![]() ![]() But if you're looking to re-immerse yourself in the lore of the world, including what the deal is with all those rings, the movies are an excellent way to jog your memory (or introduce you for the first time). The new TV series also takes place before The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, so it doesn't feature the same actors and doesn't include many of the characters audiences know and love from the films. Sadly, Jackson is not involved in The Rings of Power. He even won a couple of Oscars for doing so. Though lots of filmmakers have adapted Tolkien's work over the years (shout out to the trippy, 1978 animated Ralph Bakshi Lord of the Rings), none have done so as completely as Peter Jackson, who directed six movies across two trilogies dedicated to the goings-on in Middle-earth. Tolkien Middle-earth refresher course.Īnd while you could read the entire Lord of the Rings book series, The Hobbit novel and all those appendices, on which The Rings of Power is based, it might be faster just to watch the movies. Wait, how many rings now? Wasn't it just the One Ring to Rule Them All? Time for a J.R.R. He makes orcs rampage and stone giants heave mountains at one another, and he dwells especially lovingly on all those dwarves: Balin and Dwalin and Fili and Kili and especially the Dwarf Lord Thorin (Richard Armitage).If you watched Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, you should know it takes place in the Second Age of Middle-earth, when the 19 rings were forged and given to elves, dwarves and humans. ![]() He plays with extra-super-duper high-frame-rate 3-D technology that makes every detail of Bilbo’s home in Hobbiton sparkle with almost disconcerting smoothness of surface. Working from a simpler, jauntier, more picaresque story about how Bilbo came to possess the One Ring that would later cause such a rumpus, Jackson operates with even more unrelenting genius-nerd filmmaking intensity. ![]() Frodo, you remember, had this ring he needed to return … But never mind, even the unfaithful who can’t tell Ian McKellen’s Gandalf the Grey from that other wizard guy in Harry Potter can follow along easily in this teeming prequel. He was the hairy-footed fellow of passing interest - the uncle of that saga’s central character, Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood). ![]() Devoted followers will recall that Ian Holm embodied Old Bilbo in LOTR. ![]()
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