Prime Video will finally debut a new trailer for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power tomorrow, but in the meantime, EW has shared a new batch of promo stills giving us a first look at the denizens of the legendary Númenor.
The opulent island kingdom never actually factored into Tolkien's novels aside from a few mentions, but the appendices delve into the history of the doomed civilization, which was ultimately lost to the sea.
Aragorn's ancestor Isildur (Maxim Baldry) is one of the main characters we'll meet in Númenor, and his name should be very familiar to fans.
"He's one of the characters most ripe for deepening because everyone knows him," explains co-showrunner JD Payne, who created the series with Patrick McKay. "He's most defined by his final, fatal decision to keep the Ring, when he has the chance to throw the Ring into Mount Doom and destroy Sauron forever, and he chooses incorrectly. We sort of said, 'How do we make that a tragic turn in an otherwise very human, relatable, and heroic arc?'"
Check out the new images at the link below.
Amazon Studios’ forthcoming series brings to screens for the very first time the heroic legends of the fabled Second Age of Middle-earth’s history. This epic drama is set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and will take viewers back to an era in which great powers were forged, kingdoms rose to glory and fell to ruin, unlikely heroes were tested, hope hung by the finest of threads, and the greatest villain that ever flowed from Tolkien’s pen threatened to cover all the world in darkness.
Beginning in a time of relative peace, the series follows an ensemble cast of characters, both familiar and new, as they confront the long-feared re-emergence of evil to Middle-earth. From the darkest depths of the Misty Mountains, to the majestic forests of the elf-capital of Lindon, to the breathtaking island kingdom of Númenor, to the furthest reaches of the map, these kingdoms and characters will carve out legacies that live on long after they are gone.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is set to premiere on Friday, September 2.