LOTR: The Rings of Power Scores The Biggest Premiere Ever On Amazon Prime Video

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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power was one of the most anticipated TV series of our time, and it finally premiered this week. Amazon Prime Video paid more for this series than any other production house ever has. This series has reportedly cost around $60 million per episode, which is three times more than House of the Dragon and it makes the LOTR series the most expensive TV series ever produced.

Prime Video released the first two episodes together on the premiere day, and the first numbers are now in. So far, the series has received positive reviews, particularly for its visual design, atmosphere, and writing. Now, Deadline has reported that the premiere on Prime video has been watched by 25 million viewers on its first day, which is an absolute record for this streaming service.

“It is somehow fitting that Tolkien’s stories – among the most popular of all time, and what many consider to be the true origin of the fantasy genre – have led us to this proud moment. I am so grateful to the Tolkien Estate – and to our showrunners J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay, executive producer Lindsey Weber, cast and crew – for their tireless collaborative efforts and boundless creative energy. And it is the tens of millions of fans watching – clearly as passionate about Middle-earth as we are – who are our true measure of success.” — Jennifer Salke, head of the Amazon Studios

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is set during the Second Age of Middle-earth, long before Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy. The series follows Galadriel on her quest to hunt Sauron down after he killed her brother. The series also follows several other storylines featuring other characters and races around Middle-earth.

The first season will consist of eight episodes, and the season will run until October 14. The series has already been renewed for Season 2, and Prime Video made the 5-season commitment when they bought the rights for the adaptation.

First two episodes of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power are now streaming on Amazon Prime Video.

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Lukas Abramovich is a freelance writer and photo and video editor based in Croatia. He's also a web designer and holds a Master’s degree in general Computer Science from the Faculty of Informatics based in Pula, Croatia. Since 2018, Lukas has worked on several portals writing about movies, TV shows, and video games. He's currently writing articles for two of them: Fiction Horizon and Comic Basics. He also has a YouTube channel in his native language, and the content there is mostly reviewing popular movies and TV shows. Lukas also has an Instagram page where he once used to post fan-made posters he made, which is something he would like to continue working on, as photo and video editing are also some of his passions. Lukas is a big movie lover who is okay with watching any kind of movie. His favorite movie is Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, but he's a loyal follower of Marvel and DC movies, as well as several other blockbuster franchises he's been following for years; Star Wars, Fast & Furious, Mission: Impossible, and James Cameron's Avatar are only some of them. His favorite director is Christopher Nolan, with Quentin Tarantino and Denis Villeneuve as honorable mentions. Lukas is also a big fan of four fantasy multimedia franchises; The Wizarding World, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Witcher, and The Lord of the Rings. He calls them "the four rulers of the fantasy genre." He loves to write about anything spawned from those franchises (books, games, movies...), as well as anything branded with the Marvel or DC logo. Video games and their adaptations are also something he follows faithfully since he's a big fan of story-driven single-player games like Assassin's Creed, The Last of Us, Uncharted, etc. His favorite video game ever is Red Dead Redemption 2.