There’s a lot going on in this trailer, and almost all of it outside of Galadriel’s fears that evil has returned to Middle-Earth—there are shots of Numenor, Human home of what will eventually become Gondor and other Kingdoms by the time this vast period of Tolkien’s history is done with, the Dwarven underground mining empires, and the occasional halfling, although they’re not quite the Hobbits we know and love just yet. But what’s clear is the return of threats the Elves and other beings thought were vanquished. There are a lot of goblin attacks in here, and some very mysterious-looking mystics who seem to have a connection to the evils thought defeated at the end of the First Age.

And then, of course, there’s a Balrog. And it’s just... straight-up the Balrog as we saw it in Peter Jackson’s movies. I guess we finally have an idea of what Amazon meant when it said it could use elements of those iconic films’ imagery, even when it’s set thousands of years before them?

We’ll no doubt find out more when The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power begins on Prime Video on September 22.

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