The Prime Video series ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ has announced the names of eight new actors who will join the recurring cast of its upcoming second season.

The show’s cast members include Oliver Alvin-Wilson (‘The Bay’), Stuart Bowman (‘Bodyguard’), Gavi Singh Chera (‘The Undeclared War’), William Chubb (‘The Sandman’), Kevin Eldon (‘Game of Thrones’), Will Keen (‘Ridley Road’), Selina Lo (‘Boss Level’), and Calam Lynch (‘Bridgerton’).

Sam Hazeldine, Gabriel Akuwudike, Yasen ‘Zates’ Atour, Ben Daniels, newcomer Amelia Kenworthy, Nia Towle, and Nicholas Woodeson are among the previously announced recurring cast members, PTI reported from Mumbai.

‘The Rings of Power’ is based primarily on the appendices of ‘The Lord of the Rings,’ specifically the description of Middle Earth’s Second Age, and features younger versions of some of the original trilogy’s key characters.

Set thousands of years before the events of J R R Tolkien’s celebrated book series, the show follows the creation of the original rings of power during the Second Age, which allowed the Dark Lord Sauron to spread evil throughout Middle Earth.

The streamer had renewed the highly-ambitious series for a second run while it was in the pre-production stage of the first season back in 2019. Production on season two is currently underway in the UK.