Tag: The Lord of the Rings
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The Rings of Power: Here’s Why The Stranger Should Be Gandalf
Well, 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…
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Before There Were Harfoot Feet In The Rings Of Power, There Were Harfoot Slippers [Exclusive]
Is 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…
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Rings of Power Changes Lord of the Rings By Giving Evil a Human Face
While Middle-earth and the world of The Lord of the Rings are derived from J.R.R. Tolkien’s imagination, there are comparisons that can be drawn to Arthurian mythology, fairy tales, and world history. Tolkien’s story of Men, Dwarves, and Elves setting aside their differences in order to confront the ultimate source of evil was heavily inspired…
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House of the Dragon & Rings of Power Show We’ve Lost Taste for Good vs Evil
The success of Game of Thrones proved that audiences find morally gray fantasy characters compelling, so it was to be expected that its spin-off prequel series House of the Dragon would follow in its footsteps. Less expected was that Amazon’s prequel to The Lord of the Rings, The Rings of Power, would also dip its…
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Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Explained
Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for all of Season 1 of The Rings of Power.It’s difficult to talk about The Lord of the Rings without talking about, well, the rings; crafted by the unsuspecting Elves of Middle Earth under the careful eye of Sauron, who went on to create the One Ring by himself,…
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Lord of the Rings Timeline Explained: History of Middle Earth & Beyond
With 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…
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The Rings Of Power Season Finale Showed It Can Meet All Your Expectations And Still Be Exciting
This 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…
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Oscars 2023: How Will Last Year’s Rule Change Impact This Year’s Score Race?
Branford Marsalis, Thomas Newman, Howard Shore, and Kris Bowers — what do they have in common, besides each being an accomplished composer, conductor, and/or recording artist in his own right? Within the past four years, they all produced a film score that didn’t even register as a blip on the Oscar radar. “Let Them All…
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The Rings of Power’s Charles Edwards On Being Obsessed w/ Tolkien as a Kid
From 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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The Rings of Power: Who Will Become a Nazgûl?
Editor’s note: The below contains spoilers for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.The Rings of Power is showing the origins of many of the famous villains from J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy. One of the main stories in the series is Galadriel (Morfydd Clark) and company’s mission to find…