The Rings of Power season 2 is an even stronger expansion of Tolkien’s mythos

TV Show ReviewsAmazon’s Lord of the Rings show continues to be phenomenal in ways that only a truly wild budget could make possible.

By Charles Pulliam-Moore, a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years.

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The first season of Amazon’s The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power series was a spectacular piece of storytelling that took details from J.R.R. Tolkien’s appendices and forged them into an intricate exploration of Middle-earth’s history. Uneven pacing sometimes made the show seem like yet another fantasy slog borne out of

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