A new image from The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 2 has been released, and it features Robert Aramayo as Elrond in the middle of an epic battle.
We also have new details regarding the battle sequences in the upcoming season, and the creators are teasing way bigger battles. Fans love the massive battles from the films, so it will be cool to see the creative team attempt to match that.
Co-showrunner Patrick McKay says Season 1 was “very consciously designed as an intimate, small-scale battle. More of a skirmish.” But thgat’s going to change in Season 2.
McKay said: “We love a good battle. The plan with Season 2 would be to do something much bigger, on a much grander scale that would take place not just overnight, but over multiple days, weeks, months and episodes.”
Charlotte Brändström, who’s taken over from J.A. Bayona as producing director for Season 2, says this battle will be “ten times bigger” than the one witnessed in the first run. “It’s really the battle of the darkness against the light with some very dark and quite violent moments.”
So, that’s exciting to hear! I can’t wait to see what the creative team manages to pull off with these battles. I have yet to see anything top what Peter Jackson did, but it would be nice to see that.
Executive producer Lindsey Weber also shared: “Things have taken a very intense turn since Sauron is back and moving the chess pieces around the board.
“So we get to have a different kind of action and see Middle-earth in some more terrifying moments.” Who’s ready to dive into the heat of battle?
The series takes place “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.”
In Season 2, “Sauron has returned. Cast out by Galadriel, without army or ally, the rising Dark Lord must now rely on his own cunning to rebuild his strength and oversee the creation of the Rings of Power, which will allow him to bind all the peoples of Middle-earth to his sinister will.
“Building on Season 1’s epic scope and ambition, Season 2 of Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power plunges even its most beloved and vulnerable characters into a rising tide of darkness, challenging each to find their place in a world that is increasingly on the brink of calamity.
“Elves and dwarves, orcs and men, wizards and Harfoots… as friendships are strained and kingdoms begin to fracture, the forces of good will struggle ever more valiantly to hold on to what matters to them most of all… each other.”
The series is being developed by showrunners J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay. The Rings of Power Season 2 premieres August 29th on Prime Video.
Source: Empire