Its a big moment for fans of high fantasy who currently have several big budget TV series to choose from. But for some the weeks leading up to the release of Amazons Lord of the Rings prequel series have meant a mix of excitement and a little anxiety.
My main concern was how much is this new version of Lord of the Rings going to incorporate a lot of what makes Game of Thrones Game of Thrones namely its gratuitous gore and sex scenes. And I am happy to say that it does not so I was pleasantly surprised Rebecca Jennings who has written about the series for Vox told me when I asked her what she thought of the show so far.
In The Lord of the Rings The Rings of Power the highly anticipated prequel series set thousands of years before J. R.R. Tolkiens books theres so far little of the graphic violence and nudity in the opening episodes that Jennings referenced. And viewers are introduced to Middle earth through the eyes of a woman.The first voice that viewers hear is the voice of the elven princess Galadriel played by Morfydd Clark a familiar character for fans of the Peter Jackson theatrical trilogy and who provides the opening dialogues of those films too.Nothing is evil in the beginning when the world was so young there had not yet been a sunrise Galadriel says in a voiceover. But even then there was light.
In Jacksons trilogy Galadriel was played by Cate Blanchett and was something of a wise stately elder. But this Galadriel is young vibrant and convicted a warrior in her own right.I think there is a kind of refreshing simplicity I would say about Tolkiens Middle earth where good is good and evil is evil and I think thats also reflected in the women on screen Jennings said. We know Galadriel from the films but she played a relatively small part in the trilogy whereas in this series she plays a warrior princess who has kind of intent on avenging her brothers death by Sauron. Clearly she is the one with the main driver of the plot and she has the one that's leading the battle leading the action and leading the tension.
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