The first teaser trailer for 'The Lord of the Rings' TV series shows familiar characters and new lands

• Amazon's "The Lord of the Rings" TV show debuted its first teaser trailer during the Super Bowl.
• The footage shows characters and settings that fans of Peter Jackson's movie trilogy will recognize.

Amazon premiered the first teaser trailer for "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" during Sunday's Super Bowl, showing off footage of the the big-budget fantasy series.

The 60-second teaser trailer revealed the first look at Amazon's take on Middle Earth locations like Númenor, a mystical island that served as the kingdom of men.

"Haven't you ever wondered what else is out there?" a voice says over the trailer. "There's wonders in this world beyond our wandering. I can feel it."

The voice appears to belong to a character described in the Vanity Fair first-look feature as one of the harfoots, a "hobbit ancestor" played by Markella Kavenagh.

The trailer then moved into title cards that say "before the king, before the fellowship, before the ring — a new legend begins this fall."

"The Rings of Power" takes place in what's known as the Second Age. In author J.R.R. Tolkien's series of fantasy novels, the Second Age occurs thousands of years before the events shown in Peter Jackson's seminal "Lord of the Rings" movie trilogy. Tolkien's estate auctioned off the rights to a narrow slice of his fictional world: The story found within the three "Lord of the Rings" books as well as the appendices published alongside them.

This is one of many reasons why fans of Jackson's movie trilogy will be able to see familiar faces and stories in the upcoming TV show. The creators were able to draw upon the flashbacks and legends that were teased briefly in Jackson's movies as well as Tolkien's original work.

For example, "The Rings of Power" teaser trailer shows a glimpse of a battle that looks very similar to the Battle of Dagorlad — an epic showdown between Sauron's army of orcs and an alliance of elves and men — that was shown in the opening sequence of "Fellowship of the Ring."

Since the show was also filmed in New Zealand, the indelible location of Jackson's trilogy, even the sweeping landscapes invoke the same feelings as the '00s movies — despite Jackson not being a part of the new show. Instead, the series is helmed by new showrunners, Patrick McKay and JD Payne.

The teaser trailer also shows off younger versions of characters like Galadriel (played by Morfydd Clark in the series) and Elrond (played by Robert Aramayo, who also appeared in "Game of Thrones" as young Ned Stark).

Then there are teases of new characters, like an elf named Arondir (played by Ismael Cruz Córdova) catching an arrow flying his way, and sending it right back at an enemy, mirroring the type of skills we saw from Orlando Bloom's Legolas in the movie trilogy.

"The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" will premiere on Amazon on September 2, 2022.

You can watch the full teaser trailer below.