It’s Mordor, more problems in the NYCC trailer for next week’s Rings Of Power finale
Plus other reveals from today's Lord Of The Rings Comic Con panel, including a new podcast and news about season 2
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We’re just one week out now from the first-season finale of Amazon’s Lord Of The Rings show, Rings Of Power—where, we have it on good authority, “ALL. WILL. BE. REVEALED.” That’s per no less definitive a source than the just-released new trailer for the final episode of the show’s first season, which was deployed today at the series’ panel at New York Comic Con.
Said panel was a newly-minted star-studded affair, as cast members Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Nazanin Boniadi, Charles Edwards, Leon Wadham, Benjamin Walker, Daniel Weyman, and Sara Zwangobani all took to the stage to share behind-the-scenes stories and teases of the upcoming ending. That was up to and including a sneak peek at a full scene from the finale, exclusively for those who were in the room. But while said scene won’t be released online, our own Saloni Gajjar, in attendance at the Con, reports that it was a “key scene” featuring Galadriel and Elrond, plus Walker and Edwards’ characters Gil-galad and Celebrimbor. (Saloni couldn’t say any more, on pain of… warg, or something. Mithril bond? We don’t know.)
What we can share is the actual trailer, which suggests that, yeah: Sauron’s coming, folks. That’s to say nothing of a quick glimpse at that Balrog that popped up at the end of this week’s episode, as well as a whole bunch of shots of our various heroes looking extremely imperiled by threats on all sides.
Meanwhile, Rings Of Power itself is going strong: Series showrunners J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay missed the panel for the fairly good reason that they’re off getting ready to film its already-ordered second season. Oh, and the show’s getting an official podcast, too; genre fave Felicia Day—who was also in attendance to moderate today’s panel—will host the 8-episode companion show, which will go up for public consumption on October 14. You can check out a trailer for the show here:
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So that’s baby Aragorn and Narsil?Sauron looks a lot like how he looked in the movies which is interesting. I don’t know the books well enough to know if there was a description but I’m sure they got to be careful to be different enough. A lot of this feels like getting people invested in this to do Hobbit and LOTR as series which now I wonder how worried Amazon is that Embracer might try to re-make movies before Amazon gets to it.
That Sauron scene seems like a premonition to me. If it’s presaging what he’ll look like in the War of the Last Alliance, I don’t see a huge problem, but I really don’t expect to see anything like that occurring anytime soon.
That Sauron scene was from the very first episode of the show. There’s very little new footage in this trailer.Though of what new stuff there is, if the voices saying ‘You are Lord Sauron’ are who they appear to be, it’s a pretty big spoiler for who Sauron has been this whole time.
Gee I wonder if it’s the shifty guy they played the fucking Sauron theme from the OST for and who the accurate leaks months ago already underlined.
Aragorn is not in this show, he’ll be born around 3,000 years later.Sauron doesn’t have much in the way of physical description. At this time he would have been a shapeshifter without a solid shape. The armoured giant design was inspired by his former master, Morgoth, who’s been mentioned a few times in the show. The idea is that Sauron uses Morgoth’s likeness to cement his status as the new Dark Lord.
Ahh, okay,A Tolkien expert I am not. I watch the movies every year and I read the books every couple but encyclopedic recall is not my strong suit. So kid holding broken sword just screamed Aragorn. The armor, I was more so curious how different it has to be to not get sued by Warner Bros if the design isn’t from the books.
The armor, I was more so curious how different it has to be to not get sued by Warner Bros if the design isn’t from the books.They both draw from John Howe’s artwork. He was a concept artist both for the films and the show, and his LotR artwork predates both.
My guess: that’s not Sauron, that’s Adar in a Morgoth costume, and the real Sauron is going to kill him. (That being Halbrand.)
There’s a video trailer for a podcast? …why?