Here’s The Correct Order of Watching The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit Movies and TV Series

Source: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Peter Jackson, New Line Cinema, 2001

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Over the years there have been quite a few films and TV series based on J.R.R. Tolkien's prose, and viewers preparing for a screening may wonder in which order to watch them to learn the events according to their chronology. This can indeed be problematic when one considers the fact that new movies and TV series are arriving all the time, and they aren’t released in the order in which the events happen.

For those who want to watch these productions in chronological order by events, we rush to help. We have prepared a complete list of movies and TV series set in Middle-earth, arranging them from the most distant events to the most recent ones. Included here aren’t only the titles shot by Peter Jackson, which are the most popular, but also others, including the TV show The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.

Chronological order of the films and TV series The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit

So, as the above list shows, the oldest The Lord Of The Rings films are best viewed last, due to the fact that the events of them take place after the other productions. In the list, in addition to Peter Jackson's two trilogies and the Amazon TV series, we have also included the upcoming film The Lord Of The Rings: War Of The Rohirrim, which will tell the story of events that took place some 250 years before The Lord of the Rings. War Of The Rohirrim is scheduled for release on December 13, 2024.