Summary
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Powerexplores the works of Tolkien, bringing the legends of the fabled Second Age of Middle-earth’s history to screens for the first time. Set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’sThe HobbitandThe Lord of the Rings, viewers are introduced to Sauron as we have never seen him before.
Viewers met a lot of characters in season one, and with season two right around the corner, fans are promised that it is time to get into the nitty-gritty of it all.The trailer, released at SDCC, proves that there is going to be a lot of action.The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Powerpremieres on Prime Video on August 29th.
The Rings Of Power Season 2’s Ents Take A Big Step Towards Solving An Ancient LOTR Mystery
The SDCC trailer for Rings of Power season 2 teases a new Ent character, and this feels like the first step toward Prime Video solving an old mystery.
Screen Rantspoke with the cast ofThe Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Powerabout theupcoming season two. All express how excited they are to see the work that their castmates did, because they were often separated during filming. They also confirm that season 2 is action-packed and detail what they cannot wait for fans to see.
Morfydd Clark Says Playing A Role Cate Blanchett Made Famous Is “Just Mental”
Screen Rant: What was it like taking on a role that Cate Blanchett made so famous?
Morfydd Clark: Yeah, just mental, really. I still can’t believe it. Those films were a huge part of my childhood, so I feel really blessed. I mean, I just wish that occasionally, I think this is something that would be good for all of us, that I could just pop back into my 9-year-old self sometimes when I go on set, because I’m really excited as an adult. But if she could see, she’d be going absolutely wild. So yeah, it’s a very weird twist of fate that I still can’t believe.
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Screen Rant: What are you most excited for fans to see inThe Lord of the Rings: Rings of Powerseason 2?
Ismael Cruz Cordova: There are so many moments. First of all, I’m excited that they get a show. It’s been two years as a fan myself, I’m like, “What’s up?” As a fan myself, I crave those seasons, so I’m excited for that. But I think this show has just so, so many moments. It’s so rich, and again, so I keep reminding people, every show needs to park themselves in certain characters per season. So it might not be your favorite characters in it as much, or whatnot, but it’s so rich. Every moment is rich and it’s important. We don’t need to be in every scene to feel that moment still reverberating. And I myself, I’m extremely excited about Sauron. We wanted to see him, and he’s here, and he’s not bad looking.
Charles Edwards Was Obsessed WithThe Lord of the Rings
Screen Rant: Were you aThe Lord of the Ringsfan before booking this role?
Charles Edwards: My version, my equivalent of the Peter Jackson’s was the 1978 Ralph Bakshi animation, which I was obsessed with. I hadThe Lord of the Ringswallpaper. I wrote a play ofThe Lord of the Rings, and yeah, I readThe Hobbitand yes, I was obsessed.
Sam Hazeldine Hopes Fans Embrace His Adar InRings Of PowerSeason 2
Screen Rant: What are you most excited for fans to see in season 2?
Sam Hazeldine: Oh, there’s so much to see. I’m excited for them to see my Adar, and I hope they embrace that. I’m also excited for them to see lots of other things too. The relationships between the different areas between orcs and elves and negotiations when there’s this bigger existential threat to us all in Sauron and how we respond to that.
Maxim Baldry SaysThe Rings Of PowerSeason 2 Is “Fast-Paced”
Screen Rant: The first season spent a lot of time getting to know the characters, and it looks like season two is going to hit the ground running. What was it like getting into that?
Maxim Baldry: I think from the get-go, for me, I was just on my horse physically and literally, but I think getting thrown into the story is always good from an audience perspective. I think season one was just very much expositional and season two is action-packed. It’s very fast-paced, it’s a lot of fun. There’s a lot of energy to it and I think that is just reflected in all the battles and all the monsters and yeah, you’re going to get everything thrown at you in this season.
Tyroe Muhafidin Loves To Tease About The Ents
Screen Rant: What are you most excited for fans to see this upcoming season?
Tyroe Muhafidin: The Ents. They’re sick. I got to work with them pretty closely. I mean, I’m not actually working with real life moving trees. It was just a pole with a light on it. But I remember saying to JD and Patrick when they were like, “What’s one thing that you really want?” I was like, “I want to work with Ents.” And then I remember telling Meg, and she was just absolutely fuming. That’s what she said. That’s all she wanted. And I just get to rub it in her face that I get to work with Ents and she doesn’t.
Screen Rant: And do you rub it in her face?
Tyroe Muhafidin: All the time. Any opportunity I can get, that I get to work with Ents, I’ve rubbed it in her face.
Lloyd Owen Calls Elendil Both “Fully Fallible” and “An Absolute Hero”
Screen Rant: How is it for you knowing Elendil is a character that everyone loves? Is it more pressure or is it exciting to get to play with this side of him?
Lloyd Owen: Essentially, all the sportsmen say pressure is a privilege because if you get to the final of the competition, there’s going to be pressure, but that’s proof you want to be in the final. I think, yeah, definitely there’s a sense of responsibility and, because I love Tolkien, and I readThe Hobbitwhen I was a kid, I really feel it. But that’s the exciting bit that you go, here’s the hero archetype.
My inclination as an actor, I know it’s the same with the writers, is how do you shape someone that might make the wrong decision at times, that might be morally compromised, that you might think you are too mean to your daughter because your grief is pushing you in a way that you can’t communicate like it is for all of us humans. We all mourn at different rates and paces. Some people are angry when other people are really sad, and how that works in a family dynamic. So I’m just hoping I can keep him real and keep him being a fully fallible human being while also being an absolute hero.
Megan Richards SaysThe Rings Of PowerCast Takes Lord Of The Rings Very Seriously
Screen Rant: What is it like being a part ofThe Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power?
Megan Richards: Tiring. They’re long days. They’re long days, but they’re amazing. And the crew that we work with, they’re just so lovely. The cast is so much fun. It’s fun. You’ve got to make it fun. Otherwise, what are you doing? I was just talking to someone else about understanding the weight of this show and how much it means to people and to bring that into the filming and the creativity as well. It’s important, so we all take it very, very seriously.
Cynthia Addai Robinson Holds The Fandom’s Passion Sacred
Screen Rant: Were you a fan ofThe Lord of the Ringsbefore booking this role?
Cynthia Addai Robinson: You know what I would call a casual fan. I definitely was not deeply versed in the lore. Now, my husband, on the other hand, is a super fan. We have a shelf at home with all the books, and all the additional addendums and literature analysis that other authors and people have written about Tolkien and his stories. And once you’re part of this world, you’re fully immersed. I mean, this has been part of my life now for four years. It’ll continue to be part of my life. So yeah, I’m becoming a super fan. Before your very eyes.
Screen Rant: So was your husband excited when you joined The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power?
Cynthia Addai Robinson: God, you have no idea. I wouldn’t say more excited than me, but yes, yes. He was very, very excited. Very, very proud. And now what’s so beautiful is this sort of fandom, their passion and the importance that these stories hold for them, you really hold that sacred. It’s like you understand that some of these stories have gotten people through very hard times. It’s memories of their childhood. It connects them with people, it connects them to the community. So we want to honor that and nurture that. And that’s very important to all of us, I would say.
Charlie Vickers Says Playing Sauron Is “A Big Responsibility”
Screen Rant: What does it feel like now that you can finally say you are Sauron?
Charlie Vickers: It’s been really special. It’s such a long journey to get to the point of being able to talk about it, and I did this massive press tour in the first season. I was just going to blend into the shadows and not say anything. So now it’s super exciting to be able to talk to people about it.
Screen Rant: What’s it like to be such an iconic villain, bad guy? Is it fun?
Charlie Vickers: It’s been a lot of fun. It’s a big responsibility, but it’s a privilege to be involved in something like this and to be able to play a character like Sauron is the opportunity of a lifetime.
Benjamin Walker Says Season 2 Is What The Fans Are Waiting For
Screen Rant: What are you most excited for the fans to see in season 2?
Benjamin Walker: Well, the show just hits the ground running. I am excited for people to, we’ve got a lot of ground to cover in terms of the second age. The first season was introducing a lot of world building and in the second season now we’re having dynamic wars and fights and creatures and this is what they are waiting for.
Daniel Weyman Was Blown Away ByThe Rings Of PowerSeason 2 Trailer
Screen Rant: What are you most excited for viewers to see in season 2?
Daniel Weyman: Up until getting into Hall H there, I was going to say my storyline, or the storyline I am in. But then I watched some of the awesome work that my friends and colleagues were in, and I was blown away by some of the scenes that I knew nothing about.
When we were in New Zealand in season one, we managed to sneak into other storylines' sets and other locations every so often. So you had an idea of imagery or a color texture that was going on. Season two, it wasn’t really like that because in the United Kingdom the filming locations were in different spaces, although kept quite separate, and because we live in a more disparate place, and we weren’t locked down anymore, and all that sort of stuff, actually, we didn’t get to see much of the other storylines.
So when I stood there, and I watched that first trailer, we only saw it yesterday, my jaw was on the floor. I thought it was awesome when the horses all start riding. And Morfydd as Galadriel, we see her roll down on the floor and then come up and fire these double arrows and Ismael comes in as Arondir, The Ents walks through. I was like, “Ents, we’ve got Ents.” Now, obviously I knew this somewhere in my mind from reading the scripts, but it’s different seeing it. The Ents are going to be something else.
About The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power brings to screens the heroic legends of the fabled Second Age of Middle-earth’s history for the very first time. Set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, The Rings of Power will explore a time in the franchise where kingdoms rose and fell, where The One Ring itself was forged and tells the tale of the rise of the greatest foe in the Lord of the Rings Franchise, the Dark Lord Sauron.
Beginning in a time of peace, the series follows an ensemble cast of familiar and new characters as they confront the long-feared reemergence of evil in Middle-earth. From the depths of the Misty Mountains to the forests of the elf-capital of Lindon, to the island kingdom of Númenor, to the farthest reaches of the map, The Rings of Power promises to condense the extended works of Tolkien in a condensed but all-encompassing TV show format.
The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Powerseason 2 premieres in Prime Video on August 29th.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
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Set in the Second Age of Middle-earth, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power explores the forging of the iconic rings, the rise of the Dark Lord Sauron, and the epic events leading up to the stories in J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic novels. The series chronicles the creation of legendary characters and the historic alliances and rivalries that shape the fate of Middle-earth.
