We're now just over two weeks away from the premiere of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, and Prime Video (via SFFGazette) has debuted a new featurette spotlighting the island kingdom of Númenor.
This opulent civilization never actually factored into Tolkien's novels aside from a few mentions, but the appendices did into the history of the doomed city, which was ultimately lost to the sea long before Bilbo and Gollum's fateful game of Riddles in the Dark in The Hobbit.
Aragorn's ancestor Isildur (Maxim Baldry) is one of the main characters we'll meet in Númenor, and his name should be very familiar to fans, as he ultimately cut the One Ring from Sauron's hand before falling under the ring's evil influence himself.
Based on this new footage, it looks like Isildur will join forces with Galadriel (Morfydd Clark) and a new character named Halbrand (Charlie Vickers) in an effort to prevent the Dark Lord's forces from spreading across Middle Earth.
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 is set to premiere on Friday, September 2.