While we’re reluctant to go too deep into the weeds and speculate much further- thus drawing the poison arrows of Tolkien’s well-versed fans in academia and on Reddit - Amazon recently released a promotional image depicting what appears to be the Two Trees of Valinor, a pair of monolithic trees that provided Middle-earth with its first rays of light before being poisoned. The Lord of the Rings on Prime March 7, 2019įurthering its promise to go ' to the furthest reaches of the map,' Amazon's official LOTR page tweeted out an image of the map of Middle-earth as a flex to show how sprawling this could get. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them, In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

Īccording to an official plot synopsis first carried by TheOneRing.Net and later confirmed by Amazon, the series ' will take viewers back to an era in which great powers were forged, kingdoms rose to glory and fell to ruin.' It teases an appearance by 'the greatest villain that ever flowed from Tolkien’s pen,' plus characters both 'familiar and new.'Īdditionally, the synopsis mentions locations such as the Elven capital of Lindo, the island kingdom of Númenor and the Misty Mountains of Led Zeppelin’s discography. The series, which began development in 2017, will reportedly draw heavily from The Silmarillion, Tolkien's posthumously published Middle-earth Bible that spans the entire history of the land he created, as well as Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth. The era is referred to as the Second Age of Middle-earth. JanuWhat is the series about?įor those who don’t know their Silmarillions from their Sarumans, Amazon’s series will take place about thousands of years prior to Frodo and the Fellowship’s quest to destroy the One Ring - and thus the reign of warmongering Sauron - in the Lord of the Rings series. Our servers haven't crashed & burned like this since 2003, so here's the official show synopsis for Amazon's LORD OF THE RINGS series.

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