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The trailer for ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ debuted on Sunday, revealing for the first time how the wildly ambitious new series for Amazon Prime Video is bringing the world of J R R Tolkien’s Middle Earth to life, reports Variety.
The 60-second teaser for the show, set thousands of years before Peter Jackson’s six feature films adapted from Tolkien’s novels, opens with the kind of awestruck, yearning dialogue familiar to anyone who has seen or read either: ‘Haven’t you ever wondered what else is out there? There’s wonders in this world beyond our wandering. I can feel it!’
The words appear to be spoken by a harfoot — an ancient ancestor of hobbits — played by Markella Kavenagh (‘True History of the Kelly Gang’). The rest of the teaser unfurls at a brisk clip, presenting a dizzying procession of images.
The overall effect of the teaser is one of scale and scope: This is a massive show that is prepared to deliver the kind of epic fantasy storytelling audiences have shown a voracious appetite for with Jackson’s movies and HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones.’
‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ is executive produced by showrunners J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay, Lindsey Weber, Callum Greene, J.A. Bayona, Belén Atienza, Justin Doble, Jason Cahill, Gennifer Hutchison, Bruce Richmond, and Sharon Tal Yguado, and produced by Ron Ames and Christopher Newman.
