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New Cast Members Announced for ‘The Lord of the Rings’ Season Two

Ciarán Hinds, Rory Kinnear and Tanya Moodie venture to Middle-Earth

Broadcasting & Cable

'Rings of Power' star says she's "honored" to be 'shipped with Sauron: "I get it"

With the Season 1 finale in the rearview, star Morfydd Clark unpacks Galadriel's plunge into the Sundering Seas.

Inverse

Amazon’s The Devil’s Hour: Cast, plot and when you can watch

"It's time to face your fears" in this new psychological thriller

Wales Online

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Everyone loves a villain, but should we?

Prime Video's "Lord of the Rings" prequel let us fall for someone monstrous, a disturbing trend in media

Salon

Now it’s over, let’s come out and say it: The Rings of Power was a stinker

The world’s most expensive show – which looked like an episode of Hollyoaks, only with woeful acting – was so inept that every episode left you sniggering

The Guardian - UK

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power recap episode eight – finally, evil shows its face

In this first season finale, mysteries are answered, characters show their true selves and we say goodbye to a friendly face

The Guardian - UK

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power recap episode five – who are the weird folk in white gowns?

Are they waiting for The Stranger? But why? To worship him? Or to kill him? And how did they get 71 minutes of TV out of such a small amount of story?

The Guardian - UK

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Visitors from Middle-earth

Amazon Prime's most anticipated fantasy series The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power finally premiered its first episodes on the platform last week, marking a strong start with breathtaking cinematography, excellent visual effects, a compelling story and a huge budget of reportedly US$60 million (2.1 billion baht) per…

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As a high fantasy fan, the new 'Lord of the Rings' series offers something refreshing

It's a big moment for fans of high fantasy. But for some, the weeks leading up to the release of Amazon's Lord of the Rings prequel series have meant a mix of excitement – and a little anxiety.

WEKU

‘I expected both to be cheap cash-ins’: readers’ verdicts on House of the Dragon and Lord of the Rings

Costumes, sets, CGI, scripts and performances go under the spotlight – as readers weigh up the new ventures into Middle-earth and Westeros

The Guardian - UK

Rings of Power: 'In an age of epic fantasy on screen many of the missteps are unforgivable'

Early reviews of Amazon Prime’s The Rings of Power have said that this “rich, gorgeous” eight-episode prequel to Lord of the Rings is “so astounding” it makes HBO’s rival fantasy series House of the Dragon “look amateur”.

The Conversation

Why Tolkien fans are blasting The Rings of Power over diverse casting

Diehard Lord of the Rings fans say prequel series The Rings of Power's diverse casting has rendered the Amazon Prime show "unwatchable".

The New Daily

The water from a remote Welsh hamlet that's ended up starring in some of the world's biggest shows and films

It's had some high profile co-stars and is very refreshing

Wales Online

Amazon's Lord of the Rings: Morfydd Clark’s mum is ‘desperate to host people in Wales’ as new series puts country on the world’s stage

What did the show's three Welsh stars have to say about the series?

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The Guardian - UK

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power recap episodes one and two – like no TV you’ve seen before

Amazon’s hugely anticipated take on Tolkien finally arrives – and it’s so packed with scale and ambition it’s only matched by Marvel’s biggest budget offerings

Evening Standard

Behind the scenes of Prime Video’s new blockbuster show The Rings of Power, from elf heroines to fake bird poo

Behind the scenes of Prime Video’s new blockbuster show The Rings of Power

The Independent UK

The Rings of Power: Everything we know about The Lord of the Rings prequel series

Series premieres on Prime Video this September

Asharq Al-Awsat

New 'Lord of the Rings' Series Brings a Female Story to the Forefront

Morfydd Clark stars in the new series "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" as Galadriel, an Elven warrior who wishes to stop the evil returning to the fantasy world of Middle-earth. The series, one of the most expensive ever made, will arrive on Amazon.com Inc's (AMZN.O) Prime…

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Inverse

Watch: How 'Rings of Power’s female stars became the Ladies of the Rings

In a behind-the-scenes video, the five female leads of Amazon’s LOTR prequel, 'The Rings of Power,' reveal how they found themselves in Middle-earth — and what happened next.

The Atlantic

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Is Taking Its Sweet Time

Amazon’s new TV series is ethereal, expensive, and not all that concerned with an actual plot.

Irish Independent

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power review – Irish hobbits and no orgies, this is the fantasy epic you can watch with granny

I was not expecting Irish hobbits. In The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Prime Video, weekly), there are lots of them. At least, I think they’re Irish. The world that JRR Tolkien designed on paper did not, in so far as I am aware, include our beloved…

Daily Mirror

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power review: Amazon show is a 'masterpiece'

Five stars *****: After watching the first two episodes of Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power, The Mirror's Ian Hyland has given the Amazon film five stars

Inverse

LOTR: 'The Rings of Power' cast on Sauron, representation, and secrecy

As we return to Middle-earth with 'The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power', Inverse gathered five of the show's female stars.

The Independent UK

The Rings of Power: Everything we know about The Lord of the Rings prequel series

Series premieres on Prime Video this September

Irish Independent

I was always aiming at something like this: Sir Lenny Henry on LOTR series joy

Sir Lenny Henry has reflected on his role in the upcoming The Lord of the Rings series The Rings Of Power, saying: “I was always aiming at something like this.”

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