The Rings of Power Season 2 premieres on Prime Video in August 2024

Amazon's Prime Video streaming service released the second season of The Rings of Power on 29 August 2024, with the first episodes arriving together. The series is set in the Second Age of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, thousands of years before the events of The Lord of the Rings.

The season followed the first year's revelation that Halbrand, the man Galadriel had befriended, was in fact Sauron. In the new episodes he appeared as Annatar, a fair-seeming emissary, and used that disguise to win the trust of the elven smiths of Eregion, led by Celebrimbor. Their work together moved the story towards the forging of the Rings of Power.

Other strands followed the dwarves of Khazad-dûm, the island kingdom of Númenor and the Harfoots, a small hobbit-like people, as threats gathered across the continent.

The season mattered because it set up the larger conflicts that later storylines would have to resolve. It also drew a more mixed response than the debut season, and its place in the series' overall plan became part of the later discussion about where the show should go next.