



In the Third Age, in 2941, Bilbo Baggins, a Hobbit with more curiosity for adventure than is socially acceptable, is selected by wizard Gandalf the Grey to help a set of dwarves recover their treasure. Readers meet a strange cave creature named Gollum with a ring that turns the wearer invisible and mysterious wizards. There are the peace-loving, pipe-smoking Hobbits the mine-dwelling earth-loving Dwarves the long-lived Elves who sailed here from the West and dream of returning someday. It introduced a world called Middle-earth, populated by different fantasy races. Fantasy was not considered marketable to adults during that era, so the book was aimed at children. Though Jackson’s LOTR trilogy was released an entire decade before his Hobbit films, author J.R.R. However, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings Of Power takes place in a distant past. Amazon Studio’s new prequel series, set before both trilogy of films, features some of the same characters audiences know and love from the movies. However, since then, the franchise has not been turned into a streaming series until now. Jackson returned to Middle-earth a decade later with The Hobbit trilogy. From 2000 to 2003, the triple-release of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings changed the world of onscreen fantasy forever.
