You need an Amazon Prime membership to access the content, but once you have one, you get unlimited streaming via Prime Video, which is now available in more than 200 countries. Amazon Studios has produced such original series as The Man in the High Castle and The Marvelous Mrs. Amazon Video is a premium on-demand entertainment service that not only licenses content but also makes its own. How to watchĪs you almost certainly know, Amazon has moved well beyond an online bookstore (those were the days.), and has an entertainment arm of its own. The series will be around for a while: The Tolkien deal requires Amazon to commit to five seasons. The show will premiere on Amazon Prime Video on Sept. Our guess is we'll have to see how the first show does before going there. Right now plans are for a multiseason series set in that pre-Fellowship time period called The Second Age.īut there may be more than one show: Amazon's initial press release noted that the deal includes a potential additional spinoff series. Amazon bought the global TV rights to Tolkien's ( it's pronounced Tol-KEEN) Lord of the Rings saga, though what exactly the company will do with those rights could evolve.

However, the show plans to film its second season in the United Kingdom, which left some Kiwis upset.

Bayona directed the first two episodes, and in December 2020, posted a 'farewell to Auckland' photo featuring some very dirty hobbity feet. Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, /unJj1Bpde1- The Lord of the Rings on Prime February 15, 2019Īs for the real location, it's no surprise that the show's first season filmed in New Zealand, home of the Peter Jackson films.

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