Every Tolkien Creature Amazon’s Lord Of The Rings Show Needs To Introduce

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Amazon's The Lord of the Rings show needs to introduce several evil-aligned Tolkien creatures to up the narrative stakes of its epic story. The streaming giant first purchased the television rights for The Lord of the Rings for $250 million in November 2017, making a five-season production commitment worth at least $1 billion overall. This deal, coupled with a mammoth season 1 budget of $465 million, makes Amazon's The Lord of the Rings the most expensive television series ever made, with a big chunk of the show's production budget likely to be spent on bringing Middle Earth's most ferocious creatures to life via CG.

While plot details remain largely under-wraps for Amazon's The Lord of the Rings to date, the series is confirmed to take place across the Second Age as Middle Earth's inhabitants confront the re-emergence of a long-forgotten evil. However, despite its synopsis, Amazon has also revealed the iconic dark lord, Sauron, will not make an appearance in the inaugural season of The Lord of the Rings. Sauron's confirmed omission has fueled speculation that The Lord of the Rings season 1 will instead focus on the defeat of Morgoth, the original dark lord who called forth numerous evil creatures to do his bidding at the dawn of the Second Age.

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This opens up the tantalizing possibility of seeing some of Middle Earth's most formidable evil-aligned foes brought to life in the highly anticipated The Lord of the Rings series. Many of J.R.R. Tolkien's scariest creatures were already extinct by the time the narratives for both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy began, giving the Amazon original series a golden chance to establish them as canon in the