Rings of Power looks like a good fantasy show, but can it woo Tolkien fans?
landed on July 14, and to be honest, it looked great. Showcasing more of the characters, designs, sets, sounds, and a real glimpse into the action of this new version of Middle-Earth, it looks like somebody spent around 500 million dollars bringing the Second Age of Middle-Earth to life.
In order to squish things down into something resembling a plot, lead writers J. D. Payne and Patrick McKay have taken the broad strokes of Tolkien’s notes and used them to engineer a story that spans the entirety of Middle-Earth. They’ve condensed the timelines so that everything happens more or less at once, and invented new characters out of whole cloth to try and stitch everything together.
Other characters who were previously just named parts of a family tree, like dwarf-king Durin IV, are now flesh-and-blood people with goals and roles to play in the action. An all-new elf-human couple has also been invented, presumably to retread that Arwen-Aragorn forbidden love story. There’s a lot of new stuff here, and tinkering with Tolkien’s legendarium has garnered the showrunners a lot of criticism from dedicated LOTR geeks.
However, Jackson then went and made the Hobbit movies, and that was the last time new characters and storylines were created to expand and pad out a Tolkien story. Initially billed as two films, it was expanded into a trilogy to challenge the box office domination of the Avengers and Hunger Games franchises.
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