Close-Reading Lord of the Rings With the Creatives Behind The Rings of Power

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'The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power' is series based on material in the margins of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy series. McHenryJD spoke with the creatives behind the show's half-billion-dollar first season

, a mysterious bearded man falls into a crater in the midst of Middle-earth. He has no idea who he is, but he’s connected to something important to come.The creators aren’t explaining more about the Stranger, but say they always had the idea for a mysterious being dropping from the sky. He appears at first glance to be a whole-cloth creation, though his entrance mirrors that of other in-universe legends. “Tolkien’s always writing about the stars,” McKay said. “Eärendil becomes a star.

portrays a warmer, cozier side to the Dwarves than seen in the films, and introduces a major female Dwarf character, Princess Disa . In the appendixes, Tolkien notes there’s a common myth that female Dwarves don’t exist because they don’t travel abroad much and look a lot like male Dwarves.Tolkien writes about a legendary human kingdom on its own island that, by the Third Age, has sunk into the ocean.

 

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McHenryJD Translation: Amazon has the rights to a fraction of Tolkien's writings about the Second Age. This show will have a few familiar character and place names, but the story will have little to do with the world that J.R.R. Tolkien spent a lifetime creating.

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