Rings of Power Season 2 SDCC Trailer BREAKDOWN

The brand new trailer for The Rings of Power Season 2 just debuted at San Diego Comic-Con and we are taking a look at all the clues, references, and coming up with theories for it all.

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[anni.]

"An Elf archer getting boromired" 🤣🤣🤣

[gregjazyk]

Maybe Bombadil gifts his jacket to the wizard once they part ways. And we all know what color that jacket will be. Blue wizard confirmed!

[agentspaniel]

The Easterlings wearing masks designed to look like monsters might be to give the impression that evil spirits haunt the desert

[guadalupefestival]

"a flying Delta kinda day" I havent had liquid go up my nose for awhile. Thanks. LOL

[levezze]

I do have to say, this looks much better than the first season. I also always thought that it's a blue wizard, it just makes sense - they're the most mysterious and less known ones.

[spitfiresergi]

Goldberry shows up and snaps Tom out of being serious or giving two sh$ts about anything other than his perfect cabin and smokeshow of a wife… ‘TIDDLY HO, OFF YOU GO!’ *kicks the blue wizard out of his house / slams the door behind him*

[slouchysmurf]

I was at Comic Con today. Watching this now, and SPOILER I can clear up that Miriel is performing a ritual with the sea worm. She is being tried for some crime (most likely having led their people to a losing battle), and the way they decide this is to throw a person into the sea and if they survive the sea worm, they are declared innocent. The actress shared how she had to film this in a tank.

[DJMarcO]

I know it's unpopular to say, but this looks pretty decent to me - definitely seems like higher stakes and more interesting story.

[balrogofmorgoth]

I’m thinking that first shot of Halbrand is when he’s leaving Eregion after his confrontation with Galadriel

[himmelektronik]

This is my favourite LOTR channel by far. It's not even close.

[bimonsolivar]

"In the next shot we see the ring continuing to fall down some steps" LOL

[gndlfjs]

season one was rough. I would rather much have a series with a bad start and a great ending than the other way around. The trailer looks awesome

[JmmyMack]

I think the balrog is a vision of the possible future conjoured by Annatar to convince Durin to take a ring. He looks into the fire and a mini balrog appears - I think this is sorcery on Sauron's part. He will tell Durin that the destruction of Khazad Dum by the balrog, which his son has disturbed by mining mithril, is inevitable unless he takes a ring, which will give him the power to protect his realm.

[yoyotic]

If you zoom in on the last shot of the charge with the orcs in the background, you can see Adar standing next to a cage on a wagon with someone inside 👀

[MitchellEvertse]

In the trailer, if you pause the video quickly right when the balrog stabs his sword down, you can see right behind it, a figure that looks a lot like Disa holding a Palantir. This is probably a vision the palantir is showing her of the dwarves awakening the balrog, like how Miriel saw the fall of numenore. We did see Disa with a palantir in the behind the scenes clip. And in the trailer, when she says “I’m afraid, Durin”, she’s probably referring to what she saw in the palantir

[TACTICALwaffle]

These “wings” on the balrog are definitely way more accurate to the description in fellowship of the ring

[ninfreak]

It looks like they might be playing the "Sauron's deception is deeper than we all thought" motif with Galadriel and Celebrimbor. My guess is Gal still secretly considers Sauron's proposal because it is her greatest weakness, one she still hasn't denied thousands of years later. Elrond's friendship with her, or perhaps a future relationship with Celeborn, helps keep her desires in check. Elrond always being the reasonable one when it comes to denying power is very lore accurate. I also feel like in that one shot Annatar looks different. Is it possible Cele doesn't see Annatar the same way we see him? Like he's being manipulated to see another form?

[mathijnd]

I like the idea of Balrogs being like chickens. They cant fly, but they do have “wings” to fall down slowly 😅

[ivyrose]

I just gotta say how much I appreciate your commentary, both for your Tolkien knowledge and your humour. You have the perfect balance of getting the information across while throwing in the occasional one liner. Being “Boromired” is officially a verb now 😂

[KingsandGenerals]

I think the trailer looks good, let's see if the second season is an improvement. I didn't hate the first one, but it was average and kinda boring.