The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, a fantasy series produced by Prime Video, has signed Ciarán Hinds, Rory Kinnear, and Tanya Moodie for a second season. The just-announced new cast members will be featured in recurring roles in the upcoming season.
Season 2 is currently shooting in the United Kingdom.
J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay have returned as showrunners, guiding the series through the Second Age of Middle-Earth, a period prior to J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings books.
Ben Daniels (The Exorcist), Nia Towle (Persuasion), Yasen "Zates" Atour (The Witcher), Amelia Kenworthy, and Nicholas Woodeson (Silent Witness) had been announced to take a trip to Middle-earth in December 2022.
Ciarán Hinds received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for his performance in Belfast. Hinds has also played Mance Rayder on Game of Thrones and Julius Caesar on Rome.
Rory Kinnear was recently seen playing several roles in Alex Garland's Men and as Admiral Chauncey Badminton in Our Flag Means Death. Other credits include the Bond films — Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, and Spectre — as well as The Imitation Game, Broken, and Bank of Dave.
Tanya Moodie received the Breakthrough Award from the Royal Television Society for her work in Motherland. Moodie's credits include Tin Star, A Discovery of Witches, The Man Who Fell to Earth, and Neverwhere.
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This epic drama takes viewers back to an era in which great powers were forged, kingdoms rose to glory and fell to ruin, unlikely heroes were tested, hope was hung by the finest threads, and the greatest villain that ever flowed from Tolkien's pen threatened to cover all the world in darkness.
The series follows a diverse cast of characters, both familiar and new, as they face off against the long-awaited return of evil to Middle-earth. From the misty mountains to the majestic island kingdom of Nmenor, these kingdoms and characters will leave legacy that will live on long after they are gone.
