The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power returns to Prime Video on November 11, 2026, with four episodes available on premiere day. The season has eight episodes in all. Episodes five and six arrive on November 18, with the final two following on November 25.
Season three picks up five years after the fall of Eregion, with the war between Sauron and the Elves already underway. The trailer puts Sauron’s plan to forge the One Ring at the centre of the season. The Dwarves have shut themselves inside Khazad-dûm, while the Elves’ Three Rings help protect Lindon and Rivendell from his advance.
Charlie Vickers and Morfydd Clark return as Sauron and Galadriel, alongside Robert Aramayo as Elrond and Daniel Weyman as Gandalf. Among the new cast members is Jamie Campbell Bower, who plays Celeborn, Galadriel’s long-lost husband. Eddie Marsan joins as Thrain, Durin IV’s older brother, while Simon Pegg voices the Balrog.
J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay continue as showrunners. The series takes place in Middle-earth’s Second Age, thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Viewers looking to catch up before the new episodes can find all 16 episodes of the first two seasons on Prime Video.
Watch the season 3 trailer: