The Rings of Power adds Black Mirror and Motherland stars to cast
Big name actors Ciarán Hinds, Rory Kinnear and Tanya Moodie have all joined the fantasy series's second season.
As The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power continues to shoot its second season in the UK, a trio of new cast members have been announced to take on recurring roles in the fantasy series.
Ciarán Hinds (Game of Thrones, Treason), Rory Kinnear (Black Mirror, Our Flag Means Death) and Tanya Moodie (Motherland, A Discovery of Witches) have all joined the series, cast in currently unknown roles.
Their casting follows the announcement that Will Keen, Oliver Alvin-Wilson, Stuart Bowman, Gavi Singh Chera, William Chubb, Kevin Eldon, Selina Lo and Calam Lynch have all also joined the series for season 2.
The main cast of the first season are almost all also expected to return, including Morfydd Clark as a young version of Galadriel and Charlie Vickers as Sauron, an identity reveal which was key to season 1.
The first season of Rings of Power was a hit for Prime Video and was renewed for a second season in 2019.
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Orlando Bloom, who played Legolas in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogies, recently gave his reaction to the series while speaking with RadioTimes.com about his show Carnival Row.
Bloom said: "I had missed Tolkien. I had missed Tolkien's mind and I’d missed his world and I’d missed his vision – and I think they just stepped back into Tolkien's world. I thought it was really courageous."
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He continued: "It’s not an easy thing to take on another version of something that had such a remarkable run of its own, but I thought it was really admirable; the casting, the story and the way they approached the world... I'm looking forward to more of it."
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 1 is available to stream on Amazon Prime Video in the UK – you can sign up now for a free 30-day Prime Video trial.
If you’re looking for something else to watch in the meantime, check out our TV Guide and Streaming Guide, or visit our dedicated Fantasy hub.
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