The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, the big-budget TV series for Prime Video that is set thousands of years before the novels from J. R. R. Tolkien, depicting the major events of Middle-earth’s Second Age, will officially return in the form of a second season, according to a tweet that the @TheRingsofPower account shared this morning about how a teaser trailer for the second part is set to premiere tomorrow, on Tuesday, May 14. Premiered in September 2022, the first season of The Rings of Power is said to have cost Amazon $715 million already, with a single episode costing anywhere from 60 to 100 million dollars.
The teaser of a teaser, per Amazon:
The Teaser Trailer World Premiere Tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/3Iy6epApFH
— The Lord of the Rings on Prime (@TheRingsofPower) May 13, 2024
A synopsis for the show:
Prime Video’s 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, 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 the greatest villain 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 re-emergence 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 furthest reaches of the map, these kingdoms and characters will carve out legacies that live on long after they are gone.