Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power series quickly became one of the streaming service’s more popular series. Though the show doesn’t directly follow the plot of a particular novel, it builds off the work of Jrr Tolkien. Starting with Tolkien’s established fan base could only help the show as it brings […]
Continue readingThe Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was released ten years ago, becoming the first (and best) film in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit series. Like the book, the film trilogy is a prequel to The Lord of the Rings, telling a story set in a time period before Sauron’s rise. As was expected, The Hobbit: An Unexpected […]
Continue readingAmazon’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power series brought the audience back to Middle-earth in an eight-episode adventure following the events leading up to the battle against Sauron (Charlie Vickers). With the show renewed for season 2, fans are already anticipating more of the show. Despite the time gap between the stories, […]
Continue readingThere are certain films I saw growing up that left me forever scarred: “The Neverending Story,” “Watership Down,” and “The Last Unicorn,” to name the most memorable. However, I loved “The Last Unicorn” so much that it didn’t matter that I felt inexplicably saddened by watching it. Much like “Watership Down” — also not meant […]
Continue readingWell, the first season of Amazon’s fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power has come and gone, but just because it’s on an undisclosed-length hiatus, doesn’t mean we’re through discussing the show. Based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s work in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, the Amazon series tells the […]
Continue readingIs there any image in J.R.R. Tolkien’s land of Middle-earth that’s more famous than a big old pair of hobbit feet? Well, sure, there’s the one ring itself, but that powerful relic isn’t nearly as endearing as the fuzzy-footed group of heroes who end up saving the world from its dark magic. When Tolkien dreamed up […]
Continue readingRemember when “prequel” was a bad word? Something that would make you groan over how obvious it is that the concept is a cash grab. Something about going backwards can make the product feel more soulless than if they had just made a sequel to move the story forward, even if that forward momentum just […]
Continue readingWith the release of the children’s novel The Hobbit in 1937, J. R. R. Tolkien launched an entirely new world that would captivate readers for generations to come. His magnum opus The Lord of the Rings told the story of four little hobbits and the part they played in saving the world of Men by […]
Continue readingThis article contains spoilers for “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” season 1.Tearful goodbyes and too many endings: we’ve come to expect those from “The Lord of the Rings,” and the season 1 finale of “The Rings of Power” didn’t disappoint in that regard. Like “Andor,” “The Rings of Power” is a […]
Continue readingFrom showrunners Jd Payne & Patrick McKay, the Amazon Studios multi-season drama series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is set in the Second Age of Middle-earth’s history, thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings and at a time when a terrifying […]
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