Here’s Everything You Missed In The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power Trailer
The first trailer for Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings show has been released, and while it’s basically just revealing the show’s title - The Rings Of Power, if you’ve been living under an elven cloak - there’s far more to it than meets the eye.
I’m going to start with the more obvious things and move onto the more subtle references that the trailer makes, with some major spoilers for the plot of the show if you haven’t read The Silmarillion or The Lord of the Rings Appendices and Unfinished Tales. Firstly, we need to talk about the title itself.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is a little bit on the boring side for a title, but we have to remember that this isn’t for us, the biggest Tolkien fans out there. This is to draw in the casual fans, for whom something like ‘The Second Age’ would be too vague. For that reason alone, it needs a connection to The Lord of the Rings - presumably hence the prefix - and for that reason it works fine. However, for the bigger fans, it tells us exactly what the show will focus on. We had a good idea of this already, but unless the show does an American Horror Story-esque title suffix change each season, we’ll follow Annatar (that’s Sauron when he was sexy), Celebrimbor, and potentially the recipients of the eponymous rings of power. With the AHS route we’d see Elrond in a gimp suit though, so we’re in for a treat either way.
Of course, the show title bears resemblance to a chapter of The Silmarillion, Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age. Does this mean we’ll delve into the Third Age a little? It’s not impossible, as most of the Tolkien content in the show comes from the Unfinished Tales and anything taken
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