Amazon’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ prequel will need to forge its own identity

We’re many years out from the project actually hitting our screens, but Amazon offered a few clues as to what we might see in its press release: “Set in Middle-earth, the television adaptation will explore new storylines preceding J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring.” So, Amazon isn’t just remaking the story that hit the big screen in the early 2000s. But what isn’t clear is whether