The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power: Which Tolkien Book Is Amazon’s Video Series Based On?

The day of the launch of ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ has arrived, an original Amazon Prime Video title that, as the name reveals, sets its plot in the Middle-earth created by JRR Tolkienan interesting production that has led many fans to wonder which book by this author inspired his epic story.

It is important to emphasize that ‘The Lord of the Rings: The rings of power’ from Amazon Prime Video is a prequel series to the blockbuster movies created by Peter Jackson, meaning it will feature a storyline set thousands of years before the events shown in the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies, so it’s a story that has never been dealt with on screen.

Being a prequel to Peter Jackson’s films, many fans have concluded that this series is based on “The Silmarillion”, a book that is considered the encyclopedia of The Lord of the Rings and published by Tolkien’s son, Christopher Tolkien, but not recently. the showrunners of this Amazon Prime Video production, JD Payne and Patrick McKay, have made it clear that this production is not based on the aforementioned text.

The showrunners, in a recent interview for Variety, revealed that Amazon Prime Video owns the rights to the books of “The Fellowship of the Ring”, “The Two Towers”, “The Return of the King”, “The Appendices” and “Lo Hobbit “. ‘, so they are not allowed to use stories from texts like’ The Silmarillion ‘,’ Unfinished Tales’ or ‘The Story of Middle-earth’.

Despite having the rights to many of Tolkien’s books, “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” does not take a complete book for its plot, but draws inspiration from landmarks and annotations spanning thousands of years of Middle-earth, and in 150 pages of ‘The Appendices’, a text that presents writings by the British writer, which include tales about his legendarium, as well as chronologies, genealogies and some notes on the languages ​​of fantasy that appear in this literary universe.

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, the most expensive series in history

What is a fact, is that ‘The Lord of the Rings: The rings of power’is one of the most exciting productions to get to the streaming world, an ambitious title that has the biggest budget for a series, not just for Amazon Prime Video, but in the entire history of the film industry, so it’s one of the big bets of this streaming platform.

It is worth mentioning that so far this title has confirmed the completion of two seasons and reportedly has a story that will be addressed in no less than 5 episodes, and by having the rights to several books by the famous Tolkien, we could be facing a series that could also have 10 or more bets on the platform Amazon Prime video.