Anika Begay
Summary
- ScreenRant.com’s Rings of Power podcast aims to address the misconceptions and controversies surrounding the Amazon Prime series.
- Hosted by Andrew Dyce and Stephen Colbert, the podcast delves into Tolkien’s lore and his adaptation choices.
- The podcast aims to provide engaging and enlightening discussions for both fans of the series and those seeking clarity.
Even before Amazon The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power aired its first episode, the TV series was met with intense skepticism from online critics, detractors, and even fans fearful of any adaptation of Tolkien’s beloved lore. Ultimately, these high stakes and incendiary reactions dominated many conversations about the series itself, superseding any thoughtful, thoughtful, or nuanced discussion. And it’s this problem that ScreenRant’s New Podcast The Rings of Power try to solve.
With The Rings of Power second season coming soon (out August 29, 2024), it’s a sad reality that the strongest criticisms of the series and its creators have managed to stick, no matter how accurate, incomplete, or in some cases completely misinformed. And fantasy fans deserve a better level of discourse.
That’s why ScreenRant’s Andrew Dyce and Stephen Colbert, two podcast veterans with a passionate (even obsessive) love of Tolkien, storytelling, and divisive adaptations, are trying to set the record straight. Because The Rings of Power Podcast will begin by directly addressing the show’s most important conversations and debates.
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As the next installment of the Prime Video series approaches, the show’s more confusing bits of canon (taken directly from Tolkien’s writings), potential conflicts with existing ones The Lord of the Rings “canon,” and the most controversial choices and characterizations have come to the fore once again. So there’s no better time to help set the record straight, with a long series of discussions from a pair of hopelessly diehard Tolkien devotees.
The identity of the mysterious Wizard (Daniel Weyman), the plausibility of Sauron’s disguise for the debut season, the precedent of a battle-hardened Galadriel (Morfydd Clark), and more will be explored at length, allowing Tolkien’s writing (and the missing chapters) to guide the discussion along with the TV series. The first of these discussions, “Is the Stranger Young Gandalf, a Blue Wizard, or neither?”It’s available to listen to below:
Whether you love the series as a standalone fantasy and want to learn more about the lore it adapts, or you’ve been confused by some elements of the series (and found it to be exaggeration when you looked for explanations), the hosts of The Rings of Power podcast aim to make discussions engaging, rewarding, and enlightening.
Fans have a lot of it Rings of Power coverage to enjoy on ScreenRant, so be sure to follow and subscribe to The Rings of Power Podcast wherever podcasts are provided.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power brings the heroic legends of the fabled Second Age of Middle-earth’s history to the screen for the first time. Set thousands of years before the events of JRR Tolkien’s novels, The Rings of Power will explore a period in the franchise where kingdoms rose and fell, where the One Ring was forged, and tells the story of the rise of the Lord of the Rings franchise’s greatest enemy, the Dark Lord Sauron. Beginning in a time of peace, the series follows an ensemble cast of familiar and new characters as they confront the feared resurgence of evil in Middle-earth. From the depths of the Misty Mountains to the forests of the Elven capital of Lindon, to the island kingdom of Númenor, to the furthest reaches of the map, The Rings of Power promises to condense Tolkien’s extensive works into a condensed yet comprehensive TV series format. The Rings of Power season 1 began airing exclusively on Prime Video on September 2, 2022.
