Amazon's 'Lord of the Rings' series premieres September 2, 2022

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The 'Lord of the Rings' Amazon series has resumed filming in New Zealand (via @DEADLINE)

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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)

'The Lord of the Rings' 🎨 by @SaraKipin

RT @CultureCrave: The 'Lord of the Rings' Amazon series has been given permission to resume filming in New Zealand ⚔️ The show is set in t…

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

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)

Sir Ian Holm, who played Bilbo Baggins in ‘Lord of the Rings’, has died at the age of 88

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)

Happy 81st Birthday to Ian McKellen 🎂

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

'The Lord of the Rings' art by Joan Wyatt (1979)

Gandalf used to store his pipe in his staff

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)

The Fate of Isildur 🎨 by @AFinnstark

J.R.R. Tolkien considered Samwise Gamgee to be the 'true hero' of 'The Lord of the Rings'

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

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