Late night TV host Stephen Colbert put his Lord of the Rings fandom on display during a recent portion of his interview with actor Andy Samberg. In the video, Colbert said he heard that Samberg is also a big fan of Middle-earth and invited him to have a dialogue about the fantasy series. Samberg shared that he's been a fan of the franchise since he was a child, as his father read him The Hobbit when he was 5.

　　To this day, he rewatches the movies every year with his wife, the singer-songwriter-performer-actress Joanna Newsom. Sandberg then asked Colbert for his thoughts on Amazon's big-budget Lord of the Rings series, and Colbert had a lot to say.

　　Colbert said he's very curious about the potential for the Lord of the Rings Amazon show because its setting in the Second Age opens up a number of interesting story possibilities. In fact, Colbert met with an Amazon chief at a party and offered up some thoughts on the show and how it could touch on things like the Numenoreans and Aragorn's ancestors.

　　"I'm really excited," he said. "Because it's so far before the stories of The Lord of the Rings, it's thousands of years before the stories of The Lord of the Rings. You see why Gondor is such a great kingdom because Numenor, where those people came from, was so great that it's inconceivable, that it turns out that, you find out if you read the Silmarillion, that everything in Middle-earth is built by the Numenoreans."

　　Colbert proceeds to list off a number of creations made by the Numenoreans, but he gets especially passionate about one in particular. "F**king Helm's Deep is built by the Numenoreans!" he said.

　　Colbert also spoke about the romantic and tragic nature of the lives of men and elves and how that could play into the story for Amazon's show. Colbert mentioned how men were known to build physical structures across Middle-earth to leave a lasting legacy after they pass away. Elves, meanwhile, often created things that blend into woodworking because they never leave but the world around them does. "Isn't it a heartbreaking admission of our fear of our insignificance?" he said.

　　Colbert wraps up his thoughts on the Amazon show by saying he hopes the company can deliver something compelling or else it may face the wrath of Lord of the Rings fans.

　　"I hope they don't f**k it up because you know what we won't do, forgive them," Colbert said.

　　Colbert will conduct a Q&A with the cast of The Lord of the Rings later this month as part of an effort to help movie theaters get back on their feet amid the pandemic.