Rings of Power

Several thousand years before Bilbo and Frodo, Galadriel (Morfydd Clark) is determined to hunt down her great enemy, Sauron — but her prey is elusive.

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Amazon's big, expensive take on the Lord of the Rings is the Rings of Power, which explores a new period and starts streaming on Amazon Prime on September ...

The first taste of Prime Video's long-awaited, big-budget series reveals one of the most captivating fantasy worlds in TV history.

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Galadriel (Morfydd Clark) · Halbrand (Charlie Vickers) · Elrond (Robert Aramayo) · High King Gil-galad (Benjamin Walker) · Celebrimbor (Charles Edwards) · Isildur ( ...

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The Rings of Power is a sprawling epic set thousands of years before The Lord of the Rings. Here is when and where you can watch it.

The rest of the season will be released on subsequent Fridays at 12 a.m. The first two episodes of The Rings of Power will be available to stream for Prime Video subscribers on Sept. [Prime Video](https://www.denofgeek.com/amazon-prime-video/) series [The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power](https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-timeline-key-events-story-theories/) is set during the Second Age of Arda in the fictional world created by J.R.R. in the UK in an effort to premiere the series at the same time across the globe. According to Amazon Studios, this epic series will “take viewers back to an era in which great powers were forged, kingdoms rose to glory and fell to ruin, unlikely heroes were tested, [and] hope hung by the finest of threads.” Most people are only familiar with the lands of Middle-earth that we see in Peter Jackson’s [The Hobbit](https://www.denofgeek.com/the-hobbit/) and [The Lord of the Rings](https://www.denofgeek.com/lord-of-the-rings/) trilogies, but according to [Prime Video’s official synopsis](https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B09QHCPD34/ref=atv_hm_hom_1_c_ZWyNDQ_liepb9_1_1), this sprawling epic is set to take viewers “from the darkest depths of the Misty Mountains, to the majestic forests of Lindon, to the breathtaking island kingdom of Númenor, to the furthest reaches of the map, these kingdoms and characters will carve out legacies that live on long after they are gone.” Payne and Patrick McKay more freedom to expand this world while still staying true to the source material. 2 at 2 a.m. The series is not based on its own novel, but rather on the Appendices found in Tolkien’s work, giving showrunners J.D. Here is when and where you can watch it. The Rings of Power is a sprawling epic set thousands of years before The Lord of the Rings. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Release Time and Episode Count

Amazon's new Lord Of The Rings TV show, The Rings Of Power, debuts on Amazon Prime Video tonight. Here's five good reasons to tune in.

Amazon has adapted the appendices to The Silmarillion, and the only way to do that and make it a palatable TV show is to make a lot of changes. Some of these mysteries include a mysterious stranger encountered by some of our heroes, who may or may not be connected to The Lord Of The Rings. I’ll be recapping each episode as we go as well, so be sure to [follow me here on this blog](https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/#196d790943ab) and on It’s simply outstanding, adding layers of drama and emotion to the show that simply wouldn’t exist without it. Could he already be there right before our noses, hiding in plain sight disguised as one of the characters? The good news is that this show, at least in its first two episodes, stays faithful to Tolkien’s themes, if not the letter of his writing. The Rings Of Power is anything but cheap. Galadriel, Elrond, Durin, Bronwyn and and every other character introduced in the sprawling two-episode premiere already have my attention. Everything from the special effects to the wildly detailed costumes is extraordinary. It’s one of the best-looking TV shows I’ve ever seen. I entered a skeptic, but walked away a believer. Here are five.

The new series is part of the expansive world created by J.R.R Tolkien across several books, including The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit.

Sauron, who appeared in The Lord of the Rings as a flaming red eye, is still the big bad. However, as Amazon has only acquired the rights for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, none of the stories from either Unfinished Tales or The Silmarillion will feature in the new series. [Galadriel and Elrond](https://ew.com/tv/lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-character-guide/), here much younger than they appeared in the films. While his estate is known to be protective (and litigious) over the original works, Tolkien stated that he wanted In light of that, he would probably have been delighted to see his creation still so beloved and still expanding. From the challenges of beginning a career and taking care of our mental health, to the excitement of starting a family, adopting a pet or just making friends as an adult. Arda starts as a flat disc and evolves into something more recognisably planet-like over the course of cataclysmic events during repeated battles between forces of good and evil. In Tolkien’s world, moral courage is just as important, if not more so, than physical prowess for the enduring heroes of Middle-earth. [This article is part of Quarter Life](https://theconversation.com/uk/topics/quarter-life-117947?utm_source=TCUK&utm_medium=linkback&utm_campaign=UK+YP2022&utm_content=InArticleTop), a series about issues affecting those of us in our twenties and thirties. For a newcomer to the wonderful world of Middle-earth, the universe created by the British author and academic J.R.R. Along the way, he finds a ring that gives him the power of invisibility. So if you want to watch the series and keep up with inevitable social media debates, here is a guide to this sprawling world to initiate newcomers to Tolkien’s Middle-earth.

Executive producer Lindsey Weber talks about where “Rings of Power” fits into J.R.R. Tolkien's mythology, and how it hopes to appeal to newbies as well as ...

Q: What is at stake in “The Rings of Power”? Were viewers like that considered when creating “The Rings of Power?” We know what the last shot of the series will be. It is the rise of the dark lord Sauron. [“The Rings of Power”] is really the length of three feature tent-pole films shot on the schedule of two for the price of one. It’s a very different time for the people of Middle-earth in the Second Age. Q: “The Rings of Power” reportedly had an enormous budget. A: The rings of power takes place in the Second Age, which is thousands of years before the events of the Third Age, which most people know — Frodo and Bilbo and all of that. It is the rise and fall of Tolkien’s Atlantis, the story of Númenor. It’s based on the appendices, which tell the story of the Second Age. New characters will be introduced, as well as younger versions of immortal characters first met in the original Lord of the Rings trilogy (which is currently streaming on HBO Max, if you’d like a refresher on this world). A: Anyone who has the Lord of the Rings books in their home already has it.

Amazon's pricey, gorgeous fantasy spectacle delivers what fans expect, but it could thrive by giving them what they don't.

“Rings of Power” is spectacular on the screen, but This could make “Rings of Power” an outlier in the TV-fantasy environment post-“Game of Thrones,” whose good-guys-get-decapitated ethos was in many ways a reaction to Tolkien. But she is interesting, and that’s what “Rings of Power” will need to be, more than faithful, to sustain itself over multiple seasons. One day, fate serves one up in the form of a meteor. And in an outpost deep in human country, the elf warrior Arondir (Ismael Cruz Córdova) nurses a forbidden crush on a mortal healer, Bronwyn (Nazanin Boniadi), whose downtrodden neighbors picked Sauron’s side in the last war. A multiseason series can’t live in the operatic intensity of a fantasy film; it needs to build a world, evolve character and develop story arcs over time. (Númenor, the Atlantis-like kingdom of humans whose rise and fall dominates the Second Age, doesn’t even figure into the opening hours.) Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy and the Peter Jackson movie adaptations, to the era when the fateful magic knickknacks of the title were forged. Payne and Patrick McKay, have a Wikipedia-like mishmash of family trees and invented alphabets that describes the series’s time period, the Second Age, this way: “Of events in Middle-earth the records are few and brief, and their dates are often uncertain.” But while I am a middling-level Middle-earth-ophile (have read “The Silmarillion”; do not speak Here she’s a young, headstrong and deadly warrior, with “Crouching Tiger” moves and a conviction that Sauron, the once and future big bad, is still alive and plotting. [current fantasy competition](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/19/arts/television/house-of-the-dragon-review.html), a sky filled with wheeling and menacing dragons.