The first season for Amazon Prime’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power has come to a close. After spending 8 hours watching this series, the only thing I can say at the end of it is… meh. The final pair of episodes after the fine showing in Episode 6 continued the trend … Continue reading “The Rings of Power” Episode 8 Review
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Finally Moving Forward – “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” Episode Six Review
It took five hours of television to reach this point but we’ve finally gotten a resolution to a major story arc. The sixth episode of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, titled “Udûn”, wraps up the Southlands storyline in the predicted fashion. Instead of focusing on multiple disparate plotlines, this episode focused … Continue reading Finally Moving Forward – “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” Episode Six Review
Return to Middle-Earth – Review of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” Episodes One and Two
When I was six or seven years old, my mother handed me a worn paperback copy of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit. After devouring the adventure of Bilbo Baggins and the Dwarves of the Lonely Mountain, I asked if there was another book from that author. My mother, proud that she had piqued my interest in … Continue reading Return to Middle-Earth – Review of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” Episodes One and Two