Amazon’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ series gets a title and a release date

After what feels like an eternity since it was first rumored, Amazon’s Lord of the Rings series is actually gearing up for release. Sure, we got that one still that was released a few months ago, which was later used in some advertisements for Prime Video, but there’s been precious little news about the production beyond the few hints and announcements here and there, usually made on Twitter. But that all changed on Wednesday when Amazon dropped two huge pieces of news about the show. First, they confirmed that it will be hitting the streaming service in the fall of this year, and second, we now know what we can call this fucking thing beyond Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings. The show is called The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, and it’s proof that you can throw a billion dollars at a show and still have no idea what to call a fucking thing.

Peep the announcement teaser:

Here’s a pretty in-depth synopsis for a project still shrouded in such mystery:

“Amazon Studios’ forthcoming series brings to screens for the very first time the heroic legends of the fabled Second Age of Middle-earth’s history. This epic drama is set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’ and ‘The Lord of the Rings,’ and will take viewers back to an era in which 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.

Beginning in a time of relative peace, the series follows an ensemble cast of characters, both familiar and new, as they confront the long-feared re-emergence of evil to Middle-earth. From the darkest depths of the Misty Mountains, to the majestic forests of the elf-capital of Lindon, to the breathtaking island kingdom of Númenor, to the furthest reaches of the map, these kingdoms and characters will carve out legacies that live on long after they are gone.”

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power will begin streaming on September 2. That’s about eight months for you to read The Silmarillion (holy shit we can not believe that we spelled that right on the first try) from cover-to-cover and also have enough time to recover after your brains leak out of your ears from trying to keep track of every single thing that happens in that book. Also, here’s Jeff Bezos with some wood, though it’s unlikely anybody will try and sell this picture to the National Enquirer.