Amazon’sLord of the RingsRelease Date Comes With a Breathtaking First Look

Frodo ’s journey to Mordorwas a longsighted and dire one and so too will the journey be to the nextLord of the Rings write up . Filming on the first season of Amazon ’s approaching , extremist - expensive , unexampled idiot box adaptation finish in New Zealand Monday and , to celebrate , the society announced that the show will debut on September 2 , 2022 . So yes , that ’s over a year from now .

The show will debut in more than 240 country and territories all over the world and new episode will be released weekly . Along with the announcement came a steel new double , which you’re able to see in full below . We have no clue who the person is but the computer architecture has a distinct Rivendell vibration , mean it was likely build by the extremely low frequency . perhaps Valinor or , more specifically , Valinor ’s city of Valmar — that ’s potential the Trees of Valinor , Telperion and Laurelin , you see far in the distance . io9 commentLighticeadded “ This is Tirion , the urban center of the Noldor in the Undying Lands , and the picture show is set in the First Age , as the Two Trees are clearly shining in the background . ” Also , Entertainment Weeklybolstered that by confirmed the image is from the first sequence of the show , so likely from some kind of extensive flashback setting up what ’s to add up .

What we do know for certain , is that the show will be set thousands of years before the issue in J.R.R. Tolkien ’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings books — though the message of this image propose we ’ll see at least a bit earlier than that as well . The show takes place during theSecond Age of Middle - earthwhich began rather peaceful , but turned out to be anything but , setting the stage for all the stories we ’ve become familiar with thanks to Peter Jackson ’s movies .

Return to Middle Earth next fall.

Return to Middle Earth next fall.Photo: Amazon

“ The journey begin September 2 , 2022 with the premiere of our original The Lord of the Rings serial on Prime Video , ” Jennifer Salke , Head of Amazon Studios , articulate in a insistence button . “ I ca n’t show enough just how excited we all are to take our spheric audience on a new and epic journeying through Middle - earth ! Our talented manufacturer , roll , originative , and production team have worked tirelessly in New Zealand to bring this untold and fear - inspiring vision to life . ”

J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay are running Theia - yet - untitled showand had this to say about the news . “ As Bilbo says , ‘ Now I think I am quite quick to go on another journeying . ’ Living and breathing center - earth these many month has been the adventure of a lifespan . We can not wait for fans to have the chance to do so as well . ” The world is , though , we have to hold back . And it ’s a long wait . But if the show is desirable of thehuge investment Amazon hasmade in it , it ’ll be very much worth it .

Do n’t forget that singly , an Zanzibar copal film is in the works calledThe Lord of the Rings : The War of the Rohirrim . That one is being made by Warner Bros. Animation and New Line Cinema , but what do you call back of this first image from the Amazon serial ?

The full image.