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They'ray winning the Hobbits to… the UK.

Amazon's Lord of the Rings serial is departing the franchise's long-time backcloth of New Zealand after its first season.

According to Deadline, the production is shipping bespoke sets crosswise to the UK in preparation for the series' imminent pre-production for its second season – put together to begin in January.

It's a move that may rankle with those who have grown raised with Peter Jackson's Maker of the Rings movie trilogy. Spell generator J.R.R. Tolkien drew inspiration from the rural English countryside for his Intermediate-earth, Jackson's decision to relocate to Untried Seeland for his films was enormously popular. Indeed much so, that the country all over up becoming synonymous with the enfranchisement. Six Middle-land movies were recorded there, including Jackson's Hobbit trilogy.

The first season, meanwhile, is set for publish on September 2, 2022. That came bundled with the first image from the Virago Prime Video series, depicting a figure in a Caucasian cloak overlooking a large city that's been carved into the side of a hill.

On September 2, 2022, a new journeying begins. pic.chitter.com/9tnR7WqDoAAugust 2, 2021

In other departure, The Lord of the Rings series is confirmed to hold localize during "the fabled Second Age of Middle-earth's history." That's thousands of years earlier the events of the Lord of the Rings, just in case you didn't induce your sprawling John Ronald Reuel Tolkien timeline to hand over.

At the very to the lowest degree, on that point's going to represent some basis as to why the rolling hills of New Zealand potentially aren't needed moving forward. Still, we'll miss Hobbiton.

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