![]() ![]() In both The Rings of Power and The Lord of the Rings, elves that wish to retire from the land of mortals can sail off to paradise in a very somber ceremony. Elven immortality, you may have heard, is weird - Elf heaven is an actual place on the map, west of Middle-earth, kind of. ![]() One of the final images we see in the Lord of the Rings trilogy is one of the first shown in The Rings of Power: elves sailing off to the Undying Lands in the West. Sailing west to the Undying Lands Image: Prime Video After the dwarves fled, goblins and trolls moved in, which gives the teeming city a tragic air. Khazad-dûm, the majestic dwarven city that we get to see in The Rings of Power’s second episode, is what those ghastly mines looked like before its denizens delved “too greedily and too deep” and unearthed a dormant Balrog, a leftover soldier from the war against Morgoth. One of the best locations in The Rings of Power is also one of the worst in the Lord of the Rings movies: Moria. Part of the fun will be trying to spot him before he’s revealed. Early on in The Rings of Power, we do get a glimpse of LOTR’s big bad as he appears in those movies, but he almost certainly will take on a different and surprising form in The Rings of Power. This makes it all the more sad to see him as such a chill elf lad in The Rings of Power - he’s going to see some stuff that makes him a significantly less fun person. He’s one of the few links between every screen adaptation of Tolkien’s work, as Elrond was there for it all. The arrogant cutie here eventually becomes the stern leader of Rivendell played by Hugo Weaving in Peter Jackson’s films. That’s because she immediately has a clear and compelling journey: As the series’ sprawling story begins, Galadriel is on a quest for revenge, one that will ultimately result in a take on one of Tolkien’s most complex and unrealized characters that The Fellowship of the Ring merely hinted at. ![]() Galadriel Image: Prime VideoĪn early highlight of the show, Galadriel is perhaps the closest thing to a protagonist that can be found in The Rings of Power’s sprawling cast. With that in mind, here’s a brief run-through of everything shown in The Rings of Power that hearkens back to previous on-screen adaptations of Middle-earth so far. But there’s still some important stuff you might recognize. For now, the show is taking us mostly someplace new. In its first two episodes, there’s plenty of recognizable iconography - flora and fauna, armor designs and architecture - but very little direct transposition. To its credit, The Rings of Power isn’t overly familiar yet. This lets fans participate on another level entirely, making every new tidbit that the show reveals a puzzle in and of itself, a pocket mystery where we already know the end, but not the “how” or “why.” One of the appeals of a sprawling prequel series like The Rings of Power is in seeing the world you love from the Lord of the Rings movies (and the Hobbit trilogy, we see and appreciate those fans as well) in a very different form. ![]()
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