THE LORD OF THE RINGS TV Series Gets A Premiere Date Along With A Breathtaking First Look Image

THE LORD OF THE RINGS TV Series Gets A Premiere Date Along With A Breathtaking First Look Image

The first season of The Lord of the Rings TV series has wrapped shooting, and we now have a premiere date along with a stunning first-look image from the $500 million Amazon series. Check it out here...

By JoshWilding - Aug 02, 2021 11:08 AM EST
Filed Under: Lord of the Rings

The still-untitled Lord of the Rings TV series coming to Amazon has finally received a premiere date: Friday, September 2, 2022. That's one heck of a wait, especially as shooting on the first season actually wrapped today in New Zealand (there's clearly going to be a lot of post-production work on the show). 

However, this is a somewhat fitting debut date for the expensive series seeing as it will be nearly 84 years to the day The Hobbit was published: September 21, 1937. Episodes will be released weekly.

The show, adapted from J.R.R. Tolkien's iconic series of novels, is set to take place during the Second Age. That's thousands of years before the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and this story is set to follow an ensemble made up of established and new characters as they "confront the long-feared re-emergence of evil to Middle-earth" (a.k.a. Sauron). 

We're not expecting to see too many familiar characters in Amazon's The Lord of the Rings, but Morfydd Clark is playing a younger version of Galadriel, so there will be at least a few ties to the books and movies. We expect Elrond to appear too, but seeing Sauron in his prime is perhaps most exciting for fans.

The series boasts a massive ensemble, while J.D. Payne & Patrick McKay are set to serve as showrunners.

A first look image has also been revealed, but we've not been given any context about that unknown character or what this tease means for the direction The Lord of the Rings is heading. 

It sure looks pretty, though, eh? 
 

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NightBoyWonder
NightBoyWonder - 8/2/2021, 11:33 AM
Still ridiculously on the fence about this even though it looks visually stunning. But idk I’ll have to wait and see, this behind the scenes stuff with the series really doesn’t sound as passionate in comparison to the LOTR trilogy
McMurdo
McMurdo - 8/2/2021, 11:59 AM
@TheInvincible - lol dude they’ve been more secretive than any production I’ve ever seen or heard of. So of course you haven’t seen the passion. No one has seen anything but a giant water tank and a couple set pieces
Fogs
Fogs - 8/2/2021, 4:15 PM
@TheInvincible - Same here.

Crew members jumping off the boat aren't helping either.
MuadDib
MuadDib - 8/2/2021, 11:35 AM
Why not March 3rd, 2032? Should give them enough time to get everything ready. SMH
MuadDib
MuadDib - 8/2/2021, 11:36 AM
@MuadDib - Avatar for the win, with part 2-5 all coming out back to back in the year 2145
MuadDib
MuadDib - 8/2/2021, 9:21 PM
@Waddles - It’s just that some of these productions have been going on so long, and then they make announcements about date more than a year from now.

I’m fine.
theFUZZ008
theFUZZ008 - 8/2/2021, 11:36 AM
WHO. [frick]ING. CARES.
hawkeyelover
hawkeyelover - 8/2/2021, 11:42 AM
>>A first look image has also been revealed, but we've not been given any context about that unknown character or what this tease means for the direction The Lord of the Rings is heading.

If you need an editor for your LOTR series articles, send me a PM *cough*. Also, please google Laurelin and Telperion. It's pretty clear what we're looking at, just not who. I would bet my money on Celebrimbor though.
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 8/2/2021, 1:35 PM
@hawkeyelover - as I've seen pointed out in multiple comments now, this is the first time I've heard of (or seen) the two trees of Valinor.

And don't mind my ignorance, but is Celebrimbor also the dude from the Shadow of Mordor games?
hawkeyelover
hawkeyelover - 8/2/2021, 1:40 PM
@bkmeijer - Yeah, Celebrimbor is basically the last member of the most important family of elves still alive in the Second Age (the other bunch all died or stayed behind in Valinor in the First Age). Which is why they cast him for the series because they can use him (most of First Age is still off limits). Shadow of Mordor took a very liberal turn with the character though, he's nothing like that in the Silmarillion. So that's not really a pointer. Of all that family, the Feanorians - who are basically half insane murders - he's the good guy, so to speak. He's the one who forged all the other rings of power and at some point he gets very gruesomely (as in spitted) murdered by Sauron. Also, Feanorians are mostly dark haired and so is he. With that whole white outfite and all and him being the bright figure in all the Silm darkness, I'm betting my money on that him being in that shot.
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 8/2/2021, 1:51 PM
@hawkeyelover - "He's the one who forged all the other rings of power"

Now I can see why they picked him for the games because of this too.

Anyway, thanks for the brief history lesson. Sounds there are some interesting dynamics to uncover (which now I hope the show will delve into).
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 8/2/2021, 11:43 AM
September 2nd?



2022..

TheMapleSyrup
TheMapleSyrup - 8/2/2021, 11:43 AM
I'm betting it's a Gandalf origin story
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