Lavish The Rings of Energy S2 trailer debuts at San Diego Comedian-Con – Cyber Tech

Among the many many highlights of final weekend’s San Diego Comedian-Con was the official full trailer for the second season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy. Sauron has returned and is plotting his takeover of Center-earth. Will donning the titular rings make the wearers his adversaries—or his collaborators?

(Spoilers for S1 under.)

As beforehand reported, Prime Video made a serious funding in The Rings of Energy when it acquired the rights to the supply materials from the Tolkien property, even committing to a number of seasons upfront. Just about everybody guessed lengthy earlier than the S1 finale’s reveal that Halbrand (Charlie Vickers), king of the Southlands, was Sauron in disguise. Followers even dubbed him “Sizzling Sauron.” He took benefit of the truth that the elvish gentle of Valar was fading, placing the race of elves in peril of extinction except they returned to Valinor to protect their immortality. The invention of the valuable ore mithril gave the elves an alternative choice championed by Elrond (Robert Aramayo), Galadriel (Morfydd Clark), and the elven smith Celebrimbor (Charles Edwards).

However there was solely a little bit mithril obtainable since King Durin III (Peter Mullan) refused any additional mining. Sadly, Galadriel unwittingly introduced Halbrand into the fray, and he prompt bonding the mithril with one other metallic, claiming it will amplify the mithril’s energy—when the other was true. The season ended with the forging of the three elven rings out of an alloy of mithril and the gold and silver of Valinor: Narya (the Ring of Hearth), to be worn by Gil-galad (Benjamin Walker); Nenya (the Ring of Water), to be worn by Galadriel; and Vilya (the Ring of Air), to be worn by Elrond.

Darkness will bind them

S2 will discover the implications of Galadriel’s actions within the S1 finale. We additionally know that the Harfoot Nori and The Stranger will journey to the land of Rhûn within the east of Center-earth, a brand new setting for the sequence, and apparently, there can be a “huge” two-episode battle. Per the official premise:

Sauron has returned. Solid out by Galadriel, with out military or ally, the rising Darkish Lord should now depend on his personal crafty to rebuild his power and oversee the creation of the Rings of Energy, which can enable him to bind all of the peoples of Center-earth to his sinister will. Constructing on Season One’s epic scope and ambition, the brand new season plunges even its most beloved and weak characters right into a rising tide of darkness, difficult every to seek out their place in a world that’s more and more getting ready to calamity. Elves and dwarves, orcs and males, wizards and Harfoots… as friendships are strained and kingdoms start to fracture, the forces of excellent will wrestle ever extra valiantly to carry on to what issues to them most of all… one another.

The primary S2 teaser dropped in Might, with a tantalizing shot of “Sizzling Elf Sauron” creating Barad-dûr towards the teaser’s finish. The brand new trailer opens with Galadriel’s voiceover telling us that Sauron “sees himself as grasp of all of Center-earth. He seeks to rule it not solely via conquest however by bending the minds of all its peoples to his personal. And for that he wants not armies, however rings.” We see Galadriel placing on one of many rings over Elrond’s strenuous objection. And she or he’s not the one one. “In selecting to put on these rings, you’ve all grow to be his collaborators,” Elrond says, insisting the rings should be destroyed.

Galadriel begs to vary, believing her ring is guiding her.  The opposite bearers are reluctant to surrender their rings as effectively, however ultimately, they band collectively to tackle Sauron’s forces, and we get some eye-popping footage of the aforementioned mega-battle. Keep in mind: “When the darkness falls, there are at all times some who rise forth and shine.”

The Rings of Power S2 premieres on August 29, 2024, on Prime Video. It’s also possible to take a look at a featurette under, introducing a bunch of creatures: Barrow-wights, Hill-trolls, and Sea-worms, in addition to Orcs, Ents, and the youthful model of the ravenous large spider Shelob.

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