Amazon released a new teaser video for its The Lord of the Rings TV show today, and with it confirmed the full title of the series.
Presented with an abundance of options, Amazon decided to go with the rather clunky and long-winded "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power." It doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, and will inevitable get shortened to "Rings of Power" when talked or written about.
With the series not launching until Sept. 2, nobody should be surprised to discover the new video reveals nothing at all about the content or even the visuals. We know that the series is set in the Second Age of Middle-earth and thousands of years before the story covered in both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.The rest we'll likely have to wait a few months before Amazon starts teasing.
As Variety reports, the teaser was made using practical effects rather than computer graphics. Metal artist Landon Ryan worked with director Klaus Obermeyer and special effects artist Douglas Trumbull to create the liquid medal flowing across a piece of redwood before being cooled with water.
Season one of the series finished filming back in August and a second season is already planned. On release, Amazon intends to offer a new episode once a week rather than allowing Prime subscribers to binge the entire series over a weekend as would inevitably be the case for many Lord of the Rings fans out there.