The first two seasons of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power premiered in similar ways, and this opens the door for further exciting possibilities in future installments. The Prime Video series is set in the Second Age of Middle-earth, several thousand years before the events of Lord of the Rings. However, the events of Rings of Power are still nowhere near the beginning of Tolkien’s stories. There were centuries upon centuries of important events that happened before Sauron made his titular Rings, and Rings of Power‘s season premieres have been used to explore some of them.