The latest news on Amazon’s Lord of the Rings series. LoTR pod: @notamoviepod | @Dexerto Network
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2 Aug 2021
Amazon's 'Lord of the Rings' series premieres September 2, 2022
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13 Jan 2021
Amazon's 'Lord of the Rings' prequel series will feature 'the greatest villain that ever flowed from Tolkien’s pen' 👀
The show is set in the Second Age, has 8 episodes in S1, and a budget of $200M
(via @theoneringnet)
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28 Sep 2020
The 'Lord of the Rings' Amazon series has resumed filming in New Zealand
(via @DEADLINE)
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4 Sep 2020
Hugo Weaving says he will never return to 'Lord of the Rings' 🧝♂️
'No way. Absolutely no ... I think everyone had more than enough of it'
(via @Variety)
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9 Jul 2020
Elijah Wood is down to appear as Frodo Baggins in Amazon's LOTR series (if it makes sense) but thinks it's 'misleading' to call it 'The Lord of the Rings'
'Not to get nerdy, but it’s the Second Age of Middle Earth'
(via @indiewire)
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3 Jul 2020
The 'Lord of the Rings' Amazon series has been given permission to resume filming in New Zealand ⚔️
The show is set in the Second Age, which saw the rise and first defeat of Sauron. The budget for S1 will be over $200M
(via @DEADLINE)
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29 Jun 2020
In 'The Lord of the Rings', a flashforward was planned where Frodo showed himself what he would look like if he kept The Ring for himself
Here are pics of Elijah Wood in Gollum style makeup
via r/lotr
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24 Jun 2020
Amazon's 'Lord of the Rings' series set during the Second Age has resumed casting ⚔️
The show will begin filming again in the coming weeks and is aiming to release in 2021
(via @guardian)
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19 Jun 2020
Sir Ian Holm, who played Bilbo Baggins in ‘Lord of the Rings’, has died at the age of 88
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9 Jun 2020
Ian McKellen filmed his first LOTR scene when he met Frodo in ‘Fellowship of the Ring' (2001)
On his third day of filming, he shot the last scene of ‘Return of the King' (2003)
The two scenes, meeting & saying goodbye to Gandalf, were shot two days apart
(via u/Olooua)
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7 May 2020
In 'Return of the King' (2003), Peter Jackson originally wanted Frodo to straight-up murder Gollum after he bites his finger off and just push him off the ledge into Mount Doom
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30 Apr 2020
In 'The Two Towers' (2002) to create the illusion of de-aging, Bernard Hill was given 4 different stages of makeup, from a cursed old man to a younger fully cured Theoden
Onset, Hill had to act out the same shot 4 times & the VFX team morphed the footage together
(via u/sw89)
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19 Apr 2020
J.R.R. Tolkien considered Samwise Gamgee to be the 'true hero' of 'The Lord of the Rings'
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1 Apr 2020
J.R.R. Tolkien originally titled The Lord of the Rings 'The Magic Ring'
Pictured is the original title page where he made the decision to change it
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28 Mar 2020
The average life span for a hobbit is 100 years, but Gollum was able to live to be 589 years old due to the powers of the Ring
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