There’s little doubt that setting up the Second Age in the world of The Lord of the Rings, from what we know in a filmic sense, was always going to be a mammoth task but I enjoyed most of The Rings of Power, more than I anticipated. Some audiences weren’t initially convinced of a slower-paced approach (and I personally found the early Númenor work so meandering I wanted it to be destroyed) but when it came to the important things, like a good book in a way, they built it with gradual intrigue.

With Season 2 of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power coming to Prime Video on 29 August, this new trailer gives a much bigger scope of terror and the curse of power… more than ever before. While I think Prime are missing a trick by not releasing this as a winter series, dark nights in for dark lords akin, it will be on my list after a few episodes are up.

This time around we can see Middle-earth in the throes of discord, sown by Sauron, and the deception and manipulation that lead to the crafting of more of the titular Rings of Power. There’s no shadowy lurking, there’s trouble afoot for the realms of Eregion, Khazad-dûm, Lindon, Númenor, and the lands in-between. Season Two wil feature the Siege of Eregion, a definitive battle in J.R.R. Tolkien’s history of the Second Age of Middle-earth…

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The first three Season Two episodes of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power will premiere on 29 August, with additional new episodes streaming each week thereafter until the season finale on 3 October