Amazon's LotR show - first look

[Morrus]

It's just a single image, but it looks pretty gorgeous! Show launches 2nd September 2022, with weekly episodes. Filming was done in New Zealand (like the movies) and it's set in the Second Age, years before LotR and The Hobbit.

‘Lord of the Rings’ Amazon Series Sets Premiere Date, Drops First-Look Image

“The Lord of the Rings” series at Amazon officially has a premiere date. The highly-anticipated epic fantasy series will debut on the streamer on Sept. 2, 2022, with new episodes droppi…

variety.com

 

[Ryujin]

Second Age seems to be the ideal time to set something like that; all of the lore with very few restrictions, beyond allowing the Third Age to happen as scripted. Amazon has the money to do it right (is. Not like "The Shannara Chronicles"), with all of the pageantry that it deserves. They'll likely be banking on it being a massive (early GoT level) success.

 

[Morrus]

It’s the most expensive show ever made, apparently. A lot riding on it.

 

[Zardnaar]

Been a bit of an event here.

Mostly because they can film etc with few interruptions.

Here's your first look at Amazon's Lord of the Rings series

Filming has wrapped on the billion-dollar Amazon series, and a release date is set for September next year.

i.stuff.co.nz

 

[Ryujin]

Been a bit of an event here.

Mostly because they can film etc with few interruptions.

Here's your first look at Amazon's Lord of the Rings series

Filming has wrapped on the billion-dollar Amazon series, and a release date is set for September next year.

i.stuff.co.nz

Hopefully that will also be a boon for the web series AFK, that should start shooting season 3 soon.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

That does look lovely. And the aesthetic fits with the LOTR movies.

In late 2021 - 2022, assuming all goes as planned, we'll have The Witcher season 2, House of the Dragon, The Wheel of Time, the Book of Boba Fett, probably the Mandalorian season 3 and Stranger Things season 4, a bunch of MCU TV shows, and this. That's a lot of expensive genre shows competing for people's attention. Not that I'm complaining...

 

[Sepulchrave II]

Looks like the Two Trees in the background, which would make the city Val(i)mar.

Might be a flashback.

 

[Umbran]

Looks like the Two Trees in the background, which would make the city Val(i)mar.

Might be a flashback.

The show takes place in the Second Age. Aman is not lost until late in the Age, so there can still be action set there. And if you are going to do that, you need the backstory...

 

[aco175]

Hopefully he is not getting too old to make a cameo, being an elf and all. I guess they can 'Luke Skywalker' him like in Mandalorian.

 

[MarkB]

Hopefully he is not getting too old to make a cameo, being an elf and all. I guess they can 'Luke Skywalker' him like in Mandalorian.
View attachment 141627

Half of Legolas's scenes in The Hobbit were CGI. I'm sure they could borrow the files.

 

[Mark Hope]

Looks like the Two Trees in the background, which would make the city Val(i)mar.

Might be a flashback.

Definitely the Two Trees, which puts this image back in the First Age (or before it, if you reckon the First Age as starting with the Years of the Sun). I think the city is Tirion, looking west through the Calacirya, though. Either way, it's a gorgeous image and a great tease for what is to come!

 

[Sacrosanct]

Amazon spends over a billion for a space flight
People: WTH! How about paying your employees a living wage!
Amazon spends over a billion for a fantasy show
People: Ooohhhh.....pretty!

Yeah, I'm just as guilty lol

 

[Maxperson]

The second age was almost 3500 years long. I wonder when during the second age it will be set.

 

[Ryujin]

The second age was almost 3500 years long. I wonder when during the second age it will be set.

If they get multiple seasons then they could space them hundreds, or even thousands of years apart and only retain the actors that they really wanted/had to. Lots of points in The Silmarillion that they could use for jumping off points. If I was to guess, two stand out somewhat to me; The Forging of the Rings of Power, and The Fall of Numenor. Both have political intrigue and action, to a greater or lesser degree.

 

[Rune]

Amazon spends over a billion for a space flight
People: WTH! How about paying your employees a living wage!
Amazon spends over a billion for a fantasy show
People: Ooohhhh.....pretty!

Yeah, I'm just as guilty lol

To be fair, half of that was spent on securing a license.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

The second age was almost 3500 years long. I wonder when during the second age it will be set.

I would have to look at the spoilers/leaks again, but I thought I read that a disguised Sauron would not appear in season one, or not until the end, so I think all of season one will be fore Numenor is destroyed, or even corrupted, by Sauron. Maybe season one is the introduction to Numenor and the main characters, season two is the corruption, season two ends with, or season three starts with, the destruction, and the rest of season three, and future seasons, are about the founding of their kingdoms on the mainland?

 

[Maxperson]

I would have to look at the spoilers/leaks again, but I thought I read that a disguised Sauron would not appear in season one, or not until the end, so I think all of season one will be fore Numenor is destroyed, or even corrupted, by Sauron. Maybe season one is the introduction to Numenor and the main characters, season two is the corruption, season two ends with, or season three starts with, the destruction, and the rest of season three, and future seasons, are about the founding of their kingdoms on the mainland?

Sauron disguised himself more than once, though. It could also be centered around the forging of the rings of power.

 

[reelo]

Looks like the Two Trees in the background, which would make the city Val(i)mar.

Might be a flashback.

Not Valimar. Tirion. This picture (probably) shows the Calacirya, with the Pelori mountains flanking the hill of Túna and the city of Tirion. The Two Trees seem to be in the background.

The person in the foreground looks like Director Krennic from Rogue One.

 

[GreyLord]

I heard rumors they wanted to make it GoT like. If it has the nudity, adult material, and other items from GoT I don't think it's going to be very LotR like no matter how pretty they make it.

One image is not enough to make a judge of how good or bad it will be, though it may be an indication of how pretty they can make it.

 

[Zardnaar]

Amazon being Amazon.

What's our endgame in giving Hollywood millions of dollars to film here?

SATIRE: Kiwis aren't cool with giving multinational corporations taxpayer dollars, unless they're making Frodo movies!

i.stuff.co.nz