The premiere of the show will take place on September 2.
Amazon Prime streaming service published a trailer for the series “The Lord of the Rings: The Fates”, based on the works of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. The premiere of the show is scheduled for September 2 this year.
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The series can be seen as panoramas of Middle Earth I, as well as the main characters of the new show. In particular, young Galadriel, Elrond, Isildur are shown, as well as hints of a large-scale battle with Sauron.
“Darkness will pass over the land. This will be the end not only of our people, but of all peoples,” says one of the characters in the video.
The action of the show will take place in the Second Age of Middle-earth, thousands of years before the events. , described in the novels “The Hobbit, or There and Back” and “The Lord of the Rings”.
The main roles in the new show were performed by Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Robert Aramaio, Owain Arthur, Max Baldry and others. Screenwriters Patrick McKay and John D. Payne acted as showrunners.
It became known in 2017 that Amazon plans to make a TV series based on The Lord of the Rings. In April 2021, New Zealand authorities announced that Amazon planned to spend NZ$650 million (approximately US$453 million) on the production of the first season alone. This makes the series one of the most expensive in history. For comparison, the production of three films of the “Lord of the Rings” series cost 280 million dollars.
