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One Ring to Rule Them All? Whom Should Lord of the Rings Fans Truly Blame for the Alterations Seen in Amazon’s Rings of Power Trailers?
by Caroline Furlong
The trailers for Amazon’s streaming series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power has fans of Professor Tolkien and his timeless Middle-earth furious over their clear disregard for the mythos. Amazon, having bought the rights to a television series straight from the Tolkien Estate in 2017, wasted no time fabricating one. Fans of these enduring epics doubtless felt more than mild misgivings at this news, given how many franchises have suffered at the hands of cultural and historical revisionists intent on remaking the real world rather than in honoring the fictional source material. But others were more willing to give the show a chance.