The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien are some of the most beloved books of the past century, and basically responsible for launching the high fantasy genre as we still know it. Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy is celebrated to this day, but every attempt to bring Tolkien's world to the screen since then has stumbled. The Hobbit movie trilogy, while profitable, stretched out a short, charming book far too thin, and 2024's animated feature The War of the Rohirrim made so few waves this may be the first you're hearing about it. Meanwhile, Prime Video's Rings of Power TV show has been all of fine, and this franchise deserves better than fine. (Prime Video would have been better off keeping their other, superior high fantasy show.)
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