Sauron's rise in Season 2 of "Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" begins on August 29 when the new installment of Amazon Prime Video's fantasy series based on the JRR Tolkien IP arrives on the streamer. Prime Video released a teaser trailer and behind-the-scenes featurette on Monday. Based on portions of Tolkien's posthumous "The Silmarillion," the series has a planned five-season arc.

What is Season 2 of 'Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power' about?

The drama series is set thousands of years before the events of JRR Tolkien's books "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" and features an ensemble cast of familiar faces mixed with new characters. Set in the not-so-peaceful Second Age of Middle Earth, the series marks the first adventure in Tolkien's history of the legendary period. Villain Sauron (Charlie Vickers) will be "out to do his thing" in Season 2.

"We shot the first two episodes and then went on hiatus, and then with about two months to go before Episode 3 started, the showrunners said, 'We want to have a meeting with you,'" Vickers told Deadline in Episode 8 of the "'LOTR: The Rings of Power' After Show 'Inside the Ring'" after the finale aired. "They took me to the set that Galadriel discovers in the first episode with the orcs through the walls and Sauron's sigil on the forge. They took me in there and said, 'This is your world. You're playing Sauron.'"