The Second Age is upon us.
Long before Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee made their treacherous journey into Mordor to destroy the One Ring, there were others. Prior to creating The Lord of the Rings, author J.R.R. Tolkien wrote about the Rings of Power which were made for a select number of Elves, Dwarves, and Men, and it is that story that will be revealed in the upcoming Lord of the Rings series.
The first official trailer for The Rings of Power was shown at San Diego Comic-Con during a panel hosted by self-confessed LOTR superfan, Stephen Colbert.
“It’s a story of hope and approaching darkness. This being Tolkien, it’s a story of loss,” the talk show host explained. He also quipped that “I don’t know who the hell some of those people are.”
Set during the Second Age, thousands of years before the events we know in The Hobbit and LOTR, the series features Galadriel and Elrond in their youth and depicts the rise of Sauron. Showrunners JD Payne and Patrick McKay and the rest of their team have been working on the series since 2018, spending months going through Tolkien’s appendices and his book The Silmarillion.
The Rings of Power premieres on Amazon Prime on September 2.
