With The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 3 arriving tomorrow on Prime Video, the show released a new clip of Durin and Disa yesterday, along with a separate featurette in which Jamie Campbell Bower talks about playing Celeborn. Check out the official post down below:
The dwarves video gives Owain Arthur's Durin IV and Sophia Nomvete's Disa a rallying moment. "We don't need rings to beat Sauron!" Durin shouts, followed by "We're dwarves!" In a quieter exchange, Disa tells him, "You need to be strong, king of this mountain," and he answers, "As long as I have you by my side, I will be." The lines appear on screen in large gold lettering over shots of a crowned Durin and a packed hall of dwarves lit by torches, and a red title card splits the frame between Disa and Durin above the November 11 date.
Season 3 picks up 5 years after the fall of Eregion, with Khazad-dûm sealed off from the outside world.
Jamie Campbell Bower On Celeborn And Galadriel
Earlier in the day, the show also shared a featurette with Bower, who plays Celeborn this season:
Bower says he used Tolkien's own life as a reference point for the role. "I've taken inspiration from Tolkien's own life," he explains. "The relationship between Galadriel and Celeborn, particularly this season, is so similar to the relationship between Tolkien and Edith."
The featurette mixes his interview with behind-the-scenes footage from a forest set full of ferns, moss and running water, along with a short look at Galadriel and Celeborn sitting together in the woods. A line from the season plays over those shots: "This is usually the part of the dream where you disappear." Bower describes the pair's bond: "Love is universal. It is eternal." He also laughs that this is "wildly elven because it's eternal."
He spends the rest of the video on how the sets felt to work on. "It always smells a bit like Kew Gardens or a greenhouse, which is unbelievable," he says. "It's really dreamlike, it's like living in Middle-earth, it's so cool." Bower adds that "being able to come and walk onto a set like this and experience that" does not "happen every day," and says he wanted to "allow myself the freedom to be able to play and explore and have fun" with the character.
The Galadriel and Celeborn story also has its own song this season. "Morning Shall Come," written by composer Bear McCreary with AURORA, is a love song about the 2 elves.
The Season 3 Release Schedule
Season 3 opens with 4 episodes tomorrow, November 11. Episodes 5 and 6 follow on November 18, and the final 2 episodes arrive on November 25. Simon Pegg voices the Balrog this season, which was spotlighted in UPDATE: The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power Season 3 Poster Spotlights Simon Pegg's Balrog.
The showrunners have also talked about how the time jump changes the series, which was covered in The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power Showrunner Reveals How Season 3 Will Soft Reboot The Series. Early reactions have been positive, too, according to The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power Season 3 First Reactions Say Series Is "Getting Better & Better".
Are you more excited for Durin and Disa's fight against Sauron or Galadriel and Celeborn's love story in Season 3?
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