New Line Cinema
By Jeremy Mathai/Feb. 7, 2022 1:00 pm EST
Middle-earth Gets Football Fever
anyone here speak Elvish 👀 #LOTRROP pic.twitter.com/H5ROHvIulW— Twitter TV is in Middle-earth (@TwitterTV) February 7, 2022
For those of you who left their Elvish-to-English dictionaries at home (don’t make that mistake next time though, please), the Elvish characters in the brief announcement video translate to “Sunday,” as pointed out by many online. Marketing for this “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” series has kicked off in earnest recently, beginning in January with the official title reveal and accompanying video that ended up preceding last week’s onslaught of character posters galore – 23 in total! We can expect our first look at the style and tone of the upcoming series, its visual similarities to (or, more likely, differences from) Peter Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit” trilogies, and perhaps even some of the new original score composed by Middle-earth veteran and potential returnee, Howard Shore.
Created by showrunners J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay and with the first few episodes directed by filmmaker J.A. Bayona, the ensemble cast of “The Rings of Power” include Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Robert Aramayo, Owain Arthur, Maxim Baldry, Nazanin Boniadi, Morfydd Clark, Ismael Cruz Córdova, Charles Edwards, Trystan Gravelle, Sir Lenny Henry, Ema Horvath, Markella Kavenagh, Joseph Mawle, Tyroe Muhafidin, Sophia Nomvete, Lloyd Owen, Megan Richards, Dylan Smith, Charlie Vickers, Leon Wadham, Benjamin Walker, Daniel Weyman, and Sara Zwangobani.
