We may need solely only in the near past received a greater glimpse at Amazon’s Lord of the Rings present, however at this time at San Diego Comic-Con the streamer gave us one other glimpse again into Middle-Earth’s Second Age—and it’s wanting fairly unbelievable.

The new trailer, simply per week after our final take a look at the sequence, focuses on Morfydd Clark’s younger Galadriel, coping with the trauma from having fought in the final warfare between the elves and the forces of the Dark Lord. But at the same time as the Second Age of Middle-Earth begins with what its peoples—Dwarf, Elf, Numenorian, and Harfoot alike—hope is a time of peace, Galadriel and her allies internationally are shortly discovering out that within the shadows, the lingering evil of Sauron nonetheless lies ready…

There’s rather a lot occurring on this trailer, and nearly all of it exterior of Galadriel’s fears that evil has returned to Middle-Earth—there are pictures of Numenor, Human dwelling of what is going to ultimately change into Gondor and different Kingdoms by the point this huge interval of Tolkien’s historical past is finished with, the Dwarven underground mining empires, and the occasional halfling, though they’re not fairly the Hobbits we all know and love simply but. But what’s clear is the return of threats the Elves and different beings thought had been vanquished. Tlisted here are plenty of goblin assaults in right here, and a few very mysterious-looking mystics who appear to have a connection to the evils thought defeated on the finish of the First Age.

And then, in fact, there’s a Balrog. And it’s simply… straight-up the Balrog as we noticed it in Peter Jackson’s motion pictures. I assume we lastly have an concept of what Amazon meant when it mentioned it may use parts of these iconic movies’ imagery, even when it’s set hundreds of years earlier than them?

We’ll little question discover out extra when The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power begins on Prime Video on September 22.

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