The return to Middle Earth might come sooner rather than later. According to Comicbook, season two of Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power has finished filming in London. The show was one of the few that continued filming amid the WGA strike, claiming that with just a few weeks left, they preferred to keep going even if it meant not having the showrunners on set to help with rewrites.
According to Comicbook, the filming was hastened so that the show could get out of the current struggle with the WGA and prevent further delay if the SGA joins the strike at the end of the month. The remainder of the filming was overseen by the non-writing executive producers and directors.
Many actors have joined the second season of the popular series including Oscar-nominated actor Ciarán Hinds (Belfast, Game of Thrones); Rory Kinnear (Our Flag Means Death, No Time to Die); Tanya Moodie (Motherland, A Discovery of Witches); Selina Lo (Hellraiser, Boss Level), Nicholas Woodeson (The Hustle, Firebird), Oliver Alvin-Wilson (Murder in Provence, The Bay), Gabriel Akuwudike (1917, Hanna), Kevin Eldon (Shadow and Bone, Sanditon), Nia Towle (Persuasion), Gavi Singh Chera (Mother Teresa & Me, The Undeclared War), Ben Daniels (The Exorcist, Jupiter’s Legacy), Will Keen (His Dark Materials, The Man from Rome), newcomer Amelia Kenworthy, Stuart Bowman (Versailles, Gary: Tank Commander), Yasen Zates Atour (Young Wallander, The Witcher), William Chubb (Vampire Academy, Empire of Light), and Calam Lynch (Bridgerton, Benediction).
Prime Video is keeping details of the popular show’s second season under wraps with very little information being shared with the general public. For this reason, no character details have been revealed regarding the roles all the actors above will play.
It was also announced previously that Game of Thrones alum Joseph Mawle (1923, MotherFatherSon) wouldn’t be returning to play Adar in season two and that the role had been recast with Sam Hazeldine (Rain Dogs, Peaky Blinders) taking on the villainous role.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power show centers around the story of the creation of the rings of power, how they came to be, and how they relate to the overall story of Lord of the Rings. The show, which includes multiple perspectives and different narrating characters, focuses mainly on the story of younger Galadriel, played by Morfydd Clark (Dracula, His Dark Materials), who is convinced that the elves have not defeated Sauron and that they should keep trying to defeat him once and for all. Galadriel will recruit the help of the Númenórean Queen Míriel, played by Cynthia Addai-Robinson (Power, Shooter), and blacksmith Halbrand, played by Charlie Vickers (Medici, Palm Beach), to go help the south defeat the evil trying to take over their land. Throughout the show, the audience also meets Arondir, played by Ismael Cruz Córdova (The Undoing, Berlin Station), an elf that has been stuck patrolling the small towns of the south for signs of Sauron; Nori, played by Markella Kavenagh (The Gloaming, My First Summer), a Hardfoot who finds a man in the crash site of a meteorite and learns that this stranger, played by Daniel Weyman (Silent Witness, Gentleman Jack) can use magic; and a younger Elrond, played by Robert Aramayo (The King’s Man, Behind Her Eyes), who is helping Lord Celebrimbor, played by Charles Edwards (The Crown, Under the Vines), to build a new elvish city with the help of his dwarf friend Prince Durin, played by Owain Arthur (Casualty, A Confession) and his wife Princess Disa, played by Sophia Nomvete (Mafia Mamma, Swashbuckle).
Season two of Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is expected to premiere sometime in 2024. The first season of the show is available to stream on Prime Video. The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit trilogy are available on Max and Netflix.