Amazon’s Lord of the Rings TV series is called The Rings of Power

Amazon Studios has announced the name of its upcoming The Lord of The Rings television series. The series will be called The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power. The series will be released on Prime Video on September 2, 2022.

Amazon Studios announces the name of the series in a short teaser video, which shows flowing molten metal as a woman reads the iconic quote from Lord of the Rings author Tolkien: “Three rings for the elf kings under heaven. Seven for the dwarf lords in their halls of stone. Nine for mortal men, doomed to die. One for the dark lord on his dark throne in the land of Mordor, where the shadows lie.” Then the title of the series is displayed.

“This is a title that we imagine could live on the spine of a book alongside JRR Tolkien’s other classics,” writers JD Payne & Patrick McKay said in a statement to Variety. “The Rings of Power unites all the major stories of the Second Age of Middle-earth; the forging of the rings, the rise of Sauron, the epic tale of Númenor, and the final alliance of elves and humans.”

The Rings of Power takes place thousands of years before the events of The Hobbit and the original The Lord of The Rings trilogy, according to Amazon. The series begins “in a time of relative peace” and follows “a group of familiar and new characters” and their confrontation with the rise of evil in Middle-earth, the teaser video describes. The series will be available on Amazon Prime Video on September 2.