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Co-showrunner Patrick McKay teases the new Middle-earth locations to come The Lord of the Rings: The rings of power Season 2, including The Dark Forest and Barrow-Downs.
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The show aims to explore uncharted Middle-earth locations like Rhûn and the Barrow-downs.
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The Barrow-downs and Tom Bombadil will make an appearance in the new season, filling in missing movie locales.
with The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 2 is set to return to Prime Video, co-showrunner Patrick McKay has revealed the new Middle-earth locations that will be featured in the show’s return. During season 1, McKay and his fellow showrunner, JD Payne, introduced several key locations from JRR Tolkien’s original lore, including the island kingdom of Númenor and the elven city of Lyndon. moreover, The rings of power The season 1 finale also showed Daniel Weyman’s alien going to the uncharted eastern lands of Rhûn.
Talk to Screen Rant ahead of The rings of power Season 2 debut, McKay and executive producer Lindsey Weber, revealed where in Middle-earth the show will travel to. Admitting that due to the season’s extensive 33-week shoot, he can’t remember all the original filming locations, McKay teased. The dark forest in which the giant spider sleepsAnd the increasing evil began to take up residence in the lands of Mordor. He revealed that too The Barrow-downs and Rhûn would also feature in the new season. Check out their comments below:
Patrick McKay: Where does Shelub live, the Black Forest? [Laughs] Well, Mardor has a lot of scary places, and especially now that the sun is gone, the bad stuff just creeps in, really, where did we even shoot that? I can’t remember, we shot in forests all over the UK, because we shot for eight months, nine months.
Lindsay Weber: 33 weeks.
Patrick McKay: So I can’t even remember exactly where our horse rides through. [Laughs]
Lindsey Weber: But to be here with these amazing, old, ancient forests was very inspiring. Our characters walk a lot in the forest this season, at night, just like in the books, they meet many scary creatures. So, we got to experience them in the woods at night with them, which was a thrill, and our actors were real troopers about it.
Patrick McKay: There are more spots we want to. We go to the barrow-downs a little later in the season. Obviously, they travel in Rhûn. God, where are we going? We find a community of stewards in the wilderness yet to come. The map of Middle-earth is unending, and hopefully, around every corner there is a new, strange and wonderful place.
The Rings of Power Season 2 makes up for a missing movie premise
The Peter Jackson movies glossed over the downs.
Long before McKay and Payne brought the second age of Middle-earth to people’s screens, audiences were wowed by the expansive and intricately crafted Lord of the Rings Movie trilogy by director Peter Jackson. Succeeding in bringing Tolkien’s sweeping epic to life where many originally thought such a feat would be impossible, Jackson’s movies would spend a lot of time introducing audiences to some of Tolkien’s most iconic locations. However, even in the movies’ extended runtimes, It is neither possible nor practical to visit every place of the original books.
An important part of the history of the Dúnedain, it was in the Barrow Downs, or Tiern Gorthad, that the peoples of Númenor first established their colonies in Middle-earth.
One such place is the same barrow-downs that McKay says will appear later in Rings of power Season 2. An important part of the history of the Dúnedain, it was in the Barrow-Downs, or Tiern Gorthad, that the peoples of Númenor first established their colonies in Middle-earth. Later, however, they would come to be haunted by the Barrow-Wit that was summoned by Sauron’s loyal servant, the Witch-king of Angmar. Mainly, however, in Tolkien’s books, It was at the Barrow-downs that Frodo and his friends encountered the first real danger of their journey.Until they are saved by Tom Bombadil.
with The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Introducing their own version of Tom Bombadil (played by Rory Kinnear) and the Barrow-downs, it would appear that the Prime Video show intends to make up for what Jackson’s Lord of the Rings Movies are forced to leave out. Furthermore, given the vast and richly detailed nature of Tolkien’s Middle-earth, it would also appear that the Barrow-downs will not be the last place that McKay and Payne will get the chance to be the first to bring to life on screen .
The first three episodes of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 2 begins streaming on August 29, followed by new episodes weekly on Thursdays.