The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power | Image: Prime Video
Amazon’s upcoming Lord of the Rings series finally has a name, and it’s a damned good one.
Set during Second Age, thousands of years before the events of The Lord of the Rings, the Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power will tell the story of how the titular rings of power were first forged and divvied up amongst Middle-earth’s races. The new series’ title — along with a forging-focused teaser video — allude to how the rings’ creation were both tied to the reemergence of a long-dormant evil in the world and to the subsequent hardships that the world’s men, elves, and dwarves would end up facing in the future.
In a press statement about the series and its title, co-showrunners J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay said that their desire was to come…
