Elves may be eternal, but even five years can change a lot for them. In the five years since the end of The Rings of Power Season 2, Sauron (Charlie Vickers) has fled to Mordor with the nine rings of power, where he finally sets about crafting the One Ring that kicks off the central conflict in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings saga. But the Elves have been doing more than picking their wounds from Sauron’s for the past five years. The end of Season 2 saw Gil-galad (Benjamin Walker), Elrond (Robert Aramayo), Arondir (Ismael Cruz Córdova), Galadriel (Morfydd Clark), and the other survivors of Sauron’s siege on Eregion find their way to beautiful valley that would become Rivendell.
Now, with the upcoming third season of The Rings of Power, we can finally see the forces of good and evil — all finally revealed to each other — gear up for battle. But will there be more trouble down the road, with new faces like Celeborn (Jamie Cambell Bower) and the Nazgnagôl joining the fray? We’ll have to see in the first official Season 3 trailer below.
