Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings sequence is scheduled to debut on Prime Video in September, which could simply be far sufficient away to get used to the unwieldy title. The firm revealed the total identify of the present — The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power — in a brief video.
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“This is a title that we imagine could live on the spine of a book next to J.R.R. Tolkien’s other classics,” showrunners J.D. Payne & Patrick McKay mentioned in a press release. “The Rings of Power unites all the major stories of Middle-earth’s Second Age: the forging of the rings, the rise of the Dark Lord Sauron, the epic tale of Númenor and the Last Alliance of Elves and Men.”
The video reveals what appears to be like like a couple of valleys with wispy fog earlier than we see what’s truly occurring. Molten steel fills within the grooves earlier than it is cooled with water. The digicam then zooms out to disclose the present’s identify. The clip was shot utilizing sensible results as an alternative of CGI.
The teaser would not function any characters or present plot particulars. There’s loads of time for that in future trailers. However, the narration underscores the actual fact the present will as soon as once more concentrate on the 20 rings on the coronary heart of the LOTR saga — simply in case the title did not do sufficient to hammer that dwelling.