![]() ![]() Sam includes it in a song about the fall of Elven king Gil-galad, which he sings when the Hobbits are early in their journey. You hear Gandalf describe the story of the making of the rings to Frodo early in Fellowship of the Ring and Elrond retell it at a council in Rivendell. ![]() What were the small grains of sand that tipped the scales?”Īs they developed their pitch, McKay, Payne and Weber combed through the books, searching for details about the events of the Second Age. “But we’re interested in how these characters get there along the way. We also know he’s nearly successful, but the Second Age ends with Sauron’s first - and incomplete - defeat at the hands of the “last alliance of Elves and men.” “People will know a few of the big things that will happen,” Payne said. We know Sauron eventually emerges and tricks the Elves into creating the Rings of Power, using the Dwarves’ precious mithril as part of the process. THE RING FROM LORD OF THE RINGS SERIESThe TV series picks up with the Elves complacent in their initial victory against Morgoth and the human and Dwarf kingdoms at the heights of their splendor, though they remain on uneasy terms with the haughty Elves, who are especially suspicious of the humans’ corruptible tendencies. ![]() The Rings of Power takes place during the Second Age, which begins with a cataclysmic battle between the Elves and Morgoth, the original, Lucifer-esque big bad of the Tolkien universe as the era progresses, his lieutenant Sauron rises to power. “It was the other way around: There’s a boundless sea of imagination here.”Īll Lord of the Rings and Hobbit books and film adaptations take place during a period called the Third Age - a time when the Dark Lord Sauron is plotting his comeback by tracking down his lost One Ring, which has fallen into the unlikely hands of the Hobbits. “Having enough was never the problem,” Weber said. The process might sound a bit like making a whole pie using just the peel of an apple, but the show quickly swelled into an epic. There are millenia-younger versions of a few characters you’ll recognize and locales the Middle-earth savvy will be thrilled to see come to the screen as well as characters and plots that are entirely invented. Their development process was a bit like studying a religious text: They welded together a narrative from heavy close reading, deduction, and in cases where the text is silent, careful, Tolkien-scholar-supported flights of fancy. (Appendix B offers a slim timeline of the major events of the era, which leaves room for televisual reinterpretation the series also compresses events for ease of adaptation.) After Amazon bought the rights to The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King, The Hobbit, and their appendixes, McKay, Payne, and producer Lindsey Weber proposed striking out from the better-known aspects of the story. Payne, focuses on the major events of the Second Age of Middle-earth, a largely unexplored part of the history of Tolkien’s world that you can read about primarily in the appendixes of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. The Rings of Power, created by Patrick McKay and J.D. This fall, Amazon is premiering an eight-episode, half-billion-dollar first season of a TV series based on all the material in the margins of J.R.R. There’s a lot in the Lord of the Rings books you might skip over if, say, you’re barreling through to see what Frodo’s going to do with the Ring of Power - digressions and songs about the history of Middle-earth, prologues about the nature of Hobbits, and appendixes listing the succession of kings thousands of years before the main action. Photo-Illustration: Vulture Photos by Prime Video Lines 6-7 were pronounced by Sauron as he forged the One Ring of Power.Clockwise from top left (from left to right): humans Bronwyn and Theo, Elf Arondir, and human Halbrand in the Southlands Elves Gil-galad, Galadriel, and Elrond in Númenor with Kemen, Míriel, Pharazôn, Elendil, Eärien, and Isildur and nomadic Harfoots Marigold, Nori, Largo, and Poppy. The Rings were created by the malevolent being Sauron (or by the Elves of Eregion under Sauron’s guidance) to subjugate the races of Middle-earth. A rhyme of lore describing the Rings of Power in J. ![]()
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