Amazon Studios has released the first look at the third season of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,” the fantasy television series based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth.
According to an official logline, “Season Three takes place at the height of the War of the Elves and Sauron, as the Dark Lord seeks to craft the One Ring that will give him the edge he needs to win the war, bind all peoples to his will – and at last rule all Middle-earth.”
During the “RIngs of Power” Season 3 presentation at San Diego Comic-Con on Friday, it was revealed that Simon Pegg will voice the Balrog, a hulking magma monster that will help Sauron forge the One Ring.
The “Rings of Power” cast members include Charlie Vickers, Morfydd Clark, Robert Aramayo, Ismael Cruz Córdova, Charles Edwards, Robert Strange, and Markella Kavenagh. “Stranger Things” star Jamie Campbell Bower, Eddie Marsan, Andrew Richardson, Zubin Varla and Adam Young also recently joined the cast for Season 3.
The show takes place thousands of years before the events of “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit,” and follows the forging of the titular Rings of Power and “LOTR” antagonist Sauron’s return to Middle-earth.
