The moment they hit the water of an underground lake, Frodo awakens from his dream and continues his journey with his trusted and loyal friend, Sam through the rocky region of Emyn Muil, where they become lost. The story opens with a flashback to the first film, with Gandalf battling the Balrog on the Bridge of Khazad-dûm, but this time continues from Gandalf's perspective, with the scene continuing to follow both as they hurtle into the abyss below, fighting while in free-fall. One of the Ring's original bearers, the creature Gollum, has tracked Frodo and Sam down in search of his "precious", but is captured by the Hobbits and used as a way to lead them to Mt. The rebellion against Sauron is building up and will be led by Gandalf the White, who was thought to be dead after the Balrog captured him. The corrupt wizard Saruman, under the power of the Dark Lord Sauron, and his slimy assistant, Gríma Wormtongue, have created a grand Uruk-hai army bent on the destruction of Man and Middle-earth. The two towers between Mordor and Isengard, Barad-dûr and Orthanc, have united in their lust for destruction. Boromir is dead, Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee have gone to Mordor alone to destroy the One Ring, Merry and Pippin have been captured by the Uruk-hai, and Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli have made friends of the Rohan, a race of humans that are in the path of the upcoming war, led by its aging King, Théoden. There will be a few familiar characters, though, namely the elven warrior Galadriel (Elves are immortal and therefore don’t age) and Isildur, King of Gondor, whose story will be fleshed out compared to the prologue to Peter Jackson’s The Fellowship of the Ring.The Fellowship has been broken. The great thing about Amazon’s upcoming series is that you don’t need to have seen any of Peter Jackson’s six films because the story told in The Rings of Power predates everything by about 3,000 years. “One ring to rule them all,” as the phrase famously goes. But in secret, Sauron forged another ring more powerful than all others combined. Sauron, Morgoth’s lieutenant, will arise to seduce the elves into creating the Rings of Power 19 rings gifted to the leaders of Men, Elves and Dwarves, bound with the strength and will to govern each race. Human and dwarf kingdoms are at the height of their splendor, while the elves grow suspicious of how easily humans are corrupted. It doesn’t draw from a book but several texts that make up Middle Earth lore: The Silmarillion, a collection of the continent’s histories written, in part, posthumously by Tolkien’s son Christopher in 1977. Image: Amazon Prime Video/Everett CollectionĪmazon’s The Rings of Power picks up in the aftermath of the war against Morgoth and the dawn of the Second Age. The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power (2022) Read on for the Lord of the Rings order to watch all six movies and Amazon Prime Video’s new TV show. That punctuates the end of the First Age. There’s not much else you need to know about this time period apart from the fact that the first Dark Lord, Morgoth, emerges for world domination and the elves overthrow him in a great battle. The First Age begins with the elves awakening on Arda, the planet on which the continent of Middle Earth exists. The history of Middle Earth is broken up into Ages-each lasting several hundred to a few thousand years, and every new Age is triggered by a significant historical event. What happened before The Rings of Power?Ī bit of background first. The Hobbit (1937) and Lord of The Rings trilogy (1937 to 1949) remain one of his most prominent and influential works, serving as the basis for several Hollywood blockbusters and a new Amazon Prime Video series that will break budget records, coming in at around $715 million for the first, eight-episode season and the rights to Tolkien’s intellectual property. A specialist in classic literature and languages, he invented many of the creatures and tropes now ubiquitous in the genre. Tolkien is singlehandedly responsible for how many of us understand fantasy today. If you want to watch the Lord of the Rings franchise in narrative and chronological order rather than the release order, consider this your beginner’s guide to Middle Earth.Īuthor J. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, you’re probably wondering in what order to watch Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and Rings of Power. With a new TV series on Amazon Prime Video, six (very long) movies, and of course the 12 original books set within J.
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