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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Casts Trio for Season 3

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 3 casts Andrew Richardson (Ponies), Zubin Varla (Andor) & Adam Young (Masters of the Air).

With filming now underway at Shepperton Studios, we've got some new casting news for the third season of Patrick McKay and JD Payne's The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power to pass along. Andrew Richardson (Ponies) is set as a series regular, while Zubin Varla (Andor) and Adam Young (Masters of the Air) have been tapped for recurring roles in the Amazon MGM Studios series, though specific details on their characters were not released. Jumping forward several years from the events of season 2, season 3 takes place at the height of the War of the Elves and Sauron, as the Dark Lord seeks to craft the One Ring that will give him the edge he needs to win the war and conquer all Middle-earth at last. Richardson, Varla, and Young join Jamie Campbell Bower (Stranger Things) and Eddie Marsan (Ray Donovan), who were announced as joining the cast earlier this year (with Bower set as a series regular and Marsan set for a recurring role).

A Look Back at The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 2

Sauron has returned. Cast out by Galadriel, without army or ally, the rising Dark Lord must now rely on his own cunning to rebuild his strength and oversee the creation of the Rings of Power, which will allow him to bind all the peoples of Middle-earth to his sinister will. Building on Season 1's epic scope and ambition, Season 2 of Amazon's "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" plunges even its most beloved and vulnerable characters into a rising tide of darkness, challenging each to find their place in a world that is increasingly on the brink of calamity. Elves and dwarves, orcs and men, wizards and Harfoots… as friendships are strained and kingdoms begin to fracture, the forces of good will struggle ever more valiantly to hold on to what matters to them most of all… each other.

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 2 was executive produced by showrunners Payne, McKay, Lindsey Weber, Callum Greene, Justin Doble, Jason Cahill, and Gennifer Hutchison – along with co-executive producer & lead director Charlotte Brändström. Kate Hazell and Helen Shang also produced, with co-producers Clare Buxton, Andrew Lee, Glenise Mullins, and Matthew Penry-Davey. Brändström directed four episodes, with Sanaa Hamri (The Wheel of Time) and Louise Hooper (Flesh and Blood) each directing two episodes.

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