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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power images introduce two new characters

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After peeling back the curtain on the hotly-anticipated fantasy drama series ever so slightly back in February, Amazon Prime Video now released a pair of new images from The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power which give us a look at two new (human?) characters in Tyroe Muhafidin’s Theo and Nazanin Boniadi’s Bronwyn; […]

New Line sets April 2024 release for The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

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It’s a pretty exciting time for fans of Tolkien’s Middle-earth. Not only do we have Amazon’s Second Age-set series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power to look forward to this September, but we can now add another date to our calendars as New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. Animation have set an […]

Return to Middle-earth with The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power trailer

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During last night’s Super Bowl, Amazon Prime Video debuted a teaser trailer for the hotly-anticipated fantasy drama The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, giving us our first look at the adventures of the heroic legends of the Second Age of Middle-earth, thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy epics The […]

First images from The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power take us back to Middle-earth

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Amazon Studios has released the first images from the hotly-anticipated fantasy series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power featuring Morfydd Clark as Galadriel, Robert Aramayo as Elrond, Nazanin Boniadi as Bronwyn, Ismael Cruz Córdova as Arondir, Charlie Vickers as Halbrand, Owain Arthur as Prince Durin IV, and Sophia Nomvete as Princess Disa; […]

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power posters tease the cast of the Amazon series

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Having unveiled the official title and teaser last month, Amazon has now shared a whole batch of character posters for its hugely-anticipated (and hugely-budgeted) live-action series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. They’re not too revealing, but they do feature all kinds of inhabitants of Middle-earth, including what looks like Dwarves, Elves, […]

Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings series gets a title, teaser and premiere date

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Amazon Studios has revealed the official title for its Lord of the Rings series in the very first teaser trailer. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power will take viewers to the Second Age of Middle-earth for a September 2nd premiere. Watch the teaser below… The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power takes place thousands […]

The Lord of the Rings at 20: How the franchise reinvented the fantasy epic

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Chris Connor looks back at The Lord of the Rings as The Fellowship of the Ring celebrates its 20th anniversary… Epics have traditionally been big business for Hollywood, with biblical and historical epics like Spartacus, Lawrence of Arabia and Ben Hur enjoying huge popularity throughout the 1950s and 1960s. However, the fantasy epic had been […]

The Lord of the Rings: Gollum gets a new cinematic trailer

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As we prepare to return to Middle-earth in 2022, Daedalic Entertainment and NACON have released a new trailer for The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, the hotly-anticipated stealth action-adventure game which promises to offer a new perspective on J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy epic as players take on the split personalities of Gollum/Sméagol. Watch the new cinematic […]

20 Years of Tolkien: The Long Road to The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings and Beyond

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Brad Cook looks back on The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings ahead of the release of the Middle-earth Ultimate Collector’s Edition 4K box set… With the first Lord of the Rings film celebrating its 20-year anniversary in 2021, I thought it would be nice to take a trip down memory lane. Many of […]