Now, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that most of Amazon series would be about Sauron’s rise in Middle-earth with the forging of the Great Rings including the One Ring all the way to his epic defeat against the united armies of Elves and Men when Elendil’s son Isildur would prove to be his unexpected bane. However, his Orcs spread over Middle-earth, led by Sauron himself who started off as Morgoth’s general only to take his place as the dreaded Dark Lord of Middle-earth, following his master’s defeat at the hands of Elves. Finrod fights valiantly but ultimately succumbs as Middle-earth is left in ruin. The action shifts to Middle-earth which witnesses a Peter Jackson-esque LOTR-like battle sequence featuring Eagles, Nazgûl, Elves, and Orcs. When their home of Valinior, along with the beautiful tree which is the source of light in the pre-sun world, is destroyed by Morgoth, the Elves resist and go on an all out war. We are basically looking at 5 seasons of epic fantasy content from showrunners, JD Payne and Patrick McKay, and executive producer and director, JA Bayona, commissioned by none other than Jeff Bezos who is a self-confessed Tolkien enthusiast. Also, there is great secrecy about what will make it to the series and what will be left out. While Tolkien explains Morgoth’s origins in detail in The Silmarillion, the Amazon series eschews it, perhaps because the makers don’t have the rights to The Silmarillion and so a lot of what the show offers is actually in a speculative space even though it’s vetted by the Tolkien scholars. But it all changes with the emergence of an evil dark lord named Melkor, popularly known as Morgoth.
The Rings of Power (so far only two episodes are out) begins in the First Age with the ageless Elves living in a seemingly perfect world without any fear of death as we meet a young Galadriel and her elder brother Finrod. But when the proposal got rejected, Tolkien began working on a new story that eventually became The Lord of the Rings. After the success of The Hobbit, Tolkien was asked to come up with a sequel and so he offered a draft of the stories that would later become The Silmarillion. Now, The Silmarillion tells of Eä, a fictional universe that includes the Blessed Realm of Valinor, the once-great region of Beleriand, the sunken island of Númenor, and the continent of Middle-earth, where The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are set. Given that we have already had a total of 6 feature length films by Peter Jackson (3 covering the events of The Lord of the Rings and 3 covering the events of The Hobbit), it’s quite obvious that the new Amazon series ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings or Power’ focuses on the First Age as well as the Second Age. The Silmarillion and other unfinished works, on the other hand, basically tell the story of what all preceded the Third Age.
Martin’s Game of Thrones, it is easy to spot the Tolkien influence.įor the uninitiated, The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit are all set in the Third Age. It also has a certain seminal quality that’s all encompassing as far as epic fantasy is concerned.
Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings saga (comprising The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Silmarillion and other unfinished works) is inarguably the pinnacle of modern fantasy writing.
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