Prime Video’s gorgeous new lengthy teaser trailer for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power invites viewers back to J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-Earth. The nearly three-minute teaser introduces the key characters and the realms they inhabit while warning, “The past is dead. We either move forward, or we die with it. This could be the beginning of a new era.”
The eight-episode epic saga premieres on Prime Video on September 2, 2022. New episodes premiere weekly on Fridays.
Among the characters featured in the teaser trailer are Galadriel (Morfydd Clark), Elrond (Robert Aramayo), High King Gil-galad (Benjamin Walker), Isildur (Maxim Baldry), Elendil (Lloyd Owen), Pharazôn (Trystan Gravelle), and Queen Regent Míriel (Cynthia Addai-Robinson).
The teaser also includes the Harfoots Marigold Brandyfoot (Sara Zwangobani), Elanor ‘Nori’ Brandyfoot (Markella Kavenagh), Poppy Proudfellow (Megan Richards) and Sadoc Burrows (Sir Lenny Henry), The Stranger (Daniel Weyman), Halbrand (Charlie Vickers), Arondir (Ismael Cruz Córdova), and the Dwarves King Durin III (Peter Mullan) and Prince Durin IV (Owain Arthur).
Prime Video confirmed the realms shown in the trailer are 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.
J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay serve as showrunners and executive producers. Lindsey Weber, Callum Greene, J.A. Bayona, Belén Atienza, Justin Doble, Jason Cahill, Gennifer Hutchison, Bruce Richmond, and Sharon Tal Yguado also executive produce. Ron Ames and Christopher Newman produce, and Wayne Che Yip is a co-executive producer and director. Additional directors include J.A. Bayona and Charlotte Brändström.
Prime Video’s released the following description of season one:
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power brings to screens for the very first time the heroic legends of the fabled Second Age of Middle-earth’s history. This epic drama is set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings books, and will take viewers back to an era in which great powers were forged, kingdoms rose to glory and fell to ruin, unlikely heroes were tested, hope hung by the finest of threads, and one of the greatest villains that ever flowed from Tolkien’s pen threatened to cover all the world in darkness.
Beginning in a time of relative peace, the series follows an ensemble cast of characters, both familiar and new, as they confront the long-feared reemergence of evil to Middle-earth. From the darkest depths of the Misty Mountains, to the majestic forests of the elf capital of Lindon, to the breathtaking island kingdom of Númenor, to the farthest reaches of the map, these kingdoms and characters will carve out legacies that live on long after they are gone.
