It’s Time to Admit That “Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” Is a Very Bad Show

The time for excuses and justifications is over. It’s now clear that “Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” will come nowhere close to honoring the legacy of the Tolkien media that came before it.

ABOVE: Morfydd Clark as Galadriel, Sophia Nomvete as Disa, and Robert Aramayo as Elrond in Amazon’s Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.

Introduction

Let’s get a few things clear right off the bat—as without certain clarifications no civil discussion of Amazon’s new streaming TV series, Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, is possible.

(1) I have no is…