We have just learned that Season One of Amazon Prime’s Lord of the Rings TV series has just wrapped up filming in New Zealand. The highly anticipated as-yet-untitled series will, according to Amazon, relate the “fabled Second Age of Middle Earth’s history.” For those familiar with the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit films, this means that the series will take place thousands of years before the time of Frodo and his pals. Amazon states that the new series will follow new and familiar characters confronting the “long-feared re-emergence of evil to Middle Earth.”
While no trailer has been released yet, we do have an image teaser. Amazon did not indicate what the image refers to, nor the character seen in it, but it is thought that the landscape seen is the kingdom of Númenor. Scheduled to debut on September 2, 2022, more information about the series should be released in the coming months. We do know that the cast includes the likes of Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Owain Arthur, Ismael Cruz Cordova, Charles Edwards, among many others. Directed by Charlotte Brandstrom and produced by Christopher Newman, even before filming started, Amazon renewed the series for a second season. Stay tuned for more!