Amazon’s ‘The Lord of the Rings’ series gets title reveal
The title of Prime Video’s highly-anticipated The Lord of the Rings series has finally been revealed.
In a teaser video released on Thursday, Amazon’s streaming platform revealed that the upcoming series based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic is called The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
“This is a title that we imagine could live on the spine of a book next to J.R.R. Tolkien’s other classics. 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,” showrunners J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay said. “Until now, audiences have only seen on-screen the story of the One Ring—but before there was one, there were many… and we’re excited to share the epic story of them all.”
Aside from the title reveal, the clip also shows how the title is forged in a blacksmith foundry, with molten metal being poured into hand-carved wood to create the series’ title in a silvery metal, with lines of Elvish script inscribed along the crest of each letterform.
Additionally, a female voiceover, who is believed to be a young Galadriel, can also be heard narrating a portion of Tolkien's Ring Verse, which reads:
Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
Watch the clip below:
Set thousands of years before the events of Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, the highly-awaited series will chronicle the heroic legends of the fabled Second Age of Middle-earth’s history and will take fans 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.”
The series will also follow 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," a portion of the synopsis reads.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the cast for the upcoming series includes Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Robert Aramayo, Owain Arthur, Maxim Baldry, Nazanin Boniadi, Morfydd Clark, Ismael Cruz Córdova, Charles Edwards, Trystan Gravelle, Sir Lenny Henry, Ema Horvath, Markella Kavenagh, Joseph Mawle, Tyroe Muhafidin, Sophia Nomvete, Lloyd Owen, Megan Richards, Dylan Smith, Charlie Vickers, Leon Wadham, Benjamin Walker, Daniel Weyman and Sara Zwangobani.
The multi-season drama will premiere exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories around the world beginning Sept. 2, with new episodes available every week.