Are you prepared to return to Middle Earth? The title and trailer for Amazon Studios’ highly anticipated prequel to the “Lord of the Rings” series, “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,” were released on Wednesday.
On September 2, the series will premiere on Prime Video.
“The Rings of Power” is set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings,” in the Second Age of Middle Earth.
The series “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,” Amazon said in its YouTube description for the trailer.
Amazon first announced that it had acquired the rights to adapt Tolkien’s work in 2017.
“’The Lord of the Rings’ is a cultural phenomenon that has captured the imagination of generations of fans through literature and the big screen,” Sharon Tal Yguado, head of Scripted Series for Amazon Studios, said in a statement at the time.
Tolkien’s book series was named Amazon customers’ favorite book of the millennium in 1999. Director Peter Jackson’s theatrical adaptations included “The Fellowship of the Ring” (2001); “The Two Towers” (2002); and “The Return of the King” (2003). The films grossed nearly $6 billion worldwide and won a combined 17 Academy Awards, including Best Picture for “King.”