Amazon’s Lord of the Rings sequence will get an epic title and a launch date, watch teaser video

Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings sequence has cast a reputation for itself. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power was introduced Wednesday as the total title of the drama set to debut Sept. 2, with episodes to be launched weekly on the streaming service.
In an announcement, producers J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay mentioned the sequence will unite “all the major stories of Middle-earth’s Second Age,” together with the making of the rings, rise of the Dark Lord Sauron, the story of Numenor and the final alliance of Elves and Men.

Amazon went huge on the title’s unveiling, releasing a video by which the title’s letters are created in steel at a foundry. Descriptive textual content on a video shared by Prime learn, “The video opens on the camera moving through what appears to be canyons filled with mist. Cut to fire coming down the canyon, a river of molten lava visible below it. As the voiceover begins, the camera pulls back to reveal we are not in a canyon and the molten substance begins to fill up what might be symbols or letters. A wave of water flows over it, cooling it as steam is released. The molten substance darkens and hardens, to reveal it is some sort of metal with symbols on the side of it. The camera pulls back through the mists to reveal the words ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ on a wood background.”
The sequence is ready hundreds of years earlier than the occasions of J.R.R. Tolkien’s famed The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit fantasy-adventure novels. It will observe new and acquainted characters confronting the “long-feared re-emergence of evil to Middle-earth,” floor that has but to be coated on display, Amazon mentioned beforehand.
Taping in New Zealand for the multi-season sequence concluded final August. The nation additionally was the house for filming of director Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings and prequel “The Hobbit” movie trilogies.
The streaming sequence will debut in additional than 200 international locations and territories with a big ensemble solid that features Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Morfydd Clark, Ismael Cruz Córdova, Sophia Nomvete and Lloyd Owen.