LOS ANGELES — One ring to rule them all. Prime Video’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” has returned for a second season.

While the first season by necessity was world building and foundational, the second season is due to throw gasoline on the fire, said Benjamin Walker, who plays the elven High King Gil-galad.

“A lot of the things that people are excited to see about the Second Age, you are going to get to see them,” he told Spectrum News.

For Ismael Cruz Cordova, his elven character Arondir is going to go from “a nobody” to being appointed by Galadriel herself to be a leader of the Southlands and having his world torn apart.

“It’s going back to the basics for me,” he said. “With all this knowledge and all this pain, and all these new experiences, and deciding where I am going to take my life, and what kind of leadership and what kind of man/elf comes out of that.”

Benjamin Walker as High King Gil-galad. (Courtesy of Prime Video)

In preparing for “The Rings of Power,” Walker says he read J.R.R. Tolkien’s work.

“It’s one of the perks of the job. It’s what Tolkien demands, and it’s what the fans deserve,” he said.

But in today’s world, what could be comparable to the rings of power?

For Walker, the analogy he likes to use for the rings is nuclear technology and how it could mean clean energy for the world or destroy the world.

“We are still discovering its potential, kind of how Middle Earth is (with the power of the ring). In terms of the one ring, social media. It binds everyone together, but at the same time, it rots their brains. It’s why we need shows like these. It’s why Tolkien’s work holds true because there is something illuminated about humanity through the genre of fantasy,” he said.

Four episodes of the new season of “The Rings of Power” are now available on Prime Video, with new a new episode being released each week.

Click the link above to watch the full interview.