Amazon Has Finally Revealed What Its New ‘Lord of the Rings’ TV Series Will Be About – Concrete Playground

If you consider yourself a Lord of the Rings fan — of JRR Tolkien’s books, Peter Jackson’s movies or both — then one TV series has sat at the top of your most-anticipated list for the past few years. That’d be Amazon Studios’ new LOTR show, bringing the beloved property from the page to the cinema to your TV. A five-season series was first announced in 2017, then received the official go-ahead in mid-2018.

In case anyone thought that the new program would just be a simple rehash, it was revealed back in 2019 that it wouldn’t simply be remaking events already covered by the movies, with show’s official Twitter account hinting at spending time in Middle-earth’s Second Age. If you’re a little rusty on your LOTR lore, the Second…