Amazon Prime's most anticipated fantasy series The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power finally premiered its first episodes on the platform last week, marking a strong start with breathtaking cinematography, excellent visual effects, a compelling story and a huge budget of reportedly US$60 million (2.1 billion baht) per episode, which is twice that of Stranger Things Season 4, and quadruple the cost Game Of Thrones' final season.
Long before Bilbo Baggins' outreach on Gollum, and before Frodo fell in with a burning ring of fire, there were the Harfoots and the beautiful kingdom of Númenor. The Rings Of Power is an epic drama set thousands of years before the events of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings. It brings to screens for the very first time the heroic legends of the fabled Second Age of Middle-earth's history, and will take viewers back to an era in which great powers were forged, kingdoms rose to glory and fell to ruin, unlikely heroes were tested, hope hung by the finest of threads, and one of the greatest villains that ever flowed from J.R.R. Tolkien's pen threatened to cover all the world in darkness.
