Amazon teases its expensive television series The Lord of the Rings

Amazon launched the marketing and promotion of its streaming service for the upcoming television series The Lord of the Rings of Prime Video. This sumptuous and expensive series would be Amazon's attempt to unearth its own Game of Thrones counterpart.

The official social media accounts for the series have been launched. At their side, an interactive map of Middle-earth and a quote from the author of the book, JRR Tolkien, declaring: "I wisely started with a card – JRR Tolkien".

A tweet, with a photo of the map of Middle-earth, said: "Three rings for elven kings under the sky", which is part of the complete epigraph of the book, entitled "Three rings for elven kings under the sky, seven for the dwarven lords in stone corridors, nine for mortal men, doomed to death, one for the Dark Lord on his black throne, in the land of Mordor where the Shadows are. A ring to rule them all, a ring to find them, a ring to bring them back and bind them in the dark. In the land of Mordor, where the shadows are. "

The Lord of the Rings series would be the most expensive series of all time, with an incredible budget of $ 250 million, which is about the same as some of today's biggest ones. The series will apparently have five seasons. "Amazon buys franchise television rights for $ 1 billion, bidding on Netflix

Peter Jackson directs New Line's Lord of the Rings (a division of Warner) Bros) in three parts, the films have become huge commercial and critical hits, winning a total of 17 Oscars, and the last installment, The Return of the King, has won 11 awards alone, and Amazon was to include New Line and Warner Bros. the discussions so that film footage could potentially be used, according to a report published in The Hollywood Reporter in April 2018.

JD Payne and Patrick McKay are badociated as writers in the They will not suffer from the lack of material, as the writer of the JRR Tolkien books, has written extensively on the history of Middle-earth, the world where franchise is established. For example, Sauron was only the second lord of darkness in Middle-earth. Before him, Morgoth, the equivalent of the devil and master of Sauron, had spread darkness over the world. The world is incredibly rich in content and expects only to be undermined. Peter Jackson's films, including The Hobbit, could be said to have barely scratched the surface.