With the release of the latest Rings of Power Trailer, there are so many hidden details and hints that appear to be referencing major events of the Second Age of Middle Earth. For anyone familiar with Tolkien’s book The Silmarillion, there are several key events within the stories that look as though they may be featured in the new Amazon series.
There are some key scenes in the recent trailer, and they might have some big implications in terms of potential characters, epic battles, and Middle Earth developments.
New Rings Of Power Trailer Shows The Darkness Start To March Across The Land
One of the key things that arose from earlier trailers and especially from promotional images of the new TV series is the Trees of Valinor, Telperion and Laurelin. It is clear that these will play an important part in the series story, just as they do in The Silmarillion. The latest trailer takes it one step further, clearly depicting the gold and silver trees individually, which may be a hint towards the trees being destroyed by Melkor before he is captured, as is the event in the book that spurs so much of the darkness and the hatred in the Second Age of the world.
It is also thought that the group of figures depicted later in the trailer raising their swords towards the stars in the darkness, may be the sons of Feanor, a band who vow to retrieve the Silmarils and bring them back so that the light of the trees may be restored.
One of the most exciting prospects for the series is a shift away from hobbits being the predominant characters, towards the other races of the world. Peter Jackson’s film trilogies gave beautiful and wonderful hints into these other peoples and cultures, but focused primarily on the journey of the hobbits to become
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