The Inclusion of the Ents in THE RINGS OF POWER Season 2 Teased as "Delightful" and "Surprising"
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 2 will include another one of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth creations… The Ents. We got a first look at these characters in the last trailer that was released.
During a recent interview with SFX magazine, series creator and showrunner Patrick McKay teases the Ents in the new Rings of Power season and the role they will play in the story.
McKay said: "This season, we have an incredible sequence involving the character Arondir [Ismael Cruz Córdova] in the middle of the season, where he's going to uncover a mystery that will lead him to a very surprising encounter with a pair of Ents.
"They are the shepherds of the forest, which are talking, walking trees. Ents are a thing that we know exist in Middle-earth but we've never seen a couple of Ents, including an Ent wife.
“So that's an instance of a thing that ostensibly is not a moment fans have been anticipating, or expecting to happen on the way to the road to the Battle of Eregion.
"There's a lot of moments in between that are hopefully just as delightful, or maybe even more surprising. But that's the fun of it all, right? In Middle-earth, you never know what you’re gonna get.”
I’m excited about this next season! I just finished rewatching Season 1, and it’s a damn good show! I love how they are playing in this world and the story they are telling with these characters.
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 Rings of Power Season 2 premieres August 29th on Prime Video.