An Istar Rises
This trailer is largely concerned with Sauron and the elves, but we do get one tiny little glimpse of another important plotline here: the Stranger, who we last saw leaving the lands of the Harfoots to travel east to Rhun, to try and discover more about his revealed identity as one of the Istari. It’s not been explicitly confirmed yet, but everyone is operating on the assumption that the Stranger is in fact the Maiar Olórin, who eventually takes on the identity of Gandalf, bringing up his appearance on Arda significantly—in Tolkein’s works, the Wizards don’t descend to the physical world until the Third Age.
