Tom Bombadil will lastly get his day as Rory Kinnear is set to play the mystical character in The Rings of Power season 2.

After decades of getting left out of a lot of Lord of the Rings adaptations, Tom Bombadil is lastly receiving his moment in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. The mystical character is set to seem in the second season of the Prime Video series exactly where he will be played by Rory Kinnear (No Time to Die).

You can verify out a handful of initially-appear images of Tom Bombadil in The Rings of Power under.

Tom Bombadil appeared in The Fellowship of the Ring novel, assisting Frodo Baggins and his pals on their journey. Dressed brightly with a penchant for nature and silly songs, Bombadil is 1 of the couple of creatures in Middle-earth that the One Ring has no energy more than. Described by J.R.R. Tolkien as “older than the old,” his look in The Rings of Power, which requires spot thousands of years prior to The Lord of the Rings, fits his character.

While speaking with Vanity Fair, The Rings of Power showrunners J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay teased just how Tom Bombadil will match into their series. “There’s a reason why he hasn’t been in prior adaptations, because in some ways he’s sort of an anti-dramatic character,” Payne stated. “He’s not a character who has a particularly strong agenda. He observes drama, but largely doesn’t participate in it. In The Fellowship of the Ring, the characters kind of just go there and hang out for a while, and Tom drops some knowledge on them.” McKay added: “Knowledge that is not especially relevant to something that they’re carrying out or about to do.“

The second season of The Rings of Power finds Tom Bombadil journeying to the lands of Rhûn, which utilised to be green and attractive but has been turned into a dead wasteland. “Tom has gone out there to see what’s happened as he goes on his various wanderings,” Payne stated. It’s there that he will encounter the Stranger (Daniel Weyman), as noticed in the images above. “When he finally crosses paths with the Stranger, you could say he has a desire to try to keep the destruction that has happened there from spreading to his beloved lands in the West,” Payne explains. “He nudges the Stranger along his journey, which he knows will at some point guard the bigger all-natural planet that he cares about. So I’d say our Tom Bombadil is slightly extra interventionist than you see in the books, but only by 5% or 10%.“

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2 will premiere on Prime Video on August 29th, and a third season is in improvement.