According to ScreenRant, the showrunner for Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power teased the Ents’ storyline for the series’ upcoming second season. After the first season’s success, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is preparing for its second season, and in a recent trailer, it was revealed that many new characters, locations and a monster will be seen.
In a recent interview with SFX Magazine, showrunner Patrick McKay (Escape, Flash Gordon) revealed more about certain mythological creatures in the series that have been seen before in the Lord of The Rings franchise. One of these creatures is Ents, a species of sentient beings resembling trees that are part of J. R. R. Tolkien’s (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey) fantasy world.McKay states that Arondir, played by Ismael Cruz Córdova (Mary Queen of Scots), will be the first to encounter the creatures.
McKay said, “This season, we have an incredible sequence involving the character Arondir 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.”
He continued, “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.”
McKay concluded, “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.”
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is available to stream on Prime Video. The second season will air on the streamer on August 29.