We've been waiting for months, looking forward to Amazon's new TV series based on JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. The project has been kept under wraps pretty well so far, but today we finally get a teaser. It doesn't show much, but<a href="https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/01/amazons-the-lord-of-the-rings-tv-series-gets-a-name-and-a-teaser-video/" class="on"> it does reveal the name of the series</a>.

But the title itself reveals quite a bit. The Rings of Power is a clue that the series will take place in the Second Age, and therefore be a distant prequel to the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. The Second Age was when nineteen rings were worn by the leaders of Middle-Earth. ...and were controlled by the One Ring that Sauron wore. Take a primer on what these rings mean <a href="https://gizmodo.com/lord-of-the-rings-rings-of-power-explained-1848387578">here</a>. The Rings of Power will premiere on Amazon on September 2. #MiddleEarth #JRRTolkien #TheLordoftheRings #TVseries&nbsp;#TheRingsofPower

Many people thought that Amazon's title reveal video was CGI but as you can see in this behind the scenes clip, the whole sequence was actually hand made at a foundry. To achieve the effect, molten metal was poured onto a reclaimed redwood board. Sparkler dust, argon dust and liquid hydrogen were also used to get the practical effect.

A First Look at Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings

Pretending to be a hobbit wasn’t an option for Nicolas Gentile. He wanted to live like one, so he bought a piece of land where he and his wife lived and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/06/what-is-this-if-not-magic-italian-man-living-hobbit" class="on">built their own Middle-earth</a>.Gentile is a pastry chef who has a degree in geology. On August 27, he and his friends dressed as elf, dwarf, hobbit, sorcerer, and humans crossed mountains and rivers by foot to throw the “One Ring” into the volcano crater of Mount Vesuvius.

<blockquote>“Some time ago, I realised that books and films were no longer enough for me to satisfy my passion for the fantasy genre and, in particular, for the Lord of the Rings saga,” Gentile said. “I was still reading about the lives of other people. I decided that I wanted to live my hobbit life to the fullest.”</blockquote>

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