The Rings of Power Season 2: Release date, cast, plot & more

❘ Updated: 2024-08-26T14:42:52

Charlie Vickers as Sauron in The Rings of Power Season 2.

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The Rings of Power Season 2 sees Sauron further his schemes while Middle Earth’s bravest are left vulnerable. Here’s the release date, new characters, and lots more.

It feels like an elven lifetime since The Rings of Power wrapped its expansive — and expensive — first season.

We left off with The Stranger’s identity coming to light, that Sauron reveal, and the Rings of Power characters facing inevitable growing evil in Middle Earth.

Rings of Power Season 1 Episode 8 teed up a darker Season 2, and it’s fast approaching in 2024.

The Rings of Power Season 2 release date

Rings of Power Season 2 releases on Prime Video on Thursday, 29 August 2024. The first three episodes drop for the premiere.

Rory Kinnear as Tom Bombadil in LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER Season 2.

After the first batch, the following five episodes will be released weekly. Season 2 will wrap with Episode 8 on October 3, 2024.

Cast

The main Season 1 cast returns in The Rings of Power Season 2, including Morfydd Clark as Galadriel and Charlie Vickers as Sauron. There are plenty of new actors, too.

Major new additions include award-winning actors Ciarán Hinds, Rory Kinnear, and Tanya Moodie.

Kinnear plays Bombadil, a character from the books who made a minor appearance in The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring.

Sam Hazeldine replaces Joseph Mawle as Adar. The latter exited to “explore new characters and worlds.”

Rings of Power Season 2 cast:

Morfydd Clark as Galadriel

Charlie Vickers as Sauron

Cynthia Addai-Robinson as Míriel

Robert Aramayo as Elrond

Owain Arthur as Durin IV

Maxim Baldry as Isildur

Nazanin Boniadi as Bronwyn

Ismael Cruz Córdova as Arondir

Charles Edwards as Celebrimbor

Trystan Gravelle as Pharazôn

Sam Hazeldine as Adar

Ema Horvath as Eärien

Markella Kavenagh as Elanor “Nori” Brandyfoot

Rory Kinnear as Tom Bombadil

Geoff Morrell as Waldreg

Tyroe Muhafidin as Theo

Peter Mullan as Durin III

Sophia Nomvete as Disa

Lloyd Owen as Elendil

Megan Richards as Poppy Proudfellow

Alex Tarrant as Valandil

Leon Wadham as Kemen

Benjamin Walker as Gil-galad

Daniel Weyman as the Stranger

Gabriel Akuwudike

Yasen “Zates” Atour

Ben Daniels as Círdan the Shipwright

Amelia Kenworthy

Nia Towle

Nicholas Woodeson

Oliver Alvin-Wilson

Stuart Bowman

Gavi Singh Chera

William Chubb

Kevin Eldon

Will Keen

Selina Lo

Calam Lynch

Ciarán Hinds

Tanya Moodie

The Rings of Power Season 2 trailer

A full trailer for Rings of Power Season 2 was shared on August 14, 2024. The teaser was released on May 14, 2024.

The footage showed Sauron’s shapeshifted elven form as he rebuilds his strength, while characters around Middle Earth reckon with the changing winds.

The visual finesse of the series is also shown off, with Prime Video promising an even larger scale than in Season 1.

Plot

Season 2 is about Sauron’s return, as he rebuilds his strength and oversees the forging of the Rings of Power.

Season 1 ended with the three elven rings being formed and Sauron revealed.

Because we saw Mordor created with an explosive volcanic eruption in Episode 6, we expect Mount Doom to play a part in the second season. Plus, the Balrog lurking in the Dwarven mines is likely going to be a big problem.

The three elven rings in The Rings of Power Season 2.

During a Prime Video Event, Morfydd Clark also shared that Galadriel will wear one of the previously forged Elven rings and that additional ones would be forged in Season 2.

Prime Video’s synopsis reads, “Sauron has returned. Cast out by Galadriel, without army or ally, the rising Dark Lord must now rely on his 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.

Season 2 plunges 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.”