The summary you need to not miss out on ‘The Rings of Power’, the new Amazon Prime Video series

I have a confession to make: I am a Tolkienite. When I was 11 years old, my brother left me one of his most precious possessions for me to read. “In a hole in the ground lived a hobbit”, I read, and since then I have been so involved in Middle-earth that I cannot imagine my life without knowing who Gollum was or what happened to the one ring.

The Hobbit It opened a door for me that could never be closed. A door to a fantasy world that I expanded with the trilogy of The Lord of the Rings (LOTR), the silmarillion and any story remotely related to Tolkien and his wonderful Middle-earth.

That is why the news of the premiere of a new series based on the world created by JRR Tolkien She has had me in a state of exaltation since we met her, and after so long the day has finally come.

the rings of power It is one of the most anticipated series of the year Y premieres on September 2 with the intention of marking a before and after for Amazon Prime Video. Even more so after discovering that its most powerful competitor, the house of the dragonis being a complete success.

What you need to know before the premiere of the new series of ‘The Lord of the Rings’

Let’s start by telling you that It is not an essential requirement to be a previous fan of LOTR to watch the most expensive Prime Video series to date with an investment of 715 million dollars according to the Wall Street Journal. It’s like watching House of the Dragon without having any idea who Daenerys Targaryen was: it’s more than possible and anyone can enjoy this fantasy series.

do you need to have seen the universe movies The Lord of the rings? Not really, but they are so good that not doing it is sacrilege for the cinema, especially those that adapt Tolkien’s masterpiece, The Lord of the rings. Is it necessary to know something to see it? No, but having some prior knowledge will ensure that you don’t get lost in the midst of so many characters and so many stories.

When and where is it set? the rings of power

Although the world created by Tolkien is vast, the time frame of the series speaks there is not so much material. With brushstrokes of Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth and basing part of the plot on the The Lord of the Rings Appendices (the only one to which it has the rights), this series will not be 100% faithful to any work, which has already caused some reluctance prior to its premiere that contrasts with the first critical evaluations that they tell us in Espinof.

We already know that he is going to tell us the story prior to Frodo’s arrival and that going to focus on the Second Age of Middle-earth historybecause Amazon released a map with the message “Welcome to the Second Age”.

The history of Middle-earth is divided into four ages and the Third Age is the one that had been told until now through the movies of LOTR. In the former, the Second Age, “great powers were forged, kingdoms rose to glory and fell to ruin, unlikely heroes were put to the test, hope hung by the finest of threads, and the greatest villain ever ever sprung from Tolkien’s pen threatened to engulf the entire world in darkness,” according to the official synopsis.

The series introduces us to places that we had not seen before in the movies, something that we have already seen in the trailer. From the Misty Mountains to the majestic forests of Lindon or the island of Númenor.

Galadriel, Elrond and many men, dwarves and hobbits

We already have the when and the where. Now it’s time for the who, and here we are only going to explain that there are characters that already appear in the movies of the Third Age. There are hundreds of years of difference but it is possible because we are talking about elves, a race that will be one of the protagonists of the series with Galadriel and Elrond among others.

In the movies Cate Blanchett it was Galadriel and now it is Morifdd Clark. Galadriel is a warrior princess willing to do anything to prevent evil from ravaging Middle-earth. The half elf Elrond, who was played by Hugo Weaving and is now Robert Aramayo.

the rings of power takes us to the youth of both and presents us new characterssome of them that we already heard about in the previous films like Isildur (Maxim Baldry) or Elendil (Lloyd Owen), and completely new ones like Arondir (Ismael Cruz Cordova), Bronwyn (Nazanin Boniadi) or Halbrand (Charlie Vickers) .

The villain will be Uncle Benjen from Game of ThronesJoseph Mawlewho plays Oren, and we will see orcs (and orcs, because now there are also female), some characters who generate evil in themselves and who fight against men and elves.

There will also be hobbits (although Tolkien did not put them in Middle-earth until the Third Age) who will be known here as Hairy Ones, and dwarves like Durin IV (Owain Arthur) or Disa (Sophia Nomvete). Don’t worry about knowing more because you don’t need to, the series will explain where they come from and who they all are.

A fight between good and evil

Simplifying a lot we have a clear fight of good against evil that is seasoned with good love, war, honor and a diversity for which the series was criticized. This first season (Amazon plans to get a lot out of the series with many seasons) will focus on introducing us to the heroes of Middle-earth, but the series will tell four great Middle-earth stories along the way, as explained by JD Payne and Patrick McKay.

“The production brings together all the main stories of the Second Age of Middle-earth: the forging of the rings, the rise of the Dark Lord Sauron, the epic history of Númenor and the last alliance between Elves and Men.”

How (and why) the rings of power were forged

The rings of power are just that, rings, and the series wants to clarify why they were created and how. There are three Elven Rings (Vilya, Nenya and Narya) that were forged by Celebrimbor (in the series played by Charles Edwards) and had the power to create, preserve and heal, granting power to its bearer. There are more rings, as Galadriel told at the beginning of the first movie (you have the scene just below), like the One Ring forged by Sauron on Mount Doom.

sauron

This character, Sauron is the great villain of Middle Earth., and we met him in the Peter Jackson movies when he was just a big, all-seeing eye. the series of the rings of power It will show us Sauron’s rise to power when he was still in physical form, and how Galadriel pursues him throughout Middle-earth to prevent him from accumulating power.

The last alliance of elves and men

The series also addresses the last alliance between elves and men which is discussed numerous times in LOTR. The War of the Last Alliance in the Second Age is the result of an attempt to destroy Sauron in his fortress of Barad-dûr, in Mordor, something that the movies tell us about.

The rise and fall of Númenor

The Isle of Númenor sits between Middle-earth and the Undying Lands, as you can see on the map above. It is the representation of Atlantis in Tolkien’s mythology and, how she lived a golden age and a subsequent fall, something that the series wants to capture. She was created by the Valar at the beginning of the Second Age of the Sun and given to the Edain (men) after their help in the wars of Beleriand. It is the kingdom of the Numenoreans, men with a life greater than that of the rest of humans and ancestors of Aragorn who in Peter Jackson’s films was played by Viggo Mortensen.

Of course the series is ambitious, and has a wonderful staging in which the costumes shine, the sets are closer to the cinema than to the series and the epic. A series that we are looking forward to seeing to enter Middle-earth again as the first time we imagined all its corners.

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