Culture | TV New images from The Lord of the Rings : The Rings of Power season 2 on Amazon Prime have revealed Tom Bombadil. Fans have been patiently waiting for news about the next season since 2022 and the ending of The Rings of Power season 1, and the wait will soon be over. The first trailer for season 2 was finally released this month, where it was revealed that Tom Bombadil will appear, played by Rory Kinnear .
“There’s a reason why he hasn’t been in prior adaptations, because in some ways he’s sort of an anti-dramatic character,” show runner JD Payne told Vanity Fair. “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.” Tom Bombadil has been quite a mysterious character so far – he was absent in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies . But The Rings of Power will finally give fans insight into Bombadil's story.
In The Fellowship of the Ring, the first Lord of the Rings novel, Bombadil describes himself as "eldest": the first being to exist in Middle-Earth. He told the likes of Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin that he remembers the first raindrop and the first acorn. He also says he remembers Middle-earth before Morgoth emerged, hinting he is even older than the Valar (the spirits that existed well before the First Age).
In the same novel, Bombadil has contr.