The Rings Of Power Needs To Avoid The Hobbit Trilogy's Biggest Mistake
Amazon's The Rings of Power needs to take great pains to avoid The Hobbit trilogy's biggest mistake. First released on February 13th, 2022, via a Super Bowl advertisement, the first teaser trailer for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power showcases a stunning variety of new locales, characters, and events across Middle Earth's Second Age. Many of these shots involve the clear use of CG, with a good chunk of The Rings of Power's mammoth $462 million (per Vanity Fair) season 1 budget directly spent on digitally producing these grandiose scenes.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power teaser certainly does not lack for scope, with the Amazon original trailer introducing audiences to never-before-seen sections of Middle Earth. A young Galadriel (Morfydd Clark) is shown scaling the icy walls of Helcaraxë before charging into battle against Morgoth's forces, while several sweeping shots depict the kingdoms of Númenor, Rivendell, and Khazad-dûm, respectively. There are also quick cuts of a new type of Cave Troll attacking an Elven figure and Markella Cavenagh's Harfoot aiding a man inside a fiery maelstrom — all of which require extensive CG work to bring to life.
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Yet contrary to its first CG-laden trailer, The Rings of Power needs to avoid The Hobbit trilogy's biggest mistake, which was a criminal overuse of special effects. Many of The Hobbit's big battles and climactic scenes were almost entirely built using CGI, making each of them feel hollow and weightless within the context of the story. Unnervingly, early glimpses of The Rings of Power look to be falling into this trap, with swathes of The Lord of the Rings fandom suggesting several of
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