Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power S2 release date out? Deets inside

The much-anticipated Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season two is almost here.

Amazon Prime Video unveiled a teaser film featuring thrilling behind-the-scenes footage on Monday, August 26, following the release of the first trailer for the new season at Comic-Con on July 26 and the final one on August 14. There are five seasons planned for the program, which is partially based on parts of Tolkien’s posthumous The Silmarillion.

The drama is set in the brief and peaceful Second Age of Middle Earth, thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s books The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. This is an effort to bring Tolkein’s history of the fabled age to the small screen for the first time. Season 2 will see Charlie Vickers’ nemesis Sauron “out and about doing his thing.”

In conversation with Deadline in Episode 8 of the ‘LOTR: The Rings of Power’ Vickers stated, “We filmed the first two episodes then went on hiatus, and then with maybe two months to go off the hiatus before starting episode 3, the showrunners said ‘We want to have a meeting with you.’” He added, “They took me into the set that Galadriel discovers in the first episode with the orcs through the walls and Sauron’s sigil on the forge. They took me in there and said ‘This is your world. You’re playing Sauron.’”

The show will air in two parts: the first three episodes will air on August 29 this week, followed by the next three in September and the conclusion on Amazon Prime Video in October.

Release schedule

• The Rings of Power season 2 episode 1 – Thursday, August 29
• The Rings of Power season 2 episode 2 – Thursday, August 29
• The Rings of Power season 2 episode 3 – Thursday, August 29
• The Rings of Power season 2 episode 4 – Thursday, September 5
• The Rings of Power season 2 episode 5 – Thursday, September 12
• The Rings of Power season 2 episode 6 – Thursday, September 19
• The Rings of Power season 2 episode 7 – Thursday, September 26
• The Rings of Power season 2 episode 8 – Thursday, October 3

In addition to Vickers, the following cast members will be back in the upcoming season: Benjamin Walker as High King Gil-Galad; Morfydd Clark as Galadriel; Owain Arthur as Prince Durin IV; Robert Aramayo as Elrond; Ismael Cruz Córdova as Arondir; Markella Kavenagh as Nori Brandyfoot; Peter Mullan as King Durin III; Sophia Nomvete as Princess Disa; Maxim Baldry as Isildur. Among the new faces are Ciarán Hinds, who plays a new Dark Wizard character, and Sam Hazeldine, who plays the role of Adar, the commander of the Orcs.