Production has already begun on the first season of Lord of the Rings, A highly ambitious TV series on Amazon inspired by the JRR Tolkien fantasy series. Despite the title, the show is not a direct adaptation of all three Lord of the Rings novels. Instead it is a prequel, occurring “thousands of years” before the books.
TheOneRing.Net got its hands on the official summary of the show. Here’s what it says:
The upcoming series at Amazon Studios brings to the screen for the first time the heroic legends of the famous Second Age of Middle-earth history. This great drama is set thousands of years before the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien, and will take viewers back to a time when great powers were created, kingdoms rose to glory. and they fell into ruins, there were unlikely heroes of trial, hope hung by the best threads, and the greatest villain ever to flow from Tolkien’s pen threatening to cover the whole world. the darkness. Beginning in a time of relative peace, the series follows an ensemble team of characters, both familiar and new, as they grapple with a terrifying re-emergence from evil to middle ground. From the darkest depths in the Misty Mountains, to the vast forests of the capital Lindon, to the kingdom of the stunning island of Númenor, to the farthest reaches of the map, these kingdoms and characters carve their legacies. will live long after that. they are gone.
Tolkien ‘s scholars note that this period is in Lord of the Rings is a legend when Sauron first rose to power, and he expects to be present in the series although he is not mentioned by name in the synopsis.
Lord of the Rings already updated for a second season by Amazon; the pilot was killed in New Zealand and led by Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom‘s JA Bayona. The presenters are JD Payne and Patrick McKay. TheOneRing.net notes that the show is “currently designed as a minimum 5-season series, with 8 to 10 events per season. ”
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