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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (season 2)

August 27, 2023

The second season of the American fantasy television series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is based on the novel The Lord of the Rings and its appendices by J. R. R. Tolkien. Set in the Second Age of Middle-earth, thousands of years before Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, it depicts some of the major events of the Second Age. The season is produced by Amazon Studios in association with New Line Cinema and in consultation with the Tolkien Estate. J. D. Payne and Patrick McKay serve as showrunners.

The Lord of the Rings:
The Rings of Power
Season 2
Country of originUnited States
Release
Original networkAmazon Prime Video
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Amazon bought the television rights to The Lord of the Rings in November 2017 and made a multi-season commitment for a new series. A second season was officially ordered in November 2019, and writing began during an extended first season production break that started due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Amazon announced in August 2021 that filming for the series would move from New Zealand to the United Kingdom starting with the second season. Filming began in October 2022, with Charlotte Brändström, Sanaa Hamri, and Louise Hooper directing. Much of the series' large international cast returned from the first season, as did composer Bear McCreary who started work when production began. Location filming took place around Surrey and Berkshire as well as in the Canary Islands, and filming was completed in early June 2023 amid the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike.

The eight-episode season is expected to premiere in 2024 on the streaming service Amazon Prime Video.

Cast and characters

Main article: List of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power characters

The following cast members have been confirmed to return from the first season:

The following new cast members have been announced for the second season:[16][17][18]

Production

Development

Amazon acquired the global television rights for J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings in November 2017. The company's streaming service, Amazon Prime Video, gave a multi-season commitment to a series based on the novel and its appendices that was believed to be for five seasons, to be produced by Amazon Studios in association with New Line Cinema and in consultation with the Tolkien Estate. The budget was expected to be in the range of US$100–150 million per season,[19] and the streaming service had to give a formal greenlight to future seasons before work could begin on them.[20] J. D. Payne and Patrick McKay were hired to develop the series in July 2018,[21] and were named showrunners a year later.[22] Prime Video officially ordered an eight-episode second season in November 2019,[20][23] and announced the series' full title, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, in January 2022.[24] The season's all-female directing team was revealed that December: Charlotte Brändström returned from the first season to direct four episodes, while Sanaa Hamri and Louise Hooper were set to direct two episodes each. Brändström was also made a co-executive producer for the season, which was executive produced by Payne, McKay, Lindsey Weber, Callum Greene, Justin Doble, Jason Cahill, and Gennifer Hutchison.[23]

Writing

The series' writers room was disbanded once production on the first season began in February 2020, but a longer-than-usual four- or five-month production break was planned following the filming of the first two episodes to allow the writers to reconvene, review the early footage, map out the second season, and write the majority of its scripts.[20] This production break ultimately began earlier than expected due to the COVID-19 pandemic, taking place from mid-March to the end of September.[25][26][27] Writing for the second season was expected to be completed concurrently with post-production on the first season between August 2021 and June 2022.[28][29]

After avoiding a "villain-centric" story in the first season to focus on introducing the world and characters, the showrunners said the second season would go deeper into the "lore and the stories people have been waiting to hear",[30] including by featuring the Dark Lord Sauron more prominently following the reveal at the end of the first season that he was posing as the human Halbrand. McKay felt this would be more impactful because of the time Halbrand spent with Galadriel and the other characters in the first season compared to if they just started the series with Sauron as a prominent antagonist.[31] He added that after Galadriel learned of Sauron's deception and sacrificed her brother's dagger to create the Elven Rings of Power in the first season, the next step of her journey was to explore the consequences of her actions while she was hunting for Sauron.[32] The season depicts the Harfoot Nori and the Stranger, a Wizard, traveling to the land of Rhûn in the East of Middle-earth. This is one of the locations that had not been depicted onscreen before that the showrunners wanted to explore in the series.[31] The season also introduces more locations and characters from Tolkien's writings, and features a "massive" two-episode battle.[33]

Location

Head of Amazon Studios Jennifer Salke said in June 2018 that the series could be produced in New Zealand, where the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit film trilogies were made, but Amazon was also willing to shoot in other countries as long as they could "provide those locations in a really authentic way, because we want it to look incredible".[34] Amazon confirmed in September 2019 that filming for the first season would take place in New Zealand.[35] Scotland was also considered as a location.[36][37] Production for the first season ended on August 2, 2021, at which point the New Zealand crew were unsure when filming for the second season would begin.[28] When ordering the second season in November 2019, Amazon considered filming it back-to-back with the first, as was done for each of the film trilogies,[20] but there was now expected to be a hiatus of at least one year to allow post-production on the first season and writing for the second to be completed. Amazon retained its lease on Auckland film studios for the duration of the hiatus so the series' sets could remain where they had been built.[28]

The week after filming wrapped for the first season, Amazon announced that it was moving production of the series to the United Kingdom starting with the second season. Amazon was in the process of booking studio space in the UK,[29] and Scotland was reported to be the frontrunner for new shooting locations.[38] The company planned to ship all of the sets that were built for the first season from New Zealand to the UK, and hire a new UK-based crew since the majority of the first season's crew was New Zealand-based.[29] Factors that played a role in the change included Amazon already heavily investing in UK studio space for several other productions; a belief that the UK would be a "more economical choice" following the high cost of producing the first season in New Zealand;[39] the opportunity to film in other European countries near the UK as was done for the fantasy series Game of Thrones;[29] the Tolkien Estate wanting the series to be filmed in the UK since Tolkien was inspired by locations there for his books;[38] and the fact that New Zealand's restrictive pandemic-era border policies had prevented Amazon executives from visiting and monitoring the production, while many international cast members (more than half of whom are British) were unable to leave the country for nearly two years during filming of the first season.[29] Amazon had offered in August 2020 to pay for the use of hotels and rental properties as private quarantine facilities to give the production more flexibility with travel, but this idea was rejected by the New Zealand government due to the supposed need for "additional services" related to quarantining.[40] In the UK, 80 percent of expenditure is eligible for a 25 percent tax rebate through the government's "high-end television" tax relief program.[41][42]

The cast and crew expressed regret that they were not returning to New Zealand for the second season. Weber called it a "hard departure" and said they would not have been able to make the first season without the New Zealand crew, many having worked on the films as well.[43] However, McKay felt that because Tolkien was inspired by the UK for his writings they would be "bring[ing] the property home" with the second season which would be an "opportunity... pregnant with possibilities". He also suggested that future seasons would be visiting new lands within Tolkien's world that would justify having new filming locations.[44] Vernon Sanders, Amazon's Head of Global TV, confirmed that the second season would be "going to new lands, and there are new expansive things happening" that would take advantage of the new locations available in the UK and across Europe.[45]

Casting

While promoting the first season at San Diego Comic-Con in July 2022, the showrunners said they would give a role in the second season to television host and avid Tolkien fan Stephen Colbert, who was moderating the series' panel at the convention.[46] A month later, they said the character Círdan would be introduced in the second season.[47] The character briefly appeared in the Lord of the Rings films portrayed by Michael Elsworth.[48]

Cast members who returned from the first season include Cynthia Addai-Robinson as Míriel,[1] Robert Aramayo as Elrond,[2] Owain Arthur as Durin IV,[3] Maxim Baldry as Isildur,[4] Nazanin Boniadi as Bronwyn,[2] Morfydd Clark as Galadriel,[5] Ismael Cruz Córdova as Arondir,[6] Charles Edwards as Celebrimbor,[7] Trystan Gravelle as Pharazôn,[2] Ema Horvath as Eärien,[2] Markella Kavenagh as Elanor "Nori" Brandyfoot,[8] Geoff Morrell as Waldreg,[2] Tyroe Muhafidin as Theo,[9] Peter Mullan as Durin III,[10] Sophia Nomvete as Disa,[11] Lloyd Owen as Elendil,[12] Alex Tarrant as Valandil,[2] Charlie Vickers as Sauron,[13] Leon Wadham as Kemen,[14] Benjamin Walker as Gil-galad,[15] and Daniel Weyman as the stranger.[8]

On December 1, 2022, Sam Hazeldine was revealed to have replaced Joseph Mawle in the role of Adar for the second season. The decision had been made several months earlier and Mawle did not participate in promotion for the first season. Amazon also announced the casting of Gabriel Akuwudike, Yasen "Zates" Atour, Ben Daniels, Amelia Kenworthy, Nia Towle, and Nicholas Woodeson.[16] On December 7, Amazon further announced the casting of Oliver Alvin-Wilson, Stuart Bowman, Gavi Singh Chera, William Chubb, Kevin Eldon, Will Keen, Selina Lo, and Calam Lynch.[17] Sanders noted the diversity of the season's new cast members, stating "The series continues to be cast from all around the world. We think that represents the show that we created in season one, and we're doing the same thing for season two, we are trying to find the best actor for the role."[45] Amazon announced in March 2023 that Ciarán Hinds, Rory Kinnear, and Tanya Moodie would have recurring roles in the second season.[18]

Design

Production designer Ramsey Avery left the series after the first season to work on the film Captain America: Brave New World (2024),[49] and was replaced by Danish designer Kristian Milsted for the second season. Brändström felt Milsted had brought Scandinavian influences into the series' sets and locations,[50][51] but also noted that many of Avery's sets had been shipped to the UK and were just being expanded for the second season.[49]

Filming

 
Charlotte Brändström directed four episodes.

Pre-production was expected to begin in the second quarter of 2022, and the production was set to be primarily based at Bray Film Studios and Bovingdon Airfield outside of London.[52] The showrunners were scouting for additional filming locations in June 2022,[53] and the cast was preparing to travel to the UK in August.[54] Filming began on October 3,[55] and was set to continue for around eight months.[56] Brändström, Hamri, and Hooper were directing their episodes simultaneously based on the availability of locations and sets.[57] Alex Disenhof returned from the first season to work with Brändström as cinematographer,[49] with Laurie Rose and Jean-Philippe Gossart also serving as cinematographers for the season.[58]

By late October, filming was taking place on Hankley Common in Surrey. A set for a ruined village was built on the reserve's "barren black landscape" (resulting from two wildfires earlier in 2022), leading to speculation that it was being used to portray Mordor.[59] In early February, filming took place in Swinley Forest in Berkshire. A large castle set was built on Buttersteep Rise in the area, near the town of Ascot. William, Prince of Wales, and Catherine, Princess of Wales, who live at the nearby Windsor Castle, visited the series' set with their children during filming.[60][61] Location filming in Tenerife, Canary Islands, began in early March, specifically in the Teide National Park. By March 17, filming was taking place at the Tenerife town of San Juan de la Rambla, including at the Charco de la Laja coastal pool.[62][63] On March 21, a horse died of cardiac arrest during rehearsals on the season's UK set. It was one of around 30 horses provided for the scene by film industry horse outfitter The Devil's Horsemen. This was the first on-set death in the company's 50-year history, and the horse had been standing among 20 other horses when it died. Animal rights organization PETA called for the production to use visual effects and other techniques rather than risk the lives of real horses.[64] Filming at Bray Studios was interrupted for about an hour on April 3 when a fire broke out in a warehouse.[65] Morfydd Clark said on April 15 that she was in the middle of four weeks of night shoots.[66] The next week, Nicole McBride at Bracknell News reported on the concerns of local residents regarding damage done to the Swinley Forest area by the production. In response, the Crown Estate said they would work with the production to "fully restore the area of woodland... includ[ing] the creation of new habitats".[67]

After the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike started in May, the showrunners and other writer-producers were no longer able to be on set. The season reportedly had 19 filming days left as of May 4, when the production was revealed to be continuing under the supervision of the directors and non-writing executive producers. This approach had been planned ahead of the strike confirmation.[68] The production officially wrapped in early June.[49]

Music

Main article: Music of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

Composer Bear McCreary received scripts for the season the day after he completed work on the first season's music. He began composing music for the second season by November 2022, including some that was needed during filming, and expressed excitement at being involved in the season from the beginning and being able to pace out his work better than on the first season.[69]: 47:20–52:37 

Release

The eight-episode season is set to be released on the streaming service Prime Video.[20] In October 2022, the showrunners said they would be working on the season for "another couple years",[33] and that December Sanders said the season would likely not be ready for release in 2023.[70] The Hollywood Reporter said the series would be ready within 24 months and likely released during 2024.[71]

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External links

  • Official website
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (season 2) at IMDb

August 27, 2023
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The second season of the American fantasy television series The Lord of the Rings The Rings of Power is based on the novel The Lord of the Rings and its appendices by J R R Tolkien Set in the Second Age of Middle earth thousands of years before Tolkien s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings it depicts some of the major events of the Second Age The season is produced by Amazon Studios in association with New Line Cinema and in consultation with the Tolkien Estate J D Payne and Patrick McKay serve as showrunners The Lord of the Rings The Rings of PowerSeason 2Country of originUnited StatesReleaseOriginal networkAmazon Prime VideoSeason chronology PreviousSeason 1List of episodesAmazon bought the television rights to The Lord of the Rings in November 2017 and made a multi season commitment for a new series A second season was officially ordered in November 2019 and writing began during an extended first season production break that started due to the COVID 19 pandemic Amazon announced in August 2021 that filming for the series would move from New Zealand to the United Kingdom starting with the second season Filming began in October 2022 with Charlotte Brandstrom Sanaa Hamri and Louise Hooper directing Much of the series large international cast returned from the first season as did composer Bear McCreary who started work when production began Location filming took place around Surrey and Berkshire as well as in the Canary Islands and filming was completed in early June 2023 amid the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike The eight episode season is expected to premiere in 2024 on the streaming service Amazon Prime Video Contents 1 Cast and characters 2 Production 2 1 Development 2 2 Writing 2 3 Location 2 4 Casting 2 5 Design 2 6 Filming 2 7 Music 3 Release 4 References 5 External linksCast and characters EditMain article List of The Lord of the Rings The Rings of Power characters The following cast members have been confirmed to return from the first season Cynthia Addai Robinson as Miriel 1 Robert Aramayo as Elrond 2 Owain Arthur as Durin IV 3 Maxim Baldry as Isildur 4 Nazanin Boniadi as Bronwyn 2 Morfydd Clark as Galadriel 5 Ismael Cruz Cordova as Arondir 6 Charles Edwards as Celebrimbor 7 Trystan Gravelle as Pharazon 2 Ema Horvath as Earien 2 Markella Kavenagh as Elanor Nori Brandyfoot 8 Geoff Morrell as Waldreg 2 Tyroe Muhafidin as Theo 9 Peter Mullan as Durin III 10 Sophia Nomvete as Disa 11 Lloyd Owen as Elendil 12 Alex Tarrant as Valandil 2 Charlie Vickers as Sauron 13 Leon Wadham as Kemen 14 Benjamin Walker as Gil galad 15 Daniel Weyman as the stranger 8 The following new cast members have been announced for the second season 16 17 18 Gabriel Akuwudike Oliver Alvin Wilson Yasen Zates Atour Stuart Bowman Gavi Singh Chera William Chubb Ben Daniels Kevin Eldon Sam Hazeldine as Adar Ciaran Hinds Rory Kinnear Amelia Kenworthy Will Keen Selina Lo Calam Lynch Tanya Moodie Nia Towle Nicholas WoodesonProduction EditDevelopment Edit Amazon acquired the global television rights for J R R Tolkien s The Lord of the Rings in November 2017 The company s streaming service Amazon Prime Video gave a multi season commitment to a series based on the novel and its appendices that was believed to be for five seasons to be produced by Amazon Studios in association with New Line Cinema and in consultation with the Tolkien Estate The budget was expected to be in the range of US 100 150 million per season 19 and the streaming service had to give a formal greenlight to future seasons before work could begin on them 20 J D Payne and Patrick McKay were hired to develop the series in July 2018 21 and were named showrunners a year later 22 Prime Video officially ordered an eight episode second season in November 2019 20 23 and announced the series full title The Lord of the Rings The Rings of Power in January 2022 24 The season s all female directing team was revealed that December Charlotte Brandstrom returned from the first season to direct four episodes while Sanaa Hamri and Louise Hooper were set to direct two episodes each Brandstrom was also made a co executive producer for the season which was executive produced by Payne McKay Lindsey Weber Callum Greene Justin Doble Jason Cahill and Gennifer Hutchison 23 Writing Edit The series writers room was disbanded once production on the first season began in February 2020 but a longer than usual four or five month production break was planned following the filming of the first two episodes to allow the writers to reconvene review the early footage map out the second season and write the majority of its scripts 20 This production break ultimately began earlier than expected due to the COVID 19 pandemic taking place from mid March to the end of September 25 26 27 Writing for the second season was expected to be completed concurrently with post production on the first season between August 2021 and June 2022 28 29 After avoiding a villain centric story in the first season to focus on introducing the world and characters the showrunners said the second season would go deeper into the lore and the stories people have been waiting to hear 30 including by featuring the Dark Lord Sauron more prominently following the reveal at the end of the first season that he was posing as the human Halbrand McKay felt this would be more impactful because of the time Halbrand spent with Galadriel and the other characters in the first season compared to if they just started the series with Sauron as a prominent antagonist 31 He added that after Galadriel learned of Sauron s deception and sacrificed her brother s dagger to create the Elven Rings of Power in the first season the next step of her journey was to explore the consequences of her actions while she was hunting for Sauron 32 The season depicts the Harfoot Nori and the Stranger a Wizard traveling to the land of Rhun in the East of Middle earth This is one of the locations that had not been depicted onscreen before that the showrunners wanted to explore in the series 31 The season also introduces more locations and characters from Tolkien s writings and features a massive two episode battle 33 Location Edit Head of Amazon Studios Jennifer Salke said in June 2018 that the series could be produced in New Zealand where the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit film trilogies were made but Amazon was also willing to shoot in other countries as long as they could provide those locations in a really authentic way because we want it to look incredible 34 Amazon confirmed in September 2019 that filming for the first season would take place in New Zealand 35 Scotland was also considered as a location 36 37 Production for the first season ended on August 2 2021 at which point the New Zealand crew were unsure when filming for the second season would begin 28 When ordering the second season in November 2019 Amazon considered filming it back to back with the first as was done for each of the film trilogies 20 but there was now expected to be a hiatus of at least one year to allow post production on the first season and writing for the second to be completed Amazon retained its lease on Auckland film studios for the duration of the hiatus so the series sets could remain where they had been built 28 The week after filming wrapped for the first season Amazon announced that it was moving production of the series to the United Kingdom starting with the second season Amazon was in the process of booking studio space in the UK 29 and Scotland was reported to be the frontrunner for new shooting locations 38 The company planned to ship all of the sets that were built for the first season from New Zealand to the UK and hire a new UK based crew since the majority of the first season s crew was New Zealand based 29 Factors that played a role in the change included Amazon already heavily investing in UK studio space for several other productions a belief that the UK would be a more economical choice following the high cost of producing the first season in New Zealand 39 the opportunity to film in other European countries near the UK as was done for the fantasy series Game of Thrones 29 the Tolkien Estate wanting the series to be filmed in the UK since Tolkien was inspired by locations there for his books 38 and the fact that New Zealand s restrictive pandemic era border policies had prevented Amazon executives from visiting and monitoring the production while many international cast members more than half of whom are British were unable to leave the country for nearly two years during filming of the first season 29 Amazon had offered in August 2020 to pay for the use of hotels and rental properties as private quarantine facilities to give the production more flexibility with travel but this idea was rejected by the New Zealand government due to the supposed need for additional services related to quarantining 40 In the UK 80 percent of expenditure is eligible for a 25 percent tax rebate through the government s high end television tax relief program 41 42 The cast and crew expressed regret that they were not returning to New Zealand for the second season Weber called it a hard departure and said they would not have been able to make the first season without the New Zealand crew many having worked on the films as well 43 However McKay felt that because Tolkien was inspired by the UK for his writings they would be bring ing the property home with the second season which would be an opportunity pregnant with possibilities He also suggested that future seasons would be visiting new lands within Tolkien s world that would justify having new filming locations 44 Vernon Sanders Amazon s Head of Global TV confirmed that the second season would be going to new lands and there are new expansive things happening that would take advantage of the new locations available in the UK and across Europe 45 Casting Edit While promoting the first season at San Diego Comic Con in July 2022 the showrunners said they would give a role in the second season to television host and avid Tolkien fan Stephen Colbert who was moderating the series panel at the convention 46 A month later they said the character Cirdan would be introduced in the second season 47 The character briefly appeared in the Lord of the Rings films portrayed by Michael Elsworth 48 Cast members who returned from the first season include Cynthia Addai Robinson as Miriel 1 Robert Aramayo as Elrond 2 Owain Arthur as Durin IV 3 Maxim Baldry as Isildur 4 Nazanin Boniadi as Bronwyn 2 Morfydd Clark as Galadriel 5 Ismael Cruz Cordova as Arondir 6 Charles Edwards as Celebrimbor 7 Trystan Gravelle as Pharazon 2 Ema Horvath as Earien 2 Markella Kavenagh as Elanor Nori Brandyfoot 8 Geoff Morrell as Waldreg 2 Tyroe Muhafidin as Theo 9 Peter Mullan as Durin III 10 Sophia Nomvete as Disa 11 Lloyd Owen as Elendil 12 Alex Tarrant as Valandil 2 Charlie Vickers as Sauron 13 Leon Wadham as Kemen 14 Benjamin Walker as Gil galad 15 and Daniel Weyman as the stranger 8 On December 1 2022 Sam Hazeldine was revealed to have replaced Joseph Mawle in the role of Adar for the second season The decision had been made several months earlier and Mawle did not participate in promotion for the first season Amazon also announced the casting of Gabriel Akuwudike Yasen Zates Atour Ben Daniels Amelia Kenworthy Nia Towle and Nicholas Woodeson 16 On December 7 Amazon further announced the casting of Oliver Alvin Wilson Stuart Bowman Gavi Singh Chera William Chubb Kevin Eldon Will Keen Selina Lo and Calam Lynch 17 Sanders noted the diversity of the season s new cast members stating The series continues to be cast from all around the world We think that represents the show that we created in season one and we re doing the same thing for season two we are trying to find the best actor for the role 45 Amazon announced in March 2023 that Ciaran Hinds Rory Kinnear and Tanya Moodie would have recurring roles in the second season 18 Design Edit Production designer Ramsey Avery left the series after the first season to work on the film Captain America Brave New World 2024 49 and was replaced by Danish designer Kristian Milsted for the second season Brandstrom felt Milsted had brought Scandinavian influences into the series sets and locations 50 51 but also noted that many of Avery s sets had been shipped to the UK and were just being expanded for the second season 49 Filming Edit Charlotte Brandstrom directed four episodes Pre production was expected to begin in the second quarter of 2022 and the production was set to be primarily based at Bray Film Studios and Bovingdon Airfield outside of London 52 The showrunners were scouting for additional filming locations in June 2022 53 and the cast was preparing to travel to the UK in August 54 Filming began on October 3 55 and was set to continue for around eight months 56 Brandstrom Hamri and Hooper were directing their episodes simultaneously based on the availability of locations and sets 57 Alex Disenhof returned from the first season to work with Brandstrom as cinematographer 49 with Laurie Rose and Jean Philippe Gossart also serving as cinematographers for the season 58 By late October filming was taking place on Hankley Common in Surrey A set for a ruined village was built on the reserve s barren black landscape resulting from two wildfires earlier in 2022 leading to speculation that it was being used to portray Mordor 59 In early February filming took place in Swinley Forest in Berkshire A large castle set was built on Buttersteep Rise in the area near the town of Ascot William Prince of Wales and Catherine Princess of Wales who live at the nearby Windsor Castle visited the series set with their children during filming 60 61 Location filming in Tenerife Canary Islands began in early March specifically in the Teide National Park By March 17 filming was taking place at the Tenerife town of San Juan de la Rambla including at the Charco de la Laja coastal pool 62 63 On March 21 a horse died of cardiac arrest during rehearsals on the season s UK set It was one of around 30 horses provided for the scene by film industry horse outfitter The Devil s Horsemen This was the first on set death in the company s 50 year history and the horse had been standing among 20 other horses when it died Animal rights organization PETA called for the production to use visual effects and other techniques rather than risk the lives of real horses 64 Filming at Bray Studios was interrupted for about an hour on April 3 when a fire broke out in a warehouse 65 Morfydd Clark said on April 15 that she was in the middle of four weeks of night shoots 66 The next week Nicole McBride at Bracknell News reported on the concerns of local residents regarding damage done to the Swinley Forest area by the production In response the Crown Estate said they would work with the production to fully restore the area of woodland includ ing the creation of new habitats 67 After the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike started in May the showrunners and other writer producers were no longer able to be on set The season reportedly had 19 filming days left as of May 4 when the production was revealed to be continuing under the supervision of the directors and non writing executive producers This approach had been planned ahead of the strike confirmation 68 The production officially wrapped in early June 49 Music Edit Main article Music of The Lord of the Rings The Rings of Power Composer Bear McCreary received scripts for the season the day after he completed work on the first season s music He began composing music for the second season by November 2022 including some that was needed during filming and expressed excitement at being involved in the season from the beginning and being able to pace out his work better than on the first season 69 47 20 52 37 Release EditThe eight episode season is set to be released on the streaming service Prime Video 20 In 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