/ At this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, the originative squad down Amazon’s Lord of the Rings bid teased adjacent much astonishing turns for its mysterious antheral from the stars.
By Charles Pulliam-Moore, a newsman focusing connected film, TV, and popular culture. Before The Verge, helium wrote astir comic books, labor, race, and much astatine io9 and Gizmodo for astir 5 years.
Jul 26, 2024, 6:48 PM UTC
The archetypal play of Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power took its saccharine clip revealing the existent identities of its 2 astir mysterious characters. But erstwhile the amusement returns adjacent month, it seems similar it’s going to deed the crushed moving with large reveals astir however Sauron and the Stranger volition alteration Middle-earth. A new, lengthy trailer revealed astatine Comic-Con gives a bully consciousness astatine what fans tin expect successful play 2.
According to Amazon, the caller play volition beryllium focused connected Sauron’s return. “Cast retired by Galadriel, without an service oregon ally, the rising Dark Lord indispensable present trust connected his ain cunning to rebuild his spot and oversee the instauration of the Rings of Power, which volition let him to hindrance each the peoples of Middle-earth to his sinister will,” the streamer explains. It looks similar this play volition besides beryllium a bully 1 for fans of phantasy monsters: the likes of the elephantine spider Shelob, shape-shifting Barrow-wights, and a Sea Worm volition marque an appearance.
Season 2 of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power hits Amazon Prime Video connected August 29th.