Will the $1billion Rings of Power be TV gold?

By the end of the epic Lord Of The Rings trilogy, the elves had returned to their woodland realms, the dwarves to their underground halls and that accursed ring finally consigned to the fires of Mount Doom.

But the human audience was hungry for more. So followed a three-part dramatisation of The Hobbit — but even that wasn't enough. Or at least that's the hope of Amazon, which has got its hands on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien.

The retail and streaming giant is set to unleash the most lavish ever screen spin-off of the British author's fantasy world.

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