After The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power recently revealed that the previously omitted Tom Bombadil will appear in season 2 of the fantasy series, it has now been confirmed that a few monsters that Peter Jackson left out of his cinematic trilogy will be making their way into the Amazon series.
Lord of the Rings horror: Grave monsters haunt the second season of The Rings of Power
After appearing in the background of Amazon’s first Season 2 teaser trailer and as flying figures in the making-of video for the Lord of the Rings series, Tolkien fans had already guessed which Middle Earth monsters would soon be joining the fantasy series. Now Empire has officially confirmed it: The Rings of Power will Grave fiends (in the original: Barrow-Wights).
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What are the grave fiends? The ghostly creatures, also called grave wights in some German translations, live in the hills of Middle Earth. They cannot stay in the sunlight, but at night they appear as floating shadows with glowing eyes. In JRR Tolkien’s first Lord of the Rings volume, The Fellowship of the Ring *, the hobbits Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin are attacked by grave wights in the Old Forest shortly after their escape from the Shire, immobilized and carried off to their tomb. Only Tom Bombadil, who is called to help, can save them.
Neither Peter Jackson nor Ralph Bakshi showed the grave monsters in their Lord of the Rings film adaptations. Only the largely unknown Russian film adaptation from 1991 attempted to depict them, but only to a limited extent. Nevertheless, the existence of ghosts is nothing fundamentally new in the film world of Middle Earth. After all, Aragorn mobilizes an entire ghost army in the fight against Sauron. Jason Smith, who was responsible for visual effects in The Rings of Power, explains, however, that the monsters shown in Season 2 rather ghouls are:
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Grave monsters are old, reanimated heroes who were used against their will by evil It was super-exciting to create something I had never seen before. We have seen undead before, but not like this. We are doing a little Horror film in Middle Earth.
The Lord of the Rings series already shows in the trailer and in pictures that Galadriel (Morfydd Clark), Elrond (Robert Aramayo) and other elves will encounter the ghostly grave monsters in season 2. Will Tom Bombadil (Rory Kinnear) have to rush to the rescue again?
When does Amazon’s Lord of the Rings series start its second season?
Season 2 of The Rings of Power starts on 29 August 2024 on Amazon Prime Video * and will then be released with weekly episodes. Like season 1, the new season includes a total of eight episodes.
Everything that is known about Season 2 suggests that there will be more surprises waiting for us besides the grave monsters.
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In addition to a slightly changed cast, legendary Tolkien characters such as Tom Bombadil and probably also the giant spider Shelob await us in Middle Earth in Season 2. We classify the rumors and theories that promise a dark return.
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