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Lord of the Rings Amazon TV Series: Cast, Release Date and Everything to Know

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Amazon’s purportedly billion-dollar-budgeted Lord of the Rings TV series will take place LONG before the events of Peter Jackson’s movies. Setting the tone for this small screen return to the world of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, the first two episodes will be directed by J.A. Bayona, who helmed Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.

The Lord of the Rings TV series is set during Middle Earth’s Second Age—that’s thousands of years before Bilbo Baggins, Gollum or Aragorn ever existed! Moreover, the end of said age was a full millennium before the Wizards (Gandalf, Saruman, et al.) even arrived in Middle Earth, which makes the series a prequel in an epochal sense.

Amazon hopes the new Lord of the Rings TV show will be the next Game of Thrones, evidenced by its early Season 2 order. While COVID-19 temporarily halted its New Zealand production back in March 2020, progress ultimately resumed in late-September.

With that set, here’s everything you need to know about the project!

Lord of the Rings Amazon Cast

In the first bit of news on The Lord of the Rings television series in quite some time, Amazon Studios announced a plethora of new cast members. While we’re still not getting any official details on the show’s characters, the latest development proves that the project is a massive ensemble.

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Cynthia Addai-Robinson leads this crop of newcomers.

The London-born, American-raised actress most recently fielded the role of Ramona Garrity on Starz series Power, but genre fans likely best know her as the CWverse’s version of Amanda Waller during Arrow’s brief Suicide Squad storyline, along with roles on USA’ Shooter and—in a setup somewhat close to LOTR—Starz’s Spartacus. She also had a notable role in 2016 actioner The Accountant.

Here’s the rest of the announced additions:

Maxim Baldry (Years and Years)—whose addition was reported by Collider back in October 2019—is now officially confirmed, joined by newcomer Ian Blackburn, Kip Chapman (Top of the Lake), Anthony Crum (Krystal), Maxine Cunliffe (Power Rangers Megaforce), Trystan Gravelle (A Discovery of Witches), Sir Lenny Henry (Broadchurch), Thusitha Jayasundera (Humans), Fabian McCallum (You, Me and The Apocalypse), Simon Merrells (Knightfall), Geoff Morrell (Harrow), Peter Mullan (Westworld), Lloyd Owen (Cleaning Up), Augustus Prew (The Morning Show), Peter Tait (Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King), Alex Tarrant (Mean Mums), Leon Wadham (Power Rangers Beast Morphers), Benjamin Walker (Jessica Jones) and Sara Zwangobani (Home and Away).

Interestingly, the addition of Peter Tait marks the return of an alumnus from The Lord of the Rings films, since he was in Return of the King as Shagrat, the Uruk-hai who carried the venom-paralyzed, web-wrapped Frodo back to the Tower of Cirith Ungol before getting into a scrap (over Frodo’s Mithril shirt,) with the bossy Orc known as Gorbag. – In another Peter-related angle, the addition of Peter Mullan should delight fans of HBO’s Westworld who know him as James Delos and his “fidelity” tested robotic doppelgangers.

They join the following existing cast members:

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Robert Aramayo, best known as Young Ned Stark on Game of Thrones, fields the lead role for which the departed Will Poulter was previously tapped. While little is known about the character, he was initially referred to as “Beldor,” and is said to be heroic. Poulter, who was cast back in September 2019, reportedly withdrew from the series over scheduling conflicts.

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Clark put in a dark performance as the star of excellent horror film Saint Maud, in which she played a piously deranged hospice nurse. She also recurred in Season 1 episodes of HBO’s His Dark Materials as the daemon-deprived Sister Clara, and fielded the major role of Mina in the recent Netflix/BBC Dracula miniseries. Clark also notably appeared in horror film Crawl, Benedict Cumberbatch miniseries Patrick Melrose and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

Galadriel, an ancient elf from Valinor who predates the First Age, famously used her long-honed magic powers to aid Frodo and the Fellowship in their journey during the Rings Trilogy. Yet, said powers happen to be rooted in her possession of Nenya, one of the three Rings of Power bestowed to the race of Elves; a trinket whose powers come with a caveat since, thanks to Sauron’s trickery, it is ultimately subordinate to the One Ring. Consequently, with the show’s Second Age setting (the era of the Rings of Power,) the inclusion of Galadriel seems to signal a story centered on Sauron’s deceitful claim to fame.

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Markella Kavenagh was revealed back in July 2019 as the first cast member for the series, reportedly set to play a character named Tyra.

Kavenagh was most recently seen co-starring in Australian drama My First Summer and recurred on TV series The Gloaming for Australia’s Stan streaming service. Additionally, she’s no stranger to Amazon Prime originals, having been part of the cast of 2018’s Picnic at Hanging Rock.

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Ema Horvath will play an unspecified character as a series regular, reported Deadline.

A relative newcomer, Horvath made her onscreen debut in the 2017 horror film, Like.Share.Follow, in which she appeared opposite Keiynan Lonsdale (The Flash’s Wally West), and moved on to field roles in 2019 horror films The Gallows Act II and The Mortuary Collection.

BBC

Joseph Mawle will play a villain, reported Variety, whose sources claim that the character will be named “Oren.”

The Oxford-born actor is best known as Benjen Stark on Game of Thrones, which he fielded in Season 1, and eventually returned as the show’s version of book character Coldhands in Season 7. He recently fielded BBC TV runs on drama MotherFatherSon, actioner Troy: Fall of a City and was memorable as a corrupt pugilist police inspector on Ripper Street. He’ll soon be seen in auteur director Terrence Malick’s developing film, The Last Planet.

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Maxim Baldry will field an unspecified “significant” role, reported Collider.

The English actor most recently recurred on 2020’s Season 8 of Showtime’s Strike Back, having recently fielded a breakout performance on HBO television drama series Years and Years. He has been seen on Channel 4’s Hollyoaks, a 2013 guest spot on BBC’s Skins and, back in 2007 as a child, had a three-episode run on HBO’s Rome and was seen that same year in Mr. Bean’s Holiday.

Additional LOTR cast members include: Owain Arthur (A Confession), Nazanin Boniadi (Counterpart), Tom Budge (Bloom), Ismael Cruz Córdova (The Undoing), newcomer Tyroe Muhafidin, newcomer Sophia Nomvete, Megan Richards (Wanderlust), Dylan Smith (I Am the Night), Charlie Vickers (Medici) and Daniel Weyman (Silent Witness). The addition of this group was announced back in January 2020 (just on the cusp of the pandemic,) during the Winter TCA Tour.

Lord of the Rings Amazon Release Date

Amazon’s Lord of the Rings doesn’t have a release date as of yet; a notion that was compounded by the pandemic production delay enacted back in March 2020. However, we do know that filming—specifically to complete the first two episodes—resumed back in late-September.

The series returned to the classic film franchise’s stomping grounds of New Zealand, specifically in Auckland, where production continues. The initial confirmation of that came from Amazon, which issued a statement from showrunners and executive producers J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay:

“As we searched for the location in which we could bring to life the primordial beauty of the Second Age of Middle-earth, we knew we needed to find somewhere majestic, with pristine coasts, forests, and mountains, that also is a home to world-class sets, studios, and highly skilled and experienced craftspeople and other staff. And we’re happy that we are now able to officially confirm New Zealand as our home for our series based on stories from J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.”

Lord of the Rings Amazon Crew

Juan Antonio (J.A.) Bayona (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, The Orphanage, The Impossible) directed the story-setting first two episodes. He is also serving as an executive producer, joined by his producing partner, Belén Atienza. “J.R.R. Tolkien created one of the most extraordinary and inspiring stories of all time, and as a lifelong fan it is an honor and a joy to join this amazing team,” Bayona said in a statement. “I can’t wait to take audiences around the world to Middle-earth and have them discover the wonders of the Second Age, with a never before seen story.”

Bryan Cogman, a winter-tested writer with Westeros work on his CV from Game of Thrones, is onboard the writing team as a consultant, as first reported by Variety. After starting as an assistant to showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, Cogman has since worn many hats on HBO’s Game of Thrones going back to the show’s first season, having written 11 episodes total—the most recent of which was Season 8’s pre-battle character study, “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms”—and served as a producer on several episodes, ascending to co-executive producer for the last two seasons. He’s also attached to the screenplay for Disney’s live-action adaptation of its 1963 Arthurian animated classic, The Sword in the Stone.

J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay are handling the day-to-day duties as showrunners for the series, having been brought onboard the project back in July 2018; well before Amazon divulged any official details on the series. The collaborative duo have relatively thin CVs, with work on the script to 2016’s Star Trek Beyond being their only non-Rings major entry.

Here’s the officially released list of the show’s creative team:

Executive producers Lindsey Weber (10 Cloverfield Lane), Bruce Richmond (Game of Thrones), Gene Kelly (Boardwalk Empire) and Sharon Tal Yguado; writer/executive producer Gennifer Hutchison (Breaking Bad); writer/executive producer Jason Cahill (The Sopranos) writer/executive producer Justin Doble (Stranger Things); consulting producers Bryan Cogman (Game of Thrones) and Stephany Folsom (Toy Story 4); producer Ron Ames (The Aviator); writer/co-producer Helen Shang (Hannibal), and writing consultant Glenise Mullins.

Lord of the Rings Amazon Story

Amazon has been teasing the plot for The Lord of the Rings series for a few years now. The officially released series-era map not only confirmed the show’s time period, stating, “Welcome to the Second Age,” but bore another bountiful clue: the five-pointed-star-shaped southwest island kingdom of Númenor. An ancient kingdom of Men with long lifespans, Númenor flourished throughout much of the Second Age until the initial incursions of Sauron, which eventually led to the kingdom’s legendary fall (which culminated with the entire island sinking into the sea,) and King Elendil’s arrival on the mainland, where he eventually founded the kingdom of Gondor.

Welcome to the Second Age: https://t.co/Tamd0oRgTw

— The Lord of the Rings on Prime (@LOTRonPrime) March 7, 2019

We could also take this to mean that the Lord of the Rings TV show might showcase the formation of Gondor and the era in which Sauron’s insidious plot first came to a head; events that were briefly chronicled in Tolkien’s posthumously-published quasi-Biblical Middle Earth chronicle, The Silmarillion, specifically in the section titled “Akallabêth.”

Amazon Prime Video narrowed down the show’s time period by provocatively posting maps of Middle Earth, including downloadable versions hosted on the main Amazon site. Having started by posting a label-less version of the Middle Earth map, Amazon would incrementally reveal things by updating the map with land labels, which provided valuable clues about the show’s time setting. The first major revelation came in February 2019 with the release of a map containing a name that’s archaic to the familiar era of the Third Age, in which The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings novels and Peter Jackson-directed films take place.

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Additionally, the familiar sight to Rohan’s south, the great kingdom of Gondor, was nowhere to be seen on the map. This was a crucial clue, since Gondor (along with Northern Kingdom Arnor,) was founded by King Elendil and his sons during the Second Age of Middle Earth in 3320, setting up a climactic confrontation in 3441 between “The Last Alliance of Elves and Men” against Sauron and his evil army from Mordor—again, as depicted in the Fellowship prologue.

Consequently, with the Lord of the Rings series confirmed to take place in the Second Age, speculation can begin on how it might fill story gaps of the first war over the One Ring, potentially showcasing movie prologue characters like King Elendil, his son and eventual One Ring-owner, Isildur, as well as the powerful high-born Elven king, Gil-galad. Moreover, it appears that we might finally get to see Sauron himself as an actual character, rather than a giant irritated flaming eye!

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That’s all we know about Amazon’s Lord of the Rings series. We, along with the franchise’s legion of fans, anxiously await any update that comes our way.

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Kiss Me (a series of Walking Dead One Shots, Caryl).

So. I stumbled on some prompts about kissing. And because the shipper in me is almost always inwardly screaming this to our babies every time they're in close proximity onscreen, I decided why the hell not.

I can't promise frequent updates because I'm still struggling with writer's block like whoa, but there were 15 prompts in all, I believe, so expect me to add to this collection as inspiration and time allows.

Due to the nature of some of the prompts, some of the one shots will be AU's. Some will be set in the ZA.

I hope you enjoy.

The first prompt is at a prom. And yeah. It's AU, lol, because could you imagine?

Some language, mild angst, and fluff under the cut. Other characters making appearances and mentioned will be tagged.

Oh, and any typos are all mine. I've read and reread through this thing several times, but I'm only human. Let me know if there are any hugely glaring ones, and I'll do some editing.

Kiss Me

At a prom

Carol has to hand it to them. This year’s prom theme is certainly memorable.

“Still can’t believe Principal Monroe went for it.”

She bites back a smile, an effort to quell the butterflies suddenly taking flight in her belly that ultimately fails. “Hmm,” she hums instead and takes a well-timed sip of her punch as one of her fellow chaperones sidles up next to her, their elbows brushing just barely as he reaches for his own cup of punch.

“Looks like blood.”

She smirks into her cup, takes another sip before responding. “Pretty sure that’s the point.” The newest and most talked about member of King County High’s staff, her gruffly handsome colleague Daryl Dixon was a man of relatively few words (although Lori swore he was positively chatty in Carol’s presence) whereas his predecessor, the kindly inquisitive Mr. Horvath, had decidedly not been. It gave him an air of mystery that many of the hormone-fueled girls (and some of the boys) flocked to like moths to a flame, and enrollment in the school’s agriculture classes had more than doubled since the end of Dale’s tenure a year ago. She should know, as her home economics classes were housed in the same building. As a result, enrollment in her classes had increased, too. And wouldn’t you know it? She’s been making a fool of herself around the man ever since with shy smiles and oftentimes awkward, stumbling bits and pieces of conversation. “Look around. It’s the Apocalypse.”

“Pfft. Really? What kind?”

Zombies, kids in homemade Hazmat suits, aliens, even a few Mad Max types...he definitely has a point. “At least the punch is good.”

“Pretty sure it’s spiked,” he says, downing the remainder of his cup and quickly grabbing the ladle to top it back off.

“No!” She frowns in disbelief before taking another tentative sip. It tastes sweet, almost sickeningly so, but the gymnasium around them is crowded with teenaged bodies and Spring is just Summer-lite in Georgia. With sweat pearling in the well of her throat and her curly hair starting to stick to the back of her neck in a frizzing mess, she’ll gladly take sweet over the alternative. “I don’t believe you.”

He shrugs, gives her a curled lip little half smile. “Believe what you wanna believe."

That smile does things to Carol, reawakens parts of her best left ignored. But not even thoughts of her six-year-old daughter and the possible mischief Carl has enticed her into stirring up at the babysitter’s expense is enough to do it. She throws back the rest of her own cup to combat the sudden dryness in her throat and holds it out for more.

“Thirsty?”

You have no idea. She simply nods, and that half smile grows exponentially, shows off a gleaming set of teeth that looks positively predatory to her lust-muddled way of thinking. She’s clearly not the only one because they soon amass a small crowd around them, roughly half a dozen giggling girls and one of her most prized pupils. “Mr. Rhee,” she murmurs. “Don’t you look…ghastly?”

Glenn takes her comment as high praise, his stature straightening and his grin positively beaming. “Thanks.”

“No wonder the kid ain’t got no date,” Daryl mutters beneath his breath as one of the eyeballs attached to the teen’s costume glasses slinks forward then springs back.

His hand finds its way to the small of her back when she promptly starts choking, but Carol flinches forward, waving him and the rest of the concerned onlookers off. “I’m okay. I’m fine.” Contrary to popular belief, she’s not completely clueless. She’s heard bits and pieces of the gossip circulating the hallways and what little that has escaped her ears, Lori’s been sure to keep her up to speed. Even if she does rag her about Daryl’s willful butchering, as she puts it, of the English language. As two single, reasonably attractive adults of a viable age, they’ve captured the imagination of more than a few in the student body. Just standing next to each other is more fuel for the fodder, she knows, and the deep blush on her cheeks, well. She could claim a lot of reasons for it but Maggie Greene and Tara Chamblers? Rosita Espinosa and Sasha Williams? Amy Harrison? They definitely wouldn’t buy it. “I’m fine. Really.”

Shane swoops in then and Glenn and the girls scatter with no small amount of tittering.

At the last second, Amy hangs back, shouts, “Cool costume, Coach Walsh!”

“Impressive shiner,” Daryl says by way of greeting. “Boss lady’s kid nail you?”

“Kid’s given me nothing but lip ever since I started dating her sister.” Shane grumbles and (not-so) covertly flips the girl off before turning back to them. Glancing over at Carol, he grunts out a laugh, dances around Daryl’s question. “No, Man. I wish.”

On cue, Lori joins them, rubbing one restless hand over her pregnant belly and touching Carol’s elbow with the other. “Go ahead, Shane. Tell him how you got the black eye,” she encouraged, as she and Carol shared a smile between friends. “If you don’t, I will.”

“Fuckin’ T-ball practice. I’m telling you, Carol. That girl of yours…she’s little but she’s mighty. Hear what I’m saying? Packs a punch and has a helluva arm. Shit aim, though.”

“No worse than Carl’s,” Lori reminds him with a laugh.

“No worse than Carl’s,” Carol agrees with a distracted smile. She’s too busy trying to decipher the look clouding Daryl’s normally clear blue eyes. It’s a fruitless effort, though, because it’s unreadable, just as guarded as always.

“Shane,” Lori teasingly singsongs. “Fix me and the baby some punch.”

“You kiddin’?” Shane scoffs as he leads her away with a supportive hand hovering over her back. “You ain’t touching that stuff. My buddy Rick would…”

“Guess it really does have a little something extra in it.”

Daryl’s eyes narrow, but his lips twitch with the makings of a repressed smile as he studies her. “You believe him and not me?”

Flustered, Carol explains, “Known him longer is all. You, I barely know.”

“Fair enough,” Daryl allows with a dip of his chin. “Listen, you wanna…”

“I’m sorry I…” Carol says at the same time. “Sorry. Sorry.” Waving a hand in front of her flushed face, she worries her bottom lip between her teeth. “Do you want to get some air? It’s stifling in here.”

“Sure,” Daryl answers easily enough. Shane and Lori are off in a quiet little corner, Lori’s swelling feet propped up in a chair and Shane holding up her phone while she FaceTimes her husband at work, but their other colleagues are taking their chaperone duties much more seriously, watching the students with eagle eyes. “Mamet and Porter got this.”

Outside isn’t all that better, but Carol breathes a little easier all the same. Too bad her heart picks up the slack, beating away inside her chest, because damn. Without any other distractions, she notices just how good he looks. He always looks good to her, too good, but tonight? It’s not just the mugginess of a typical April night in the South making her melt. The dark blue button-down he’s wearing is certainly more on the casual side, but it stretches snugly across his broad shoulders and molds lovingly to his upper body, and she, for one, isn’t complaining. Catching him and herself off-guard, she blurts out a compliment. “You look nice.”

“Pfft.”

“I mean it. You look handsome.” If she didn’t know any better, she’d think he were blushing, but the moon’s light is hazy at best as it peeks in and out of the night clouds, and she already feels like she’s staring, so she ducks her head.

“Handsome, huh?”

Carol sighs, pleased and more than a little bit exasperated by the situation she’s landed herself in. Get some air? Right. Now she’s having trouble breathing again because he’s so close, close enough to touch, and she wants nothing more than to reach out to him, but there are so many reasons why that’s a bad idea. Besides, she can still hear the laughter and the music from inside, muted but just beyond a set of double doors. “Now you’re just fishing for compliments. It’s…it should be unattractive.”

“Like you having a kid?”

Her head snaps up, and her heart drops all the way to her feet. “Wh-what did you just say?”

“That why you never mentioned her?”

“I don’t know what you’re…Daryl,” she sputters. “We barely know each other, and Sophia? She’s the most special person in my life. Her well-being is more important to me than any crush could ever be. Where is this even coming from? It’s not like I’ve kept her a secret.”

The doors crash open behind them before he has time to formulate a response, and a fraught silence settles between, one that lasts until the laughing couple gets in their car and drives away. When their tail-lights are nothing but a memory, he speaks again, his voice a low, husky rasp. “You didn’t hear me right. Said it should be. Least that’s what me and my brother were raised to think. But it ain’t.”

Softly, she murmurs, “It’s not?”

“It ain’t,” he repeats just as quietly. “What you say…”

He’s close again, and this time she does reach out, smooths a shaky hand over the back of his wrist, up his forearm. “Daryl?”

“What you say me and you get to know each other a little better?”

Carol takes her time answering him, but that’s only because her heart has leapt back into her throat, beating away fiercely and making it difficult for her to formulate words. He doesn’t know that, though, and endearingly, the man of few words starts rambling. Already, he’s spoken more words to her in one night than probably the whole time they’ve known each other.

“Wanna be more than a crush. Wanna be important. Christ. I wanna…”

“Daryl.” She stops him by covering his mouth with her hand and can’t bite back the smile when his lips press warmly, unconsciously, against her palm in response. “Okay.”

“Okay? We can talk. ‘Bout your kid even if you want. Maybe someday I can meet her?”

“Okay,” she grins as his eyes glow at her in the darkness.

“You’re beautiful,” he blurts when she removes her hand, drops it to rest on his shoulder. “So fuckin’ pretty.”

“If you’re trying to get me to kiss you…”

“S’it working?”

Carol pulls herself up on her tiptoes, both hands sliding up the back of his neck to his shaggy hair, and smiles at him, her eyes lingering on his utterly appealing mouth. “Yes.”

“Yeah?”

“You can stop talking right…about…now.” With each pause between words, they’ve moved closer and closer together, noses fitting against each other and lips ghosting until his hands find her waist and close the rest of the distance between them. The sweet, innocent press of their lips doesn’t last long, and she soon finds herself with her back against the gymnasium wall and his rough hands tangled in her hair, lost to the rest of the outside world as they explore the wonders of each other’s mouths. But all good things must come to an end, after all, and catcalls and good-natured whistles break them apart. She hides her face in Daryl’s broad shoulder as hearty, teenaged congratulations go around.

“Get it, Mr. Dix!”

“About damn time!”

“I knew it! I knew it!”

“Aww. You two make such a cute couple!”

Until one commanding voice quiets them all. “Enough! Show’s over! Back inside or vacate the premises! Everyone!”

One by one, the teens comply, and Carol and Daryl find themselves alone in the company of their boss. Speaking of little but mighty…Carol can’t find the words, and Daryl, unfortunately, reverts back to form. “That include us?” Carol mumbles hopefully when he remains tongue-tied.

Principal Deanna Monroe props her hands on her hips, makes them sweat it out for a few seconds before answering. “That depends.”

Daryl finally rediscovers his voice. “On?”

“Two things,” the diminutive woman smirks. “One, you keep your hands to yourselves inside. These are impressionable children we’re responsible for.”

“Done,” Carol promises. “And two?”

“You guilt Walsh into donating his winnings.”

“Winnings? The hell?”

“Don’t judge him too harshly. A few more days, and let’s just say, my debate team would have benefited handsomely.” With that, she leaves them with their jaws hanging open and their eyes wide.

Carol’s the first one to break, and Daryl soon follows her, smirking at the laughter that spills endlessly from her kiss-bruised lips.

“C’mere.”

“Daryl."

“You heard the lady. M’not ready to let you go yet.”

One kiss melts into two melts into three and this time? They’re both breathless.

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Lord of the Rings Amazon TV Series: Cast, Release Date and Everything to Know

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Amazon’s purportedly billion-dollar-budgeted Lord of the Rings TV series will take place LONG before (as in thousands of years before) the events of Peter Jackson’s movies. Setting the tone for this small screen return to the world of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, the first two episodes will be directed by J.A. Bayona, who helmed Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.

Amazon hopes the new Lord of the Rings TV show will be the next Game of Thrones, evidenced by its early Season 2 order. While COVID-19 would temporarily halt its New Zealand production back in March 2020, progress ultimately resumed in late-September.

With that set, here’s everything you need to know about the project!

Lord of the Rings Amazon Cast

HBO

A24

Morfydd Clark has a lead role as a familiar character, as first reported by Variety. She will play a younger version of Galadriel, the ancient elven Lady of Lothlórien, famously played by Cate Blanchett in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and (in a appearance anachronistic to the novel,) The Hobbit films. Clark put in a dark performance as the star of last year’s horror film, Saint Maud, in which she played a piously deranged hospice nurse. She also recurred in Season 1 episodes of HBO’s His Dark Materials as the daemon-deprived Sister Clara, and fielded the major role of Mina in the recent Netflix/BBC Dracula miniseries. Clark also notably appeared in horror film Crawl, Benedict Cumberbatch miniseries Patrick Melrose and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

BBC

Markella Kavenagh was revealed back in July 2019 as the first cast member for the series, reportedly set to play a character named Tyra. Kavenagh was most recently seen co-starring in Australian drama My First Summer and recurred on TV series The Gloaming for Australia’s Stan streaming service. Additionally, she’s no stranger to Amazon Prime originals, having been part of the cast of 2018’s Picnic at Hanging Rock.

Blumhouse Productions

Ema Horvath will play an unspecified character as a series regular, reported Deadline. A relative newcomer, Horvath made her onscreen debut in the 2017 horror film, Like.Share.Follow, in which she appeared opposite Keiynan Lonsdale (The Flash’s Wally West), and moved on to field roles in 2019 horror films The Gallows Act II and The Mortuary Collection.

BBC

Joseph Mawle will play a villain, reported Variety, whose sources claim that the character will be named “Oren.” The Oxford-born actor is best known as Benjen Stark on Game of Thrones, which he fielded in Season 1, and eventually returned as the show’s version of book character Coldhands in Season 7. He recently fielded BBC TV runs on drama MotherFatherSon, actioner Troy: Fall of a City and was memorable as a corrupt pugilist police inspector on Ripper Street. He’ll soon be seen in auteur director Terrence Malick’s developing film, The Last Planet.

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Maxim Baldry will field an unspecified “significant” role, reported Collider. The English actor most recently recurred on 2020’s Season 8 of Showtime’s Strike Back, having recently fielded a breakout performance on HBO television drama series Years and Years. He has been seen on Channel 4’s Hollyoaks, a 2013 guest spot on BBC’s Skins and, back in 2007 as a child, had a three-episode run on HBO’s Rome and was seen that same year in Mr. Bean’s Holiday.

The rest of the ensemble consists of Owain Arthur, Nazanin Boniadi, Tom Budge, Ismael Cruz Córdova, Tyroe Muhafidin, Sophia Nomvete, Megan Richards, Dylan Smith, Charlie Vickers and Daniel Weyman. The addition of this group was announced back in January 2020 (just on the cusp of the pandemic,) during the Winter TCA Tour.

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Bryan Cogman, a winter-tested writer with Westeros work on his CV from Game of Thrones, is onboard the writing team as a consultant, as first reported by Variety. After starting an assistant to showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, Cogman has since worn many hats on HBO’s Game of Thrones going back to the show’s first season, having written 11 episodes total—the most recent of which was Season 8’s pre-battle character study, “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms”—and served as a producer on several episodes, ascending to co-executive producer for the last two seasons. He’s also attached to the screenplay for Disney’s live-action adaptation of its 1963 Arthurian animated classic, The Sword in the Stone.

Here’s the officially released list of the show’s creative team:

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Amazon has been teasing the plot for The Lord of the Rings series for a few years now. The officially released series-era map not only confirmed the show’s time period, stating, “Welcome to the Second Age,” but bore another bountiful clue: the five-pointed-star-shaped southwest island kingdom of Númenor. An ancient kingdom of Men with long lifespans, Númenor flourished throughout much of the Second Age until the initial incursions of Sauron, which eventually led to the kingdom’s legendary fall and King Elendil’s arrival on the mainland, where he eventually founded the kingdom of Gondor.

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— The Lord of the Rings on Prime (@LOTRonPrime) March 7, 2019

Given Amazon’s subsequent teases, which recall tropes connected to the Ring of Power, one might further deduce that the Lord of the Rings series will specifically chronicle the epoch’s mythology-setting events. Pertinently, the sporadically posted lines in the teasers recall the Second Age story in which Sauron deceived the kingdoms of Elves, Men and Dwarves with rings of power that he secretly controlled with the One Ring; a story famously told in The Fellowship of the Ring film prologue by Cate Blanchett’s Galadriel (a character played on this series by Markella Kavenagh). We could also take this to mean that the Lord of the Rings TV show might showcase the formation of Gondor and the era in which Sauron’s insidious plot first came to a head; events that were briefly chronicled in Tolkien’s posthumously-published quasi-Biblical Middle Earth chronicle, The Silmarillion, specifically in the section titled “Akallabêth.”

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The name on the map in question was “Calenardhon,” which is the ancient original name of the pastoral plains of the region that we know as the kingdom of Rohan (founded in 2510 in the Third Age), which we saw on magnificent display in the Rings Trilogy’s 2002 middle act, The Two Towers. Additionally, the familiar sight to Rohan’s south, the great kingdom of Gondor, was nowhere to be seen on the map. This was a crucial clue, since Gondor (along with Northern Kingdom Arnor,) was founded by King Elendil and his sons during the Second Age of Middle Earth in 3320, setting up a climactic confrontation in 3441 between “The Last Alliance of Elves and Men” against Sauron and his evil army from Mordor—again, as depicted in the Fellowship prologue.

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That’s all we know about Amazon’s Lord of the Rings series. We, along with the franchise’s legion of fans, anxiously await any update that comes our way.

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