We’ve spent years scrabbling around in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the merest hint of inin/with regard to’concerning’regarding mation with regards to’concerning’with respect to Amazon’s long-awaited, much-hyped, considerably-expensed series playing in JRR Tolkien’s Middle-earth, like Bilbo Baggins scrabbling around in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the One Ring in Gollum’s cave. And now, the wait is through: the first trailer in/with regard to’concerning’regarding what we now know to be called Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power has eventually’ultimately arrived, and a new era of the Tolkien’s fantasy land is with regards to’concerning’with respect to to begin. Get ready in/with regard to’concerning’regarding elves, dwarves, and a whole lot of rings of power – plus a intensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully familiar elven warrior, and a hand that implies in the involvement of Hobbits… Watch the first teaser here.###Well, that all looks suitably Middle-earthian, doesn’t it? There’s an epic water-based kingdom, epic grassy hillsides, and epic rainy battles with golden-armoured elves. In a word, it looks… well, epic. Amazon has spent a in/with regard to’concerning’regarding tune on this that even Smaug would covet, and all that dosh is on the screen. While much of the trailer belongs to Morfydd Clark’s Galadriel – who intensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully much seems to be in the thick of it here, climbing up icy cliff-faces and acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure ting stuck into the action stuff – there are hints of rising conflicts between the factions of Middle-earth, a fiery scene that brings to mind Mount Doom, some slick slow-mo arrow firing, and some blacksmithing that might just be the in/with regard to’concerning’regarding ging of the titular rings themselves. All that, and a tiny hand at the end hints that there may be Hobbits in the mix here too.###As the inter-titles explain, this one does indeed come bein/with regard to’concerning’regarding e King, bein/with regard to’concerning’regarding e Ring, and bein/with regard to’concerning’regarding e Fellowship – this is the Second Age of Middle-earth (Peter Jackson’s Hobbit and LOTR trilogies were set in the Third Age), an era thousands of years prior the stories of Bilbo and Frodo. Instead, it concerns the original rise of Sauron, the in/with regard to’concerning’regarding ging of the many rings of power (three in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the elves, seven in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the dwarves, and nine in/with regard to’concerning’regarding men, and one in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the dark lord), and e grossly thing that kicked off as a result. For more, see the opening prologue of Fellowship Of The Ring.###The series has JD Payne and Patrick McKay on lord as reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue runners, with JA Bayona directing the opening episodes, with others directed by Wayne Che Yip and Charlotte Brändström. The series is confirmed to begin streaming on 2 September this year, bringing – as the trailer has it – “wonders in this world beyond our amble’stroll’bimble’meander’roam ing”. Who’s ready in/with regard to’concerning’regarding a whole new unexpected journey?