'The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power' Is Returning for Season Three to Forge the One Ring
Following a time jump, the War of the Elves and Sauron will be in the spotlight in the Prime Video series' third season.
Get ready to see 23 words get engraved on a pivotal piece of jewellery: "one ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them". The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power has been renewed for a third season, and Sauron's efforts to make the One Ring will be its focus. Yes, Prime Video's prequel series will move closer to the events of The Hobbit movie adaptations and OG live-action Lord of the Rings films. And yes, to do so, there'll be a time jump in its narrative.
The streaming platform has announced that the fantasy hit will return for a third season, which is currently in pre-production. To The Hollywood Reporter, it also revealed where the story will head. The War of the Elves and Sauron will be in full swing, as will the Dark Lord's efforts to forge an item to help in his quest for dominance: the ring that becomes so crucial in the books penned by JRR Tolkien.
When the new season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power will arrive hasn't yet been revealed. Whenever it shows up, the season will continue exploring Middle-earth's history — telling a tale that's taken the elves, dwarves, orcs, wizards and harfoots to everyone's streaming queue, and also featured talking and walking trees, giant spiders and Sauron's chaos.
Set in the fantasy realm conjured up by Tolkien — as unrelated animated movie The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, which hit cinemas in late 2024, also is — The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power dives into Middle-earth's Second Age. In season one, a young Galadriel (Morfydd Clark, Saint Maud) had a mission to hunt the enemy, after her brother gave his life doing the same. She saw fighting for fate and destiny as the work for something greater. A young Elrond (Robert Aramayo, The King's Man) was part of that journey, and the big bad who needed staving off was indeed Sauron (Charlie Vickers, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart).
Since then, the show has started charting how the rings were forged, as well as Sauron's rise and the impact across Middle-earth. So, it's a battle between good and ascending evil, then, as the Dark Lord keeps pushing his shadowy influence.
If you're a little rusty on your LOTR lore, the Second Age lasted for 3441 years, and saw the initial emergence and fall of Sauron, as well as a spate of wars over the coveted rings. Elves feature prominently, and there's plenty to cover, even if Tolkien's works didn't spend that much time on the period — largely outlining the main events in an appendix to the popular trilogy.
The Rings of Power remains separate to the big-screen Lord of the Rings revival that was first announced in 2023 and now has new movie Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum in the works. If you're a LoTR fan, there's no such thing as too much for this franchise, though — like breakfast for hobbits.
There's obviously no trailer for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season three yet, but check out the trailer for season two below:
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power streams via Prime Video. Season three doesn't yet have a release date. Read our review of season one.
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