Under Super Bowl til helgen får vi endelig den første traileren fra The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Amazons gigantiske serie som nesten har kostet 500 millioner dollar alene å produsere.
Traileren vil uten tvil kaste mer lys over hva det hele handler om, men allerede nå har Vanity Fair utgitt bilder fra serien, og har avslørt de første detaljene om noen av de nye karakterene, og noen av de tilbakevendende også.
Du kan se bildene nedenfor, med tilhørende beskrivelser:
Set within Tolkien's Second Age, will juggle 22 stars and multiple storylines—from deep within the dwarf mines to the elven kingdom of Lindon. Here, the adventures of the fellowship are still some 2,000 years in the future.
Despite being set thousands of years before the stories we know, familiar immortals do turn up as their younger selves: Morfydd Clarke as the elven queen Galadriel, now a hardscrabble warrior leading the Northern Armies.
Robert Aramayo plays Elrond, the elven statesman who is just beginning to build his reputation—starting with mending the relationship between his people and the dwarves of Khazad-dûm.
At its core, #TheRingsOfPower takes its biggest cue from the heart of Tolkien's books. "It's about friendship," says McKay. "It's about brotherhood and underdogs overcoming great darkness."