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The Rings of Power: Fantasy with Tolkienian roots, but not of Tolkien

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I’ve only viewed the trailer and two episodes of Amazon’s The Rings of Power. How can I say where it’s going? After all, I’ve seen characters out of J. R. R. Tolkien’s grand myth and […]

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