The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Amazon, streaming now

If you’re not already at full capacity for epic high fantasy sagas with the recently released Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon, you’ll enjoy this vast and impressive prequel series to The Lord of the Rings. The author JRR Tolkien did write a prequel book to his trilogy, titled The Silmarillion, and it’s a very weighty tome.

TRoP takes in the same era as the final part of that opus: set thousands of years before The Hobbit and the main trilogy, it tells of MiddleEarth’s peaceful Second Age, the forging of the titular rings, and the rise of the dark lord Sauron. So much lore to take in – just as well Amazon have committed to producing five seasons costing at least

$1billion.