‘Power Changes Everything’ in RINGS OF POWER Season 2
By Movieguide® Contributor
Prime Video’s latest THE LORD OF THE RINGS: RINGS OF POWER Season 2 trailer promises “power changes everything.”
The trailer “reveals 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,” a press release announces.
“Unlikely alliances are forged amidst fire, and true friendships are tested. Dangers no longer lurk in shadow, but slither their way into the light,” the release continues. “Weighty decisions rest on the shoulders of the realms of Eregion, Khazad-dûm, Lindon, Númenor, and the lands in-between, as the safety and peace of these kingdoms hang in the balance.”
Check out the trailer here:
The trailer comes a little over two weeks before THE RINGS OF POWER Season 2’s Aug. 29 release. The first three Season 2 episodes will premiere on Prime Video that day. Subsequent episodes will release weekly until the season finale on Oct. 3, 2024.
“This season features the long-awaited Siege of Eregion, a definitive battle in J.R.R. Tolkien’s history of the Second Age of Middle-earth, from which not everyone makes it out alive. The banners are raised, and the devastating war against Sauron is just beginning,” per the press release.
Movieguide® previously reported on what fans can expect from Season 2:
“Cast out by Galadriel, without army or ally, the rising Dark Lord must now rely on his own cunning to rebuild his strength and oversee the creation of the Rings of Power, which will allow him to bind all the peoples of Middle-earth to his sinister will,” the synopsis says.
“Building on Season One’s epic scope and ambition, the new season plunges even its most beloved and vulnerable characters into a rising tide of darkness, challenging each to find their place in a world that is increasingly on the brink of calamity,” it continues. “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.”
Movieguide® awarded RINGS OF POWER Season 1, Episode 8 a Teddy Bear Award®, praising its “Very strong allegorical Proto-Christian, redemptive worldview of Good versus Demonic Evil.”
