Despite a lot of criticism and anger, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power became a great success series on Amazon. As we have previously said in several of our stories, the show was renewed for a second season that finally premiered on August 29, 2024, and is deemed a significant improvement by both fans and critics. Seeing how everything plays out will be interesting, especially in light of the showrunners’ recent big announcements.

As far as the new characters are concerned, Tom Bombadil is one of the characters set to make an impact in Season 2, and one of Tolkien’s most intriguing characters will be played by the legendary Rory Kinnear, whose insights into the character we have already revealed.

But, in a recent interview for The Wrap, co-showrunner Patrick McKay and executive producer Lindsey Weber have also discussed the character and his impact, and in this report, we are going to reveal what they said about Bombadil.

In a big interview for The Wrap, McKay and Weber discussed the upcoming season of The Rings of Power, revealing that we are, indeed, in for something very different. The whole interview was much longer, but in this report, we are going to reveal what the two of them said about the impact that Tom Bombadil and Rory Kinnear are going to have in the second season:

You’re already juggling a number of iconic characters in their earlier days, but the announcement of Tom Bombadil appearing this season really got fans excited. A lot of us missed him in the “Fellowship of the Ring” adaptation, so was there any added pressure bringing him into live action for Season 2?

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P.M.: I wouldn’t say pressure so much as an opportunity. Tom Bombadil is enigmatic, whimsical, eternal being, and he’s around during this story. The idea that our characters might stumble across him, hopefully in the most delightfully unexpected way, was always appealing to us.

L.W.: If you’re thinking what could you want out of a “Lord of the Rings” and Middle-earth in the Second Age, Tom would be high on the list. We couldn’t pass it up.

P.M.: I like to say that he’s sort of the most “Lord of the Rings” thing in “Lord of the Rings.”

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Rory Kinnear got the gig as Tom. I’m curious what boxes you both were looking to be ticked when casting him?

L.W.: That’s a good one because you can’t reduce Tom to boxes. There has to be that twinkle and that mystery. He’s the most enigmatic, the most wise, the most unusual. He’s singular. All the boxes have to be ticked and how many people can do that?

P.M.: We have to throw love to our amazing casting director Theo Park. We described what we wanted to do with this character, how we saw them fitting into the story, and she was like, “Rory Kinnear.” We had one conversation with him, he was in Cornwall directing an opera. Tom Bombadil’s his wife’s favorite character, and he’s just a delight to work with. He’s funny but he has these dramatic chops, he sings – he sings a couple times – and really he’s sort of exactly what you want.

Source: The Wrap