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Welcome back everyone this will be my lord of the rings super bowl trailer video for the rings of
power tv show that's starting later this year as the title implies it'll cover how sauron created
the rings of power or tricked the races of middle earth into creating the rings of power and the one
ring it's going to take place much earlier in the timeline thousands of years before the events of
the movies so i'll explain who everyone is and what the plot is and what amazon is changing
from the books that sort of compress thousands of years of history into like 10 seasons of a show
there's a bunch of easter eggs a bunch of familiar characters even though some of the
actors are different some of the characters are the same characters that show up during the movies
so we'll break it all down i'll be doing episode videos for it when it premieres in september so
be sure to subscribe to get everything when the episodes get here too i'll do special lord of the
rings giveaways amazon prime memberships when it starts but this first teaser trailer is just meant
to show you a quick look at most but not all of the major characters as far as i can tell sauron
is not featured anywhere in any of this footage he was called annatar during this period of the
timeline i'll get into that in a second but there was a lot of confusion when they dropped
the trailer because some of the characters that they've announced for the series were alive during
very different parts of the timeline during the second age when this takes place so the actual
second age of middle earth covers thousands of years of history but because they're covering
pretty much all the major events of the second age during the tv show they have to compress a
lot of that so there's a lot of characters that were alive during different parts of the timeline
that will overlap on the show but if you're wondering why you don't see sauron with the one
ring of power in this trailer at this point in the timeline where the show picks up he hasn't created
it yet or the other rings of power there were 19 rings plus the one ring for 20 rings of power
total that is a lot of power for the most part the look the tone that they're going for with the
series will feel very similar to the lord of the rings movies special effects have gotten better
the last several years since the hobbit movies happened since the original lord of the rings
movies howard shore is also coming back to work on the music with bear mcqueary so the music the
soundtrack will also sound similar to the movies and even though amazon only has the tv rights for
the lord of the rings stuff during the second age they don't have the rights to do any of the
movie stuff yet the people who do own the movie rights are actually putting them up for sale real
soon so amazon might get those too and start doing more lord of the rings movies in the future so if
you're a huge tolkien fan big fan of the lord of the rings you're going to be eating good for the
next 20 years or so but as i said the series takes place during the second age about 2000
years before the events of the movies actually i think it's a little bit more than that it's many
thousands of years the reason why there are so many characters from the movies like galadriel
and elrond on the series these characters here is because elves are functionally immortal so some
of the characters will be similar to the ones in the movies but for example gandalf will not be a
character during this series because during this part of the timeline the wizards had not been sent
to middle earth yet a wizard is never late nor is he early he arrives precisely when he means
gandalf and the group of wizards that he was a part of didn't come to middle earth till about
a thousand years into the third age a long long time after all the stuff they're going
to be covering on the show galadriel is one of the main characters on the show that's why she's
featured so heavily in all these different trailer scenes there's a lot of galadriel in this footage
much younger version of the character played by a different actress but it is galadriel
when the plot picks up she's going to be hunting down sauron in the remnants of his master morgoth
melkor's army whichever name you want to use for him he has many different names sauron also had
many different names we'll get some of them during the events of this series just like we
got a prologue at the beginning of fellowship of the ring that showed the war of the last alliance
against sauron where they defeated him we'll also probably get some kind of prologue scene
at the beginning of the series which will cover the war of wrath which was like the last big war
at the end of the first stage before the second age started the war of wrath was their war against
melkor who's kind of like the lord of the rings universe version of lucifer he was sauron's master
he was the first person to try and conquer middle earth all the other races teamed up to fight him
they defeated him banished him to this abyss this other dimension outside the main lord of the rings
dimension sauron slinks away and then develops his plan to trick the races of men create the rings of
power and then start his war for middle earth the first stage ended with the war of wrath which was
kind of like that era's version of the war of the ring the one you saw take place during the movies
the second age the one they're covering during the show ended with isildur basically cutting the
one ring off of sauron's hand with the shard of narsil what amazon is doing is condensing
the second age timeline like i said thousands of years of history into several seasons of the show
so i believe their plan is to end the show like whatever the final season winds up being
with the war of the last alliance the war that you see in the prologue of the fellowship where they
actually defeat sauron there was a war before that called the war of elves and sauron which
took place earlier in the timeline which they might merge with the war of the last alliance if
they're condensing everything there were a couple wars they fought with sauron when he was creating
the rings of power but i think that's going to be like their game of thrones war for the dawn type
of event that they build up to sauron being their version of the night king but the big difference
is that unlike the night king on game of thrones the white walkers during this era of the lord
of the rings timeline sauron was hiding in plain sight amongst the races of middle-earth the elves
the dwarves nobody knew that it was sauron because after sauron's master melkor morgoth was defeated
banished to the void sauron still looked like this like pretty boy sauron his armor didn't look
all scary and hardcore until the war of the last alliance he slinked away used his magic to change
his appearance and start using the name annatar he presented himself to kelebrimbor this legendary
elf who was the last of this really special group of elves the super long tragic backstory
that's too long for this video he comes to keller brimbore pretending to be this annatar character
pretending to be an emissary of the aenor with the promise of these rings of power meant to
give all these races much more power the aener were these primordial cosmic beings that wielded
god tier power and shape middle earth created the different races animals plants everything
to make biblical references they're kind of like the different castes of angels like
there are higher choirs of angels angels that are more powerful than others like archangels
fun fact too sauron and gandalf come from the exact same subgroup of these primordial beings
they were called mayor they're like a lesser group of angels within these different tiers of angels
but within their subgroup sauron was more powerful than gandalf when they're on middle earth they're
really just like these angelic beings taking human form they just go back to their original form if
their human bodies get killed that's why sauron doesn't completely die when a sealed cuts the
ring off his hand his spirit survives is the same thing with gandalf remember they come from the
same group of these primordial beings so that's how gandalf can also come back to life so to speak
take another human form in present day during the events of the movies just like sauron comes back
and even though a lot of people think of sauron is like the end-all be-all of evil on middle-earth
the movies kind of portray him that way the characters talk about him as if he is the ultimate
evil his master melkor was from a way higher cast of even more powerful primordial beings
melkor like i said was kind of like the lord of the rings universe version of lucifer he was one
of the original angelic primordial beings created by the god of the lord of the rings universe
sauron gandalf all the other lesser primordial beings with all this god tier power didn't really
come along until later so when the episodes pick up this major war of wrath against melkor
sauron their forces has just been won but their forces scattered to the four winds sauron's still
alive so galadriel takes it on herself to hunt them down the character here on the raft who
helps save her is a human character named hal brand he's not from the books he's like a new
character they created for the show who just winds up helping galadriel hunt down sauron
during all the trailer footage all these scenes of galadriel that you see with her
having adventures going all over the place all these action scenes are during various
stages of her hunt to find sauron this is the young version of elrond on the series the actor
might look familiar he also played young ned stark during game of thrones during the events
of this series in this part of the timeline of middle earth elrond's main mission is to repair
diplomatic relations between the elves and the dwarves of kazudum we visited kazadoom during
the fellowship of the ring after had been taken over by the balrog and the orcs much later in
the timeline but during this era kazudum was still thriving and being ruled over by during the third
this is during the fourth during the show he's one of the main characters he's just a prince
when the plot picks up this female character sitting on the dwarven throne is princess diesa
she's also not somebody from the book she's like a new dwarven princess they created for the show
this female character is the show's version of a hobbit she's a har foot there were no actual
hobbits during this part of the timeline in the second age they didn't show up until the third age
the race that they evolved from was called the har foots but during these episodes you can think of
her as the show's version of a hobbit there's also this really big mystery character that they've
been hyping up during the scene with all the fire you see her reaching her hand out the hard foot
reaching her hand out to grab this older man's hand this shaggy beard they haven't said who he
is only that he's got this really big mysterious backstory and his origin will be a big storyline
on the show for those of you that are thinking of gandalf theories like anytime you see an old man
with a giant beard with a mysterious backstory you think of gandalf i don't expect him to be
gandolf like i said gandalf didn't come to middle earth till like thousands of years later in the
timeline but if they're compressing the timeline they could always bend over backwards to get some
kind of wizard onto the show because it would be weird to see a giant tv show go on for 10 years
without any wizards of any kind this elf here is gilgalad he's the high king of all the elves
of middle earth now there are different groups of elves different clans that descend from different
lines but he was viewed as the highest authority over all of them during this part of the timeline
the city that he rules from is called linden this area where the scene is taking place the
waterfront city at the beginning of the trailer as a lot of you might have guessed is numenor this is
a real huge deal because during the second age the new minorians got into that big war with the valor
when sauron tricked them quote unquote this is a familiar theme sauron tricking people into
their own downfall he tricked the numenoreans into invading the undying lands in a louvitar the true
god of the lord of the rings universe basically just plucked the undying lands separating it from
the rest of the planet causing this massive shift in the geography these giant tidal waves sinking
the entire island of numenor that's what they call the downfall of numenor maybe they'll cover that
on the show it's such a huge event i don't see how they could not do it on the show at some point
the line of kings of numenor did survive because in present day in the timeline of the movies
aragorn is the last descendant of the original numenorean kings bringing things back around
to elrond and the other characters on the show there's a lot of connections here too because
the way elves live for so long the reason why aragorn lives for so long why numenoreans in
general live for so long is because they all have elven blood in their veins to various degrees
numenor the kingdom was created by elrond's brother elros he was the first king of numenor
even though elves can basically be functionally immortal elrond's brother chose to die after
about 400 years but if they're compressing the timeline maybe we'll see him create numenor in
flashbacks i think in present day because they probably want to do the downfall of numenor the
main king of numenor at the time will be the king who presided over the downfall of numenor
his name was r ferrazone there are a couple other lesser characters during the trailer i'll talk
more about them when we get our next trailer with a bunch more footage like i said this trailer just
mostly meant to give you a general vibe for the series give you a sense for when the episodes take
place in the timeline and the really fan favorite familiar characters like galadriel and elrond what
they'll probably do though is they'll probably save the big sauron annatar reveal whatever he's
going to look like on the show for much later like when we get closer to the series actually coming
out if you ever watched the daredevil netflix series they didn't actually reveal the kingpin
character you'd actually see him on screen till a little bit later in the episodes it'll probably be
the same thing with sauron during the lord of the rings tv series but if you spotted any huge easter
eggs that i didn't talk about in the video that you have questions about or anything just write
them below in the comments everyone click here for my new marvel doctor strange multiverse of
madness trailer video from the super bowl and click here for my brand new moon knight trailer
video thank you so much for watching everyone stay safe and i'll see you guys in the next one!