When Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power premieres and how to watch it

The Lord of the Rings: New Series The Rings of PowerTwo episodes will be shown on Prime Video Thursday at 9 PM ET/6 PM PT. After that, the show’s remaining episodes will follow a more standard one-a-week schedule, dropping at 12 a.m. ET Fridays and 9 p.m. on Thursdays. It will consist of eight episodes and conclude on October 14.

Audiences will be able to find the show on Prime Video’s home page starting Thursday night.

The Lord of the Rings – The Rings of Power takes place in the Second Age of Middle-earth, thousands of years before the events of J.R.R Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy. But that doesn’t mean some familiar characters won’t be popping up — after all, elves live for aReally, really, reallylong, wizards are demigods. In the first episode, the younger Galadriel (Morfydd) and Elrond(Robert Aramayo), take to the stage. The show isn’t based on any particular Tolkien book, but instead his pages and pages of Appendices that explore the history of Middle-earth.