“Amazon Studios’ forthcoming series brings to screens for the really first time the heroic legends of the fabled Second Age of Center-earth’s record. This epic drama is established hundreds of several years in advance of the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and will take viewers back again to an era in which wonderful powers had been solid, kingdoms rose to glory and fell to wreck, not likely heroes have been tested, hope hung by the best of threads, and the finest villain that at any time flowed from Tolkien’s pen threatened to address all the globe in darkness. Commencing in a time of relative peace, the sequence follows an ensemble cast of characters, both acquainted and new, as they confront the extensive-feared re-emergence of evil to Center-earth. From the darkest depths of the Misty Mountains, to the majestic forests of the elf-money of Lindon, to the amazing island kingdom of Númenor, to the furthest reaches of the map, these kingdoms and figures will carve out legacies that dwell on extended right after they are absent.”
Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings prequel will just take area in the Second Age of Middle-earth, which spans a prolonged interval of time among the unique Darkish Lord Morgoth and the to start with defeat of his servant Sauron.
For more on Amazon’s Lord of the Rings collection, which is presently in generation in New Zealand, check out out which common people may possibly be demonstrating up, which actors have joined the present, and our explainer of The Second Age.
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