"We knew him as Sauron."
We're now less than two weeks away from the double-episode premiere of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, and Prime Video has released a new TV spot focusing on the return of a "nameless fear" to Middle Earth.
The recent SDCC trailer seemingly revealed that the demonic villain (played by Bridie Sisson) will take on his "fair" Annatar form when the show begins in order to deceive the Elves and trick Celibrimbor into forging the rings, but it has been confirmed that he will shape-shift throughout the course of the season.
This means we will likely see something a little closer to his black-armoured warrior look from Peter Jackson's movies at some point. Indeed, we see a dark figure striding through a group of Orcs in this promo - though that may not be Sauron (these teasers do employ misdirection from time to time, after all).
The streamer has also announced that a final trailer for the show will be released at some point tomorrow, so be sure to keep an eye out.
Amazon Studios’ forthcoming series 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.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power stars Morfydd Clark, Benjamin Walker, Charles Edwards, Charlie Vickers, Markella Kavenagh, Nazanin Boniadi, Ismael Cruz Cordova, Tyroe Muhafidin, Maxim Baldry, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Owain Arthur, Trystan Gravelle, Sir Lenny Henry, Ema Horvath, Markella Kavenagh, Sophia Nomvete, Megan Richards, Dylan Smith, Leon Wadham, Daniel Weyman, and Sara Zwangobani.