Two years after it debuted in 2022, The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power has returned for a second season.
Created by J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay, the prequel series is set thousands of years before J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord Of The Rings trilogy and depicts the rise of Sauron in Middle-earth’s Second Age.
The show’s cast is led by Morfydd Clark as Galadriel, alongside Lenny Henry, Sara Zwangobani, Robert Aramayo, Benjamin Walker, Charles Edwards, Daniel Weyman, and Charlie Vickers.
New cast additions in season two include Ciarán Hinds, Rory Kinnear, Tanya Moodie, Ben Daniels, Stuart Bowman, Kevin Eldon, and Oliver Alvin-Wilson.
Who plays Sauron in the first episode of The Rings Of Power season 2?
While Charlie Vickers plays Sauron in the show, the first episode of season two sees Jack Lowden play a younger version of the Dark Lord in a flashback.
Lowden is best known for starring in BBC miniseries War & Peace and Apple TV’s Slow Horses. He also played Morrissey in biopic England Is Mine, and starred in Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk as an RAF fighter-pilot.
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Earlier this year, he married his long-term partner Saoirse Ronan.
How many episodes are in The Rings Of Power season 2?
There are eight episodes in the second season. The first three were released on Amazon on August 29, with the remaining five set to be released weekly from this date, with the finale scheduled for October 3. You can check out the episode release slate below.
- Episode one – August 29
- Episode two – August 29
- Episode three – August 29
- Episode four – September 5
- Episode five – September 12
- Episode six – September 19
- Episode seven – September 26
- Episode eight – October 3