Amazon keeps fans guessing with 23 character posters for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

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Amazon Studios are keeping fans guessing with 23 new character posters - featuring only hands - unveiled Thursday for its $450M-budget prequel series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power premiering September 2.One poster revealed a villainous, sword-wielding character wearing dark armor and a gauntlet whom many speculate is either Melkor, Sauron, or The Witch-king of Angmar.The Rings of Power is set in the Second Age (spanning 3,441 years) of the world known as Middle-earth, so it's least likely Melkor aka Morgoth Bauglir who was defeated by Túrin Turambar at the end of the First Age.

Who could it be? Amazon Studios are keeping fans guessing with 23 new character posters - featuring only hands - unveiled Thursday for its $450M-budget prequel series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power premiering September 2Melkor's chief servant Sauron secretly forged the One Ring during the Second Age, but he did not wear gauntlets and he used a mace not a sword in Peter Jackson's 2001 film The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.So that means the mysterious figure on the poster is most likely the Witch-king of Angmar, who led Sauron's regal men-turned-servants the Nazgûl or Ringwraiths.

The Witch-king - who was once the King of Angmar in the north of Eriador - was famously killed by Rohan shieldmaiden Éowyn in Peter Jackson's 2003 film The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.Other posters feature a female character holding a white flower, perhaps from the Trees of Valinor, since it had too many petals to be the Rohan flower, Simbelmynë.

Evil: One poster revealed a villainous, sword-wielding character wearing dark armor and a gauntlet whom many speculate is either Melkor, Sauron, or The Witch-king of Angmar.