LOTR: The Rings of Power Has More Action Than Any Other Show
The showrunners for Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power say the fantasy series has more action than any other television project. Peter Jackson's beloved adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings can be largely credited for making the fantasy genre what it is today. On top of spawning The Hobbit film trilogy adaptations and influencing shows like HBO’s Game of Thrones, Amazon is now producing a Lord of the Rings television series to expand Tolkien's beloved Middle-earth.
The Rings of Power will be set thousands of years before the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. While Jackson’s movies take place in the Third Age of Middle-earth, the prequel series will take place in the Second Age before the defeat of Sauron, which is shown in the opening minutes of The Fellowship of the Ring. A lot happened before, during, and after the One Ring’s conception. However, the show’s setting won’t keep it from being compared to Jackson’s work in terms of world-building, narrative, and set-pieces — from the iconic Battle of Helms Deep in The Two Towers to the final battle at Black Gate in The Return of the King.
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In a recent interview with Empire, J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay compared the action scenes in Jackson’s original Lord of the Rings trilogy to theirs in The Rings of Power. While praising the universally lauded sequence that is Helm’s Deep, the showrunners’ talked about doing something different that still feels like Middle-earth, but is unique to The Rings of Power’s episodic structure. Read what they had to say below:
«The show has a lot of action in it — more so than any television or streaming show that we've seen. Every
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