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Prime Video Releases Rings of Power Season 3 Trailer Highlighting Sauron and Future Ringwraiths

Prime Video has released the official full trailer for the third season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, highlighting Sauron's campaign to conquer Middle-earth.

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Prime Video has released the official full trailer for the third season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, highlighting Sauron's campaign to conquer Middle-earth. The footage reveals the Dark Lord recruiting the human men who will become his future Ringwraiths, whom the showrunners refer to as the Nazgnagol.

Season three is set five years after the fall of Eregion and seven years after the events of season two. Sauron’s armies now control large parts of the world, leaving only isolated strongholds like Khazad-dûm, Lindon, and Rivendell to oppose him from within Mordor's newly completed tower of Barad-dûr.

The upcoming season introduces several new cast members, including Jamie Campbell Bower as Celeborn, Zubin Varla as Khamul the Easterling of Rhun, and Simon Pegg voicing the fiery Balrog. The first four episodes of the new season premiere on Prime Video on November 11, 2026. Episodes five and six arrive on November 18, and the final two episodes debut on November 25, 2026.

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Original author: Jennifer Ouellette

Original publication: 22 October 2026 19:52

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Prime Video Releases Rings of Power Season 3 Trailer Highlighting Sauron and Future Ringwraiths
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"I will take my place as the conqueror, a sorcerer, a king."

Last updated 22 October 2026 23:14

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