Amazon's Lord of the Rings Show Is About the Return of Sauron
"Through scraps of information and even a bit of cartography, we’ve long been able to
get a general gist of what Amazon’s massive new Lord of the Rings series is going to be
about. But now the company has revealed the first official story details for the series,
confirming what we’ve long expected: the prequel will tackle the rise of Middle-earth’s
greatest evil.
Confirmed via a synopsis provided to TheOneRing.net, Amazon Studios revealed that the
series—currently filming in New Zealand with a cast that seems about as large as the
population of a small country on top of that—is indeed set in the Second Age,
“thousands” of years before the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. The
show will concern itself with characters “both familiar and new” as they reckon with the
fact that the Dark Lord Sauron has returned to cast shadow and flame across Middle-
earth."
See:
https://io9.gizmodo.com/amazons-lord...f-s-1846049314