'The Rings Of Power' review: Mines a rich vein of nostalgia


After this, Halbrand made it his family motto never to climb on makeshift rafts with feisty women. No one paid any heed until his distant descendant Jack Dawson. Photos: Handout

Friends, LOTRiens and readers, this review is not going to nitpick over the faithfulness of The Lords Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power (henceforth, just Rings) to the words of JRR Tolkien. (We'd be here all year, and it is a task quite beyond my shallow knowledge of the good professor's works.)

No, I will just focus on how watching Rings made me feel, after being left spellbound by Peter Jackson's magnificent trilogy (not so much, the overblown Hobbit adaptation) two decades earlier.

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Summary:

Has a familiar ring to it.

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