The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

The showrunners said that they wished to "come up with the novel Tolkien never wrote and do it as the mega-event series that could only happen now". They explained that they only have the copyrights to adapt The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings along with its Appendices, without the rights to The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales or other books that contain the vast majority of Tolkien's writings on the Second Age.

Season 1

A Shadow of the Past
Adrift
Adar
The Great Wave
Partings
Udûn
The Eye
Alloyed

Season 2

Elven Kings Under the Sky
Where the Stars are Strange
The Eagle and the Sceptre
Eldest
Halls of Stone
Where Is He?
Doomed to Die
Shadow and Flame

In alphabetical order

Main cast introduced in Season 1

Introduced in Season 2

Development

On 3 November 2017, it was reported that Amazon Studios were in discussion with Warner Bros. Television and the Tolkien Estate about developing a series based on The Lord of the Rings. Later, in November, Amazon Studios announced they have secured the rights to develop a multi-season television series set in Middle-earth with the potential for spin-offs. The rights have been said to have cost close to $250 million. Amazon Studios would cooperate in the production with the Tolkien Estate, The Tolkien Trust, HarperCollins and New Line Cinema.

On 13 February 2019, Amazon's then newly created Twitter account associated with the show posted the quote "I wisely started with a map.", taken from Tolkien's Letter 144. On 15 February, the Twitter account released a map of Middle-earth along with a line of the Ring-verse, over the next few weeks different versions of the map were released with each successive one including more labels than the previous as well as more lines from the verse. On 7 March, the final map was released which showed a wider view of Middle-earth, including the island of Númenor and the final post "Welcome to the Second Age". Tom Shippey and artist John Howe had worked on the accuracy of the maps, however dedicated fans had detected several mistakes and anachronisms.

The fact the series were going to be set in the Second Age was predicted by Tolkien Society Chair Shaun Gunner in February.

On 27 July 2019, a video was published that introduced the creative team; J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay were announced as the showrunners, the writing team consisting of Gennifer Hutchison, Helen Shang, Jason Cahill, Glenise Mullins, Justin Dohle, Stephany Folsom and Bryan Cogman, Belén Atienza, Bruce Richmond, Gene Kelly and Lindsey Weber as executive producers, Ron Ames as co-producer, Kate Hawley as costume designer, Rick Heinrichs as production designer and Jason Smith as visual effects supervisor. The team will also include Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey and artist John Howe. Bayona will direct the first two episodes. In an interview with the German Tolkien Society, scholar Tom Shippey stated that events from the First and Third Ages are "off-limits".

On 17 September 2019, Amazon Studios announced that the series first season would be filmed in New Zealand.

On 18 November 2019, Amazon Studios Head Jennifer Salke announced that the series has been renewed for a second season.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, production of the series first season was suspended. On 9 May 2020 the New Zealand Film Commission has allowed the production of film and TV to continue in the country.

In December 2020, Bryan Cogman left the series for Entertainment One, after completing work on the scripts for the first season.

On 24 March 2021, Amazon Studios announced that Wayne Che Yip had joined the creative team, as both a co-executive producer and director.

In May 2021, it was announced that Charlotte Brändström would direct another two episodes.

In September 2021, it was reported that Howard Shore and Bear McCreary were in talks to compose the soundtrack for the series. In July 2022, it was officially announced their hiring, with McCreary announced to be composing the score and Shore to be writing the main title theme.

On 3 October 2022, production for the second season of the series begun in the United Kingdom.

Casting

On 22 July 2019, it was reported that Amazon has made its first cast for the new series that Markella Kavenagh was in talks to play a character named "Tyra".

Will Poulter was cast for an unknown role in September 2019 however in December it was reported that he left the series due to scheduling conflicts. This was later confirmed by Poulter in an interview. He was replaced by Robert Aramayo who was reported to be playing a character named "Beldor".

In October 2019, it was reported that Maxim Baldry and Joseph Mawle has joined the cast, the latter playing "Oren", the lead villain of the series.

In December 2019, there were reports of Ema Horvath and Morfydd Clark joinining the cast, it was said that Clark is to play a "young Galadriel".

On 15 January 2020, the series' official social media confirmed the castings of Kavenagh, Aramayo, Mawle, Horvath, and Clark, as well as revealing new members of the cast; Owain Arthur, Nazanin Boniadi, Tom Budge, Ismael Cruz Cordova, Tyroe Muhafidin, Sophia Nomvete, Megan Richards, Dylan Smith, Charlie Vickers, and Daniel Weyman.

In December 2020, it was announced that 20 actors have been added to the cast; Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Maxim Baldry (reported to have joined back in October 2019), Ian Blackburn, Kip Chapman, Anthony Crum, Maxine Cunliffe, Trystan Gravelle, Sir Lenny Henry, Thusitha Jayasundera, Fabian McCallum, Simon Merrells, Geoff Morrell, Peter Mullan, Lloyd Owen, Augustus Prew, Peter Tait, Alex Tarrant, Leon Wadham, Benjamin Walker and Sara Zwangobani.

In March 2021, Tom Budge announced that he had departed the series after filming several episodes. He explained that Amazon had decided to go in a different direction with his character after reviewing the first episodes.

In July 2021, Charles Edwards, Will Fletcher, Amelie Child-Villiers, and Beau Cassidy were added to the first season's cast. A third of the first season's 124 speaking roles, including seven of the 32 major recurring roles, went to New Zealand actors. in Auckland primarily at Kumeu Film Studios and Auckland Film Studios. Location filming took place around Auckland in February. Filming for the first two episodes was expected to continue through May, with a four or five-month production break then planned during which footage for the two episodes would be reviewed and writing on the second season would begin. Production was scheduled to resume in mid-October and continue until late June 2021. However, filming was placed on hold indefinitely in mid-March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with around 800 cast and crew members told to stay home. In early May, the majority of filming for the first two episodes was confirmed to have been completed before the COVID-19 shutdown. Filming on the series was allowed to resume then under new safety guidelines from the New Zealand government, but, instead of completing filming for the first two episodes at that time, the filming shutdown segued into the intended production break, with filming for the first two episodes set to be completed once filming on further episodes was ready to begin.

It was reported that the TV series was one of seven film and television productions that were granted exemptions to allow cast and crew members to enter New Zealand while its borders were closed to non-New Zealanders due to COVID-19. The exemptions were granted before June 18 by Economic Development Minister Phil Twyford, and applied to 93 members of the production as well as 20 family members. Around 10 percent of the series' crew were believed to be non-New Zealanders, and many of them had remained in the country during its pandemic lockdown and did not require exemptions. Pre-production on further episodes began by July 2020, and filming on the series resumed on September 28. Bayona completed filming on his episodes by December 23, with production on further episodes set to begin in January 2021 following a two week break for Christmas. Yip confirmed that he had begun filming his episodes by March, and Brändström was in New Zealand for production on the series when she was announced as director in May.

Season 2

Season 1

On 19 January 2022, Amazon revealed of the series' full title. Instead of creating a title reveal with visual effects, the studio released an announcement video in which the letters of the title are physically cast from molten metal while an excerpt of the "Ring Verse" from The Lord of the Rings is read in voiceover. The video was directed by Klaus Obermeyer, who worked with special effects supervisor Lee Nelson under advisement by veteran special effects supervisor Douglas Trumbull.

On 3 February, Amazon Studios revealed a series of character posters for the series. On 10 February, a "first look" was revealed with photos of some of the characters, followed by the release of the teaser trailer on 13 February during Super Bowl LVI. The official watch party for the trailer was hosted on YouTube by TheOneRing.net.

On 14 July, Amazon released another trailer for the series online.

On 23 August, Amazon released the final trailer for the first season's series online.

Season 2

On 14 May 2024, Amazon released the first teaser trailer for Season 2, revealing it will be released on 29 August of the same year.

On 14 August 2024, Amazon released the third and final trailer for Season 2.

The first season of the series received mixed reviews, with generally positive critical and generally negative audience scores on review aggregation websites. Most viewers did not finish the show, particularly in the USA, with a domestic completion rate of 37%, while the rest of the world had a 45% completion rate. The series also proved controversial in many corners of Tolkien fandom with people questioning its fidelity to the source material and the depiction of certain characters.

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