Amazon’s Lord of the Rings show finally has a release date of September 2, 2022, and we’ve got an image of the show to noodle over, too.
The seemingly fablbed Amazon’s Lord of the Rings show finally has a release date: September 2,2022, according to an official tweet. The tweet didn’t just have a date– it included a single still frame from the show, of a figure in white on a green hill overlooking a grand white city and, in the background, a sunset illuminating two colossal trees. Tolkien nerds, start your engines. While it’s disappointing to hear we’ll have to wait another year for the Lord of the Rings show to air, it fits the timeline we’ve formed from rumors and tips – just last month, series star Benjamin Walker noted that they were still filming at the time. Given the quality of CGI used in the screenshot above, and the reported $465 million budget for the first season alone, it makes sense that Amazon would need months to a year to digitally build in a world worthy of Middle-earth. Thanks to the synopsis released back in January, we know that Amazon’s Lord of the Rings show will cover the Second Age of Middle-earth when “great powers were forged, kingdoms rose to glory and fell to ruin, unlikely heroes were tested, hope hung by the finest of threads, and the greatest villain that ever flowed from Tolkien’s pen threatened to cover all the world in darkness.
