The 'Lord of the Rings' series promises to be faithful to Tolkien

Patrick McKay and JD Payne, the showrunners of

series assure him, the plot will not be completely disconnected from Tolkien's work.

“We believe that the deep roots of this series lie in Tolkien's books.

And if we didn't have that certainty, we'd all be terrified to sit here, said Patrick McKay during a press conference given in front of the Television Critic Association and transcribed by The

.

It's a story that was there before us and that we care for, while it waited in these books to happen on Earth.

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We will soon be able to get used to the idea

"We don't have the impression that (our work) is 'loosely linked' (to the work)," continued Patrick McKay, using a formulation launched by one of the journalists present at the press conference.

“We feel very deeply connected to this universe and we work every day to get even closer to it.

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A point of view joined by Jeff Bezos, who wanted to speak on the subject in an email sent to

: “I hope that we have done justice to Tolkien's work.

It goes beyond making a commercially successful series.

Everyone working on the show read these stories when they were kids, and we put our hearts into it,” the Amazon boss said.

Anyway, there won't be a long wait to find out for sure since the first season of

arrives on Prime Video on September 2.

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