The Lord of the Rings TV Show: Title Announcement Video Wasn’t CGI

ByLukas Abramovich Published onJanuary 20, 2022October 8, 2022

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Amazon Prime Video surprised the heck out of us and the whole The Lord of the Rings community yesterday when they revealed the first video in which it was announced that the upcoming The Lord of the Rings series will be officially titled The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.

The video didn’t show us any actual footage from the series, so we’re still waiting for the first trailer for that, but the title was announced in a very Lord of the Rings way. We all know it began with the forging of the great rings, and now, the title of the series was also “forged” the same way. But one thing is that is even more interesting, the forging of the title was not CGI. Yep, the title announcement video was literally filmed. You can check the behind-the-scenes video to see how the title announcement video was made:

If they have put all this effort into making the title announcement video only, we can’t imagine how it’s going to look when the series premieres next September.

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is the most expensive TV series ever made. Amazon Prime Video is developing this ambitious project that is expected to become a global phenomenon, particularly because Prime Video already announced that they’re planning at least five seasons, so this better becomes something best that we have ever seen on any streaming service. And make sure to get the largest possible screens because come on, you can’t watch The Lord of the Rings on a tablet.

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom director J. A. Bayona directed the first two episodes of the first season. The first season is expected to have nine episodes, which will be released on weekly basis starting September 2, 2022. Prime Video announced the list of 40 actors that are taking part in the show, but for most of them, their roles weren’t revealed yet. One exception is Morfydd Clark, who is set to play Galadriel.

Lukas Abramovich

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.