SPOILER ALERT: This podcast contains details of the first two episodes of Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, which debuted Thursday night.
For more on the epic series, watch Deadline’s Inside The Ring: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power after-show that launches Saturday. “The first thing I would say is we don’t really think of it as a prequel, though it is before,” The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power executive producer Lindsey Weber says about the sprawling multi-season Prime Video series based on J.R.R.
Tolkien’s epics that debuted Thursday night. “Something about the word prequel seems to suggest you need to know what comes later to appreciate it.
It’s sort of like an appendage to a preexisting thing, and we don’t feel that way about this.”“This is a story that you can appreciate if you’ve not read the books, if you’ve not seen the movies, there is an on-ramp for you,” Weber says with a shout-out to Peter Jackson’s award-winning big-screen trilogy as part of her exclusive sit-down with Hero Nation about all thing LOTR. “This could be your first introduction to Middle-earth and we would be honored if it does become that for people, and it winds up turning people on to read the books – it would be a thrill for us.”In that thrilling vein, take a listen to our wide-ranging LOTR branded podcast here:Set thousands of years before the sagas of Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, the J.D.
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