The Lord of the Rings trilogy was set in the Third Age. However, it’s already been revealed that the new series will occur in the Second Age, the period before the whole Gollum, Sauron, ring, and Frodo situation went down.

However, what makes that interesting is that the Two Trees were destroyed a lot earlier than the Second Age. So, either the first episode will give a long flashback to catch the viewers up to the time after the Two Trees, or it starts far earlier than previously revealed.

The series is set to take place “thousands of years before the events chronicled in J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings books,” according to The Verge. “And it will follow characters ‘both familiar and new, as they confront the long-feared re-emergence of evil to Middle-earth.’”

The new Lord of the Rings series will premiere on Amazon on Sept. 2, 2022, with new episodes rolling out each week.