Amazon’s Lord of the Rings series reveals title ahead of 2022 release date

In the teaser trailer, a narrator says: "Three rings for the elven kings under the sky. Seven for the dwarf lords in their halls of stone, nine for mortal men doomed to die. One for the Dark Lord, on his dark throne in the land of Mordor, where the shadows lie."

Fans couldn't contain their excitement for the series, with one commenting: "I am ready."

Someone else wrote: "Well the pronunciation for Mordor sounds good so I'm feeling a degree of care has gone into the lore and consideration for the world in which we are returning too."

A third added: "Omgggg.. Looksss goodddd." https://twitter.com/JeffBezos/status/1483816527044304896 The series is widely reported to have cost Amazon Studios $1bn to produce, with the first season alone costing the studio an estimated $465m. Last year production was moved to the UK from New Zealand because of the coronavirus pandemic. The synopsis for the eagerly-anticipated series reads: "The new epic drama brings to screens for the very first time J.R.R. Tolkien's fabled Second Age of Middle-earth's history. "Beginning in a time of relative peace, thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings books, the series follows an ensemble cast of characters, both familiar and new, as they confront the long-feared re-emergence of evil to Middle-earth." Related links:

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