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Payne tease toTotal Film in our new issue, out on Thursday, June 20.

“But Season 2 is all about the villains.”

Total Film exclusive image: The Rings of Power season 2

Amid the new battle lines too, one of season 1’s more minor characters will take the limelight.

It seems nothing will be the same again…

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2 streams on Prime Video from August 29.

Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman on the cover of Total Film’s Deadpool & Wolverine issue

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Charlie Vickers as Annatar and Morfydd Clark as Galadriel in The Rings of Power season 2 finale (2024)

Annatar and Celebrimbor in Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2, episode 7

Rosamund Pike as Moiraine and Daniel Henney as Lan in The Wheel of Time season 3

Jamie Campbell Bower in Stranger Things 4

Jamie Campbell Bower in Stranger Things

The Sandman season 2: Tom Sturridge as Dream in The Sandman season 1.

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

Elrond in Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2, episode 7

Annatar in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2 episode 5

GTA 6

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Bleach

GTA 6 trailer screenshots

A Hobbit man cooking in a cozy kitchen in Tales of the Shire

Deadlock

Articulate box, cards, board, and tokens on a wooden table

The cast of Thunderbolts standing in an elevator during the trailer for the upcoming Marvel Phase 5 movie.

Logan Kim as Hershel and Lauren Cohan as Maggie in The Walking Dead: Dead City season 2