Baku, September 5, AZERTAC
It's exciting to be back in Middle-earth courtesy of Prime Video’s Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. The streamer only recently debuted the first two episodes of the fantasy series based on the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, and it seems the show is already a huge success. The season premiere racked up an impressive 25 million global viewers in its first day, eclipsing previously held records at Prime Video and becoming the streamer's biggest premiere ever, according to Collider.
Tolkien’s works, upon which the series is based, are considered fantasy legends, and as such, it is no surprise that over twenty years since the release of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, the stories of Middle-earth still possess great pull.
Following the series launch in 240 countries and territories across the globe and this new feat, the head of Amazon Studios, Jennifer Salke has commented on the achievement while awarding plaudits to the creative team, the Tolkien estate as well as the millions of fans around the world which have made it a good start to another epic adventure.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power offers a return to the Second Age of Middle-earth, beginning during a time of peace and onto the forging of the rings of power. The series will cover events that happened thousands of years before the events in The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings trilogies.