Lord Of The Rings: Rings Of Power Season 2 Trailer - Sauron Creates The One Ring Breakdown

Here's my Lord Of The Rings The Rings Of Power Season 2 Trailer video and Easter Eggs. Let me know how many you spotted! Here's my new House Of The Dragon Season 2 Trailer video too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XWA0fnr8Zo&t=0s

Gandalf: which ring did u get? Galadriel: Nenya business

The black goo could be the balrog. When Gandalf and the balrog fell into the lake at the bottom of the Bridge of Khazad-Dum, it became "a thing of slime, stronger than a strangling snake".

If you pause at the right frame in that scene with Galadriel and Elrond you can see that the figures surrounding them have glowing blue eyes. I heard a theory that it's barrow wights... even though they shouldn't exist in the second age.

Cirdan the Shipwrights is confirmed for season 2 and he’s the original owner of Narya, not Celebrimbor. :) Cirdan survives all the way until the 3rd age when Gandalf arrives at the gray havens and is given Narya as part of his arrival in Middle-Earth

Ugh August is sooo far away 😭. Glad we finally get the lord of gifts. Kinda feel bad for Celabrimbor knowing what's going to happen to him

Pretty sure those are Barrow-Whites surrounding Galadriel and Elrond.

I've seen a number of people ask when the show confirmed that the Stranger was Gandalf. "Confirmed"? That didn't happen as such. However, after the Stranger decided he is "good", at one point he made a remark about "follow your nose", to the proto-Hobbit companion (sorry, it's been too long and I've lost several of the names), but that was so like a line Gandalf said in the Jackson films, it seemed as conclusive as possible. There's a lot of disagreement on what the Amazon show can use and can't use, and while Gandalf is mentioned in the appendices which are supposedly available for the show, it could be direct references to Gandalf could only be made in certain cases. Or it could be that the Stranger is another one of the five Wizards that come to Middle Earth, and if that's the case, it's most likely to be one of the two blue Wizards who aren't given names in the appendices. Maybe one of the blue Wizards said this phrase about following your nose to Gandalf, and Gandalf ended up using it as well.

My wager would be something with Fangorn Forrest. It's old even by elf standards and likely has some dark things in it before the Ents call it home.

There is some inconsistencies in the books on how the Dwarves got their rings, because Durin CLAIMS he didn't get them from Sauron but were given to him by Celabrimbor, but it's not clear if those were given to him by Sauron, and then to Cel and then to the Dwarves? It will be interesting to see how this adaptation attempts to answer that

The black goo looks like Sauron reforming himself.

I do wonder whether we'll see Celeborn, Galadriel's husband, this season. That creeping black goo is Venom invading Middle Earth of course ... but seriously, I'm guessing it might become the Balrog.

Where and when was it confirmed the stranger is Gandalf? One of the blue wizards would make more sense they could do so much more with them since we dont know their fate. Also that fortress looks more like Utumno(morgoths first stronghold) than Angband which was underground and had 3 volcanic peaks above

Love the breakdown! I watch your breakdowns for Marvel, Star Wars, HotD, this and any others I need to catch. Always great stuff. But one thing I noticed at the end of this one, Angbad is actually Angband*. That's an easy mistake to make. And I actually think it's not Angband, but rather Melkor's (Morgoth) original stronghold of Utumno from the ancient days of Arda, or it could possibly be some beginnings of Mordor. I could be wrong about it not being Angband though. I'm excited to find out. Also I think the Stranger is just one of the blue wizards, not necessarily Gandalf. I don't remember it being for sure confirmed in the show that it was indeed Gandalf, although from appearance it does seem like it could be him, but the way he acted seemed like he was a different blue wizard. But you're right, all the blue wizards actually came later in the timeline, during the Third Age. Thanks again for the awesome breakdown!

I love how you can still see halbrand southman face in his elf form

Maybe they were scared of those flying creatures that the nazgul had the anti-eagles basically and they didn't want to attempt to get close until the ring was destroyed. That would make a lot of sense

Can't wait to see how his Annatar persona plays out

Epic "Avengers Assemble" like on the scene with galadriel and the other elfs, "elfs Assemble"

Using the Papatine strategy of creating a solution to the threat he secretly created too.

Im thinking the black ooze creature could be one of the unnamed horrors Gandalf speaks about in the deep depths of Moria