The Lord Of The Rings TV Show Synopsis:

In a world where the Dark Lord Sauron is seeking the One Ring that will enable him to enslave Middle Earth, a hobbit named Frodo embarks on a journey with his loyal friend Sam and various allies in an attempt to destroy it.

I don’t know about you but I am still recovering from my excitement over yesterday’s article announcing Amazon’s Lord of the Rings TV show. It’s official Amazon has acquired the rights to produce a new live-action show based on J. R. R. Tolkien’s classic fantasy books, but it will not be set in Middle Earth as previously suggested by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos back in November 2017, claiming that Amazon was “going to build J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings into a television franchise.”

A few months later, in February 2018, Bezos claimed to be “very excited” about the project and that the company was going to make a “full-fledged TV series”, not a movie. However, yesterday’s press release is a bit less ambitious in its claims for the new show, saying that it “will be produced by Amazon Studios in cooperation with the Tolkien Estate and Trust, HarperCollins and New Line Cinema”

and that they plan to bring to life “Mirkwood, Rhovanion, the High Pass over the Misty Mountains, and the Mines of Moria”!

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The book will be a prequel, a little bit like Tolkien’s The Hobbit. It will tell the story of the Second Age in Middle Earth when Sauron created the One Ring.

Obviously, this is just a very short synopsis of what we know so far about Amazon’s plans for the new series. We do not have any information on casting or writers or directors or specific plot points, but we do know that it will be “a new story in the original spirit of Tolkien’s Middle Earth” and that it will be “set more than 3,000 years before The Lord of the Rings .”

Let us hope that this is not all there is to it. While the project has great potential to become something truly great, there is obviously no guarantee that it will be any good.

Nevertheless, this is certainly an interesting move by Amazon to secure the rights to one of the most popular fantasy series ever created.

The Lord Of The Rings TV Show Release Date:

The date for the show was revealed during a panel at New York Comic Con on 2 September 2022 by J.A. Bayona, who’s directing a number of episodes in the first season. He did not reveal how many there would be in total, but suggested that the series will run “for more than one season”.

However, we do know that the first installment of this new LOTR TV show will be arriving on Amazon Prime in November.

Amazon has committed to multiple seasons already, and J.A. Bayona said: “I’m going to be shooting some of it in Spain and some of it in Belfast”.

Netflix had previously picked up the global rights to the TV show in a $200m deal, but Amazon acquired the rights for the US.

The Lord Of The Rings TV Show Expected Plot:

A lengthy Business Insider article suggests that Amazon is looking to do something “much more ambitious” than the current LotR adaptations by Peter Jackson. According to both showrunner and writer JD Payne (who worked on The Man in the High Castle) and writing partner Patrick McKay, Amazon’s series will explore new storylines preceding J. R .R. Tolkien’s book.

“This is the part I can’t talk about,” says McKay, referring to anything related to what Amazon’s series might entail.

However, there are some clues out there as to what it might contain, thanks in no small part to Tolkien himself who wrote several detailed histories for Middle-earth that take place both before and after the events of the main Lord of the Rings trilogy.

So, here are some possibilities for Amazon’s new series:

1) “The New Shadow” (AKA The Black Years) is a 5-page text that was written by Tolkien in November 1944 as part of an appendix to Lord of the Rings. It deals with events that take place during the reign of Aragorn, specifically a shadowy figure named Mordor who is trying to convince people he’s a new Messiah and has teamed up with a witch king whose power derives from Sauron.

2) The Fall of Gondolin – While Tolkien originally wrote this story as a standalone piece in the 1930s, it was later rewritten, expanded and released as an official part of The Silmarillion. It’s one of the earliest stories Tolkien wrote for Middle-earth during his time in World War I.

The story deals with an elven city called Gondolin that is founded by Turgon. However, Morgoth (Sauron’s predecessor) wants the city destroyed and sends troops to attack it. The elves are eventually defeated but Tuor manages to escape to Lord of the Rings’ Beleriand, where he marries Turgon’s daughter Idril (Eärendel’s mother).

3) Numenorean Kings – These civilisations were introduced in Tolkien’s Unfinished Tales and would’ve been explored in his stories The Lost Road and The Notion Club Papers. Both were rewritten and released as part of The History of Middle-earth, which suggests they weren’t canon.

The Numenoreans were a human civilisation that lived on the island of Númenor who could talk to birds and had advanced technology (including steam-powered ships). They would later go on to rule over Middle-earth, before eventually destroying themselves in the Downfall of Númenor.

4) Scouring of the Shire – This was a short chapter published by Tolkien following Lord of the Rings’ initial success that details what happens after Frodo returns home to the Shire. The story deals with Saruman attempting to take over the Shire (along with his band of Ruffians) and Frodo, Sam and Pippin forming an army to fight back.

Unfortunately for fans of the original trilogy, this event was deemed non-canon by Tolkien himself because it didn’t gel with the tone of the story.

5) The Disaster Of The Gladden Fields – This event takes place during Lord of the Rings and deals with Isildur losing his ring to a group of men who kill him for it, instead of taking it back to Gondor as advised by Elrond. Sauron subsequently claims the ring, leading to the events of Lord of the Rings.

6) The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen – This story is part of Tolkien’s Unfinished Tales and expands upon Aragorn’s past as well as his eventual marriage with Arwen. Everything from their first meeting to the wedding itself was detailed by Tolkien in this book.

What was excluded from the final cut of Lord of the Rings is that Arwen chose to become mortal in order to spend her life with Aragorn. So, yep, you can expect some pretty big changes if this story does end up making it into Amazon’s show.

The Lord of the Rings TV show Cast:

Amazon’s Lord of the Rings TV series has cast its first two roles.

The upcoming fantasy epic based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s novels has tapped Markella Kavenagh and Alastair Duncan to join the show in undisclosed roles, Deadline reported today (July 16).

Kavenagh, who will play “a character from the realm of Men” in addition to a second role, boasts credits including Channel 4’s horror series Glue and sci-fi show Harlots. Duncan will play a character called Lindir, as well as voicing a “narrator.”

Duncan has been on stage several times over the years with productions such as The Way of the World, Richard II and The Crucible. He’s also appeared on TV with roles in Waking the Dead, Silent Witness and most recently Channel 4’s Ackley Bridge.

Meanwhile, Amazon has yet to announce who will play Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood) or any other principal characters for that matter – although Hugo Weaving is confirmed to return as Elrond, given it’s his voice we can hear in Amazon’s recent teaser trailer.

The Lord Of The Rings TV Show Writers And Directors:

Amazon has announced the writers and directors for their upcoming Lord of the Rings TV show, which will be available through Amazon Prime Video. The first season will consist of a total of six episodes.

The writers are   JD Payne (with Patrick McKay ) and   J D Payne; both are known for writing Hollywood blockbusters like Star Trek 4, Jack Ryan, and Power Rangers.

…will be a prequel series set in Middle-earth and will explore new storylines preceding JRR Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring. The show will be produced by Amazon Studios in cooperation with the Tolkien Estate and Trust, HarperCollins, and New Line Cinema which recently was acquired by Warner Bros.

The Lord Of The Rings TV Show Filming Locations:

Filming of New Zealand set TV series Lord of the Rings wrapped up yesterday after nine months of activity around Queenstown.

It’s been a long time coming but filming on Amazon Prime’s The Lord of the Rings prequel is finally over.

Filming on Amazon’s Lord of the Rings prequel has wrapped after nine months.

At this point there was no official word from Amazon or anyone connected to The Lord of the Rings so I decided to reach out to some people connected with the show for any information they might have. What follows is the result of that.

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