This article contains spoilers for Episode 6 of The Rings of Power.
From the moment the first episodes of Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power debuted on Prime Video, hundreds of reviews poured in giving the series one star for reasons as blasé and uninvolved as “looks cheap” and “ boring.” However, with the series having a lot of introductions to do and setting to place, there was always going to be a slow build until things began to take real shape, and that happened in style at the end of episode six. Now a new promo poster has teased an epic finale coming to the first season of the show.
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Episode 6 of The Rings of Power brought battles and death to Middle Earth, but more than that it saw the creation of one of the most iconic locations of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings; Mount Doom. While two groups of the series’ heroes managed to seemingly defeat Adar and his orc horde, he had already given the mysterious sword hilt to minion Wadreg, who placed it in a mechanism that opened up the dams. A chain reaction of events ensued, leading the water to find its way through a network of underground tunnels to a volcano, that spectacularly erupts and creates Mount Doom, the location that Frodo and Sam will one day journey to.
Now the stage is set for two final episodes that will bring the inaugural season of The Rings of Power to a close, and the new poster promises an epic conclusion that will likely have those how have watched and enjoyed The Lord of the Rings series for just being a stunning return to Middle Earth eagerly awaiting the next season.
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The Rings of Power Has Set Out Its World, And Now Will Use It
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The Rings of Power has suffered some harsh criticism for essentially not being Lord of the Rings. However, the point that seems to have been missed is that it isn’t Lord of the Rings, and in many ways it has avoided trying to be. However, the show shares the same world of Tolkien’s best known work and delivers an adaptation of the history of that world. This has included the appearance of locations such as Khazad-dum, and now Mordor many years before their more familiar appearance to cinemagoers in Peter Jackson’s movies.
The first episodes of The Rings of Power had much to do storywise to break free of the expectation some people had of seeing more characters that they know and love, or that it would be a direct adaptation of Tolkien’s additional books. Being set so long before Lord of the Rings, that was something that should have been a given, yet review-bombing of the series has constantly called out the movie for changing minor details from some of Tolkien’s work. While these have been necessary for a number of reasons, most of them legal, The Rings of Power has spent five episodes setting up this version of Middle Earth, and now they are about to deliver a fitting finale there.
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