Amazon Studios has released the first official synopsis for its highly-anticipated mega-budget “The Lord of the Rings” TV series.
The One Ring revealed the epic sounding description which is both frustratingly vague and light on specifics, but does confirm a couple of details about the project.
Here is the complete synopsis in full which confirms the Second Age setting, some of the key locations including Lindon and Numenor, and the inclusion of a young Sauron as the villain:
“Amazon Studios’ forthcoming series brings to screens for the very first time the heroic legends of the fabled Second Age of Middle-earth’s history.
This epic drama is set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and will take viewers back to an era in which great powers were forged, kingdoms rose to glory and fell to ruin, unlikely heroes were tested, hope hung by the finest of threads, and the greatest villain that ever flowed from Tolkien’s pen threatened to cover all the world in darkness.
Beginning in a time of relative peace, 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. From the darkest depths of the Misty Mountains, to the majestic forests of the elf-capital of Lindon, to the breathtaking island kingdom of Numenor, to the furthest reaches of the map, these kingdoms and characters will carve out legacies that live on long after they are gone.”
The series will star Robert Aramayo, Joseph Mawle, Maxim Baldry, Markella Kavenagh, Ema Horvath, Morfydd Clark, Tom Budge, Owain Arthur, Nazanin Boniadi, Ismael Cruz Córdova, Tyroe Muhafidin, Sophia Nomvete, Megan Richards, Dylan Smith, and Charlie Vickers along with Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Sir Lenny Henry, Peter Mullan and many more.
J.A. Bayona will direct the first two episodes of the series.
