Well, that certainly looks a lot like a take on the Watcher in the Water, like the tentacled beast lurking in the waters outside Moria. But this doesn’t appear to be anywhere near the dwarven storyline stuff. And there’s a human woman seemingly tied down beneath the waters waiting to be chomped on by this beastie.
Given that, plus the watery environs, could this be Númenór? After being captured by the Númenóreans, having made himself known in Eregion, Sauron managed to corrupt the island nation, driving his followers to ritual sacrifice and eventually into an attempted invasion of Aman, the magical lands to the west that were home to the Valar and Maiar on Middle-earth. That, of course, goes incredibly poorly, because what is tantamount to God in Tolkien’s cosmology, Eru Ilúvatar, destroys Sauron’s physical form (again), sunders the invasion fleets of the corrupted Númenóreans, and makes the planet of Arda an actual sphere instead of a flat plane, cutting off Aman from conventional access and also sundering Númenór along the way.
Although in the chronology of Tolkien’s works all these events in the Second Age spanned thousands of years, Rings of Power is clearly condensing a lot of its timeline, so sooner rather than later we’re going to have to start seeing things going pretty bad in Númenór.
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