Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power may seem like a GameofThrones rip-off to naïve viewers, but if its creative team is smart, it will be anything but.
Even before Game of Thrones went off the air, there was rampant and wild speculation about which show might emerge that could replace it. Game of Thrones was, according to some, the end of an era where TV fans would all watch the same show and then spend the following week discussing the latest episode and speculating about what was to come.
By contrast, Game of Thrones is a deeply cynical show that takes the concept of Lord of the Rings and mashes it up with actual European history. Heroes are unjustly beheaded, bad people continue to amass power that they definitely don’t deserve, and the embodiment of evil is able to rise to power in part because of divisions in the world of men.
Unless Rings of Power proves to be a wild departure from that tone, it’s going to be, in its way, a much easier show to get your hands around. It may have just as much mythology and lore, but at the end of the day, that lore is biblical and elemental. With Thrones, Martin thrives in the space between myth and reality and loves the ambiguity of a legend that has faded or changed over time. Lord of the Rings is very much not that kind of story.
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