The buzziest show of 2022 now has a title: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
The television series’ complete title was unveiled for the first time today, foreshadowing the show’s story as one that will hinge on the forging of the iconic rings in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Second Age of Middle-earth history.
“This is a title that we imagine could live on the spine of a book next to J.R.R. Tolkien’s other classics. The Rings of Power unites all the major stories of Middle-earth’s Second Age: the forging of the rings, the rise of the Dark Lord Sauron, the epic tale of Númenor, and the Last Alliance of Elves and Men,” said showrunners J.D. Payne & Patrick McKay. “Until now, audiences have only seen on-screen the story of the One Ring – but before there was one, there were many… and we’re excited to share the epic story of them all.”
The title was announced via a video depicting molten metal being poured into wooden ravines shaped to the letters, captured in slow motion. A voice-over proceeds to recite lines from Tolkien’s “Ring Verse”:
Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
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.
Chills. The multi-season epic will premiere on Prime Video on Friday, September 2nd, with new episodes available weekly. Watch the announcement for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power below.