Charlie Vickers

Image: Amazon StudiosThe season one finale of Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power arrived today, along with a big reveal that... okay, look, every bit of this is a spoiler, so proceed at your own risk.If you’ve been following all the fan theories about The Rings of Power, you likely were not or will not be surprised to learn that Halbrand is in fact the Dark Lord Sauron, as many had already surmised. How you feel about this twist (or how well/poorly it was set up) is of course up to you, but the Hollywood Reporter has a…

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power — Amazon's millennia-prior prequel that draws from the appendices of J.R.R. Tolkien's three-volume novel — was, in some ways, doomed from the very beginning. Years before cameras began rolling, it gained the notorious tag of being the world's most expensive TV series. Amazon had made a billion-dollar five-season commitment, forking over $250 million (about Rs. 2,057 crore) for the rights alone. By the time cameras were done rolling on The Rings of Power season 1, it had spent…

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 1 concludes this Friday, October 14, and at New York Comic-Con 2022 over the weekend, Amazon Prime Video unveiled a “trailer” for the eighth and final episode. I put the word trailer in quotes, because it's a stretch to call something a trailer when it's made up almost entirely of old footage. It's a naked attempt by Amazon to build up hype for the “season finale”, while also trying its best to give away nothing ahead of Friday.The Rings of Power episode 8 trailer“Soon, you…

Here’s the long and short of it, or Ent and Hobbit of it if you’re already packing your bags to be whisked off to Middle-earth again: The Rings of Power is The Lord of the Rings through and through. It looks incredible, it bursts with hope, and, above all, it’s very long and takes a bit of time getting going.This is said with all the love and affection the world has had for Peter Jackson’s original Lord of the Rings films—and their slightly-less beloved successors in the Hobbit trilogy—themselves known, especially in…

Trystan Gravell as Pharazôn in Lord of the Rings: The Rings of PowerPhoto: Matt Grace/Prime VideoBefore anyone had gotten a glimpse of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, it became well-known that the Prime Video series had a staggeringly huge budget. Now that the show’s almost here, it’s clear where a lot of that money went: creating an incredibly detailed world that brings Middle-Earth to life on screen.It’ll be quite the spectacle for audiences once Rings of Power premieres in a few weeks, as the actors in the…

Get ready to return to Middle-earth.Gif: Amazon StudiosAt a glance:Inspired by the events detailed in J.R.R. Tolkien’s history of Middle-earth beyond The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, Rings of Power explores what happened long before the events of those novels, dubbed the Second Age of Middle-earth.Set thousands of years before the events of the books and movies (which Rings of Power has a... tenuous connection to, and Amazon has been vague on the specifics), it details several events during the aforementioned Second…