Watch the primary teaser trailer for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

Amazon Prime Video is betting large this 12 months on The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, a brand new TV present based mostly on the work of J.R.R. Tolkien…

…kinda. This new present doesn’t cowl the story most of know, the one about Frodo and Gandalf and Gollum and all these of us. The Rings of Power is about 1000’s of years earlier than all that throughout the Second Age of Middle-age, again when there have been nonetheless plenty of elves wandering the lands, Moria was a bustling metropolis moderately than a haunted mine, and Sauron was actually coming into his personal as a jewellery maker/darkish lord. It’s a narrative even a number of Lord of the Rings followers don’t know properly, and Amazon is sparing no expense in telling it to us.

And now, they’ve dropped the primary teaser trailer. Watch under!

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power launch date

There’s quite a bit to interrupt down there, however let’s hit some highlights:

• That’s Morfydd Clark as Galadriel, a youthful model of the character performed by Cate Blanchett in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films. Of course, as an elf, she doesn’t age, so “younger” is a relative time period right here.
• We get a glimpse of Robert Aramayo, who performed younger Ned Stark on Game of Thrones, as a younger Elrond; that’s the function Hugo Weaving performed in Peter Jackson’s films.
• The teaser trailer ends with a shot of two palms clasping, one small and one massive. Amazon not too long ago launched 23 posters for this present, all of them centered round palms. Hands are a theme, apparently.

There’s much more to select aside, and I’m positive we’ll do it within the coming days and weeks. What stood out to you?

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power premieres on Amazon Prime Video on September 2.

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