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The Wheel Of Time TV Show Is Being Compared To Game Of Thrones And Lord Of The Rings

The Wheel Of Time TV Show Is Being Compared To Game Of Thrones And Lord Of The Rings

Amazon Prime Video has turned this epic book series into a TV series and there is a lot of hype around it.

Stewart Perrie

Stewart Perrie

Amazon Prime Video is about to premiere the highly-anticipated fantasy series The Wheel of Time and there is a lot of hype surrounding its release.

Ahead of it dropping on the streaming service, people who have read the books have compared it to the likes of Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings - which is one hell of a comparison.

The fantasy series was created by American author Robert Jordan, and it was only meant to be six books.

However, Brandon Sanderson jumped on board as a co-author for the final three novels after Jordan died in 2007, which helped push out the storyline to a total 14 volumes.

The books are set in an unnamed world that is simultaneously in the distant past and distant future. Look, it sounds confusing, but it will totally make sense when you start watching it.

Here's a quick synopsis so you know what you're getting into.

"At the dawn of time a deity known as the Creator forged the universe and the Wheel of Time, which spins the Pattern of the Ages using the lives of men and women as its threads," the brief states.

"The Wheel has seven spokes, each representing an age, and it is rotated by the One Power, which flows from the True Source.

"The One Power is divided into male and female halves, saidin and saidar, which work in opposition and in unison to drive the Wheel.

"Humans who can use its power are known as channelers; the principal organization of such channelers in the books is called the Aes Sedai or 'Servants of All' in the Old Tongue."

Amazon Prime Video dropped a trailer for the series at the end of October and you can totally see where people are getting the Thrones and LotR vibes from. The aesthetic, the battle against dark forces, the love and betrayal, the high stakes - it's all there and it looks unbelievable.

Aussie actor Madeleine Madden and Kiwi star Zoe Robins have been cast as the leads for Wheel of Time and they will no doubt wow international audiences with their performances.

But getting this TV show made has been an absolute journey.

Original author, Robert Jordan, revealed back in 2000 that there was going to be a miniseries on the second book called The Eye of the World. Those talks eventually stalled and 15 years later there was a low-budget 22-minute pilot for a potential The Wheel of Time series that aired without any publicity.

Three years later in 2018, Amazon Studios struck a deal with Sony Pictures to get a TV series going and we're finally about to see it after all these years.

The show will drop on November 19 on Amazon Prime Video.

Featured Image Credit: Amazon Prime Video