Rings Of Power Season 2 Trailer: Sauron's Evil Infects Middle-earth As LOTR Goes Full Horror

Summary The first trailer is released for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2, teasing Sauron's growing power.

The trailer shows off a darker tone for season 2 as Sauron schemes to build Barad-dûr and solidify his hold over the kingdoms of Middle-earth.

The forging of the titular Rings of Power will be crucial to season 2 as Sauron uses his fair form to deceive the Elves of Eregion.

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2 gets its first trailer, teasing Sauron's evil spreading throughout Middle-earth. Based on source material by J. R. R. Tolkien, showrunners Patrick Mckay and J. D. Payne's The Rings of Power season 1 premiered on Prime Video in summer 2022, introducing audiences to a younger Galadriel (Morfydd Clark) during the Second Age of Middle-earth. Sauron's true identity remains a mystery throughout most of season 1, but the finale finally reveals that Halbrand (Charlie Vickers) is the Dark Lord, setting up an intense season 2.

Prime Video now releases the first trailer for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2, teasing that dark days are ahead for Middle-earth. Check out the trailer below:

The trailer provides a first look at how Sauron will build his evil empire in Mordor and beyond, and also reveals what kind of tone audiences are in for in season 2. Read the full synopsis for season 2 below:

In Season Two of The Rings of Power, Sauron has returned. 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. 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. 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.

Related The Rings Of Power Season 2 Wishlist: 10 Things We Want To See The Rings of Power season 1 set up several stories that need further exploration in season 2, as well as the addition of some key Second Age moments.

What The Rings Of Power's Season 2 Trailer Reveals About The Show's Return

Sauron Will Be A Big Focus In Season 2

The Rings of Power's season 1 finale features Sauron arriving in Mordor, and the season 2 trailer reveals that the Dark Lord's domain will be growing closer to how it appears during the Third Age in the upcoming batch of episodes. It only appears briefly in the video, but it seems that Barad-dûr will begin to take shape in season 2. Barad-dûr is essentially Sauron's central fortress in Middle-earth, and it's the structure that eventually comes to feature his burning eye on top of it during the events of The Lord of the Rings.

Also teased in the trailer is that some of the show's titular rings will be forged in The Rings of Power season 2. Three elves, including Galadriel, are shown to be wearing Rings of Power, and King Durin III (Peter Mullan) is also shown with one of the seven that go to the Dwarf lords. Celebrimbor (Charles Edwards), a master smith Elf, will seemingly be crucial to the story this season, as it is he and Sauron disguised as Annatar who actually forge the Rings of Power in Eregion.

Other actors returning in The Rings of Power season 2 include Ismael Cruz Cordova, Lloyd Owen, Nazanin Boniadi, Robert Aramayo, Maxim Baldry, and Sophia Nomvete. Sam Hazeldine is also briefly shown in the trailer as Adar, a role played in season 1 by Joseph Mawle.

The main focus of the trailer is Sauron's growing power and the forging of the rings, so the Harfoots don't make an appearance. Daniel Weyman's The Stranger, who is theorized to be an early version of Gandalf, is shown very briefly wielding a staff in a desert location, though his true identity still remains a mystery. Many questions remain about The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2, but audiences are evidently in for a darker outing in Middle-earth.

Source: Prime Video