In Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Sam Hazeldine plays Adar and Morfydd Clark plays Galadriel. The two stars spoke with MovieWeb’s Greg Archer about their characters’ arcs in Season 2 and what to expect when it premieres Aug. 29 on Prime Video.

Set thousands of years before the events of the novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien, the series is based on the author’s history of Middle-earth. It begins during a time of relative peace and covers the major events of Middle-earth’s Second Age: the forging of the Rings of Power, the rise of the Dark Lord Sauron, the fall of the island kingdom of Númenor, and the last alliance between Elves and Men. These events take place over thousands of years in Tolkien’s works but are condensed for the series.