The Rings of Power season 3 release, cast, and news so far

Like season 1, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy season 2 ended with a whole lot of seismic shifts for the world of Center-earth. Which is smart, since there was a lot covered within the second season of The Rings of Energy; between a full-on battle, a political coup, growing concern about the orc babies at home, and Tom Bombadil bomba-stumbling his way by means of the story, there are a whole lot of threads to choose up on in a 3rd season premiere alone.

Prime Video has been slightly tight-lipped about what precisely we will anticipate from a season 3 of The Rings of Energy — however, clearly, with the extent J.R.R. Tolkien wrote about it, we’re not completely at midnight. Right here’s every thing we all know to this point about The Rings of Energy season 3.

[Ed. note: This post contains spoilers for the end of The Rings of Power season 2 so that we can talk about what might happen in season 3.]

Prime Video hasn’t but formally confirmed if the Lord of the Rings present might be returning for a 3rd season. However in contrast to different reveals on the bubble, The Rings of Energy exists in a wierd house: The present cost Amazon a cool billion earlier than they even received to the primary season. And the present has been claimed to have a five-season plan in place. So it appears secure to imagine that Prime Video will need to proceed the present, even when it hasn’t formally introduced it. It’s… by no means nice to not hear formal plans taking form. However plenty of producers and crew seem hopeful, even when showrunners J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay have been extra circumspect about future alternatives.

It’ll take slightly little bit of time! The hole between the primary and second season was virtually precisely two years, and that was with season 2 beginning manufacturing earlier than season 1 had even premiered. The showrunners for The Rings of Energy have began in some sense — probably simply writing and outlining; in August 2024 they mentioned, “All we can say is, we’re working on it. We’re cooking. Let us cook!” — but it surely appears a lot earlier within the course of than season 2 was on the identical time in 2022. So if season 3 does get the inexperienced gentle, we may be taking a look at a fair longer hole between seasons.

Given the five-year plan for the present and the recognized finish level (give or take a few licensing rights) for the narrative, we will guess that the subsequent a part of the present will kind of comply with the lore Tolkien wrote. After the fall of Eregion, Sauron occupies town and begins threatening Lindon. His orcs and the elves begin to struggle extra in earnest. The timelines are completely different (by a few couple hundred years), however Númenor starts to spread out and get more involved with the battle elsewhere in Center-earth.

Once more, the pacing of Tolkien’s writing is completely different. But it surely gives the broad strokes to guess at the place the present may choose up on the dangling threads of season 2: With Isildur headed again to Númenor, Pharazôn firmly in energy, and the village Arondír is in underneath Númenórean martial legislation, it looks as if town is firmly in its growth period.

In the meantime, each the elves and dwarves have suffered losses that put them on their again foot. After tussling with Sauron within the season finale, Galadriel is extra amped up than ever to push again on the Darkish Lord. And now, with Elrond and the Excessive King backing her efforts, the elves are in a spot to step up and struggle. It’s onerous to say if the dwarves will do the identical; following the demise of King Durin by the hands of a balrog (to not point out the introduction of the dwarven rings), Moria appears poised to have lots on its arms which may forestall it from participating with the skin world. Dare I say, they could even dig too greedily, and too deep — in the event that they haven’t already.

Plus, the Stoors are actually marching towards the Harfoots (possibly to seek out some kind of promised land?), whereas the Stranger ventures off to go discover himself (or different Istari) or no matter. All that and now we’ve got 19 Rings of Power circulating on the planet, with all however the One Ring created. With the 9 rings for the human kings in hand, Sauron will probably do a tour of the leaders of males, and entice them to additionally tackle the Rings of Energy.

Properly, whereas Prime Video’s Lord of the Rings spinoff may take a second, you haven’t any scarcity of Lord of the Rings media to interact with. There’s the books and the original trilogy of movies — by no means a foul time. On the horizon we now have The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, a feature-length anime set in Center-earth; it’s due in theaters Dec. 13. And coming in 2026 is The Hunt for Gollum, which is probably a secret Aragorn film!

For those who get actually determined, there’s additionally the Lord of the Rings: Gollum game, although probably the much less mentioned about that, the higher.