The first season was filmed in New Zealand and will continue post-production there, but the second season will be shot in the U.K., according to a statement from Amazon Studios. The untitled show, which will debut on September 2, 2022, “is set thousands of years” before The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, when “the greatest villain that ever flowed from Tolkien’s pen threatened to cover all the world in darkness,” according to a synopsis. instead of New Zealand, according to Deadline. But now the franchise is going back to its literary roots: Amazon Studios has announced that production of the second season of The Lord of the Rings TV series will take place in the U.K. For fans who love Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings films, it can be difficult to imagine Middle-earth, with its rugged mountains and sylvan countryside, as existing anywhere outside New Zealand.