Tolkien fans, foreshadowing an epic story that welds the major events of Tolkien’s Second Age together: the forging of the iconic rings. Titled ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ the significance behind the subtitle will not be lost on J.R.R.
#Elvish carving on the lord of the rings ring series
A giant, global audience needs to show up to it as appointment television, and we are pretty confident that that will happen.Prime Video has finally answered the call and announced the official name for the ‘Lord of The Rings series and it hints at what’s to come. In a roundtable interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Salke explained the enormous cost of the show, pointing out that "As for how many people need to watch Lord of the Rings? A lot. The fact that they made the point about the show's vast number of language options right after the title reveal echoes a sentiment that Amazon Studios chief Jennifer Salke expressed back in May of 2021. The clip is just 14 seconds long, but it reveals the massive scale that this show is targeting. From there, it launches into a rapid-fire reveal of many, many different languages before ending on the title in Elvish. A few seconds in, the same title is shown in Portuguese. It also opens with the title, "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power," this time in a clean, silvery script with a plain black background. This one starts keeps the epic music rolling. Even so, it'll likely be quite a different iteration of the villain thanks to the fact that, during this period of Middle-earth history, he spends most of his time going around blending in with the Elves by changing his physical appearance to the hunky version of himself named Annatar. While everyone and their mother suspected that Sauron would be the primary antagonist in the show, his immediate presence right in the title confirms that we can expect a lot more of the Dark Lord to come. And that isn't just the name of the best book series ever penned - It also refers to Sauron, the Dark Lord and the Lord of the Rings. Amazon invented the "The Rings of Power" part for their show, but they start the title off with the good old-fashioned "The Lord of the Rings" moniker. What are we talking about, you ask? Why, the beginning of the title itself, of course. While all we get is the Ring Verse and a shot of the title, it's the latter that ends up revealing how important Sauron will be - yet again. These grooves continue to fill with liquid fire that, as it cools, eventually reveals the metallic outline of the show's title: "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power." Throughout the clip, the famous Ring Verse ("Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky," etc.) is dramatically read by Morfydd Clark, who has been cast to play a younger Galadriel in the show (per Variety). The camera backs out a bit, and we start to see that we're not looking at a panoramic view of a landscape, but rather a close-up of a piece of wood with carved grooves.
However, as the clip plays out, liquid fire starts to pour out into the screen. The teaser primarily follows a series of fog-covered trenches that initially look like a wild landscape in the desert.
But with years of waiting for this hotly anticipated return to Middle-earth already behind us, we'll drool over anything we can get. Is it primarily designed to reveal the show's name? Absolutely.
In fact, it can hardly be called a teaser. It's official: Amazon's expensive, endlessly hyped, years-in-the-making Middle-earth series has a first clip.