Charlie Vickers’ Sauron returns to Middle-Earth with an intent to create the Rings of Power but the elves put up a valiant fight to foil his sinister plans in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 2 trailer, dropped by Prime Video on Saturday.

The three-minute-51-second-long trailer shows the Dark Lord Sauron returning to Middle-Earth and supervising the creation of the Rings of Power. Subsequent scenes show the royal elf Galadriel (Morfydd Clark), the High King Gil-galad (Benjamin Walker) and shipwright Círdan possessing the three Elven rings.

However, the half-elf Elrond isn’t in favour of the ring bearers as he believes that they will end up being corrupted if they possess the rings. “I know you believe this ring is deceiving me, but I know it’s guiding me,” Galadriel tells Elrond in the video, emphasising on how the possession of the ring does not make her Sauron’s ally.

“You will give me the nine,” Sauron says, ordering the elves to return the nine rings that are destined to corrupt the Kings of Men. The trailer also shows the dwarf Durin III, played by Peter Mullan, who seems to be entranced by his own ring.

Rory Kinnear’s Tom Bombadil also appears in the video as a counsellor and well-wisher of Gandalf, played by Daniel Weyman. The trailer ends with an intense battle between the elves and the orcs.

“Sauron has returned. Cast out by Galadriel, without army or ally, the rising Dark Lord must now rely on his own cunning to rebuild his strength and oversee the creation of the Rings of Power, which will allow him to bind all the peoples of Middle-earth to his sinister will. Building on Season 1’s epic scope and ambition, Season 2 of Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power plunges even its most beloved and vulnerable characters into a rising tide of darkness, challenging each to find their place in a world that is increasingly on the brink of calamity,” reads a snippet from the official synopsis of the upcoming season.

“Elves and dwarves, orcs and men, wizards and Harfoots… as friendships are strained and kingdoms begin to fracture, the forces of good will struggle ever more valiantly to hold on to what matters to them most of all… each other,” Prime Video further wrote about the plot.

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is set in the Second Age of Middle-earth, long before the events of Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Created by J. D. Payne and Patrick McKay, the series explores the creation of the Rings of Power, the rise of the Dark Lord Sauron, the epic tale of Númenor, and the last alliance between Elves and Men.

Season 2 of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is slated to hit Prime Video on August 29.