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The first season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is at its end. Before booting us out of Middle-earth, the Amazon prequel series provided at least a few answers to questions that had been haunting viewers all season long. One question not answered: At what point do Harfoots discover leave-in conditioner for curly hair? In any case, what follows is the final recap of the season. If you need to catch up on episode 7, you can find it here. Otherwise, you've been warned: Spoilers ahead. Who's The Stranger? ERYN GALEN -- The stranger is making his way through the woods alone. It's rainy. He looks like he probably smells like damp wool. He's being followed, though. There's some other hooded thing out there. It looks like Nori but it's actually the main one of the creeps in the white robes (they're called the Dweller, the Nomad and the Ascetic but have no team name, which is inefficient for recappers). The others turn up and one speaks, dropping a bomb on us a whole 4 minutes in: "We serve you, Lord Sauron." As they kneel down, he looks a little confused. Personally, I smell a fake-out coming. So maybe don't collect your bets just yet. Later around a campfire, they don't seem to have brought any marshmallows, but they've got this round stone thing called a hermit's hat that will play basically no part in the what's to come other than serving as a way to remind us of the stranger's quest to find his stars. As they start telling him about how he's going to rule everyth...

Entertain This!, USA TODAY Middle-earth is back on our screens, and it looks a little different this time. Some have responded with hate. The large cast of The racism has been denounced by a top Amazon executive, the entire "Rings of Power" cast and stars of the "Rings" films, including Elijah Wood. Here are the major developments. What is 'The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power'? "Rings" is hobbit) fighting against the gathering forces of the evil Sauron. The series took years and Review: Why is there racist backlash to 'Rings of Power'? Previous adaptations of Tolkien's work have included mostly white, mostly male casts, including the films by director Peter Jackson, which made billions at the box office and won dozens of Academy Awards. Amazon's series imagines a world in which people of color and women are central figures. Characters of color include a queen regent (Cynthia Addai-Robinson), an elf warrior (Ismael Cruz Córdova), dwarf royalty (Sophia Nomvete) and the leader of theHarfoots(Lenny Henry). Humor opinion: According to the "Rings" Twitter account, some actors of color have experienced "relentless racism, threats, harassment and abuse." The series has been subject to the online trolling practice of This is not the first instance in which actors of color cast in traditionally white roles in genre TV and film has resulted in harassment and racism. Just recently, Black actor Steve Toussaint has been subjected to hateful commentsfor his role in HBO's "Game of T...

This year, Amazon is taking a big swing. Come this fall, they’ll officially drop their blockbuster new series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. That Game of Thrones. As such, there’s a sense that The Rings of Power rollout is heavy on deliberation. Still, the information has started to stack up, and does tell us some things about what the series hopes to be. Here’s everything we know about the story and history of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. When is The Rings of Power release date? The show premieres Sept. 2. Amazon Prime Video has not yet announced how many episodes will drop at once. Where’s The Rings of Power trailer? Right here! The latest trailer debuted at Of that line, Addai-Robinson said “In terms of where we find Queen Regent Míriel,” Addai-Robinson continued, “there is that foreboding sense of, you know, something is about to happen, that sense of worry. And so we see this civilization at its peak, but there are those rumblings in the streets and just this sense of impending — you know, maybe it’s doom. But that sense that something is happening.” Who’s in The Rings of Power cast? Image: Prime Video Though the character lineup was initially limited to just a We’ve long known that Morfydd Clark ( Saint Maud) was cast as a younger Galadriel, who’ll be hunting down collaborators of the recently defeated first great Dark Lord, Morgoth. Along for the ride are Prince Durin IV (Owain Arthur), scion of the underground kingdom of Khazad-dûm (aka Mo...

The crew behind The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power knows you've seen a lot of pop culture battles. The fantasy and history genres are littered with epic skirmishes, some memorable, some less so. So, when it came time to craft their version of a massive battle in the pivotal season 1 episode " "We watched a lot of battle scenes in different movies, and you realize that a bunch of sword-fighting, slashing, and killing gets old pretty fast," cinematographer Alex Disenhof tells EW. "We've all seen it before as viewers, and we knew that if we just had a nondescript battle, it would get stale. So, we broke it down into individual skirmishes and moments for each hero character." It's a massive moment, where multiple story lines converge for the first time. Much of the action is centered in the Southlands village, and the production team constructed the set from scratch, nestled into a bucolic valley in New Zealand. Legendary stunt coordinator and second unit director Vic Armstrong remembers wandering around the set while it was still being built, sketching out action sequences in his head. "That's the moment I like best, getting creative and dreaming up ideas," he says with a smile. "It's like you have to deliver a big cake, and the location tells you what the ingredients are, so you can build up to that lovely tasty cake at the end." Much of the episode takes place at night, and one of Disenhof's biggest challenges was lighting. The story called for several scenes to be l...

When it comes to Rings of Power’s next move, the question isn’t, “Will Rings of Power get a Season Two?” but, “ When will Rings of Power get a Season Two?” You see, per the particularities of Prime Video’s deal with the J.R.R. Tolkien estate, the streamer could only purchase these adaptation rights if they committed to five seasons of television. “They knew from the beginning that was the size of the canvas,” co-showrunner J.D. Payne said of the estate. “There are things in the first season that don’t pay off until Season Five. We even know what our final shot of the last episode is going to be.” Prime Video will be in the began in London this October. Read on for everything we know about what’s next for Rings of Power. Related Stories • How to Watch 'Rings of Power' • The Nerd’s Definitive Guide to 'Rings of Power' • 'Rings of Power' Episode 6 Goes... Boom! What Could Happen in Rings of Power Season Two? So far, just one detail is confirmed: Prime Video has announced that Círdan, one of the oldest and wisest of the elves, will join the story during Season Two. Although the role has yet to be cast, Círdan has an important part to play in Middle-earth’s history. During the Second Age, Círdan and his people founded the Grey Havens, where they built ships that carried elves to the Undying Lands. Blessed with the gift of foresight, Círdan wore the Elven ring Narya, fought alongside High King Gil-galad in the Last Alliance of Elves and Men, and ruled over the Grey Havens throug...

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