The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is fast-approaching, and Prime Video (via SFFGazette.com) has announced that the prequel series is set to premiere one day earlier than previously advertised (depending on your time-zone) with the first two instalments!
The episodes will be available to stream on Thursday, September 1, at 9 p.m. ET., but since the premiere will take place globally to avoid spoilers from leaking online, some viewers living in a PT zone will be able to watch them on Thursday, September 1, at 6 p.m. PT. (that’s 10 p.m. on Thursday in Brazil, 2 a.m. on Friday in the UK, and 11 a.m. on Friday in Australia).
Moving forward, episodes will launch at 9 p.m. PT on Thursdays/12 a.m. ET on Fridays.
As far as we know, Prime Video won't be sending out any advance screeners for The Rings of Power, so we may not get any early word on the quality of the show before the premiere. A social media embargo is also in place following the recent red carpet screening, but will likely lift before the series debuts.
Check out a new promo below.
Amazon Studios’ forthcoming series brings to screens for the very first time the heroic legends of the fabled Second Age of Middle-earth’s history. This epic drama is set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and will take viewers back to an era in which great powers were forged, kingdoms rose to glory and fell to ruin, unlikely heroes were tested, hope hung by the finest of threads, and the greatest villain that ever flowed from Tolkien’s pen threatened to cover all the world in darkness.
Beginning in a time of relative peace, the series follows an ensemble cast of characters, both familiar and new, as they confront the long-feared re-emergence of evil to Middle-earth. From the darkest depths of the Misty Mountains, to the majestic forests of the elf-capital of Lindon, to the breathtaking island kingdom of Númenor, to the furthest reaches of the map, these kingdoms and characters will carve out legacies that live on long after they are gone.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power stars Morfydd Clark, Benjamin Walker, Charles Edwards, Charlie Vickers, Markella Kavenagh, Nazanin Boniadi, Ismael Cruz Cordova, Tyroe Muhafidin, Maxim Baldry, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Owain Arthur, Trystan Gravelle, Sir Lenny Henry, Ema Horvath, Markella Kavenagh, Sophia Nomvete, Megan Richards, Dylan Smith, Leon Wadham, Daniel Weyman, and Sara Zwangobani.