One of the most ambitious projects from Amazon Prime Video is undoubtedly the series of The Lord of the Rings they are working on. The platform has plans to have the first season released by 2021. Amazon has decided to invest several seasons into this project and is the series expected to be the most successful so far, with names such as JA Bayona (Jurassic World: The Fallen Kingdom) and Bryan Cogman (Game of Thrones) involved in it.
According to Variety, Australian actress Markella Kavenagh has signed to join the Lord of the Rings team, becoming the first actress to join the cast of the Amazon series. The character Kavenagh will play is called Tyra, a name that has not been used in the works of JRR Tolkien so, either it is a name that will show up in future books, or it is a character created strictly for the Amazon series.
Keep in mind that the series will be set in the second age, thousands of years before the events of The Fellowship of the Ring. There are few details about the plot from the Amazon series, the details are leaking little by little and the producers zealously guard the important details of the new series of The Lord of the Rings. Now that the initial casting has been opened, we hope that there will be new confirmations about actors and actresses of high caliber joining The Lord of the Rings series in the coming weeks.
