SDCC: New Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Trailer Teases The Coming of Sauron

Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power arrives in September and a new trailer unveiled at San Diego Comic-Con showed the scope of the series and teases Sauron’s rise. Amazon Studios released the new trailer for the fantasy series on Friday and you can check it out below.

The trailer features some expansive locations and a look at our characters as it sets the stage for Sauron’s arrival, thousands of years before the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. We get teases of some hefty action sequences as well as Sauron gathering his forces and working some magic as the powers of good try to prepare.

The series premieres on Prime Video on September 2nd and is developed and executive produced by J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay, who are also showrunning. It already has a second season set and stars Robert Aramayo as Elrond, Morfydd Clark as Galadriel, Maxim Baldry as sailor Isildur, Nazanin Boniadi as human village healer Bronwyn, Ismael Cruz Córdova as silvan elf Arondir, Charles Edwards as elven smith Celebrimbor, Sophia Nomvete as dwarven princess Disa, Charlie Vickers as Halbrand, Sir Lenny Henry as Sadoc Burrows, Dylan Smith as Largo Brandyfoot, Sara Zwangobani as Marigold Brandyfoot, Megan Richards as Poppy Proudfellow, Charles Edwards as Celebrimbor, Owain Arthur as Prince Durin IV, Benjamin Walker as High King Gil-galad, Tyroe Muhafidin as Theo, Markella Kavenagh, as Nori Brandyfoot, and Daniel Weyman as The Stranger.

The show is described as follows:

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.