Amazon has unveiled brand-new images from its upcoming series Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, providing eager audiences with a closer look at the narrative's diverse characters and multiple storylines. The release from Amazon comes with new insights on the new Middle-earth adaptation.
Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power takes place thousands of years before the events many are familiar with in the Lord of the Rings novels and films. The events of the Amazon series commence during a time of tranquility but quickly evolve as familiar and foreign characters must combat the rebirth of unspeakable evil. The iconic films from Peter Jackson are not connected to this new venture, thus allowing things to start fresh.
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Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power will attempt to shuffle between 22 different characters and numerous storylines, which is a daunting task to undertake for showrunners Patrick McKay and JD Payne. However, the newly released images from Vanity Fair provide glimpses of these contrasting characters and the vast landscape where the events leading to the forging of the ring will take place. «Rings for the elves, rings for dwarves, rings for men, and then the one ring Sauron used to deceive them all. It's the story of the creation of all those powers, where they came from, and what they did to each of those races,» stated McKay while speaking with Vanity Fair.
While the images spur tremendous excitement, the process of getting to this point was not an easy one for McKay and Payne. Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power takes place in Tolkien's Middle-earth, but is not necessarily based on the authors novels. The events serve as a prequel to the
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