Джей-Ди Пейн обмолвился в интервью Total Film, что среди многих и многих кандидатов на кресло шоураннеров этого проекта были заявки от людей, которые хотели снять сериал по приключениям Арагорна и (это уже что-то новенькое)
спин-офф по приключениям Гимли 
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"When we first went up for the job, we were told there were literally dozens of other people who were also throwing their hat in the ring, and everyone was coming in with different things," he tells Total Film in the new issue of the magazine, which features Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power on the cover. "Amazon bought the rights to the trilogy, the appendices, and The Hobbit. They said the field was wide open – any story within that material, you could tell. So you had people pitching the Young Aragon show, or the Gimli spinoff, or other kinds of things."
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https://www.gamesradar.com/lord-of-t...i-show-amazon/