The New Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Trailer is Out & It’s Epic

The second teaser trailer for the highly anticipated The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power television series from Amazon Studios was released today and it gives us a lot more to go on in terms of what to expect with the upcoming series. It’s been mired in controversy for one reason or another, but this new trailer puts a lot of those concerns to bed, at least for this writer.

The new two-minute, 30-second teaser trailer delves even deeper into this series adaptation, giving us a way better look into the island kingdom of Númenor. The characters are Isildur (Maxim Baldry), Elendil (Lloyd Owen), Pharazôn (Trystan Gravelle), and Queen Regent Míriel (Cynthia Addai-Robinson). Additional Númenóreans also recently announced are Kemen (Leon Wadham) and Eärien (Ema Horvath).

It also looks like we have a younger Galadriel and Elrond on our hands played by Morfydd Clark and Robert Aramayo.

The teaser trailer also highlights some of the realms viewers will visit over the course of the eight-part series, including the Elven realms of Lindon and Eregion, the Dwarven realm Khazad-dûm, the Southlands, the Northernmost Wastes, the Sundering Seas, and the island kingdom of Númenór.

While the series takes place in the second age, which in the books lasts thousands of years, the show will compress and overlap events to give the show better pacing, and making sure we don’t have hundreds of years pass between each episode. Tolkien got to take all the time in the world when writing this stuff down and some hard decisions need to be made when it comes to adaptations.

“If you are true to the exact letter of the law, you are going to be telling a story in which your human characters are dying off every season because you’re jumping 200 years in time, and then you’re not meeting really big, important canon characters until Season 4,” says showrunner J.D. Payne. “Look, there might be some fans who want us to do a documentary of Middle-Earth, but we’re going to tell one story that unites all these things.”

The multi-season drama will launch on Prime Video worldwide on Friday, September 2, with new episodes available weekly.