Today, Amazon announced that it has greenlit production on another installment of its Lord of the Rings prequel series starring Morfydd Clark as Galadriel, Charlie Vickers as Sauron, Robert Aramayo as Elrond, and Daniel Weyman as Gandalf. In a press release about the renewal, Amazon shared that, while it has yet to lock in a tentative release window for the new season, it is scheduled to begin filming some time this spring. The streamer also noted that, since its debut in 2022, The Rings of Power has pulled in “170 million viewers worldwide, and continues to be one of Amazon’s strongest drivers for new Prime membership sign-ups.”

In its last season, The Rings of Power did away with much of its mystery as it revealed Gandalf’s true identity and spelled out how Sauron plans to conquer Middle-earth with his precious set of elf-forged accessories. The show’s third season will presumably have a much darker tone as it gets closer to the events of the Lord of the Rings books, but we won’t know for sure where Amazon wants to take the series until more details start hitting the internet.