhun (and transverse paths with Rory Kinnear arsenic Tom Bombadil, everyone’s favourite merry fellow). We get to spot tiny teases of Arondir and Isildur’s travel arsenic Adar and the forces of the risen Mordor statesman to gather. And yes, we get to spot rings, arsenic Galadriel and the elves, and Durin and the dwarves alike, statesman to find themselves tempted by the powerfulness connected offer… and the unusual propulsion they person towards Sauron’s ain will.

There’s besides conscionable a chaotic magnitude of enactment present arsenic well—we knew play 2 was going to get into 1 of the astir important clashes of the Second Age arsenic Sauron and his forces laic siege to Elves of Eregion, but there’s much than conscionable immense battles to travel here, from mysterious encounters with Barrow-wights, the menace of a Balrog, adjacent monolithic trolls and not-quite-so-massive, but inactive beauteous sizable, spiders (is that possibly the young Shelob we cognize is coming this season?). It truly does look similar they heard folks who thought not capable really went connected during the archetypal season: you wanted things happening? Here are things happening.

Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power returns to Amazon Prime adjacent month, connected August 29.

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