FILE - The Amazon DTW1 fulfillment halfway is shown successful Romulus, Mich., connected April 1, 2020. An Amazon bid inspired by J.R.R. Tolkiens Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit novels volition premiere successful September 2022. The day was announced Monday arsenic filming successful New Zealand concluded for the as-yet untitled series, which Amazon said volition subordinate the fabled" Second Age of Middle-earths history. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

FILE - The Amazon DTW1 fulfillment halfway is shown successful Romulus, Mich., connected April 1, 2020. An Amazon bid inspired by J.R.R. Tolkiens Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit novels volition premiere successful September 2022. The day was announced Monday arsenic filming successful New Zealand concluded for the as-yet untitled series, which Amazon said volition subordinate the fabled" Second Age of Middle-earths history. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File) (Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

LOS ANGELES – Start the countdown. An Amazon bid inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit” novels volition premiere successful September 2022.

The day was announced Monday arsenic filming successful New Zealand concluded for the as-yet untitled series, which Amazon said volition subordinate the “fabled Second Age of Middle-earth’s history.”

The communicative is acceptable thousands of years earlier the events of Tolkien’s famed fantasy-adventure works and volition travel caller and acquainted characters confronting the “long-feared re-emergence of evil to Middle-earth,” crushed that has yet to beryllium covered connected screen, the streaming work said

The bid volition debut successful much than 200 countries and territories with a ample ensemble formed that includes Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Morfydd Clark, Ismael Cruz Córdova, Sophia Nomvete and Lloyd Owen.

New Zealand besides was the location for taping of manager Peter Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings” and prequel “The Hobbit” movie trilogies.

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The bid volition debut Sept. 2, 2022.

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