The newly reported release plan confirms that The Rings of Power season 3 will launch with its first four episodes on Prime Video on 11 November, followed by two episodes on 18 November and the final two on 25 November. Its first teaser presents Sauron as an openly powerful dark lord, moving the story decisively towards his forging of the One Ring and raising the stakes for Galadriel and the remaining resistance.

Set five years after Eregion’s fall, the season features the nine rings for men, their future Ringwraith bearers and a Black Wing mount, while Sauron’s forces also threaten Khazad-dûm. Jamie Campbell Bower joins as Galadriel’s husband Celeborn, and Simon Pegg will voice the Balrog; the eight-episode season was first previewed to 6,500 fans at San Diego Comic-Con.