Lord of The Rings are casting Aragorn for the new Amazon Prime series (Picture: New Line/AMC)

The Walking Dead’s Tom Payne may have accidentally spilled some very big news surrounding Amazon Prime’s Lord of The Rings, which is potentially more exciting than the finale of Game of Thrones. Potentially.

Absolutely nothing is known about the Lord of The Rings series, with Amazon, taping up windows and taking fingerprints to keep the writers room locked away.

But Tom – who starred as Jesus in The Walking Dead until he was killed off in the season eight finale – has claimed Amazon are holding auditions for Aragorn, amid rumours the series would follow Frodo’s keeper before the hobbit was given the unruly task of guarding the ring.

And, it appears the Brit is throwing his hat into the mix.

Tom Payne said he’s keeping his The Walking Dead hair for Lord of the Rings audition (Picture: Amazon Prime)

‘Right now I’m in an interesting spot now – what’s the next thing?’ he said on Jessie Ware’s Table Manners podcast. ‘There’s a lot of roles out there which are exciting. With the boost that the show has given me, hopefully I’ll be able to move on to different things.’

After the singer’s mother Helena Ware asked if Tom would be chopping off Jesus’ signature locks now his time on the zombie drama has ended, the actor explained he has very good reason not to.

‘There aren’t that many actors with hair like this,’ said Tom. ‘And Amazon are casting Aragorn and they’re doing Interview With The Vampire on Hulu so there’s all these good jobs.

‘This, I’m going to hang on to unless it’s an amazing role.’

Tom as Aragorn? Make it happen, Amazon.

Viggo Mortensen starred as Aragorn for the Oscar-winning Lord of the Rings trilogy, while the filmmaker exclusively told Metro.co.uk that he’s hoping to lend a helping hand for the series.

‘I think they’re going to send us some scripts to see if we can help them along,’ he told us.

Peter added it wasn’t something he could get involved with while he made the Christian Rivers-directed Mortal Engines, but offered: ‘I wish them all the best and if we can help them we certainly will try.

‘It’s a big task.’

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Lord of The Rings have been rallying hype by dropping lines from a JRR Tolkein poem alongside an interactive map of Middle Earth, causing fans to speculate the series will reveal how the ring came to be.

Lord of The Rings is expected to arrive on Amazon Prime in 2020 while you can (and should) listen to Jessie Ware’s Table Manners on iTunes and Spotify now.

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