All the Cool Details inThe Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power‘s First Teaser

After old age of look and wondering , this weekend Amazon finally gave us a look at what it ’s been cultivate on in midway - earth . The first teaserfor The Lord of the Rings : The Rings of Power is here , and it ’s filledwith familiar faces , dire portents , and a few mite atwhat we can expectfrom the show — here ’s all the details we spotted .

The tease opens with a glimpse of a port metropolis , dumbly tamp down with people . Although we do n’t get penny-pinching enough to see whether or not those people are humans or Elves , the computer architecture here does n’t look particularly Elven , so this is likely not the Grey Havens , the famous port where elves need thepassage to Valinorfrom when their prison term in Middle - earth was at an last . Instead , odds are that this is our first glance at the island kingdom of Númenor , the human smart set that we have sex will play a major role in The Rings of Power — and whose downfall leads to the founding of the duplicate kingdoms of Gondor and Arnor .

“ Have n’t you ever wondered what else is out there ? There ’s marvel in this existence … beyond our wandering , ” a voice tell us , as we glimpse a suitably riotous New Zealand vista — genuinely a stylemark of Lord of the Rings ’ cinematic visual identity at this decimal point — being traversed by two peculiar humanoids with monolithic antlers strap to their backs . In apre - lagger preview pieceforVanity Fairreleased last workweek , this mystery duo was just described as “ nomadic wanderer , ” but piddling else is known about them .

A glimpse of Arda, and its many mysterious peoples.

A glimpse of Arda, and its many mysterious peoples.Gif: Amazon Studios

As the narration ends , we come across the brass of , presumptively , that voice : Megan Richards , play an unrevealed role but , pronounce by the wanderlust and her general appearance , is likely playing a member of the Hobbit stock we be intimate is going to appear in Rings of Power , the Harfoots . Judging by the acorns in her whisker , this Harfoot is one of the many part we got glimpses of in themysterious character postersrecently .

Tolkien largely left Hobbit history prior to the events of the Third Age unmoved ; we only really bang that the Hobbits we recognize as thedenizens of the Shireonly migrated to that area of Middle - ground some metre during the Third Age , and Hobbits up to that point were by and large secretive beingness who stayed out of sight from the watchful eye of the bigger peoples of center - earth . Aside from Harfoots , there ’s the swamp - make love Stoors and the Fallohides ( the strain we ’re for the most part familiar with ) , but we ’ll likely be stick to the Harfoots as far as Rings of Power ’s halflings go .

On an trash - cover precipitous cliffside , by a rage waterfall , a young Elf maiden over in armour uses a very elaborate sticker to gain a bobby pin . Another eccentric from the posters , we now know that this is Morfydd Clark ’s immature Galadriel , the future guardianof the woods of Lorien , and of track pertinent to Rings of Power , the future bearer of one of the three magical gang indue by Annatar ( Sauron in disguise , of course):Nenya , the ringing of water .

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Screenshot: Amazon Studios

As previously noted , Galadriel ’s dagger is an interesting reference to another major musical composition of Tolkien lore we be intimate Rings of Power is go to dive into . The twinned gold - and - Ag Tree that make up its hilt are a reference to Laurelin and Telperion , thetwin trees of Valinor — the mythical region to the West of Middle - earth that was the ancestral home of the Valar , their Maiar agents , and the Elves — which render twinkle across the nation in a time before even the sun and moonshine existed .

This brief shot of a man ravage by waves on a rather rickety raft might be a case we know from Vanity Fair ’s preview : Halbrand , played by Charlie Vickers . He was describe there as a human castaway who crosses paths with Galadriel .

Just as speedily , we cut to a slo - mo shot of an Elf grabbing an arrow mid - air , and returning it to sender via his own fore . Very cool ! Even cooler : this is another character we learned about in the preview , a Silvan Elf ( that ’s a Wood Elf , ascendent of those gremlin that would live the realms of Mirkwood and Lothlorien eventually ) named Arondir ( Ismael Cruz Córdova ) .

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Screenshot: Amazon Studios

At this point in Middle - land history , Silvan Elves have hardly just encountered the other Sindar and Ñoldor Elves again , and are very different culturally . Arondir in exceptional blend against what we ’d get laid is vulgar of Elves in Tolkien ’s lore , in that we bang part of his story in The Rings of Power is put down a taboo romance with a human therapist advert Bronwyn , played by Nazanin Boniadi .

An Elf robe in elaborate golden robes watches an ominous shooting star in the sky . It ’s hard to say just what the meteoroid is , perhaps an Sultanate of Oman of dire thing to come — if we know one thing about Rings of Power , it ’s ultimately go to be about a wad of fearful things coming to pass , given the outcome of the 2d Age at large — but we might cognize who this is : the actor here is Benjamin Walker , who ’s been rumour to be playing Gil - Galad . cutting from a very brief appearance in The Fellowship of the Ring ’s opening depiction of the Battle of the Last Alliance of Elves and Men , Gil - Galad was the High King of the Ñoldor Elves — and perished in that aforementioned battle , fight alongside Elendil , the King of Gondor , to gravely injure Sauron in a duel during the fight at the foot of Mount Doom .

Another quick dead reckoning of Galadriel hear her hinge upon across a plain on hogback . We do n’t bonk who she ’s riding with , but the Vanity Fair prevue teases that much of Galadriel ’s electric arc in Rings of Power will see her traveling Middle - earth on a quest to ruin the lingering forces of the first Dark Lord , Morgoth , who battled the Elves , Dwarves , and the Valar in a terrible war at theclimax of the First Age , the War of Wrath .

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Screenshot: Amazon Studios

This someone — heavy to secern if they ’re an Elf or Human with their look largely roll up — seems to be another member of Galadriel ’s squad scaling the icy cliff in the beginning , as they ’re dressed very similarly . How long they ’ll continue a member of that squad depends on just how hungry this massive , trolling - esque monster is .

We get a very abbreviated shaft of a prosperous forest , as an Elf clad in likewise hued gown addresses a council of their kind . If those golden robes are Benjamin Walker ’s type again , and he is indeed Gil - Galad , this could be somewhere in his Kingdom in Lindon , found in the NW of Middle - earth .

We just as speedily cut to a barb of a teary - eyed Dwarf . This is Owain Arthur ’s Prince Durin IV , the prince of Khazad - dûm . By the second historic period , Khazad - dûm is one of the most famous and populous Dwarven land , home to master craftspeople who entertain some of the greatest supplies of Mithril in in-between - world — and eventually tragically lost to the Goblins after its denizens mine too deeply into the Earth , becoming the ruined kingdom of Moria Frodo and his allies perilously trek through in The Fellowship of the Ring . In Tolkien ’s lore , the leadership of Durin ’s kinfolk were not descendants by blood — Durin III , one of the Dwarven leaders who accept one of the seven Dwarf - Lord - give rings of power from Sauron , was not Durin IV ’s founder , and we know that both these rulers will appear in The Ring of Power . The Second Age lasts over three thousand age , so there ’s plenty time for multiple Dwarf - Lords !

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Screenshot: Amazon Studios

Although the context is left unknown , we screw who this Elf is : it ’s none other than the young Elrond , future lord of Rivendell . play by Robert Aramayo in the show , the Vanity Fair trailer beleaguer that part of Elrond ’s discharge in the series will see him in an ambassadorial role , engaging in diplomatic talks with Durin ’s Folk . Could this be Elrond in Khazad - dûm as part of that part ?

In a nictation - and - you’ll miss it dissipate we shortly get to see another fiber teased in that preview : Disa , a Dwarven princess of Khazad - dûm , play by Sophia Nomvete — perhaps related to , or married to , Durin IV .

Another prompt shot see a hand lift the hair on a sodden Galadriel ’s headway to bring out her Elven ears . Given the the sea backcloth , this could be the man we saw being marooned before — and belike then Halbrand .

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Screenshot: Amazon Studios

That cuts into this peculiar shot of someone rescuing a mostly raw man out of a swirling Hell of flame and ash . The someone doing the grabbing come out to be quite small , so could either be a Dwarf or a Harfoot , but the context here is so brief it ’s hard to say what ’s happening .

Two further rapid - fire shots : the first sees Durin IV take a rock as his fellow Dwarves calculate on …

And the other sees Arondir , now in the day , leaping to mint at an unseen foeman with an ax . notice that one of his legs has been fetter — who ’s capture him ?

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Screenshot: Amazon Studios

Slightly longer is one more shaft of an Elven warrior , environ by both his fellow Elven soldier and a horde of orcs , screaming in rain - soaked despair . The armor here is not selfsame to , but very evocative , of the gold - and - navy clad Elves of the Last Alliance we saw in the Fellowship of the Ring motion picture — and we know that Rings of Power is allowed to habituate a nebulous thought of“material ” connectionsto those films , so there ’s a distinguishable possibility this is some kind of flash lamp - forward to that state of war , which ended the 2nd Age with Sauron ’s licking and the One Ring being led away from Mount Doom by Isildur . Likelier still is that this is a flashback to the terminal of the First Age , and a characterisation of the War of Wrath against Morgoth , in which Sauron was simply a lieutenant of the Dark Lord rather than his successor .

The teaser ends with another cryptic shot , as a pocket-sized , childlike hand grasps the fingers of a much larger , older individual . That older unidentified flesh was depicted in one of the recent role placard , agree an apple , but we do n’t have intercourse their identicalness — afford the size of it / age disparity here , are these the masses we saw in that inferno earlier in the teaser ?

Our first glance of The Rings of Power did n’t really actually tell us much of what to have a bun in the oven from the show , just gave passel to a few details we had had teased . There ’s still so much left to learn about just what form of structure a series condensing thousands of years of fantasy history will have as it takes shape across not just this first time of year , but at least a 2d and perhaps even more to fall , given the amount of cash Amazon has hurl at it . fourth dimension will tell , and we at least have plenty of that leave to chew on this puzzle — The Lord of the Rings : The Rings of Power does n’t attain Amazon Prime Video until September 2 , 2022 .

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