The LotR: The Rings of Power intro has some undiscovered easter eggs

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If you've been keeping up with Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power series, you might have thought nothing of the title sequence. It may look mundane, perhaps even completely irrelevant to the uninitiated, but there's a lot more to this sandy mashup than meets the eye.

The studio responsible for the intro, Plains of Yonder(opens in new tab), spoke to me about the hidden meanings behind the concept, and even hinted at some easter eggs the eagle eyed among us should be looking out for.

The Plains of Yonder team said that, when the show first aired, many of the initial comments were in the vein of «Really? They were given how much money and all we got was sand?» Of course, die-hard fans will be aware that the concept is a nod to J.R.R. Tolkien's world building efforts—a reference to the Middle Earth creation story in which angelic beings called the Ainur called the universe of Eä into existence through the power of song.

«Tolkien talks about the cosmos, and how music is the organising principle around all of creation,» explains Anthony Vitagliano, Plains of Yonder's Creative Director for the project.

«There's this amazing cast of angelic beings that he wrote about, that sung the universe into existence. And so we were like, 'Well, that is kind of an interesting place to start,' because this is the introduction to Middle Earth, and what the world is.

»That became the insight, and then from that we were thinking 'How do you represent that visually?' Because that's a fantasy idea. People try to draw it, people try to write about it, you can imagine it in your head, and everyone has their own view of what that could be. So how do you capture that in a bottle, and put it on screen?"

That's when the team stumbled across a