Amazon Prime’s new multi-million dollar series, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, premiered on Friday, September 2 on the streaming platform. A separate retelling to Peter Jackson’s Academy Award winning film trilogy, this new eight-part adventure invites viewers back to J. R. R. Tolkien’s realm of Middle-Earth.
Interest peaked for the new Lord of the Rings series when it was revealed that it would be the most expensive series ever made. Multinational giant Amazon bought the television rights to the franchise in November 2017 for US$250 million with a five season production commitment worth at least US$1 billion.
Filmed in both the United Kingdom and New Zealand, the new series is not short of Welsh talent. Actors Morfydd Clark, Owain Arthur and Trystan Gravelle all feature in prominent roles. Elsewhere in the cast is Robert Aramayo (Game of Thrones), Maxim Baldry (Years and Years), Cynthia Addis-Robinson (Spartacus, Arrow) and Sir Lenny Henry.
