The name of Amazon Prime Video’s upcoming The Lord Of The Rings prequel has been unveiled. The streaming service’s adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy novel will be now called The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings of Power. However, showrunners J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay said in a statement, “This is a title that we imagine could live on the spine of a book next to J.R.R. Tolkien’s other classics.”
The statement continues, “The Rings Of Power unites all the major stories of Middle-earth’s Second Age: the forging of the rings, the rise of the Dark Lord Sauron, the epic tale of Númenor, and the Last Alliance of Elves and Men. Until now, audiences have only seen on-screen the story of the One Ring but before there was one, there were many… and we’re excited to share the epic story of them all.”
For unversed, the upcoming prequel The Rings Of Power is set in the Second Age of Middle-earth, thousands of years before the events of The Lord Of The Rings novels or films. However, a video announcing the show’s title was released on Wednesday with a voice-over teasing the importance of the rings.
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The voice-over said, “Three rings for the elven-kings under the sky. Seven for the Dwarf-lords, in their halls of stone. ‘Nine for mortal men, doomed to die. One for the Dark Lord, on his dark throne In the land of Mordor where the shadows lie.'” The cast of upcoming The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings of Power includes, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Robert Aramayo, Owain Arthur, Charles Edwards, Lenny Henry, Markella Kavenagh, Sophia Nomvete, Lloyd Owen, Megan Richards, and Dylan Smith.
Meanwhile, the official synopsis says 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 one of the greatest villains that ever flowed from Tolkien’s pen threatened to cover all the world in darkness.” The synopsis continues, “Beginning in a time of relative peace, the series follows an ensemble cast of characters, both familiar and new, as they confront the long-feared reemergence of evil to Middle-earth.”