The Art of Adaptation - Amazon’s Lord of the Rings: THE RINGS OF POWER | Video Essay

The Rings of Power trailer came out last week; our first glimpse at Amazon’s Lord of the Rings series. The Amazon LOTR series, until recently known as LOTR of Prime, has had a lot of discussion about it and this reached fever pitch with everyone’s reactions to the Rings of Power trailer. So here’s my first thoughts and reaction to the trailer for Amazon’s ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ series. It’s a week late but arriving precisely when it means to.

00:00 – A wizard is never late…
00:35 – Take a walk with me
02:48 – Rings of Power trailer recap (part I)
04:17 – Morfydd Clark’s Galadriel
05:20 – Arondir
07:00 – The ‘Mythology for England’ myth
07:58 – Rings of Power trailer recap (part II)
09:49 – The Lord of the Rings and the Art of Adaptation

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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power – Teaser Trailer | Prime Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7v1hIkYH24

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - Title Announcement | Prime Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhqGCPMfkNM

VANITY FAIR | Amazon’s Lord of the Rings Series Rises: Inside The Rings of Power - https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/02/amazon-the-rings-of-power-series-first-look

VANITY FAIR | 10 Burning Questions About Amazon’s The Rings of Power - https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/02/10-burning-questions-about-amazons-the-rings-of-power

Rings of Power Character Posters – what do they reveal? | TheOneRing.net - https://www.theonering.net/torwp/2022/02/04/111933-rings-of-power-character-posters-what-do-they-reveal/

Why Calling Tolkien’s Work “A Mythology for England” is Wrong and Misleading - https://luke-shelton.com/2022/02/12/why-calling-tolkiens-work-a-mythology-for-england-is-wrong-and-misleading/

“The Rings of Power” and the Issue of Race - https://www.theonering.net/torwp/2022/02/17/112125-the-rings-of-power-and-the-issue-of-race

Beards in Middle-earth - https://twitter.com/theoneringnet/status/1494708200641163267?s=20&t=f6c1rvZI0X0O49Z9e99lcg

Gollum’s appearance - https://www.thetolkienforum.com/threads/gollums-appearance.14664/

Tolkien forum from 1999-2001 - http://www.tolkien-movies.com/forum/1999.php

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