Amazon used Super Bowl LVI to point out off the primary trailer for its bold The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power collection. The 60 second teaser provides us our first have a look at among the major characters, potential motion and visible results. “Haven’t you ever wondered… what else is out there?” a voice intones to kick it off. 

As we realized earlier, the collection is about within the Second Age of Middle Earth, hundreds of years earlier than the occasions of The Lord of the Rings. It might be drawing materials from J.R.R.Tolkien’s The Silmarilion, which particulars key occasions like Sauron’s story and the forging of the rings of energy.  

The new teaser briefly exhibits a number of principal characters together with Elrond (Robert Aramayo), Arondir (Ismael Cruz Cordova) and Galadriel (Morfydd Clark). Other stars embody Benjamin Walker, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Owain Arthur, Ismael Cruz Córdova, Joseph Mawle, Sara Zwangobani and Megan Richards.

Amazon spent $250 on the rights to the fabric and reportedly spent $465 million on the primary season alone, in accordance The Hollywood Reporter. It’s laborious to inform from the trailer whether or not all that cash made it to the display, however we’ll discover out for positive when it arrives on Amazon Prime Video on September 2nd, 2022. The collection has already been renewed for a second season.