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Eldest (episode)

2024-09-07T13:30:15Z

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| writer=[[Glenise Mullins]]
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| runtime=65 minutes
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{{Quote|[[The Stranger]] finds what he's been searching for. [[Arondir]] and [[Isildur]] search for [[Theo]]. [[Galadriel]] and [[Elrond]] walk into a trap.|Official Synopsis, [[Amazon Studios]]}}

'''Eldest''' is the twelfth episode of [[Amazon Studios]]'s television series, ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power]]''. It is the fourth episode of the second season and it was released on [[5 September]], [[2024]].

==Synopsis==

== Cast ==
=== Credited ===
:''In order of appearance'' (in episode credits)
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! Actor !! Role
|-
| [[Robert Aramayo]] || [[Elrond]]
|-
| [[Morfydd Clark]] || [[Galadriel]]
|-
| [[Daniel Weyman]] || [[The Stranger]]
|-
| [[Markella Kavenagh]] || [[Elanor Brandyfoot|Nori Brandyfoot]]
|-
| [[Megan Richards]] || [[Poppy Proudfellow]]
|-
| [[Ciarán Hinds]] || [[Dark Wizard]]
|-
| [[Maxim Baldry]] || [[Isildur]]
|-
| [[Ismael Cruz Córdova]] || [[Arondir]]
|-
| [[Tyroe Muhafidin]] || [[Theo]]
|-
| [[Benjamin Walker]] || [[Gil-galad|High King Gil-galad]]
|-
| [[Charles Edwards]] || [[Celebrimbor|Lord Celebrimbor]]
|-
| [[Charlie Vickers]] || [[Sauron]]
|-
| [[Rory Michael Kinnear|Rory Kinnear]] || [[Tom Bombadil]]
|-
| [[Samuel Hazeldine|Sam Hazeldine]] || [[Adar (The Rings of Power)|Adar]]
|-
| [[Jim Broadbent]] || [[Snaggleroot]]
|-
| [[Olivia Williams]] || [[Winterbloom]]
|-
| [[Calam Lynch]] || [[Camnir]]
|-
| [[Gavi Singh Chera]] || [[Merimac]]
|-
| [[Tanya Moodie]] || [[Gundabale Earthauler]]
|-
| [[Nia Towle]] || [[Estrid]]
|-
| [[Charlie Rix]] || [[Vorohil]]
|-
| [[Selina Lo]] || [[Rían (Selina Lo)|Rían]]
|-
| [[Oliver Alvin-Wilson]] || [[Daemor]]
|-
| [[Yasen Atour|Zates Atour]] || [[Brânk]]
|-
| [[Peter Landi]] || [[Marmadas]]
|-
| [[Bridie Sisson]] || [[Mystics|The Dweller]] / [[Barrow-wights|Barrow-wight]]
|-
| [[Anabel Kutay]] || [[Mystics|Messenger Acolyte]]
|-
| [[Raya Yarbrough]] || [[Goldberry|Goldberry (voice)]]
|-
| [[Kaner Scott]] || [[Barrow-wights|Barrow-wight]]
|-
| [[Robert Strange]] || [[Barrow-wights|Barrow-wight]] / [[Snaghûl]]
|-
| [[Thomas Gilbey]] || [[Barrow-wights|Barrow-wight]] / [[Drúv]]
|-
| [[Arthur Griffiths]] || [[Barrow-wights|Barrow-wight]]
|-
| [[Stewart Scudamore]] || [[Men|Grizzled Southlander]]
|-
| [[Joshua Ford]] || [[Men|Pragmatic Southlander]]
|-
| [[Gabriel Akuwudike]] || [[Hagen]]
|-
| [[Murray McArthur]] || [[Ammred]]
|-
| [[Theo Spofforth]] || [[Gaudrim|Gaudrim Scout]]
|-
| [[Kai Martin]] || [[Borzag]]
|-
| [[Anthony Skrimshire]] || [[Orcs|Warrior Orc]]
|-
| [[Zubin]] || Additional Voice Work By
|}

== Trivia ==
Below is a list of trivia from Amazon's "X-Ray" feature that accompanied the episode.
* Scene 2 - "Most of the details and elaborations told herein are derived from '[[The Lord of the Rings]]', its prologue entitled '[[Concerning Hobbits]]', and its [[Appendices]], [[Appendix A|A]] through [[Appendix F|F]], where the intrepid traveler may journey to discover even farther horizons."

== Production ==

== Differences ==

== Reception ==

{{references}}

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[[Category:The Rings of Power (TV series) episodes|12]]

The Eagle and the Sceptre

2024-09-07T13:30:11Z

Crimson:

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{{episode infobox
| name= The Eagle and the Sceptre
| image =
| caption=
| director=[[Louise Hooper]] [[Charlotte Brändström]]
| writer=[[Helen Shang]]
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| music=[[Bear McCreary]] Main Title by [[Howard Shore]]
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| studio=[[Amazon Studios]]
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| released=[[29 August]] [[2024]]
| runtime=66 minutes
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| imdb_id=27580490
| gallery=The Rings of Power (TV series)
| previous=[[Where the Stars are Strange]]
| next=[[Eldest (episode)|Eldest]]
}}

{{Quote|[[Isildur]] and an old [[Berek|friend]] reunite. [[Arondir]] grapples with change. [[Tar-Míriel|Míriel]] faces rising [[King's Men|opposition]]. [[Annatar]] counsels [[Celebrimbor]].|Official Synopsis, [[Amazon Studios]]}}

'''The Eagle and the Sceptre''' is the eleventh episode of [[Amazon Studios]]'s television series, ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power]]''. It is the third episode of the second season and it was released on [[29 August]], [[2024]].

==Synopsis==

== Cast ==
=== Credited ===
:''In order of appearance'' (in episode credits)
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! Actor !! Role
|-
| [[Lloyd Owen]] || [[Elendil|Captain Elendil]]
|-
| [[Maxim Baldry]] || [[Isildur]]
|-
| [[Trystan Gravelle]] || [[Ar-Pharazôn|Pharazôn]]
|-
| [[Cynthia Addai-Robinson]] || [[Tar-Míriel|Queen Regent Míriel]]
|-
| [[Charles Edwards]] || [[Celebrimbor|Lord Celebrimbor]]
|-
| [[Sophia Nomvete]] || [[Disa]]
|-
| [[Owain Arthur]] || [[Durin IV]]
|-
| [[Charlie Vickers]] || [[Sauron]]
|-
| [[Ismael Cruz Córdova]] || [[Arondir]]
|-
| [[Tyroe Muhafidin]] || [[Theo]]
|-
| [[Peter Mullan]] || [[Durin III|King Durin III]]
|-
| [[Alex Tarrant]] || [[Valandil (The Rings of Power)|Valandil]]
|-
| [[Ema Horvath]] || [[Eärien]]
|-
| [[Leon Wadham]] || [[Kemen (The Rings of Power)|Kemen]]
|-
| [[William Keen|Will Keen]] || [[Belzagar (The Rings of Power)|Lord Belzagar]]
|-
| [[Samuel Hazeldine|Sam Hazeldine]] || [[Adar (The Rings of Power)|Adar]]
|-
| [[Nia Towle]] || [[Estrid]]
|-
| [[Kevin Eldon]] || [[Narvi]]
|-
| [[Robert Strange]] || [[Khrudge]] / [[Glûg]]
|-
| [[Jonny James]]|| [[Orcs|Ravager Orc]] / [[Orcs|Wall Orc]]
|-
| [[Ken Blackburn]] || [[Tar-Palantir]]
|-
| [[William Chubb]] || [[High Priest]]
|-
| [[Kirsty Hoiles]] || [[Niluzôr]]
|-
| [[Benjamin Walker]] || Voice of [[Damrod (The Rings of Power)|Damrod]], the [[Hill-troll]]
|-
| [[Peter Temple]] || [[Men|Old Man]]
|-
| [[Alli Ryan]] || [[Men|Madwoman]]
|-
| [[Nazanin Boniadi]] || [[Bronwyn]]
|-
| [[Gabriel Akuwudike]] || [[Hagen]]
|-
| [[Murray McArthur]] || [[Ammred]]
|-
| [[Mihir Pandya]] || [[Men|One Eyed Wildman]]
|}

== Trivia ==
Below is a list of trivia from Amazon's "X-Ray" feature that accompanied the episode.
* Scene 2 - "Most of the details and elaborations told herein are derived from '[[The Lord of the Rings]]', its prologue entitled '[[Concerning Hobbits]]', and its [[Appendices]], [[Appendix A|A]] through [[Appendix F|F]], where the intrepid traveler may journey to discover even farther horizons."

== Production ==

== Differences ==

== Reception ==

{{references}}

{{rop-episodes}}

{{title}}

[[Category:The Rings of Power (TV series) episodes|11]]

Where the Stars are Strange

2024-09-07T13:30:08Z

Crimson:

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| director=[[Charlotte Brändström]] [[Louise Hooper]]
| writer=[[Jason Cahill]]
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| runtime=62 minutes
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| previous=[[Elven Kings Under the Sky]]
| next=[[The Eagle and the Sceptre]]
}}

{{Quote|Darkness falls over [[Khazad-dûm]]. [[Sauron]] and [[Galadriel]] each seek new allies. [[The Stranger]] and [[Harfoots]] encounter a growing threat.|Official Synopsis, [[Amazon Studios]]}}

'''Where the Stars are Strange''' is the tenth episode of [[Amazon Studios]]'s television series, ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power]]''. It is the second episode of the second season and it was released on [[29 August]], [[2024]].

==Synopsis==

== Cast ==
=== Credited ===
:''In order of appearance'' (in episode credits)
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! Actor !! Role
|-
| [[Sophia Nomvete]] || [[Disa]]
|-
| [[Owain Arthur]] || [[Durin IV]]
|-
| [[Morfydd Clark]] || [[Galadriel]]
|-
| [[Charles Edwards]] || [[Celebrimbor|Lord Celebrimbor]]
|-
| [[Benjamin Walker]] || [[Gil-galad|High King Gil-galad]]
|-
| [[Charlie Vickers]] || [[Sauron]]
|-
| [[Ciarán Hinds]] || [[Dark Wizard]]
|-
| [[Markella Kavenagh]] || [[Elanor Brandyfoot|Nori Brandyfoot]]
|-
| [[Megan Richards]] || [[Poppy Proudfellow]]
|-
| [[Daniel Weyman]] || [[The Stranger]]
|-
| [[Robert Aramayo]] || [[Elrond]]
|-
| [[Peter Mullan]] || [[Durin III|King Durin III]]
|-
| [[Amelia Kenworthy]]|| [[Mirdania]]
|-
| [[Kevin Eldon]] || [[Narvi]]
|-
| [[Ben Daniels]] || [[Círdan]]
|-
| [[Akshay Khanna]]|| [[Commander of the West]]
|-
| [[Freddie Bowerman]] || [[Commander of the East]]
|-
| [[Jeany Spark]] || [[Commander of the South]]
|-
| [[Jamie Bisping]] || [[Calenwë]]
|-
| [[Yasen Atour|Zates Atour]] || [[Brânk]]
|-
| [[Bryony Miller]] || [[Mystics|Acolyte]]
|-
| [[Anabel Kutay]] || [[Mystics|Messenger Acolyte]]
|-
| [[Bridie Sisson]] || [[Mystics|The Dweller]]
|-
| [[Arkie Reece]] || [[Kilta]]
|-
| [[Theo Spofforth]] || [[Gaudrim|Gaudrim Scout]]
|-
| [[Laura Jane Matthewson]] || [[Revna]]
|-
| [[Rachel Payne]] || [[Brenna]]
|-
| [[Ewan Black]] || [[Dwarves|Miner #2]]
|-
| [[Stuart Bowman]] || [[Barduk]]
|-
| [[Simon Greenall]] || [[Dwarves|Miner #1]]
|-
| [[Celeste Dodwell]] || [[Elves|Elf Artisan]]
|-
| [[Tom Slatter]] || [[Dwarves|Dwarf Palace Guard]]
|-
| [[Zubin Varla]] || Additional Voice Work By
|}

=== Un-credited ===
:''In order of appearance'' (on IMDb)
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! Actor !! Role
|-
| Erin Battle || High Priestess
|}

== Trivia ==
Below is a list of trivia from Amazon's "X-Ray" feature that accompanied the episode.
* Scene 2 - "Most of the details and elaborations told herein are derived from '[[The Lord of the Rings]]', its prologue entitled '[[Concerning Hobbits]]', and its [[Appendices]], [[Appendix A|A]] through [[Appendix F|F]], where the intrepid traveler may journey to discover even farther horizons."

== Production ==

== Differences ==

== Reception ==

{{references}}

{{rop-episodes}}

{{title}}

[[Category:The Rings of Power (TV series) episodes|10]]

Elven Kings Under the Sky

2024-09-07T13:30:04Z

Crimson:

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| image =
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| director=[[Charlotte Brändström]]
| writer=[[Gennifer Hutchison]]
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| music=[[Bear McCreary]]
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| studio=[[Amazon Studios]]
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| released=[[29 August]] [[2024]]
| runtime=76 minutes
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| imdb_id=13580784
| gallery=The Rings of Power (TV series)
| previous=[[Alloyed]]
| next=[[Where the Stars are Strange]]
}}

{{Quote|Season Premiere. [[Sauron]] bargains with [[Adar (The Rings of Power)|Adar]]. [[The Stranger]] and [[Elanor Brandyfoot|Nori]] venture into new [[Rhûn|lands]]. [[Three Rings|The]] [[Narya|Three]] [[Nenya|Elven]] [[Vilya|Rings]] face judgement.|Official Synopsis, [[Amazon Studios]]}}

'''Elven Kings Under the Sky''' is the ninth episode of [[Amazon Studios]]'s television series, ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power]]''. It is the first episode of the second season and it was released on [[29 August]], [[2024]].

==Synopsis==

== Cast ==
=== Credited ===
:''In order of appearance'' (in episode credits)
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! Actor !! Role
|-
| [[Charlie Vickers]] || [[Sauron]]
|-
| [[Morfydd Clark]] || [[Galadriel]]
|-
| [[Robert Aramayo]] || [[Elrond]]
|-
| [[Benjamin Walker]] || [[Gil-galad|High King Gil-galad]]
|-
| [[Daniel Weyman]] || [[The Stranger]]
|-
| [[Ciarán Hinds]] || [[Dark Wizard]]
|-
| [[Markella Kavenagh]] || [[Elanor Brandyfoot|Nori Brandyfoot]]
|-
| [[Megan Richards]] || [[Poppy Proudfellow]]
|-
| [[Charles Edwards]] || [[Celebrimbor|Lord Celebrimbor]]
|-
| [[Jack Lowden]] || [[Forodwaith]] [[Sauron]]
|-
| [[Ben Daniels]] || [[Círdan]]
|-
| [[Samuel Hazeldine|Sam Hazeldine]]|| [[Adar (The Rings of Power)|Adar]]
|-
| [[Nicholas Woodeson]] || [[Diarmid]]
|-
| [[Geoff Morrell]] || [[Waldreg]]
|-
| [[Amelia Kenworthy]]|| [[Mirdania]]
|-
| [[Adam Basil]] || [[Orcs|Nervous Orc]]
|-
| [[John Macdonald]] || [[Orcs|Next Orc]]
|-
| [[Nellie Burroughes]] || [[Men|Peddler Woman]]
|-
| [[Virginie Laverdure]] || [[Abigail]]
|-
| [[Rosalie Button]] || [[Men|Survivor On Raft #1]]
|-
| [[Jane Montgomery Griffiths]] || [[Astrid (The Rings of Power)|Astrid]]
|-
| [[Matt Bennett]] || [[Men|Survivor On Raft #2]]
|-
| [[Berynn Schwerdt]] || [[Eamon (The Rings of Power)|Eamon]]
|-
| [[Daniel Burke]] || [[Mirthless Guard]]
|-
| [[Robert Strange]] || [[Glûg]]
|-
| [[Hélder Fernandes]] || [[Men|Skinny Lad]]
|-
| [[Mark Kempner]] || [[Men|Old Prisoner]]
|-
| [[Tomás Azocar-Nevin]] || [[Men|Young Prisoner]]
|-
| [[Yasen Atour|Zates Atour]] || [[Brânk]]
|-
| [[Celeste Dodwell]] || [[Elves|Elf Artisan]]
|-
| [[Jamie Bisping]] || [[Calenwë]]
|-
| [[Emily-Jane McNeill]] || [[Ídhiel]]
|-
| [[Arkie Reece]] || [[Kilta]]
|}

=== Un-credited ===
:''In order of appearance'' (on IMDb)
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! Actor !! Role
|-
| Tony McCarthy || [[Orcs|Warlord Orc]]
|-
| Ekran Mustafa || [[Orcs|Warlord Orc]]
|-
| Anastasia Zabarchuk || [[Orcs|Orc Warlord]]
|}

== Trivia ==
Below is a list of trivia from Amazon's "X-Ray" feature that accompanied the episode.
* Scene 2 - "Most of the details and elaborations told herein are derived from '[[The Lord of the Rings]]', its prologue entitled '[[Concerning Hobbits]]', and its [[Appendices]], [[Appendix A|A]] through [[Appendix F|F]], where the intrepid traveler may journey to discover even farther horizons."

== Production ==

== Differences ==

== Reception ==

{{references}}
== External links ==
* [https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc0xmdewntu2]

{{rop-episodes}}

{{title}}

[[Category:The Rings of Power (TV series) episodes|09]]

Alloyed

2024-09-07T13:20:49Z

Crimson:

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| name=Alloyed
| image = The Lord of the Rings The Rings of Power - Alloyed.jpg
| caption=
| director=[[Wayne Che Yip]]
| writer=[[Gennifer Hutchison]] [[J.D. Payne]] [[Patrick McKay]]
| screenplay=
| basedon=
| producer=
| starring=
| narrator=
| cinematography=
| editing=
| music=[[Bear McCreary]] Main Title by [[Howard Shore]]
| animator=
| studio=[[Amazon Studios]]
| distributor=
| released=[[14 October]] [[2022]]
| runtime=72 minutes
| country=
| language=
| budget=
| gross=
| website=
| imdb_id=11609048
| gallery=The Rings of Power (TV series)
| previous=[[The Eye]]
| next=[[Elven Kings Under the Sky]]
}}

{{Quote|Season One Finale. New alliances are forged.|Official Synopsis, [[Amazon Studios]]}}

'''Alloyed''' is the eighth episode of [[Amazon Studios]]'s television series, ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power]]''. It is the final episode of the first season and it was released on [[14 October]], [[2022]].

==Synopsis==
===Harfoots===
[[The Stranger]] wanders through large rocks in Eryn Galen, the Greenwood, hearing [[Elanor Brandyfoot]]'s reminder that he's not a peril, he's good, as he holds the beautiful apple in his hand. He chases a mysterious grey figure who has stolen his apple through the woods that appears to be Nori but transforms into one of the [[Mystics]]. They greet him by the name of [[Sauron]]. The three Mystics surround The Stranger, telling him that they are here to help him draw back the veil placed on his mind by those who cast him down. They show him the constellation he has been seeking and identify it as The [[Hermit's Hat]], only visible from the far east in [[Rhûn]]. As they call his power upon him, a great wind arises. The Dweller blows on him and he collapses.

Nori, [[Poppy Proudfellow]], [[Sadoc Burrows]], and [[Marigold Brandyfoot]] peek through the trees to see two of them stringing up The Stranger. Nori goes to release him just as Sadoc stumbles upon the unconscious body of the real Stranger and realizes it's a trap. The strung-up figure turns into Dweller and attacks. The other two throw a knife at Nori, and miss, piercing Sadoc. As they are about to kill Nori, The Stranger arises and a wind sweeps through the trees. The Mystics attempt to calm him but he throws them back in a shockwave.

After a battle in which the Mystics corner the Harfoots, Nori reminds him that he is here to help and is defined by his actions. He rises and rescues the halflings, banishing the with his power. They burst into clouds of butterflies and disappear.

The [[Harfoots]] offer to carry the injured Sadoc back to camp, but he replies that he's about to go wandering off trail and would like to sit awhile and watch the sun come up.

In the [[Grove]], Nori and the Stranger discuss his identity. He reveals that the word they called him, [[Istar]], might be translated as "Wizard". Mourning the loss of Sadoc, the Harfoots make ready to continue, much more lightly burdened, on their journey. Nori's parents hand her her pack, and tell her that she belongs out with the Stranger. After many personal farewells, she departs.

===Númenóreans===
Back in [[Númenor]], [[Ar-Pharazôn|Pharazôn]] talks to [[Kemen]], [[Eärien]] and the rest of the [[Builder's Guild]] about the dying [[Tar-Palantir]]. Eärien is assigned to draw the King's portrait when he grabs her arm and warns her that if the old ways are not restored, the island will fall. She approaches a veiled object, round and covered with a black cloth, and pulls the veil back.

On their ship, [[Elendil]] finds [[Tar-Míriel|Míriel]] attempting to memorize the layout of the ship to hide her blindness. The two come to terms with the enormity of the cost of being part of the [[Faithful]] and reaffirm their commitment. As they sail into Númenor, she senses something is wrong and demands to know what he sees. The entire city is hung with black banners in mourning of the king's passing.

===Eregion===
[[Celebrimbor]] and [[Elrond]] await the arrival of [[Gil-galad]], despairing over what to do with so little [[mithril]]. Suddenly [[Galadriel]] and [[Halbrand]] ride in, looking rough, and explain they've been on the road six days since the battle. She and Elrond discuss her abandoning the ship to the west. Halbrand visits Celebrimbor's workshop, where he finds the mithril sample and suggests an alloy to amplify the qualities of the mithril.

Celebrimbor presents the idea to the Gil-galad, Elrond, and Galadriel, suggesting a crown, but is rebuffed by the high king, who says it is too late and orders him to disband the city and return to Lindon. Galadriel calls out a phrase of Celebrimbor and asks if Halbrand has been there. Celebrimbor brushes her off. Elrond has better luck pleading with Gil-galad for a stay of three months, and the forges are lit in Celebrimbor's workshop. Halbrand and Celebrimbor work together over the anvil while Galadriel looks on in increasing suspicion.

Smoke pours from the furnace as the metals refuse to bond. Halbrand suggest being gentler and Celebrimbor latches onto the idea with renewed energy. The scholar from the library earlier calls Galadriel away and Halbrand seems to sense something is wrong.

He finds her standing by the [[Glanduin]] with a document and tells her they are making something smaller. Two somethings. Galadriel demands to know he is, having proved that the line of kings of the Southlands was broken a thousand years ago. When she tries to point out all the good things he did, he turns them back on her, pointing out how they were her doing. She demands his name, and he responds, "I have been awake since before the breaking of the first silence. In that time, I have had many names." From this, Galadriel infers that he is [[Sauron]].

She attempts to stab him but instead falls and wakes up in a dream, addressed by [[Finrod]]. Only Finrod is just slightly off. It is Sauron/Halbrand inside her mind. He attempts to justify himself to her as Finrod but she rebuffs him. When he calls her back, she is suddenly on the raft at sea with Halbrand again. He invites her to join him, using her words against her. They fight and she finds herself sinking into the sea as she had before, only this time there is no rescue from Halbrand.

Gasping, she awakens in the stream, pulled out by Elrond. She holds her knife to his chest, demanding he prove who he is, and he tells her where they first met. She races to Celebrimbor's forge to tell him that they must make three rings to provide balance. He requests her knife to provide the gold and silver of Valinor.

Galadriel mourns the melting of her dagger. The rings are slowly forged in the workshop. Elrond, while out, discovers the document Galadriel had thrown in the stream and recognizes what she had discovered about "Halbrand".

===Mordor===
Halbrand walks into the smoke and fire of a black [[Mount Doom|volcanic]] [[Mordor|landscape]].

== Cast ==
=== Credited ===
:''In order of appearance'' (in episode credits)
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! Actor !! Role
|-
| [[Daniel Weyman]] || [[The Stranger]]
|-
| [[Markella Kavenagh]] || [[Elanor Brandyfoot|Elanor "Nori" Brandyfoot]]
|-
| [[Morfydd Clark]] || [[Galadriel]]
|-
| [[Robert Aramayo]] || [[Elrond]]
|-
| [[Charles Edwards]] || [[Celebrimbor|Lord Celebrimbor]]
|-
| [[Charlie Vickers]] || [[Halbrand]]
|-
| [[Trystan Gravelle]] || [[Pharazôn]]
|-
| [[Ken Blackburn]]|| [[Tar-Palantir]]
|-
| [[Ema Horvath]] || [[Eärien]]
|-
| [[Leon Wadham]] || [[Kemen]]
|-
| [[Benjamin Walker]] || [[Gil-galad|High King Gil-galad]]
|-
| [[Lenny Henry|Sir Lenny Henry]]|| [[Sadoc Burrows]]
|-
| [[Megan Richards]] || [[Poppy Proudfellow]]
|-
| [[Sara Zwangobani]] || [[Marigold Brandyfoot]]
|-
| [[Alex Tarrant]] || [[Valandil (The Rings of Power)|Valandil]]
|-
| [[Lloyd Owen]] || [[Elendil|Captain Elendil]]
|-
| [[Cynthia Addai-Robinson]] || [[Tar-Míriel|Queen Regent Míriel]]
|-
| [[Will Fletcher]] || [[Finrod]]
|-
| [[Thusitha Jayasundera]] || [[Malva Meadowgrass|Malva]]
|-
| [[Maxine Cunliffe]] || [[Vilma]]
|-
| [[Dylan Smith]] || [[Largo Brandyfoot]]
|-
| [[Beau Cassidy]] || [[Dilly Brandyfoot]]
|-
| [[Bridie Sisson]] || [[Mystics|The Dweller]]
|-
| [[Edith Poor]] || [[Mystics|The Nomad]]
|-
| [[Kali Kopae]] || [[Mystics|The Ascetic]]
|-
| [[Josh Metcalfe]] || [[Lambengolmor|Elven Loremaster]]
|}

== Trivia ==
Below is a list of trivia from Amazon's "X-Ray" feature that accompanied the episode.
* Scene 2 - "Most of the details and elaborations told herein are derived from '[[The Lord of the Rings]]', its prologue entitled '[[Concerning Hobbits]]', and its [[Appendices]], [[Appendix A|A]] through [[Appendix F|F]], where the intrepid traveler may journey to discover even farther horizons."

== Production ==

== Differences ==

== Reception ==

{{references}}
== External links ==
* [https://rop.digitaltolkien.com/S1E8/ Alloyed] at ROP Data
* [https://ringswrapup.com/021-theres-something-about-halbrand/ Episode analysis on Rings of Power Wrap-Up] (with [[Alan Sisto]], [[Sara Brown]], and [[James Tauber]])
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGvjKxA4dho&ab_channel=RingsandRealms Episode analysis on Rings & Realms] (with [[Corey Olsen]])
* [https://bearmccreary.com/the-lord-of-the-rings-episode-108/ Scoring ''Alloyed''] by [[Bear McCreary]]
* [https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/rings-of-power-sauron-season-2-lotr-1235240809/amp/ Sauron centric season two (spoilers)]
* [https://ew.com/tv/lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-charlie-vickers-halbrand-sauron-interview/ Interview with Sauron actor (spoilers)]

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[[Category:The Rings of Power (TV series) episodes|08]]

[[fi:Seostus (jakso)]]

The Eye

2024-09-07T13:20:45Z

Crimson:

{{disambig-two|the seventh episode of ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power]]''|emblem of [[Mordor]]|[[Eye of Sauron]]}}
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| director=[[Charlotte Brändström]]
| writer=[[Jason Cahill]]
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| music=[[Bear McCreary]] Main Title by [[Howard Shore]]
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| runtime=72 minutes
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}}

{{Quote|[[Men|Survivors]] of a [[Mount Doom|cataclysm]] try to find [[Pelargir|safety]]; the [[Harfoots]] confront [[Mystics|evil]]; [[Durin VI|Durin]] is torn between [[Elrond|friendship]] and [[Durin III|duty]]; [[Adar (The Rings of Power)|Adar]] considers a new [[Mordor|name]].|Official Synopsis, [[Amazon Studios]]}}

'''The Eye''' is the seventh episode of [[Amazon Studios]]'s television series, ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power]]'', released on [[7 October]], [[2022]].

== Synopsis ==
===Southlands===
[[Galadriel]] wakes up in the aftermath of the [[Mount Doom|Orodruin]] eruption covered in ash and lit in a fiery red glow. The ash-covered dead surround her and cries fill the air. She finds [[Theo]] in the smoke. [[Isildur]] is seen attempting to pull Valandil out from under a collapsed roof. Valandil informs him that Ontamo was in the building when it collapsed. [[Tar-Míriel|Queen Regent Míriel]] helps Isildur lift the roof, freeing Valandil and revealing the body of their friend. As the three attempt to rescue people from a burning building, the structure collapses, trapping Isildur inside, presumably dead. As the Southlanders and Númenóreans retreat, [[Elendil]] asks for news of his son. It becomes clear that Miriel has lost her sight.

Galadriel dispenses wisdom to Theo on their journey to the Númenórean camp, and receives some from him in turn. As the Númenóreans try to gather their horses into camp, Berek fights against his lead. Elendil is convinced to let him go but states that he should never have let "the elf" on board. Galadriel and Theo arrive at camp and are reunited with [[Bronwyn]], [[Arondir]], [[Halbrand]], and all the others. Elendil consults Miriel and they prepare to return to Númenor, leaving behind a garrison to find a place for the Southlanders to resettle safely. Miriel wears her eyes bandaged. She declares that Númenor will return, much to the dismay of Elendil. They set sail across the sea again.
Galadriel and Halbrand ride for Lindon to cries of "Strength to the King!" from the Southlanders. Galadriel bequeaths her Númenórean blade to Theo.

===Harfoots===
The [[Harfoots]] arrive at the [[Grove]] to find glowing rocks presumably shot from a volcano in the ground. [[The Stranger]] attempts to do something to the blighted tree, and the Harfoots gather around, believing he is going to save the tree like he saved them from the wolves in an earlier episode. Instead it drops a large limb on [[Elanor Brandyfoot]] and Dilly and the Harfoots view a confused Stranger with suspicion. [[Sadoc Burrows]] encourages the Stranger to leave, and he does.

They awake the next morning to find the grove entirely restored and a bumper crop. While harvesting snails or crawdads in a stream, [[Poppy Proudfellow]] finds an enormous man-footprint. The [[Mystics]] have been tracking the Harfoots and find evidence of The Stranger's passage through the Grove. When Nori tries to point them in the wrong direction, they loom over her. [[Largo Brandyfoot]] threatens them with a torch but they magically redirect the fire to burn the Harfoots' wagons. Largo then encourages and supports the Harfoots to pick up their pieces and carry on. Nori, Poppy, Marigold, Malva and Sadoc all support going to warn The Stranger that the Mystics are coming for him.

===Khazad-dûm===
[[Elrond]] pleads his case before Durin III, offering grain, meat, and timber from the Elven forests for five-hundred years in exchange for [[Mithril]] mines. Durin III rejects the offer, saying he will not risk dwarven lives in the elves pursuit of eternal life in Middle-earth. Durin IV breaks the news to Elrond, who leaves his sample of Mithril on the table beside the diseased Lindon leaf. As the two items lay side by side, the blight flows away and the leaf is restored. Encouraged by Disa, Durin IV yells for Elrond to come back.

Durin IV takes Elrond to a blocked mineshaft and they share friendly conversation as Durin breaks through to reveal a chamber filled with veins of mithril. Elrond gasps in awe and turns to look back on is friend, only to find that King Durin III has caught them. The king has Elrond thrown out and disowns his son when the younger Durin says he views Elrond as a brother.

Disa inspires Durin IV with the promise that he will one day be king, no matter what his short-sighted father says. Durin III throws the now-golden Lindon leaf into the Mithril pit and orders it sealed up. As the leaf lands on the ground and burns in the heat, a [[Durin's Bane|balrog]] erupts out of the depths.

===Mordor===
The Southlands, choked in ash and flame, is now the abode of orcs, evil Men, and [[Adar (The Rings of Power|Adar]]. Adar declares that it is no longer the Southlands, and a title card on the screen burns away the name "Southlands", transforming it into "[[Mordor]]".

== Cast ==
=== Credited ===
:''In order of appearance'' (in episode credits)
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! Actor !! Role
|-
| [[Morfydd Clark]] || [[Galadriel]]
|-
| [[Tyroe Muhafidin]] || [[Theo]]
|-
| [[Maxim Baldry]]|| [[Isildur]]
|-
| [[Alex Tarrant]] || [[Valandil (The Rings of Power)|Valandil]]
|-
| [[Cynthia Addai-Robinson]]|| [[Tar-Míriel|Queen Regent Míriel]]
|-
| [[Anthony Crum]] || [[Ontamo]]
|-
| [[Megan Richards]] || [[Poppy Proudfellow]]
|-
| [[Markella Kavenagh]] || [[Elanor Brandyfoot|Elanor "Nori" Brandyfoot]]
|-
| [[Daniel Weyman]] || [[The Stranger]]
|-
| [[Sara Zwangobani]] || [[Marigold Brandyfoot]]
|-
| [[Beau Cassidy]] || [[Dilly Brandyfoot]]
|-
| [[Dylan Smith]] || [[Largo Brandyfoot]]
|-
| [[Lenny Henry|Sir Lenny Henry]]|| [[Sadoc Burrows]]
|-
| [[Thusitha Jayasundera]] || [[Malva Meadowgrass|Malva]]
|-
| [[Maxine Cunliffe]] || [[Vilma]]
|-
| [[Robert Aramayo]] || [[Elrond]]
|-
| [[Owain Arthur]] || [[Durin IV|Prince Durin IV]]
|-
| [[Peter Mullan]] || [[Durin III|King Durin III]]
|-
| [[Sophia Nomvete]] || [[Disa|Princess Disa]]
|-
| [[Lloyd Owen]] || [[Elendil|Captain Elendil]]
|-
| [[Nazanin Boniadi]] || [[Bronwyn]]
|-
| [[Ismael Cruz Córdova]] || [[Arondir]]
|-
| [[Charlie Vickers]] || [[Halbrand]]
|-
| [[Joseph Mawle]] || [[Adar (The Rings of Power)|Adar]]
|-
| [[Geoff Morrell]] || [[Waldreg]]
|-
| [[James Munro]] || [[Dwarves|Dwarf Lord One]]
|-
| [[Michael Jones|Mike Jones]] || [[Dwarves|Dwarf Lord Two]]
|-
| [[Jed Brophy]] || [[Orcs|Hunter Orc]]
|-
| [[Robert Strange]] || [[Orcs|Other Orc]]
|-
| [[Edith Poor]] || [[Mystics|The Nomad]]
|-
| [[Kali Kopae]] || [[Mystics|The Ascetic]]
|-
| [[Bridie Sisson]] || [[Mystics|The Dweller]]
|}

== Trivia ==
Below is a list of trivia from Amazon's "X-Ray" feature that accompanied the episode.
* Scene 2 - "Most of the details and elaborations told herein are derived from '[[The Lord of the Rings]]', its prologue entitled '[[Concerning Hobbits]]', and its [[Appendices]], [[Appendix A|A]] through [[Appendix F|F]], where the intrepid traveler may journey to discover even farther horizons."

== Production ==

== Differences ==

== Reception ==

{{references}}
== External links ==
* [https://rop.digitaltolkien.com/S1E7/ The Eye] at ROP Data
* [https://ringswrapup.com/020-missing-persons/ Episode analysis on Rings of Power Wrap-Up] (with [[Alan Sisto]], [[Sara Brown]], and [[James Tauber]])
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nWfER50CLE&ab_channel=RingsandRealms Episode analysis on Rings & Realms] (with [[Corey Olsen]])
* [https://bearmccreary.com/the-lord-of-the-rings-episode-107/ Scoring The Eye] by [[Bear McCreary]]

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[[Category:The Rings of Power (TV series) episodes|07]]

[[fi:Silmä (jakso)]]

Udûn (episode)

2024-09-07T13:20:41Z

Crimson:

{{disambig-more|Udûn|[[Udûn (disambiguation)]]}}
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| image = The Lord of the Rings The Rings of Power - Udûn.jpg
| caption=
| director=[[Charlotte Brändström]]
| writer=[[Nicholas Adams]] [[Justin Doble]] [[J.D. Payne]] [[Patrick McKay]]
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| previous=[[Partings]]
| next=[[The Eye]]
}}

{{Quote|[[Adar (The Rings of Power)|Adar]] and his army march on [[Watchtower of Ostirith|Ostirith]].|Official Synopsis, [[Amazon Studios]]}}

'''Udûn''' is the sixth episode of [[Amazon Studios]]'s television series, ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power]]'', released on [[30 September]], [[2022]].

== Synopsis ==
=== Númenor ===
=== Southlands ===

== Cast ==
=== Credited ===
:''In order of appearance'' (in episode credits)
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! Actor !! Role
|-
| [[Joseph Mawle]] || [[Adar (The Rings of Power)|Adar]]
|-
| [[Geoff Morrell]] || [[Waldreg]]
|-
| [[Ismael Cruz Córdova]] || [[Arondir]]
|-
| [[Nazanin Boniadi]] || [[Bronwyn]]
|-
| [[Peter Tait]] || [[Tredwill]]
|-
| [[Tyroe Muhafidin]] || [[Theo]]
|-
| [[Maxim Baldry]]|| [[Isildur]]
|-
| [[Charlie Vickers]] || [[Halbrand]]
|-
| [[Morfydd Clark]] || [[Galadriel]]
|-
| [[Lloyd Owen]] || [[Elendil|Captain Elendil]]
|-
| [[Cynthia Addai-Robinson]]|| [[Tar-Míriel|Queen Regent Míriel]]
|-
| [[Anthony Crum]] || [[Ontamo]]
|-
| [[Alex Tarrant]] || [[Valandil (The Rings of Power)|Valandil]]
|-
| [[Phil Grieve]] || [[Bazur]]
|-
| [[Miranda Wilson]] || [[Men|Southlander Woman]]
|-
| [[Rob McKenzie]] || [[Men|Archer]]

|-
| [[Jesse Turner]] || [[Orcs|General Orc]]

|-
| [[Michael Homick|Mike Homick]] || [[Orcs|Skirmish Orc]]
|-
| [[Justin Doble]] || [[Men|Milky-Eyed Patron]]
|-
| [[Robert Strange]] || [[Orcs|Dying Orc]]
|-
| [[Jed Brophy]] || [[Orcs|Tavern Orc]]
|-
| [[Kimo Houltham]] || [[Númenóreans|Númenórean Soldier]]
|-
| [[Edward Clendon]] [[Luke Hawker]] [[Ellyce Bisson]] [[Rob Mackinnon]] [[Hori Ahipene]] [[Tim MachLachlan|Tim Machlachlan]] || [[Orcs|Fighting Orcs]]
|}

=== Uncredited ===
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! Actor !! Role
|-
| [[Ian Blackburn]] || [[Rowan (The Rings of Power)|Rowan (corpse)]]
|}

== Trivia ==
Below is a list of trivia from Amazon's "X-Ray" feature that accompanied the episode.
* Scene 2 - "Most of the details and elaborations told herein are derived from '[[The Lord of the Rings]]', its prologue entitled '[[Concerning Hobbits]]', and its [[Appendices]], [[Appendix A|A]] through [[Appendix F|F]], where the intrepid traveler may journey to discover even farther horizons."

== Production ==

== Differences ==
All these events that happen and have to do about [[Mount Doom|Orodruin]] (eruption, destruction of [[Tirharad]] e.t.c.) never happen in any of Tolkien's books.

== Reception ==

{{references}}
== External links ==
* [https://rop.digitaltolkien.com/S1E6/ Udûn] at ROP Data
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_N-SNjUnUI&ab_channel=RingsandRealms Episode analysis on Rings & Realms] (with [[Corey Olsen]])
* [https://bearmccreary.com/the-lord-of-the-rings-episode-106/ Scoring ''Udûn''] by [[Bear McCreary]]

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[[Category:The Rings of Power (TV series) episodes|05]]

[[fi:Udûn (jakso)]]

Partings

2024-09-07T13:20:37Z

Crimson:

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| image = The Lord of the Rings The Rings of Power - Partings.jpg
| caption=
| director=[[Wayne Che Yip]]
| writer=[[Justin Doble]]
| screenplay=
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| starring=
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| cinematography=
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| music=[[Bear McCreary]] Main Title by [[Howard Shore]]
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| released=[[23 September]] [[2022]]
| runtime=72 minutes
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| gallery=The Rings of Power (TV series)
| previous=[[The Great Wave]]
| next=[[Udûn (episode)|Udûn]]
}}

{{Quote|[[Elanor Brandyfoot|Nori]] questions her instincts; [[Elrond]] struggles to stay true to his oath; [[Halbrand]] weighs his destiny; The [[Men|Southlanders]] brace for attack.|Official Synopsis, [[Amazon Studios]]}}

'''Partings''' is the fifth episode of [[Amazon Studios]]'s television series, ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power]]'', released on [[23 September]], [[2022]].

== Synopsis ==
=== The Southlands ===
=== Númenor ===
=== Lindon ===
=== The Harfoots ===

== Cast ==
=== Credited ===
:''In order of appearance'' (in episode credits)
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! Actor !! Role
|-
| [[Markella Kavenagh]] || [[Elanor Brandyfoot|Elanor "Nori" Brandyfoot]]
|-
| [[Daniel Weyman]] || [[The Stranger]]
|-
| [[Sara Zwangobani]] || [[Marigold Brandyfoot]]
|-
| [[Dylan Smith]] || [[Largo Brandyfoot]]
|-
| [[Megan Richards]] || [[Poppy Proudfellow]]
|-
| [[Beau Cassidy]] || [[Dilly Brandyfoot]]
|-
| [[Joseph Mawle]] || [[Adar (The Rings of Power)|Adar]]
|-
| [[Nazanin Boniadi]] || [[Bronwyn]]
|-
| [[Ismael Cruz Córdova]] || [[Arondir]]
|-
| [[Ian Blackburn]] || [[Rowan (The Rings of Power)|Rowan]]
|-
| [[Geoff Morrell]] || [[Waldreg]]
|-
| [[Peter Tait]] || [[Tredwill]]
|-
| [[Tyroe Muhafidin]] || [[Theo]]
|-
| [[Lloyd Owen]] || [[Elendil|Captain Elendil]]
|-
| [[Maxim Baldry]]|| [[Isildur]]
|-
| [[Trystan Gravelle]]|| [[Pharazôn]]
|-
| [[Ema Horvath]] || [[Eärien]]
|-
| [[Leon Wadham]] || [[Kemen (The Rings of Power)|Kemen]]
|-
| [[Charlie Vickers]] || [[Halbrand]]
|-
| [[Morfydd Clark]] || [[Galadriel]]
|-
| [[Cynthia Addai-Robinson]]|| [[Tar-Míriel|Queen Regent Míriel]]
|-
| [[Lenny Henry|Sir Lenny Henry]]|| [[Sadoc Burrows]]
|-
| [[Thusitha Jayasundera]] || [[Malva Meadowgrass|Malva]]
|-
| [[Maxine Cunliffe]] || [[Vilma]]
|-
| [[Anthony Crum]] || [[Ontamo]]
|-
| [[Alex Tarrant]] || [[Valandil (The Rings of Power)|Valandil]]
|-
| [[Ken Blackburn]] || [[Tar-Palantir]]
|-
| [[Robert Aramayo]] || [[Elrond]]
|-
| [[Owain Arthur]] || [[Durin IV|Prince Durin IV]]
|-
| [[Charles Edwards]] || [[Celebrimbor|Lord Celebrimbor]]
|-
| [[Benjamin Walker]] || [[Gil-galad|High-King Gil-galad]]
|-
| [[Edith Poor]] || [[Mystics|The Nomad]]
|-
| [[Kali Kopae]] || [[Mystics|The Ascetic]]
|-
| [[Bridie Sisson]] || [[Mystics|The Dweller]]
|-
| [[Edward Clendon]] || [[Grugzûk]]
|-
| [[Phil Vaughan]] || [[Guild of Weaponsmiths|Smithy]]
|-
| [[Mana Hira Davis]] || [[Númenóreans|Worker One]]
|-
| [[Winham Hammond|Winham "Mu" Hammond]] || [[Númenóreans|Worker Two]]
|-
| [[Ella Hope-Higginson]] || [[Mairen (The Rings of Power)|Mairen]]
|-
| [[Justin Doble]] || [[Númenóreans|Milky-Eyed Patron]]
|-
| [[Jed Brophy]] [[Luke Hawker]] [[Phil Grieve]] [[Robert Strange]] || [[Orcs]]
|-
| [[Michael Morris]] || [[Númenóreans|Guardsman One]]
|}

=== Uncredited ===
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! Actor !! Role
|-
| [[Carmel McGlone]] || [[Edda (The Rings of Power)|Edda]]
|-
| [[Kieran Milton]] || [[Númenóreans|Cavalry Soldier]]<ref>https://m.imdb.com/title/tt11609040/fullcredits/cast?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm</ref>
|}

== Trivia ==
Below is a list of trivia from Amazon's "X-Ray" feature that accompanied the episode.
* Scene 2 - "Most of the details and elaborations told herein are derived from '[[The Lord of the Rings]]', its prologue entitled '[[Concerning Hobbits]]', and its [[Appendices]], [[Appendix A|A]] through [[Appendix F|F]], where the intrepid traveler may journey to discover even farther horizons."
* Scene 6 - "[[Halflings]] don’t wear shoes as their feet have tough, leathery soles clad with thick curling hair, and they can bear the brunt of nearly any terrain. (Concerning Hobbits)"
*Scene 8 - "Adar’s tolerance of the sun hints that he is not an orc – or not completely – for he seems to possess some of the gifts of the elves: Immortality and the ability to stand in the daylight without distress. His children, the orcs, avoid its painful glares by using sun-cloaks to keep its rays off their skin."
* Scene 10 - "Númenor uses books instead of scrolls for the ease of transmitting information from one generation to the next. Originally, they wrote in the elven script, Tengwar, but over time it changed to accommodate their own language and became a unique script of its own."
* Scene 20 - "Hungry Middle-earth [[wolves]] present one of the most terrifying of threats for Harfoots, who have few options for fighting back and their usual methods of hiding in plain sight don’t help against such predators."
* Scene 24 - "Pharazôn is Míriel’s cousin, and the nephew of the present King. In Númenor, the law declares that the eldest child of the King, regardless of gender, will be their successor. (Appendix A)"
* Scene 27 - "Lindon is a forested realm built alongside the firth of the River Lhûn, and borders the sea. What is built there feels nearly seamless with the nature encompassing it. (Appendix B)"
* Scene 28 - "Save only Sauron himself, Balrogs were the deadliest servants of Morgoth – creatures of shadow and flame that even elves fear. (Book II, Chapter 7)"
* Scene 29 - "The men and women of Númenor use the waters of the Sea to great effect – they’re so advanced that they have systems of canals and water-locks that crisscross the city. As such, a boat is never far away."
* Scene 35 - "The capital of Númenor is built up, rather than out. The achievements of the Edain are built upon foundations the elves helped create – foundations that they replace with their constant push towards progress."
* Scene 37 - "They are neither dwarves nor elven-smiths of Eregion, but even in terms of smithcraft the advancements of Númenor are the pinnacle of human achievements in the history of Middle-earth. In later days, their works in Middle-earth will seem to not be built by craft, but to be carved from the bones of the earth by the hands of giants. (Book V, Chapter 1)"
* Scene 40 - "Under the domination of the Dark Powers, Men have often grown to worship the evil that rules over them, being so ensnared by the knowledge and power they offer. (Book V, Chapter 10)"
* Scene 42 - "Long associated with the elves who garrison there, the [[Watchtower of Ostirith]] was nonetheless originally built by the humans who followed Morgoth. The elven occupation of it came as part of their constant vigilance for the return of evil – but it is whispered that the tower itself contains traces of a dark power created by Morgoth’s followers in the Elder Days."
* Scene 44 - "[[Aulë]], the name the dwarves often evoke, is the name of their believed creator. In their hearts his ancient fire is said to still be burning. (Appendix F)"
* Scene 47 - "Númenor’s arms and armour reflect the world they know – their armour is scaled like the sea-life that surrounds their island, and horses adorn their sword-hilts, with horse-hair tails on their helms."

== Production ==

== Differences ==

== Reception ==

{{references}}
== External links ==
* [https://rop.digitaltolkien.com/S1E5/ Partings] at ROP Data
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0NS3Gz7tdg&t=3838s&ab_channel=RingsandRealms Episode analysis on Rings & Realms] (with [[Corey Olsen]])
* [https://bearmccreary.com/the-lord-of-the-rings-episode-105/ Scoring ''Partings''] by [[Bear McCreary]]

{{rop-episodes}}

{{title}}

[[Category:The Rings of Power (TV series) episodes|05]]

[[fi:Eroja (jakso)]]

The Great Wave

2024-09-07T13:20:33Z

Crimson:

{{expansion}}
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| name=The Great Wave
| image = The Lord of the Rings The Rings of Power - The Great Wave.jpg
| caption=
| director=[[Wayne Che Yip]]
| writer=[[Stephany Folsom]] [[J.D. Payne]] [[Patrick McKay]]
| screenplay=
| basedon=
| producer=
| starring=
| narrator=
| cinematography=
| editing=
| music=[[Bear McCreary]] Main Title by [[Howard Shore]]
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| distributor=
| released=[[16 September]] [[2022]]
| runtime=71 minutes
| country=
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| previous=[[Adar (episode)|Adar]]
| next=[[Partings]]
}}

{{Quote|[[Tar-Míriel|Queen Regent Míriel's]] faith is tested; [[Isildur]] finds himself at a crossroads; [[Elrond]] uncovers a [[Mithril|secret]]; [[Arondir]] is given an ultimatum; [[Theo]] disobeys [[Bronwyn]].|Official Synopsis, [[Amazon Studios]]}}

'''The Great Wave''' is the fourth episode of [[Amazon Studios]]'s television series, ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power]]'', released on [[15 September]], [[2022]].

==Synopsis==
===Númenor===
[[Tar-Míriel|Queen Regent Míriel]] is conducting the ceremony of the [[Blessing of the Children]] when suddenly, the earth starts to shake. Míriel looks outside to see water rushing in, knocking over the city walls while a huge wave towers over the [[Armenelos]]. As water floods into the palace, Míriel suddenly wakes up from her [[Downfall of Númenor|dream]] and is greeted by [[Edda (The Rings of Power)|Edda]], who asks her what business she will attend to that day.

In a city square, [[Tamar (The Rings of Power)|Tamar]] addresses a group of people about Míriel's dealings with [[Galadriel]], spreading misinformation that the Elves will take over all of the guilds of Númenor. [[Ar-Pharazôn|Pharazôn]], upon being made aware by his son, [[Kemen]], goes to address the crowd himself. He tells the [[Men]] that being afraid of an Elf is unworthy of Númenor, assuring them that he will keep Númenor a kingdom of men. In the aftermath of the speech, Kemen introduces himself to [[Eärien]], later inviting her to dinner.

[[Galadriel]] tries to convince a skeptical Míriel that [[Halbrand]] is the exiled king of the Southlands and that Númenor should help him defeat [[Sauron]] in [[Middle-earth]]. When Míriel rebuffs her, Galadriel aggressively demands an audience with Míriel's father, [[Tar-Palantir]], whereupon she is put in jail in a cell alongside Halbrand. Meanwhile, while undergoing the sea trial, [[Isildur]] is distracted by a vision of the [[Andustar|West]], causing himself, [[Valandil (The Rings of Power)|Valandil]], and [[Ontamo]] to fail the trial and be expelled from the [[Guild of Venturers|Sea Guard]].

Talking to Halbrand, Galadriel realizes that she provoked Míriel's anger and fear by demanding to speak with the king. Pharazôn arrives with a guard to escort her to a ship back to Middle-earth, but she overpowers the soldiers and escapes to the [[King's Tower]], where she confronts Míriel near Tar-Palantir's bed. In response to Galadriel's questions, Míriel informs her that a rebellion took place when Tar-Palantir announced plans to renew relations with the Elves, and she was chosen to rule in his stead. She then shows Galadriel a ''[[Palantíri|palantír]]'' in which can be seen the vision of Númenor overwhelmed by a great wave. Míriel says she is afraid that following Galadriel's advice will provoke the wrath of the [[Valar]] and lead to Númenor's destruction.

The next morning, the Númenoreans watch Galadriel step onto a boat in the harbor rowing out to a ship. Walking back to the palace, Míriel sees the petals of the [[Nimloth (tree)|White Tree]] falling, indicating a sign from the Valar. Míriel then announces that she plans to go to Middle-earth with Galadriel to aid the people of the Southlands against Sauron. [[Elendil]] asks for volunteers for the expeditionary force and receives an enthusiastic response, beginning with Isildur, Valandil, and Ontamo.

===The Southlands===
[[Arondir]] is brought before the mysterious [[Adar]], who proves to be an elf tortured and mutilated and now leader of the orcs. Adar says that Arondir believes many lies, some run so deep that even rocks and roots believe them and undoing them would require a new world. He sends Arondir to the men hiding in the watch tower with a message.

Meanwhile humans set up camp in the old elven watch tower. Theo and Rowan attempt to raid Waldreg's root cellar and the tavern but are attacked by orcs. Rowan abandons Theo, who hides in the well. At night he attempts to escape while the orcs hunt for him and Arondir rescues him.

Back at the tower, Waldreg tells Theo that the hilt is a power that will bring back Sauron and that the starfall was the sign that Sauron's return is near.

===Eregion and Khazad-dûm===
In Eregion, Celebrimbor and Elrond dance around issues. Elrond returns to Khazad-dûm where Disa tries to put him off, but Elrond overhears her talk with Durin about where he will be and descends to the old mine. There he discovers the thin vein of mithril in the stone, but Durin confronts him. Durin demands an oath of secrecy. Upon receiving it, he displays this new ore to Elrond and gifts a tiny shard to him. Suddenly the lower mine collapses with four dwarves inside.
Disa sings in a way that reverberates through the rocks and allows them to free the trapped dwarves but the king has shut down the mining completely, resulting in a complete falling-out between father and son. Elrond's story of his own father convinces them to reconcile and Durin travels to Lindon with Elrond, admitting he believes there's more going on than has been said.

==Cast==
:''In order of appearance'' (in episode credits)
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
!Actor!!Role
|-
|[[Cynthia Addai-Robinson]]||[[Tar-Míriel|Queen Regent Míriel]]
|-
|[[Ema Horvath]]||[[Eärien]]
|-
|[[Leon Wadham]]||[[Kemen (The Rings of Power)|Kemen]]
|-
|[[Trystan Gravelle]]||[[Pharazôn]]
|-
|[[Morfydd Clark]]||[[Galadriel]]
|-
|[[Lloyd Owen]]||[[Elendil|Captain Elendil]]
|-
|[[Charlie Vickers]]||[[Halbrand]]
|-
|[[Maxim Baldry]]||[[Isildur]]
|-
|[[Anthony Crum]]||[[Ontamo]]
|-
|[[Alex Tarrant]]||[[Valandil (The Rings of Power)|Valandil]]
|-
|[[Ismael Cruz Córdova]]||[[Arondir]]
|-
|[[Joseph Mawle]]||[[Adar (The Rings of Power)|Adar]]
|-
|[[Nazanin Boniadi]]||[[Bronwyn]]
|-
|[[Peter Tait]]||[[Tredwill]]
|-
|[[Geoff Morrell]]||[[Waldreg]]
|-
|[[Tyroe Muhafidin]]||[[Theo]]
|-
|[[Ian Blackburn]]||[[Rowan (The Rings of Power)|Rowan]]
|-
|[[Robert Aramayo]]||[[Elrond]]
|-
|[[Charles Edwards]]||[[Celebrimbor|Lord Celebrimbor]]
|-
|[[Sophia Nomvete]]||[[Disa|Princess Disa]]
|-
|[[Owain Arthur]]||[[Durin IV|Prince Durin IV]]
|-
|[[Ken Blackburn]]||[[Tar-Palantir]]
|-
|[[Peter Mullan]]||[[Durin III|King Durin III]]
|-
|[[Laura Medes]]||[[Númenóreans|Young Mother]]
|-
|[[Carmel McGlone]]||[[Edda (The Rings of Power)|Edda]]
|-
|[[Jason Hood]]||[[Tamar (The Rings of Power)|Tamar]]
|-
|[[Adam Faiz]]||[[Guild of Weaponsmiths|Guild Merchant]]
|-
|[[Antonio Te Maioha]]||[[Sail Master]]
|-
|[[Phil Grieve]]||[[Bazur]]
|-
|[[Luke Hawker]]||[[Magrot]]
|-
|[[Jed Brophy]]||[[Vrath]]
|-
|[[Edward Clendon]]||[[Grugzûk]]
|-
|[[Robert Strange]]||[[Orcs|Warrior Orc]]
|-
|[[Dave Chapman]]||[[Dwarves|Masked Dwarf Guard]]
|-
|[[Preston O'Brien]]||[[Númenóreans|Guardsman Two]]
|-
|[[Rachel Payne]]||[[Dwarves|Dwarf Singer]]
|}

===Uncredited===
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
!Actor!!Role
|-
|Unknown actor||[[Alinel]]
|-
|Unknown actor||[[Gamli]]
|-
|Unknown actor||[[Gerda]]
|-
|[[Edward Clendon]]||[[Lurka]]
|}

==Trivia==
Below is a list of trivia from Amazon's "X-Ray" feature that accompanied the episode.
*Scene 2 - "Most of the details and elaborations told herein are derived from '[[The Lord of the Rings]]', its prologue entitled '[[Concerning Hobbits]]', and its [[Appendices]], [[Appendix A|A]] through [[Appendix F|F]], where the intrepid traveler may journey to discover even farther horizons."
*Scene 5 - "The White Tree of [[Númenor]], [[Nimloth]], is a descendant of one of the [[Two Trees]] of [[Valinor]] — it is a seedling of the tree [[Galathilion]], itself borne of the fruit of [[Telperion]] that once lit the [[Aman|Undying Lands]]. (Book VI, Chapter 5)"
*Scene 11 - "The [[Meneltarma]] is the tall mountain that rises in the center of the isle of [[Númenor]]. ([[Appendix A]])"
*Scene 17 - "The [[Andustar|Western Shores]] of [[Númenor]] face the [[Aman|Undying Lands]] and are the absolute westernmost point of all mortal lands. Before they were expelled, [[elves]] from [[Tol Eressëa|Eressëa]] would come to those shores with gifts and knowledge. ([[Appendix A]])"
*Scene 20 - "[[Beleriand]] was the country that expanded west of today's [[Middle-earth]] before bring destroyed in the [[First Age]]. [[Lindon]] is all that remains of what it used to be. ([[Appendix A]])"
*Scene 22 - "[[Orcs]] eat and drink like other [[Races|species]] - they may be wicked and cruel, but if they are to live at all they must live like other creatures. They will foul waters and meats when in need, but they are not so [[:Category:Evil|evil]] or different that they can get by on poison. (Book VI, Chapter 1)"
*Scene 24 - "[[Elrond|Elrond's]] father was [[Eärendil|Eärendil the Mariner]], who crossed the [[Belegaer|Sea]] to obtain the help of the [[Valar]]. He was given a fate apart, sailing his ship through the sky as a sign of hope to those oppressed by evil forces. ([[Appendix A]])"
*Scene 26 - "[[Dwarves]] have a special reverence for the [[Mirrormere]], the lake just outside the eastern entrance to [[Khazad-dûm]] - they say that in the reflection of its dark waters, the first [[Durin I|Durin]] beheld a crown of stars above his head. (Book II, Chapter 4)"
*Scene 28 - "To mine in [[Khazad-dûm]] is less a blunt-force affair, and more an act of revered sculpting - slowly and methodically tending to the stone to uncover the secrets held within. (Book III, Chapter 8)."
*Scene 32 - "The badges on [[Ar-Pharazôn|Pharazôn's]] tunic are symbolic of the many Guilds of [[Númenor]] - each Guild has a crest to represent it, and each specializes in a [[Guild of Venturers|specific craft]] or [[Guild of Weaponsmiths|civic responsibility]]."
*Scene 36 - "The [[Palantíri]] were made by the [[Noldor]] in [[Valinor]], perhaps even by [[Fëanor]] himself. Objects of incredible power, the full extent of what one can see within them is mere speculation, but they could undoubtedly see across seas of both water and time to perceive things far off and days remote. (Book III, Chapter 11)."
*Scene 38 - "The language the [[Orcs]] use is the [[Black Speech]], a tongue used without a love of its words, filled with curses and abuse. It was devised for the use of the servants of evil. ([[Appendix F]])"
*Scene 41 - "[[Dwarf-women]] seldom walk abroad from their own realms, giving rise to foolish beliefs about them amongst outsiders. ([[Appendix A]])"
*Scene 42 - "[[Durin]] was the name of the eldest of the [[Fathers of the Dwarves|Seven Fathers]] of the [[Dwarves]], and the ancestors of all the kings of the [[Longbeards]]. [[Durin I]] was known as Durin the Deathless, for he lived for such a long time, a much greater span than is normal for [[dwarves]]. ([[Appendix A]])"
*Scene 44 - "[[Men]] have always ranked among the servants of the Dark Powers. Through pride they prove easy to corrupt - or dominate. (Book II, Chapter 2)."
*Scene 47 - "The [[Tar-Palantir|King of Númenor]] is considered by many to be one of [[Faithful|The Faithful]], those who resist the dominant pull of the kingdom away from its roots and affiliation with the [[Eldar]] and the [[Valar]]. He tried to bring his kingdom back to the elven ways of its beginnings, but in so doing created strife and rebellion among the [[King's Men|people]] he ruled. ([[Appendix A]])"

==Production==

==Differences==

==Reception==

{{references}}
==External links==
* [https://rop.digitaltolkien.com/S1E4/ The Great Wave] at ROP Data
*[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5oMQrjSrXfU Episode analysis on Rings & Realms] (with [[Corey Olsen]])
*[https://bearmccreary.com/the-lord-of-the-rings-episode-104/ Scoring ''The Great Wave''] by [[Bear McCreary]]

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[[Category:The Rings of Power (TV series) episodes|04]]

[[fi:Suuri aalto (jakso)]]

Adar (episode)

2024-09-07T13:20:27Z

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{{Quote|[[Arondir]] finds himself a captive; [[Galadriel]] and [[Halbrand]] explore a legendary [[Númenor|kingdom]]; [[Elendil]] is given a new assignment; [[Nori]] faces the consequences.|Official Synopsis, [[Amazon Studios]]}}

'''Adar''' is the third episode of [[Amazon Studios]]'s television series, ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power]]'', released on [[9 September]], [[2022]].

==Synopsis==
===The Southlands===
[[Arondir]] finds himself taken to an [[Orc]]s enslavement camp in trenches somewhere in the [[Mordor|Southlands]], where many other humans and Elves, including Médhor and Revion, had been brought after capture. After Revion argues with the taskmasters Lurka and Vrath about a tree that the Orcs want felled, a leader of the camp, Magrot, offers the Elves water before abruptly killing Médhor in jest as he just so happened to be the last to drink the water.

At the end of the episode, Arondir, Revion, and a few others attempt a rebellion in the trench, tripping the taskmasters with their chains. Arondir saves Revion from a warg that is loosed upon them and impales Magrot in the neck with a tree-root, but Revion is shot to death after briefly climbing free out of the camp. Their attempt is quelled, and while Arondir is pinned to the ground, Lurka tells another Orc to summon Adar. Before the credits, Adar comes out as Orcs bow to him and chant his name, while his face is seen in a blur.

===Númenor===
[[Galadriel]] and [[Halbrand]] find themselves on a ship captained by [[Elendil]], headed toward [[Númenor]]. They travel up the river [[Siril]] and arrive at the capital city of [[Armenelos]]. At the city's high palace, they meet [[Tar-Míriel|Queen Regent Míriel]] and her chief advisor [[Ar-Pharazôn|Chancellor Pharazôn]], amid a large company of other [[Númenóreans]], presumably the [[Council of the Sceptre]]. Galadriel and Halbrand introduce themselves, and Míriel refuses to allow the two - particularly an [[Elves|Elf]] - passage back to [[Middle-earth]] as Galadriel requests.

Elendil is reluctant to let Galadriel escape Númenor when she tells him she is set on doing so, but the two establish friendship. He takes her to the kingdom's [[Hall of Lore]], where Galadriel discovers that the sigil of Sauron she had seen is in fact an abstract, sideview map of the Southlands, which Sauron intends to make into a new, committed realm. This realm would be located within the Southlands.

A young [[Isildur]], Elendil's son, is seen on a ship at sea near the island, training as a naval cadet with his friends Valandil and Ontamo, and others to get into the [[Guild of Venturers|Sea Guard]]. During their current voyage, the Sail Master's son, [[Imrahil (The Rings of Power)|Imrahil]], is rescued from being blown overboard.

After briefly trying and failing to get an apprenticeship with a smithy, Halbrand attempts to steal a guild crest from a man named Tamar. When Tamar and three other men confront him to take back the crest, Halbrand defeats them all in a street fight and is then arrested. At the prison, later, Galadriel tries convincing Halbrand again to accompany her to Middle-earth in order to redeem their blood-lines, as Sauron's endurance is the fault of the Elves who had warred against Morgoth, and of Halbrand's [[Ulfang|ancestors]] who were Morgoth's allies.

===The Harfoots===
The evening before the [[Harfoots]]' next migration, from the [[Norfield Glen]] to an orchard called the [[Grove]], [[The Stranger]] accidentally exposes himself to them while they are gathered commemorating their dead. Shocked at this, and angry at [[Elanor Brandyfoot|Nori's]] secret-keeping, the Harfoots confer what to do. Nori speaks out against their law concerning strangers and the outside world. On account of her youth, [[Sadoc Burrows]] forgives her deeds.

In the back of caravan the next day, departing from the woods, [[Largo Brandyfoot|Largo]] and [[Marigold Brandyfoot]] finally let the Stranger come along with them after he helps the family with their wagon.

==Cast==
:''In order of appearance'' (in episode credits)
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! Actor !! Role
|-
| [[Ismael Cruz Córdova]] || [[Arondir]]
|-
| [[Augustus Prew]] || [[Médhor]]
|-
| [[Simon Merrells]] || [[Revion|Watchwarden Revion]]
|-
| [[Morfydd Clark]] || [[Galadriel]]
|-
| [[Charlie Vickers]] || [[Halbrand]]
|-
| [[Lloyd Owen]] || [[Elendil|Captain Elendil]]
|-
| [[Cynthia Addai-Robinson]]|| [[Tar-Míriel|Queen Regent Míriel]]
|-
| [[Trystan Gravelle]]|| [[Pharazôn]]
|-
| [[Maxim Baldry]]|| [[Isildur]]
|-
| Anthony Crum || [[Ontamo]]
|-
| Alex Tarrant || [[Valandil (The Rings of Power)|Valandil]]
|-
| [[Ema Horvath]] || [[Eärien]]
|-
| [[Lenny Henry|Sir Lenny Henry]]|| [[Sadoc Burrows]]
|-
| [[Beau Cassidy]] || [[Dilly Brandyfoot]]
|-
| [[Markella Kavenagh]] || [[Elanor Brandyfoot|Elanor "Nori" Brandyfoot]]
|-
| [[Megan Richards]] || [[Poppy Proudfellow]]
|-
| [[Sara Zwangobani]] || [[Marigold Brandyfoot]]
|-
| [[Dylan Smith]] || [[Largo Brandyfoot]]
|-
| [[Daniel Weyman]] || [[The Stranger]]
|-
| [[Thusitha Jayasundera]] || [[Malva Meadowgrass|Malva]]
|-
| [[Maxine Cunliffe]] || [[Vilma]]
|-
| [[Joseph Mawle]] || [[Adar (The Rings of Power)|Adar]]
|-
| [[Jed Brophy]] || [[Vrath]]
|-
| Michael Morris || [[Númenóreans|Guardsman One]]
|-
| Antonio Te Maioha || [[Sail Master]]
|-
| Edward Clendon || [[Lurka]]
|-
| Luke Hawker || [[Magrot]]
|-
| Robert Strange || [[Orcs|Other Orc]]
|-
| Phil Grieve || [[Bazur]]
|-
| Preston O'Brien || [[Númenóreans|Guardsman Two]]
|-
| Phil Vaughan || [[Guild of Weaponsmiths|Smithy]]
|-
| [[Jason Hood]] || [[Tamar (The Rings of Power)|Tamar]]
|-
| Mana Hira Davis || [[Númenóreans|Worker One]]
|-
| Winham "Mu" Hammond || [[Númenóreans|Worker Two]]
|-
| Gabe Wright || [[Númenóreans|Messenger]]
|}

=== Uncredited ===
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! Actor !! Role
|-
| Amand Weaver || [[Men|Imprisoned Farmer]]<ref>https://m.imdb.com/title/tt11609034/fullcredits/cast?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm</ref>
|-
| Unknown actor || [[Imrahil (The Rings of Power)|Imrahil]]
|-
| Unknown horse || [[Berek]]
|-
| Ken Blackburn || [[Tar-Palantir]] (Off-camera, but in-scene)
|}

==Trivia==
Below is a list of trivia from Amazon's "X-Ray" feature that accompanied the episode.
* Scene 2 - "Most of the details and elaborations told herein are derived from '[[The Lord of the Rings]]', its prologue entitled '[[Concerning Hobbits]]', and its [[Appendices]], [[Appendix A|A]] through [[Appendix F|F]], where the intrepid traveler may journey to discover even farther horizons."
* Scene 6 - "Once slaves of the Dark Power themselves, [[orcs]] have been known to enslave even their own kind, and have often forced their conquered enemies into hard labor at their cruel hands. (Book VI, Chapter 2)"
* Scene 14 - "The central wharf of [[Númenor]]'s capital city is towered over by a statue of [[Earendil]] the Mariner, the [[half-elven]] savior of [[Middle-earth]] in the [[Elder Days]] and the forebear of this human kingdom's royal line. (Appendix A)"
* Scene 17 - "The ancestors of the [[Númenóreans]] were called the [[Edain]] - the men and women who first went west in [[Middle-earth]]. They were the allies of the [[elves]] in the [[First Age]] war against [[Morgoth]]. ([[Appendix A]])"
* Scene 20 - "[[Númenóreans]] are mariners of great renown, and lords of many ships on their island, which is also called [[Elenna]]. but they are forbidden from sailing [[west]] out of sight of their own shores, by the [[Ban of the Valar]], to prevent them from seeking the [[Undying Lands]] themselves. ([[Appendix F]]; [[Appendix A]])"
* Scene 23 - "It is a mark of evil things that came in the [[Great Darkness]] that they cannot abide the [[Sun]]. Some [[orcs]] can endure its light better than others, but they all hate it and only seldom will they journey in the open while the Sun shines. (Book III, Chapter 4)"
* Scene 25 - "[[Silvan]] elves hold a great love for trees, delighting in their wood and life within them, often watching them grow from acorns to ruinous old age. Given enough time, they say they might even hear the voices of the [[trees]] and understand their thoughts. (Book III, Chapter 8)"
* Scene 30 - "in contrast to the "lesser Men" or "low Men" who remained in [[Middle-earth]], the [[Númenóreans]] were gifted a life-span far greater than their cousins who were left behind - up to three times a normal human lifetime, in earlier days. ([[Appendix A]])"
* Scene 33 - "[[Elros]], the first king of [[Númenor]] who ruled under the name [[Tar-Minyatur]], was a half-elf like his brother [[Elrond]]. But when given the choice by the [[Valar]], he chose mortality and a human life. ([[Appendix A]])"
* Scene 35 - "[[Halflings]] delight in parties, and the Harvest Festival is a tradition meant to help the [[Harfoots]] prepare for the arduous migration that lies ahead."
* Scene 38 - "[[Harfoots]] use a pictographic "writing" system that uses symbols to convey meanings that can help to note important natural rhythms and tabulations which help them better prepare for future migrations."
* Scene 39 - "The wide-world is always around the [[Harfoots]]. They're vulnerable and unable to fence out the many dangers that exist for a small-sized creature like themselves."
* Scene 40 - "[[Sadoc Burrows]] is the [[Harfoot]]'s Trailfinder and leads the caravan. He uses his unique Star-book, passed down through the generations, to guide the [[Harfoots]] on the right course from one seasonal haven to the next."
* Scene 44 - "The [[Númenóreans]] love of the [[Sea]] extends to all elements of their culture. The statue in the center of this chamber is a personification of the Sea itself - as this was not, originally, a dungeon, but rather reappropriated as one sometime in the past."
* Scene 46 - "Everything the [[Harfoots]] own, they make or find and then carry with them inside their carts - their most valued possessions."
* Scene 48 - "[[Wargs]] are akin to [[wolves]], and are closely aligned with the [[orcs]] and the Darkness they serve. (Book II, Chapter 4)."

==Production==

==Deviations from Source Material ==
The ship that was shown at the very end of Episode 2 proves to be captained by Elendil. As in the last Episode, it is extremely unlikely humans would have been present in the part of the Sundering Seas where Elendil found Galadriel and Halbrand on the raft. The [[Númenóreans]] (the race to whom he belongs) were specifically forbidden from sailing so far West from their home that they could not see the shore. This prohibition was known as the [[Ban of the Valar]], which Elendil may have been in contravention of.

Other deviations from the source material pertaining to Númenor include:

* Míriel not knowing who Elendil was, when the source material notes they were, in fact, cousins and had known one another since childhood. In fact, Elendil's father was a member of her father's royal Council.
* Míriel was never Regent because her father Tar-Palantir was the reigning monarch until his death.
* Míriel speaks of a tradition which says that the White Tree of [[Nimloth (tree)|Nimloth]] would shed blossoms as a sign of the Valar's displeasure. No such tradition is mentioned in the source material. It is also worthy of note that in the books, the White Tree bore fruit, not blossoms.
* There is no indication in the source material that Galadriel ever travelled to Númenor. She also can be heard telling the people that the Elves gave the island to men. This is incorrect: the Valar themselves created the Island of Númenor, drawing it out of the sea as a gift to men for their bravery in opposing Morgoth during the First Age.

==== Other People, Places and Things ====
There is no indication in the source material that a stranger , possibly one of the Istari, landed in a meteorite and was found by Hobbits in the Second Age. Where references do exist to any the persons known as Wizards appearing on Middle Earth at this time, they always came among the Elves or among Men, and for a specific purpose. (See History of Middle Earth, Volume XII, "Late Writings".<ref>J.R.R Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien ed. The History of Middle Earth Vol XII: ''The Peoples of Middle Earth'' "Part XIII Late Writings".</ref>

It is unlikely that Durin III and Durin IV were actually father and son as shown in the show, since they lived many hundreds of years apart. Durin III recieved one of the original Rings of Power given to the Dwarves, and Durin IV was alive at the time of the War of the Last Alliance, which happened over 1700 years later. Given that the average lifespan for Dwarves was just over 200 years, the former was a distant ancestor of the latter.

==Reception==
* [https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_lord_of_the_rings_the_rings_of_power/s01/e03 Rotten Tomatoes Reviews]

{{references}}
== External links ==
* [https://rop.digitaltolkien.com/S1E3/ Adar] at ROP Data
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Hc4iK_t1Ek Episode analysis on Rings & Realms] (with [[Corey Olsen]])
* [https://bearmccreary.com/the-lord-of-the-rings-episode-103/ Scoring ''Adar''] by [[Bear McCreary]]

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[[Category:The Rings of Power (TV series) episodes|03]]

Adrift

2024-09-07T13:20:18Z

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| writer=[[Gennifer Hutchison]]
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{{Quote|[[Galadriel]] finds a new [[Halbrand|ally]]; [[Elrond]] faces a cold reception from an old [[Durin IV|friend]]; [[Elanor Brandyfoot|Nori]] endeavors to help a [[The Stranger|Stranger]]; [[Arondir]] searches for answers while [[Bronwyn]] warns her [[Tirharad|people]] of a [[Orcs|threat]]."|Official Synopsis, [[Amazon Studios]]}}

'''Adrift''' is the second episode of [[Amazon Studios]]'s television series, ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power]]'', released on [[2 September]], [[2022]].

==Synopsis==
===The Harfoots===
[[Poppy Proudfellow|Poppy]] finds [[Elanor Brandyfoot]] at the crater, and they strenuously relocate the sleeping [[The Stranger|Stranger]] with a cart. When he awakes, Elanor struggles to communicate with him. Unsettled, he suddenly causes great winds with his voice, and utters strange words Elanor cannot interpret. Back at home, [[Largo Brandyfoot|Largo]] injures his ankle putting up a canopy.

Later in the episode, at evening, Poppy and Elanor meet with the Stranger again. They offer their help, unsure if he understands them. With telekinetic powers, he breaks open Poppy's firefly-lantern, and as the fireflies disperse, he speaks to them, entranced as the fly around. Then he arranges them into a certain constellation against the night sky, which Elanor believes to be a clue to find The Stranger's home. The fireflies drop dead afterwards.

===The Southlands===
In the fresh ruins of Hordern, where no survivors are present, [[Arondir]] and [[Bronwyn]] find and enter the burnt house of her friends [[Ciaran]] and [[Hana]]. Arondir goes alone into a tunnel below ground, leading from the house. By an underground pool, within the hour, he is suddenly seized into the dark by an unknown foe.

Back at Waldreg's tavern in [[Tirharad]], Bronwyn tries to convince the folk to spread the news of Hordern, but with no luck. At Bronwyn's house, Theo discovers beneath their floor-boards a long-hidden [[Orcs|Digger Orc]] (whose noise Theo had believed was caused by mice) just as Bronwyn returns home. As the Digger Orc emerges, they hide from him, and then desperately try to kill him. She manages to behead the Digger Orc. With his head, Bronwyn goes and convinces the town-folk to seek safety and relocate to the [[Watchtower of Ostirith]], the local outpost.

Theo privately inspects the strange weapon he had found with Rowan in the prior episode, and then embarks with his mother, as all citizens of Tirharad exit the town with their belongings toward Ostirith.

===Eregion and Khazad-dûm===
[[Elrond]] goes and meets [[Celebrimbor]] at [[Ost-in-Edhil]], capital of [[Eregion]], and marvels at [[Fëanor|Fëanor's hammer]], which was used to craft the [[Silmarils]]. Celebrimbor tells of his own new ambitions, requesting that Elrond assist him in attaining the means to build a specialized forge-tower, necessary for crafting things of real power. For this they go to [[Khazad-dûm]] to enlist the aid of the [[Dwarves]]. In Khazad-dûm, Elrond invokes the [[Rite of Sigin-tarâg]] to earn [[Durin IV|Prince Durin]]'s favor in the Dwarven test of endurance. He looses the test, but convinces him to hear his proposal. He joins Durin and his wife, [[Disa]], for dinner, and tells his proposal off-screen.

Durin later relays the proposal to King [[Durin III]], his father, who is untrusting, and cautious against the notion of cooperation between Dwarves and Elves. In the same room, Durin III opens a chest, and the two observe a precious shiny object within, blocked from view.

===The Sea===
Swimming back to [[Middle-earth]], Galadriel encounters a raft of stranded human mariners frightened of a nearby nameless thing known as the worm that had wrecked their ship. Among them are [[Halbrand]], Eamon, and Abigail. The worm soon finds them and destroys the raft, and Galadriel escapes with Halbrand only. Heading east, Halbrand questions Galadriel's business at sea, and after an argument, she is gratified to learn from him that Orcs are indeed still active on Middle-earth, as they had driven Halbrand from his home in the [[Mordor|Southlands]]. At dusk, the waters turn stormy, and Galadriel nearly drowns before Halbrand rescues her.

In the last moment of the episode, an unknown ship the next morning finds Galadriel and Halbrand wearily sleeping on their raft.

==Cast==
:''In order of appearance'' (in episode credits)
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! Actor !! Role
|-
| [[Morfydd Clark]] || [[Galadriel]]
|-
| [[Markella Kavenagh]] || [[Elanor Brandyfoot|Elanor "Nori" Brandyfoot]]
|-
| [[Daniel Weyman]] || [[The Stranger]]
|-
| [[Megan Richards]] || [[Poppy Proudfellow]]
|-
| [[Lenny Henry|Sir Lenny Henry]] || [[Sadoc Burrows]]
|-
| [[Thusitha Jayasundera]] || [[Malva Meadowgrass|Malva]]
|-
| [[Sara Zwangobani]] || [[Marigold Brandyfoot]]
|-
| [[Ismael Cruz Córdova]] || [[Arondir]]
|-
| [[Nazanin Boniadi]] || [[Bronwyn]]
|-
| [[Robert Aramayo]] || [[Elrond]]
|-
| [[Charles Edwards]] || [[Celebrimbor|Lord Celebrimbor]]
|-
| [[Owain Arthur]] || [[Durin IV|Prince Durin IV]]
|-
| [[Dylan Smith]] || [[Largo Brandyfoot]]
|-
| [[Maxine Cunliffe]] || [[Vilma]]
|-
| [[Charlie Vickers]] || [[Halbrand]]
|-
| [[Berynn Schwerdt]] || [[Eamon (The Rings of Power)|Eamon]]
|-
| [[Virginie Laverdure]] || [[Abigail]]
|-
| [[Jane Montgomery Griffiths]] || [[Astrid (The Rings of Power)|Astrid]]
|-
| [[Sophia Nomvete]] || [[Disa|Princess Disa]]
|-
| [[Geoff Morrell]] || [[Waldreg]]
|-
| [[Tyroe Muhafidin]] || [[Theo]]
|-
| [[Peter Tait]] || [[Tredwill]]
|-
| [[Peter Mullan]] || [[Durin III|King Durin III]]
|-
| [[Megan Lilly Wilding]] || [[Dwarves|Dwarf Guard]]
|-
| [[Paul Ballard]] || [[Dwarves|Sour-Faced Dwarf]]
|-
| [[Travis Graham]] || [[Dwarves|Beady-Eyed Dwarf]]
|-
| [[Paula Nazarski]] || [[Harfoots|Malva's Sister]]
|-
| [[Rosalie Button]] || [[Men|Survivor On Raft #1]]
|-
| [[Matt Bennett]] || [[Men|Survivor On Raft #2]]
|-
| [[Justin Doble]] || [[Men|Milky-Eyed Southlander]]
|-
| [[Nathan Mennis]] || [[Orcs|Digger Orc]]
|}

=== Uncredited ===
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! Actor !! Role
|-
| Unknown actor || [[Gamli]]
|-
| Unknown actor || [[Gerda]]
|}

==Trivia==
Below is a list of trivia from Amazon's "X-Ray" feature that accompanied the episode.
* '''Scene 2''' - "Most of the details and elaborations told herein are derived from '[[The Lord of the Rings]]', its prologue entitled '[[Concerning Hobbits]]', and its [[Appendices]], [[Appendix A|A]] through [[Appendix F|F]]', where the intrepid traveler may journey to discover even farther horizons."
* '''Scene 3''' - "There is music to be found everywhere in [[Middle-earth]]: From the rushing of the [[rivers]], to the voices of [[Ents]], to the minstrels of [[elves]] and [[dwarves]], [[men]] and [[halflings]] - song is woven throughout all the world's cultures and even the land itself."
* '''Scene 9''' - "Given their diminutive size, halflings called humans 'the Big Folk', and did their best to avoid crossing paths with them, thanks in part to their impressive knack for disappearing swiftly and silently. (Concerning Hobbits)"
* '''Scene 12''' - "[[Eregion]] is the newest elven realm in Middle-earth, to the west of the [[Misty Mountains]]. It was founded in the early [[Second Age]] by the [[Noldor]], [[High Elves]] especially known for their craftsmanship. ([[Appendix B]])."
* '''Scene 13''' - "This door is the original [[West-gate]] of [[Khazad-dum]]. On it are carved inscriptions in [[Cirth]], a runic alphabet originally derived by the elves, but adapted for dwarven purposes to carve their language into stone. ([[Appendix E]])"
* '''Scene 15''' - "Dwarves are shorter than elves and men, but they are tough, thrawn, laborious, and famously lovers of stone, gems, and all things created by craft. (Appendix F)"
* '''Scene 17''' - "Despite (or perhaps because of) the difficulties of an itinerant life and challenges of finding their next meal, halflings have a deep love of food and an undoubtedly adventurous appetite. They'd eat six meals a day if they could. (Concerning Hobbits)"
* '''Scene 22''' - "The [[Great Sea]], or The [[Sundering Seas]], divides the [[Undying Lands]] from Middle-earth - where there are still [[nameless things]] in the deepest places of the world. (Book III, Chapter 5)"
* '''Scene 25''' - "Elves and Dwarves have traditionally held many grievances against one another; embers of the dwarves' grudge against the elves lingers even from the [[Elder Days]]. (Appendix F)"
* '''Scene 28''' - "Like all of [[Khazad-dum]], [[Durin]]'s home is carved straight out of the mountain rock it's buried deep within, upheld by stone pillars. Gold and jewels are used generously, as there is no lack of such riches here, and magnificent lanterns keep the dark at bay. (Book II, Chapter 4)"
* '''Scene 29''' - "The Men of Middle-earth can be known to fear and misdoubt elves, yet they often know little of them. (Book IV, Chapter 5)"
* '''Scene 32''' - "[[Arondir]]'s armor is typical of his garrison of [[Silvan elves]], filled with natural influences of their many loves. The ring on his thumb bears the inscription: "May Your Arrows Sing" in [[Sindarin]]."
* '''Scene 34''' - "There are many kinds of orcs of differing sizes, best suited for specific purposes. They were first bred by the [[Dark Power of the North]] in the [[Elder Days]]. (Appendix F)"
* '''Scene 36''' - "Though immortal and hardy of body, elves may still die by injury and unnatural causes - including drowning."
* '''Scene 38''' - "The stars are especially beloved by the elves, who revere the [[Vala]] [[Elbereth]] (also called [[Varda]]), but all the cultures of Middle-earth have attributed constellations to the heavens above. (Book II, Chapter 8)"

==Production==

==Deviations from the Source Material ==
{{Incomplete}}
Galadriel encounters a raft with humans on board close to the area where she jumped from her ship. They say they are survivors of a shipwreck, and were presumably attempting to sail to Valinor. Humans were forbidden from trying to sail to Valinor by the Valar themselves, and often disappeared or were put under penalty of death if they tried to go there. Galadriel does not seem to know about this, however and just thinks it is normal to encounter humans in the Sundering Seas.

She meets a stranger by the name of Halbrand who says he was the ruler of an area known as "The Southlands". This region in the series is in the same area as what will become known as [[Mordor]]. However, in the source material it is stated in Tolkien's late writings that Mordor was already a desolate wasteland noted for volcanic activity before the Second Age, and may already have been called Mordor which means "black land" because of that.<ref>J.R.R Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien ed. The History of Middle Earth Volume 12, ''The Peoples of Middle Earth. "''Part XIII: Late Writings"</ref>

The Southlands are never mentioned in the source material, and were apparently invented for the series as were all the characters who live there. It would have made no sense for Sauron, who was hiding for most of the Second Age, to pick a densely populated region with like the Southlands as his base: especially since Elves already patrolled the region. He picked Mordor because it was already a desolate, volcanic wasteland.

Harfoots are said to be "proto-Hobbits" or an ancestor of Hobbits, but The Fellowship of the Ring novel lists them as a one of three breeds of Hobbits, without any indication that they arose before the other two breeds.<ref name=":0">J.R.R Tolkien, ''The Fellowship of the Ring'', Prologue: Part 1 "Concerning Hobbits"</ref> There is also no clear indication of the presence of Hobbits in Middle Earth before the Second Age.

The protaganist's name. "Nori" is a shortened form of "Elinor". Elinor was the name of Samwise Gamgee's daughter as noted in ''The Lord of the Rings'' and some of Tolkien's later writings. It is of Sindarin derivation. It is unclear how and why one of the Harfoots, who are noted to be a reclusive species who fear strangers would have encountered Elves or become familiar enough with Sindarin to give their child a name in that language. In fact, the Prologue to the ''Fellowship of the Ring'' notes that the Harfoots "had much to do with Dwarves in ancient times" but does not mention any association with Elves or other Sindarin speakers.<ref name=":0" />

==Reception==

== External links ==
* [https://rop.digitaltolkien.com/S1E2/ Adrift] at ROP Data
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEuYPD_VttE&t=122s&ab_channel=RingsandRealms Analysis of the first two episodes on Rings & Realms] (with [[Corey Olsen]])
* [https://bearmccreary.com/the-lord-of-the-rings-episode-102/ Scoring ''Adrift''] by [[Bear McCreary]]

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A Shadow of the Past

2024-09-07T13:20:09Z

Crimson:

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{{Quote|[[Galadriel]] is disturbed by [[Snow-trolls|signs]] of an ancient [[Sauron|evil’s]] return; [[Arondir]] makes an unsettling [[Hordern|discovery]]; [[Elrond]] is [[Celebrimbor|presented]] with an [[Rings of Power|intriguing]] new [[Eregion|venture]]; [[Elanor Brandyfoot|Nori]] breaks the [[Harfoots|Harfoot]] community’s most deeply-held rule.|Official Synopsis, [[Amazon Studios]]}}

'''A Shadow of the Past''' is the first episode of [[Amazon Studios]]'s television series, ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power]]'', and it was released on [[1 September]], [[2022]].

==Synopsis==
In a voiceover narrative, Galadriel reminisces on a time during the [[Years of the Trees]] before the [[Elves]] had a word for death.

Throughout the narration, a group of elf children are seen playing before watching a young [[Galadriel]] building a paper ship. The children cause it to sink by throwing stones at it, causing Galadriel to try to attack them, only being prevented by her older brother, [[Finrod]]. Later, Galadriel talks to her brother, who tells her to follow the light and resist the darkness.

The older Galadriel then briefly relates the [[Darkening of Valinor]], the [[War of the Great Jewels]], and the rise of [[Sauron]]. Finrod was killed by Sauron and Galadriel takes his mission to hunt down and defeat Sauron upon herself. Leading a company of elves through [[Northern Waste|Forodwaith]], Galadriel finds a [[Dúrnost|fortress]] within that was once occupied by Sauron, but one of the other elves, [[Thondir]], refuses to go any further north in pursuit, and forces Galadriel to return to [[Gil-galad]].

In the [[Norfield Glen]], a community of [[Harfoots]] notice the passage of two travelling [[Pre-Númenóreans|hunters]] through the [[Rhovanion Hills|hills]] of [[Rhovanion]] at an unaccustomed season. [[Elanor Brandyfoot]] and [[Poppy Proudfellow]] take a group of children out to hunt berries but soon return to the Harfoot camp to avoid a wolf. Elanor wonders about the world outside of the Harfoots' wandering, but her stepmother/mother [[Marigold Brandyfoot|Marigold]] reminds her that the Harfoot way of life is to avoid the cares of the wide world, stick together, and stay on the usual trail.

In [[Lindon]], [[Elrond]] greets [[Galadriel]] on her return. In a welcoming ceremony, the king [[Gil-galad]] honours Galadriel and her warriors for their bravery and announces that, as a reward, they will be permitted to sail west to the [[Undying Lands]]. Galadriel confides to Elrond that she does not wish to leave Middle-earth until she has defeated Sauron, but he urges her to accept the gift and depart.

A [[Silvan Elves|Silvan elf]], [[Arondir]], arrives in the village of [[Tirharad]] in the [[Southlands]], a land inhabited by [[Men]] who were once under the sway of [[Morgoth]] and are now watched carefully by a garrison of Silvan Elves. Arondir is not warmly received by anyone except the healer [[Bronwyn]], whom Arondir appears to be falling in love with. Arondir tells an Elf, Médhor, who picks up on Arondir's feelings, that they should return to [[Watchtower of Ostirith|Ostirith]], where Arondir is told by the [[Revion|Watchwarden Revion]] that the high king has declared that the war is over and the garrison is being recalled. Returning to the village to say goodbye to Bronwyn, Arondir encounters a [[Tredwill|man with a cow]] who got sick after wandering east as far as a village called [[Hordern]]. Arondir goes to investigate, accompanied by Bronwyn. Meanwhile, Bronwyn's son [[Theo]] shows another villager, [[Rowan (The Rings of Power)|Rowan]], an old sceptre (bearing [[Sauron|Sauron's]] [[Eye of Sauron|emblem]]) that he found in [[Waldreg|Waldreg's]] barn.

In Lindon, Gil-galad admits to Elrond that Sauron may still exist, but Galadriel's presence only increased the danger. He then tells Elrond that the smith [[Celebrimbor|Lord Celebrimbor]] will need his help with a new project.

The Harfoot Trailfinder [[Sadoc Burrows]] wonders about strange signs in the stars. Arondir and Bronwyn arrive at Hordern, only to find that it had been burned down. Just before Galadriel's ship arrives in Aman, she realizes she is not ready to leave Middle-earth and dives overboard into the sea. Meanwhile, a meteor streaks across the sky and lands near the Harfoot camp. Nori investigates the crater where it fell and sees a bearded man lying there, surrounded by veins of hot rock.

==Cast==
:''In order of appearance'' (in episode credits)
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! Actor !! Role
|-
| [[Amelie Child Villiers]] || [[Galadriel|Young Galadriel]]
|-
| [[Will Fletcher]] || [[Finrod]]
|-
| [[Morfydd Clark]] || [[Galadriel]]
|-
| Fabian McCallum || [[Thondir]]
|-
| Kip Chapman || [[Rían (Kip Chapman)|Rían]]
|-
| [[Lenny Henry|Sir Lenny Henry]] || [[Sadoc Burrows]]
|-
| [[Sara Zwangobani]] || [[Marigold Brandyfoot]]
|-
| [[Thusitha Jayasundera]] || [[Malva Meadowgrass|Malva]]
|-
| [[Maxine Cunliffe]] || [[Vilma]]
|-
| [[Dylan Smith]] || [[Largo Brandyfoot]]
|-
| [[Markella Kavenagh]] || [[Elanor Brandyfoot|Elanor "Nori" Brandyfoot]]
|-
| [[Beau Cassidy]] || [[Dilly Brandyfoot]]
|-
| [[Megan Richards]] || [[Poppy Proudfellow]]
|-
| [[Robert Aramayo]] || [[Elrond]]
|-
| [[Benjamin Walker]] || [[Gil-galad|High-King Gil-galad]]
|-
| [[Ismael Cruz Córdova]] || [[Arondir]]
|-
| [[Geoff Morrell]] || [[Waldreg]]
|-
| [[Peter Tait]] || [[Tredwill]]
|-
| Ian Blackburn || [[Rowan (The Rings of Power)|Rowan]]
|-
| [[Nazanin Boniadi]] || [[Bronwyn]]
|-
| Augustus Prew || [[Médhor]]
|-
| Simon Merrells || [[Revion|Watchwarden Revion]]
|-
| [[Tyroe Muhafidin]] || [[Theo]]
|-
| [[Charles Edwards]] || [[Celebrimbor|Lord Celebrimbor]]
|-
| [[Daniel Weyman]] || [[The Stranger]]
|-
| Jagger Serafin Eva Gardner Oscar Beszant || [[Elves|Elf Children]]
|-
| Ashlee Fidow Carl Van Roon Sean Neary Cameron Brown || [[Elves|Elf Soldiers]]
|-
| Andrew Cottle || [[Elves|Veteran Elf]]
|-
| Kenneth Ransom || [[Pre-Númenóreans|Younger Hunter]]
|-
| Tom McCathie || [[Pre-Númenóreans|Ornery Hunter]]
|-
| Paula Nazarski || [[Harfoots|Malva's Sister]]
|-
| Shelley Waddams || [[Elves|Elf Attendant]]
|-
| Graham Rolls || [[Men|Whiskery Old Man]]
|-
| Justin Doble || [[Men|Milky-Eyed Southlander]]
|-
| Nicholas Foustellis || [[Elves|Short Haired Elf]]
|}

=== Uncredited ===
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! Actor !! Role
|-
| Marris Collins || [[Men|Village Man]]<ref>https://m.imdb.com/title/tt9788618/fullcredits/cast?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm</ref>
|}

== Trivia ==
Below is a list of trivia from Amazon's "X-Ray" feature that accompanied the episode.
* '''Scene 2''' - "Most of the details and elaborations told herein are derived from '[[The Lord of the Rings]]', its prologue entitled '[[Concerning Hobbits]]', and its Appendices, A through F, where the intrepid traveller may journey to discover even farther horizons."
* '''Scene 3''' - "Both Galadriel and her brother, [[Finrod Felagund]], were [[High Elves]], or [[Eldar]], of the royal house of [[Finarfin]]. ([[Appendix F]])"
* '''Scene 5''' - "Galadriel was the noblest of the High Elves known as the Exiles, a branch of the Eldarin kindred called the Noldor who left Valinor to go to Middle-earth. (Appendix F)"
* '''Scene 8''' - "Morgoth was known by many names, including the Dark Power of the North. His was a bitterly cold realm, and the snows linger still in the Forodwaith, long outlasting him. (Footnote, Appendix A)"
* '''Scene 10''' - "[[Trolls]] were made in mockery of [[Ents]] by the Dark Powers of the [[First Age]]. (Book III, Chapter 4) [[Snow-trolls]] are merely one variation of them that long ago adapted to the harsh climates of the cold northern realms they call home."
* '''Scene 12''' - Long before Hobbits became a single group of people, whose most ancient legends hardly looked further back than their [[Wandering Days]], there were [[halflings]] called [[Harfoots]]. They were travellers of highlands and hillsides. (Concerning Hobbits)."
* '''Scene 15''' - At the end of the First Age, Elrond was given a choice - he was one of the [[Peredhil]], or [[Half-elven]], and had to decide between the fate of the [[Eldar]], or of Man-kind. (Appendix A)"
* '''Scene 17''' - Harfoots are little people, and while the later Hobbits ranged between two and four feet tall, in their ancient days they were slightly taller. They were beardless, bootless, and browner of skin. (Concerning Hobbits)"
* '''Scene 19''' - Gil-galad was acknowledged as the High King of the Elves of the West, for he was the last heir of the kings of the Noldor in exile. (Appendix B)"
* '''Scene 20''' - [[Valinor]] is the Land of the [[Valar]], the angelic Guardians of the World. Their land goes by many names, among them: The Undying Lands, the Blessed Realm, Eldamar, or the Uttermost West. (Appendix A, etc.)"
* '''Scene 26''' - "Different from the Eldar, the [[Silvan Elves]] or [[Wood-elves]] lived further east from the [[Belegaer|Sea]], in forest realms such as [[Mirkwood|Greenwood the Great]]. (Appendix B)"
* '''Scene 29''' - In Middle-earth the [[Children of Ilúvatar|Two Kindreds]], the [[Firstborn]] elves and later humans, became estranged as each kind walked further down their sundered roads. (Book IV, Chapter 5)"
* '''Scene 34''' - From the [[Grey Havens]], or [[Mithlond]], the elves set sail into the [[Aman|West]], never to return to Middle-earth. (Book I, Chapter 2)"
* '''Scene 34''' - It is said that on the High Sea while sailing to the Blessed Realm, a sweet fragrance on the air and the sound of singing voices comes over the water to meet the elven-ships - then the grey rain-curtain turns to silver glass and rolls back to reveal white shores and a far green country under a swift sunrise. (Book VI, Chapter 9)"

==Production==
The episode was directed by [[J. A. Bayona]] and written by [[J. D. Payne]] and [[Patrick McKay]].

==Differences==
{{Incomplete}}
In the series, the [[Silmarils]] are not mentioned and neither is the [[Oath of Fëanor]], although Finrod is said to have taken a vow to fight Morgoth.

He is shown to be taking an oath resembling the Oath of Fëanor, which is a major departure from the source material, as he was opposed to the [[Fëanorians]] both before and after [[Exile of the Noldor|coming]] to [[Middle-earth]].<ref>{{S|9}}</ref> The manner of his death is also changed: the Appendices tell us he died saving Beren whilst helping him to find a Silmaril.<ref>{{App|B1}}, p. 1082</ref> While in ''[[The Silmarillion]]'' it is specified he died wresting a wearewolf the series says he died "hunting Sauron" and shows claw marks on his body, no mention of his connection with Beren or his hunt for the Silmaril is made. ''The Silmarillion'' tells is was buried at [[Tol Sirion]], so none of his siblings could mourn over his body.<ref>{{S|Beren}}</ref>

The impact of Finrod's death on Galadriel is never mentioned in any source, much less the idea of her ever desiring revenge. In fact, we are told he was almost immediately re-embodied in Valinor, and once Galadriel learned of that, she would have been relieved and comforted. She did have, however, have concerns about the [[Shadow]] rising during the [[Second Age]], which moved her to political affairs.<ref>{{UT|Concerning}}, p. 235-6</ref> The same concerns resurged during the [[Third Age]] following Sauron's apparent death at the hands of Isildur at the end of the War of the Last Alliance. As a result she and [[Celeborn]] made journeys into various parts of Middle-earth to investigae before settling in [[Lothlórien]].<ref>{{UT|Amroth}}, pp. 243-5</ref> Beyond this, anything related to Galadriel's quests as told in the series are complete inventions.

In the legendarium, the ban on the Noldor was lifted after the [[War of Wrath]] and all were allowed to sail back to [[Valinor]].<ref>{{S|24}}</ref> This was a personal decision and not a reward or punishment doled out by the high king, [[Gil-galad]]. Galadriel was free to return on her own but continued to choose a self-imposed exile for other reasons. In fact, Galadriel could have never been a subordinate to Gil-galad: she apparently helped him to become king,<ref>{{NM|P1xi}}, p. 81</ref> she was at least a generation above him,<ref>{{S|T2}}</ref> and she was born in Valinor during the [[Years of the Trees]],<ref>{{S|Eldamar}}</ref> while he was born in Middle-earth thousand of years later.<ref group=note>[[Gil-galad#Parentage|Gil-galad's birth and parentage]] are a difficult matter, but in anycase, in all its different versions, his relation with Galadriel is always inferior.</ref>

All the Harfoot and Southland characters were invented for the show.

{{references|notes}}

==Reception==
* [https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_lord_of_the_rings_the_rings_of_power/s01 39% from audience and 85% from critics on Rotten Tomatoes]

== External links ==
* [https://rop.digitaltolkien.com/S1E1/ A Shadow of the Past] at ROP Data
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEuYPD_VttE&t=122s&ab_channel=RingsandRealms Analysis of the first two episodes on Rings & Realms] (with [[Corey Olsen]])
* [https://bearmccreary.com/the-lord-of-the-rings-episode-101/ Scoring ''A Shadow of the Past''] by [[Bear McCreary]]
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Elven Kings Under the Sky

2024-09-07T13:03:10Z

Crimson: No title sequence + showrunners didn't write this episode

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| next=[[Where the Stars are Strange]]
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{{Quote|Season Premiere. [[Sauron]] bargains with [[Adar (The Rings of Power)|Adar]]. [[The Stranger]] and [[Elanor Brandyfoot|Nori]] venture into new [[Rhûn|lands]]. [[Three Rings|The]] [[Narya|Three]] [[Nenya|Elven]] [[Vilya|Rings]] face judgement.|Official Synopsis, [[Amazon Studios]]}}

'''Elven Kings Under the Sky''' is the ninth episode of [[Amazon Studios]]'s television series, ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power]]''. It is the first episode of the second season and it was released on [[29 August]], [[2024]].

==Synopsis==

== Cast ==
=== Credited ===
:''In order of appearance'' (in episode credits)
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! Actor !! Role
|-
| [[Charlie Vickers]] || [[Sauron]]
|-
| [[Morfydd Clark]] || [[Galadriel]]
|-
| [[Robert Aramayo]] || [[Elrond]]
|-
| [[Benjamin Walker]] || [[Gil-galad|High King Gil-galad]]
|-
| [[Daniel Weyman]] || [[The Stranger]]
|-
| [[Ciarán Hinds]] || [[Dark Wizard]]
|-
| [[Markella Kavenagh]] || [[Elanor Brandyfoot|Nori Brandyfoot]]
|-
| [[Megan Richards]] || [[Poppy Proudfellow]]
|-
| [[Charles Edwards]] || [[Celebrimbor|Lord Celebrimbor]]
|-
| [[Jack Lowden]] || [[Forodwaith]] [[Sauron]]
|-
| [[Ben Daniels]] || [[Círdan]]
|-
| [[Samuel Hazeldine|Sam Hazeldine]]|| [[Adar (The Rings of Power)|Adar]]
|-
| [[Nicholas Woodeson]] || [[Diarmid]]
|-
| [[Geoff Morrell]] || [[Waldreg]]
|-
| [[Amelia Kenworthy]]|| [[Mirdania]]
|-
| [[Adam Basil]] || [[Orcs|Nervous Orc]]
|-
| [[John Macdonald]] || [[Orcs|Next Orc]]
|-
| [[Nellie Burroughes]] || [[Men|Peddler Woman]]
|-
| [[Virginie Laverdure]] || [[Abigail]]
|-
| [[Rosalie Button]] || [[Men|Survivor On Raft #1]]
|-
| [[Jane Montgomery Griffiths]] || [[Astrid (The Rings of Power)|Astrid]]
|-
| [[Matt Bennett]] || [[Men|Survivor On Raft #2]]
|-
| [[Berynn Schwerdt]] || [[Eamon (The Rings of Power)|Eamon]]
|-
| [[Daniel Burke]] || [[Mirthless Guard]]
|-
| [[Robert Strange]] || [[Glûg]]
|-
| [[Hélder Fernandes]] || [[Men|Skinny Lad]]
|-
| [[Mark Kempner]] || [[Men|Old Prisoner]]
|-
| [[Tomás Azocar-Nevin]] || [[Men|Young Prisoner]]
|-
| [[Yasen Atour|Zates Atour]] || [[Brânk]]
|-
| [[Celeste Dodwell]] || [[Elves|Elf Artisan]]
|-
| [[Jamie Bisping]] || [[Calenwë]]
|-
| [[Emily-Jane McNeill]] || [[Ídhiel]]
|-
| [[Arkie Reece]] || [[Kilta]]
|}

=== Un-credited ===
:''In order of appearance'' (on IMDb)
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! Actor !! Role
|-
| Tony McCarthy || [[Orcs|Warlord Orc]]
|-
| Ekran Mustafa || [[Orcs|Warlord Orc]]
|-
| Anastasia Zabarchuk || [[Orcs|Orc Warlord]]
|}

== Trivia ==
Below is a list of trivia from Amazon's "X-Ray" feature that accompanied the episode.
* Scene 2 - "Most of the details and elaborations told herein are derived from '[[The Lord of the Rings]]', its prologue entitled '[[Concerning Hobbits]]', and its [[Appendices]], [[Appendix A|A]] through [[Appendix F|F]], where the intrepid traveler may journey to discover even farther horizons."

== Production ==

== Differences ==

== Reception ==

{{references}}
== External links ==
* [https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc0xmdewntu2]

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[[Category:The Rings of Power (TV series) episodes|09]]

A Shadow of the Past

2024-09-07T13:02:14Z

Crimson: No title sequences in the premiere episodes

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{{Quote|[[Galadriel]] is disturbed by [[Snow-trolls|signs]] of an ancient [[Sauron|evil’s]] return; [[Arondir]] makes an unsettling [[Hordern|discovery]]; [[Elrond]] is [[Celebrimbor|presented]] with an [[Rings of Power|intriguing]] new [[Eregion|venture]]; [[Elanor Brandyfoot|Nori]] breaks the [[Harfoots|Harfoot]] community’s most deeply-held rule.|Official Synopsis, [[Amazon Studios]]}}

'''A Shadow of the Past''' is the first episode of [[Amazon Studios]]'s television series, ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power]]'', and it was released on [[1 September]], [[2022]].

==Synopsis==
In a voiceover narrative, Galadriel reminisces on a time during the [[Years of the Trees]] before the [[Elves]] had a word for death.

Throughout the narration, a group of elf children are seen playing before watching a young [[Galadriel]] building a paper ship. The children cause it to sink by throwing stones at it, causing Galadriel to try to attack them, only being prevented by her older brother, [[Finrod]]. Later, Galadriel talks to her brother, who tells her to follow the light and resist the darkness.

The older Galadriel then briefly relates the [[Darkening of Valinor]], the [[War of the Great Jewels]], and the rise of [[Sauron]]. Finrod was killed by Sauron and Galadriel takes his mission to hunt down and defeat Sauron upon herself. Leading a company of elves through [[Northern Waste|Forodwaith]], Galadriel finds a [[Dúrnost|fortress]] within that was once occupied by Sauron, but one of the other elves, [[Thondir]], refuses to go any further north in pursuit, and forces Galadriel to return to [[Gil-galad]].

In the [[Norfield Glen]], a community of [[Harfoots]] notice the passage of two travelling [[Pre-Númenóreans|hunters]] through the [[Rhovanion Hills|hills]] of [[Rhovanion]] at an unaccustomed season. [[Elanor Brandyfoot]] and [[Poppy Proudfellow]] take a group of children out to hunt berries but soon return to the Harfoot camp to avoid a wolf. Elanor wonders about the world outside of the Harfoots' wandering, but her stepmother/mother [[Marigold Brandyfoot|Marigold]] reminds her that the Harfoot way of life is to avoid the cares of the wide world, stick together, and stay on the usual trail.

In [[Lindon]], [[Elrond]] greets [[Galadriel]] on her return. In a welcoming ceremony, the king [[Gil-galad]] honours Galadriel and her warriors for their bravery and announces that, as a reward, they will be permitted to sail west to the [[Undying Lands]]. Galadriel confides to Elrond that she does not wish to leave Middle-earth until she has defeated Sauron, but he urges her to accept the gift and depart.

A [[Silvan Elves|Silvan elf]], [[Arondir]], arrives in the village of [[Tirharad]] in the [[Southlands]], a land inhabited by [[Men]] who were once under the sway of [[Morgoth]] and are now watched carefully by a garrison of Silvan Elves. Arondir is not warmly received by anyone except the healer [[Bronwyn]], whom Arondir appears to be falling in love with. Arondir tells an Elf, Médhor, who picks up on Arondir's feelings, that they should return to [[Watchtower of Ostirith|Ostirith]], where Arondir is told by the [[Revion|Watchwarden Revion]] that the high king has declared that the war is over and the garrison is being recalled. Returning to the village to say goodbye to Bronwyn, Arondir encounters a [[Tredwill|man with a cow]] who got sick after wandering east as far as a village called [[Hordern]]. Arondir goes to investigate, accompanied by Bronwyn. Meanwhile, Bronwyn's son [[Theo]] shows another villager, [[Rowan (The Rings of Power)|Rowan]], an old sceptre (bearing [[Sauron|Sauron's]] [[Eye of Sauron|emblem]]) that he found in [[Waldreg|Waldreg's]] barn.

In Lindon, Gil-galad admits to Elrond that Sauron may still exist, but Galadriel's presence only increased the danger. He then tells Elrond that the smith [[Celebrimbor|Lord Celebrimbor]] will need his help with a new project.

The Harfoot Trailfinder [[Sadoc Burrows]] wonders about strange signs in the stars. Arondir and Bronwyn arrive at Hordern, only to find that it had been burned down. Just before Galadriel's ship arrives in Aman, she realizes she is not ready to leave Middle-earth and dives overboard into the sea. Meanwhile, a meteor streaks across the sky and lands near the Harfoot camp. Nori investigates the crater where it fell and sees a bearded man lying there, surrounded by veins of hot rock.

==Cast==
:''In order of appearance'' (in episode credits)
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! Actor !! Role
|-
| [[Amelie Child Villiers]] || [[Galadriel|Young Galadriel]]
|-
| [[Will Fletcher]] || [[Finrod]]
|-
| [[Morfydd Clark]] || [[Galadriel]]
|-
| Fabian McCallum || [[Thondir]]
|-
| Kip Chapman || [[Rían (Kip Chapman)|Rían]]
|-
| [[Lenny Henry|Sir Lenny Henry]] || [[Sadoc Burrows]]
|-
| [[Sara Zwangobani]] || [[Marigold Brandyfoot]]
|-
| [[Thusitha Jayasundera]] || [[Malva Meadowgrass|Malva]]
|-
| [[Maxine Cunliffe]] || [[Vilma]]
|-
| [[Dylan Smith]] || [[Largo Brandyfoot]]
|-
| [[Markella Kavenagh]] || [[Elanor Brandyfoot|Elanor "Nori" Brandyfoot]]
|-
| [[Beau Cassidy]] || [[Dilly Brandyfoot]]
|-
| [[Megan Richards]] || [[Poppy Proudfellow]]
|-
| [[Robert Aramayo]] || [[Elrond]]
|-
| [[Benjamin Walker]] || [[Gil-galad|High-King Gil-galad]]
|-
| [[Ismael Cruz Córdova]] || [[Arondir]]
|-
| [[Geoff Morrell]] || [[Waldreg]]
|-
| [[Peter Tait]] || [[Tredwill]]
|-
| Ian Blackburn || [[Rowan (The Rings of Power)|Rowan]]
|-
| [[Nazanin Boniadi]] || [[Bronwyn]]
|-
| Augustus Prew || [[Médhor]]
|-
| Simon Merrells || [[Revion|Watchwarden Revion]]
|-
| [[Tyroe Muhafidin]] || [[Theo]]
|-
| [[Charles Edwards]] || [[Celebrimbor|Lord Celebrimbor]]
|-
| [[Daniel Weyman]] || [[The Stranger]]
|-
| Jagger Serafin Eva Gardner Oscar Beszant || [[Elves|Elf Children]]
|-
| Ashlee Fidow Carl Van Roon Sean Neary Cameron Brown || [[Elves|Elf Soldiers]]
|-
| Andrew Cottle || [[Elves|Veteran Elf]]
|-
| Kenneth Ransom || [[Pre-Númenóreans|Younger Hunter]]
|-
| Tom McCathie || [[Pre-Númenóreans|Ornery Hunter]]
|-
| Paula Nazarski || [[Harfoots|Malva's Sister]]
|-
| Shelley Waddams || [[Elves|Elf Attendant]]
|-
| Graham Rolls || [[Men|Whiskery Old Man]]
|-
| Justin Doble || [[Men|Milky-Eyed Southlander]]
|-
| Nicholas Foustellis || [[Elves|Short Haired Elf]]
|}

=== Uncredited ===
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! Actor !! Role
|-
| Marris Collins || [[Men|Village Man]]<ref>https://m.imdb.com/title/tt9788618/fullcredits/cast?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm</ref>
|}

== Trivia ==
Below is a list of trivia from Amazon's "X-Ray" feature that accompanied the episode.
* '''Scene 2''' - "Most of the details and elaborations told herein are derived from '[[The Lord of the Rings]]', its prologue entitled '[[Concerning Hobbits]]', and its Appendices, A through F, where the intrepid traveller may journey to discover even farther horizons."
* '''Scene 3''' - "Both Galadriel and her brother, [[Finrod Felagund]], were [[High Elves]], or [[Eldar]], of the royal house of [[Finarfin]]. ([[Appendix F]])"
* '''Scene 5''' - "Galadriel was the noblest of the High Elves known as the Exiles, a branch of the Eldarin kindred called the Noldor who left Valinor to go to Middle-earth. (Appendix F)"
* '''Scene 8''' - "Morgoth was known by many names, including the Dark Power of the North. His was a bitterly cold realm, and the snows linger still in the Forodwaith, long outlasting him. (Footnote, Appendix A)"
* '''Scene 10''' - "[[Trolls]] were made in mockery of [[Ents]] by the Dark Powers of the [[First Age]]. (Book III, Chapter 4) [[Snow-trolls]] are merely one variation of them that long ago adapted to the harsh climates of the cold northern realms they call home."
* '''Scene 12''' - Long before Hobbits became a single group of people, whose most ancient legends hardly looked further back than their [[Wandering Days]], there were [[halflings]] called [[Harfoots]]. They were travellers of highlands and hillsides. (Concerning Hobbits)."
* '''Scene 15''' - At the end of the First Age, Elrond was given a choice - he was one of the [[Peredhil]], or [[Half-elven]], and had to decide between the fate of the [[Eldar]], or of Man-kind. (Appendix A)"
* '''Scene 17''' - Harfoots are little people, and while the later Hobbits ranged between two and four feet tall, in their ancient days they were slightly taller. They were beardless, bootless, and browner of skin. (Concerning Hobbits)"
* '''Scene 19''' - Gil-galad was acknowledged as the High King of the Elves of the West, for he was the last heir of the kings of the Noldor in exile. (Appendix B)"
* '''Scene 20''' - [[Valinor]] is the Land of the [[Valar]], the angelic Guardians of the World. Their land goes by many names, among them: The Undying Lands, the Blessed Realm, Eldamar, or the Uttermost West. (Appendix A, etc.)"
* '''Scene 26''' - "Different from the Eldar, the [[Silvan Elves]] or [[Wood-elves]] lived further east from the [[Belegaer|Sea]], in forest realms such as [[Mirkwood|Greenwood the Great]]. (Appendix B)"
* '''Scene 29''' - In Middle-earth the [[Children of Ilúvatar|Two Kindreds]], the [[Firstborn]] elves and later humans, became estranged as each kind walked further down their sundered roads. (Book IV, Chapter 5)"
* '''Scene 34''' - From the [[Grey Havens]], or [[Mithlond]], the elves set sail into the [[Aman|West]], never to return to Middle-earth. (Book I, Chapter 2)"
* '''Scene 34''' - It is said that on the High Sea while sailing to the Blessed Realm, a sweet fragrance on the air and the sound of singing voices comes over the water to meet the elven-ships - then the grey rain-curtain turns to silver glass and rolls back to reveal white shores and a far green country under a swift sunrise. (Book VI, Chapter 9)"

==Production==
The episode was directed by [[J. A. Bayona]] and written by [[J. D. Payne]] and [[Patrick McKay]].

==Differences==
{{Incomplete}}
In the series, the [[Silmarils]] are not mentioned and neither is the [[Oath of Fëanor]], although Finrod is said to have taken a vow to fight Morgoth.

He is shown to be taking an oath resembling the Oath of Fëanor, which is a major departure from the source material, as he was opposed to the [[Fëanorians]] both before and after [[Exile of the Noldor|coming]] to [[Middle-earth]].<ref>{{S|9}}</ref> The manner of his death is also changed: the Appendices tell us he died saving Beren whilst helping him to find a Silmaril.<ref>{{App|B1}}, p. 1082</ref> While in ''[[The Silmarillion]]'' it is specified he died wresting a wearewolf the series says he died "hunting Sauron" and shows claw marks on his body, no mention of his connection with Beren or his hunt for the Silmaril is made. ''The Silmarillion'' tells is was buried at [[Tol Sirion]], so none of his siblings could mourn over his body.<ref>{{S|Beren}}</ref>

The impact of Finrod's death on Galadriel is never mentioned in any source, much less the idea of her ever desiring revenge. In fact, we are told he was almost immediately re-embodied in Valinor, and once Galadriel learned of that, she would have been relieved and comforted. She did have, however, have concerns about the [[Shadow]] rising during the [[Second Age]], which moved her to political affairs.<ref>{{UT|Concerning}}, p. 235-6</ref> The same concerns resurged during the [[Third Age]] following Sauron's apparent death at the hands of Isildur at the end of the War of the Last Alliance. As a result she and [[Celeborn]] made journeys into various parts of Middle-earth to investigae before settling in [[Lothlórien]].<ref>{{UT|Amroth}}, pp. 243-5</ref> Beyond this, anything related to Galadriel's quests as told in the series are complete inventions.

In the legendarium, the ban on the Noldor was lifted after the [[War of Wrath]] and all were allowed to sail back to [[Valinor]].<ref>{{S|24}}</ref> This was a personal decision and not a reward or punishment doled out by the high king, [[Gil-galad]]. Galadriel was free to return on her own but continued to choose a self-imposed exile for other reasons. In fact, Galadriel could have never been a subordinate to Gil-galad: she apparently helped him to become king,<ref>{{NM|P1xi}}, p. 81</ref> she was at least a generation above him,<ref>{{S|T2}}</ref> and she was born in Valinor during the [[Years of the Trees]],<ref>{{S|Eldamar}}</ref> while he was born in Middle-earth thousand of years later.<ref group=note>[[Gil-galad#Parentage|Gil-galad's birth and parentage]] are a difficult matter, but in anycase, in all its different versions, his relation with Galadriel is always inferior.</ref>

All the Harfoot and Southland characters were invented for the show.

{{references|notes}}

==Reception==
* [https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_lord_of_the_rings_the_rings_of_power/s01 39% from audience and 85% from critics on Rotten Tomatoes]

== External links ==
* [https://rop.digitaltolkien.com/S1E1/ A Shadow of the Past] at ROP Data
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEuYPD_VttE&t=122s&ab_channel=RingsandRealms Analysis of the first two episodes on Rings & Realms] (with [[Corey Olsen]])
* [https://bearmccreary.com/the-lord-of-the-rings-episode-101/ Scoring ''A Shadow of the Past''] by [[Bear McCreary]]
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[[Category:The Rings of Power (TV series) episodes|01]]
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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

2024-05-15T21:43:31Z

Crimson:

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| director=
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'''''The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power''''', originally marketed as '''''The Lord of the Rings on Prime''''', is an online television series based on the writings of [[J.R.R. Tolkien]], namely ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' and its [[The Lord of the Rings Appendices|Appendices]]. It is created and produced by [[Amazon Studios]] working alongside the [[Tolkien Estate]], the [[The Tolkien Trust|Tolkien Trust]], [[HarperCollins]] and [[New Line Cinema]]. Set in the [[Second Age]] of [[Middle-earth]],<ref name="AMSA">{{webcite|author=|articleurl=http://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1103656946509344768|articlename=Welcome to the Second Age:|dated=7 March 2019|website=Twitter|accessed=30 January 2020}}</ref> it explores new storylines preceding J.R.R. Tolkien's ''[[The Fellowship of the Ring]].''<ref name="AMNZ">{{webcite|author=|articleurl=http://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-studios-announces-new-zealand-location-its-upcoming|articlename=Amazon Studios Announces New Zealand as Location for Its Upcoming Series Based on The Lord of the Rings|dated=17 September 2019|website=Amazon|accessed=18 September 2019}}</ref> The story, which in Tolkien's writings spanned thousands of years, is condensed into a single point in time to avoid time jumps in the interest of narrative cohesion.<ref name="VanityFair"></ref>

The first two episodes were released on [[1 September]] of [[2022]],<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://www.whathifi.com/advice/how-to-watch-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-release-date-trailer-cast-episodes|articlename=How to watch Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power – release date, trailer, cast, episodes available now|dated=2 September 2022|website=[https://www.whathifi.com/ What Hi-Fi]|accessed=10 October 2022}}</ref> although they were originally scheduled to be released on [[2 September]] of the same year, the anniversary of J.R.R. Tolkien's death.<ref>{{webcite|author=@LOTRonPrime|articleurl=http://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1422255647106617359|articlename=A new journey beings|dated=2 August 2021|website=Twitter|accessed=2 August 2021}}</ref>

== Premise ==
{{blockquote|Amazon Studios' forthcoming series brings to screens for the very first time the heroic legends of the fabled Second Age of Middle-earth's history. This epic drama is set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, 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 the greatest villain that ever flowed from Tolkien's pen threatened to cover all the world in darkness. Beginning in a time of relative peace, the series follows an ensemble cast of characters, both familiar and new, as they confront the long-feared re-emergence of evil to Middle-earth. From the darkest depths of the Misty Mountains, to the majestic forests of the elf-capital of Lindon, to the breathtaking island kingdom of Númenor, to the furthest reaches of the map, these kingdoms and characters will carve out legacies that live on long after they are gone.|Official synopsis<ref>{{webcite|author=Justin Sewell|articleurl=http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2021/01/12/110065-exclusive-official-show-synopsis-for-amazons-lord-of-the-rings-series/|articlename=EXCLUSIVE: Official Show Synopsis for Amazon’s LORD OF THE RINGS Series|dated=12 January 2021|website=[http://www.theonering.net TheOneRing]|accessed=13 January 2021}}</ref>}}

== Source material and copyrights ==
The showrunners said that they wished to "come up with the novel Tolkien never wrote and do it as the mega-event series that could only happen now".<ref name="VanityFair"></ref> They explained that they only have the copyrights to adapt ''[[The Hobbit]]'' and ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' along with its [[Appendices]], without the rights to ''[[The Silmarillion]]'', ''[[Unfinished Tales]]'' or other books that contain the vast majority of Tolkien's writings on the [[Second Age]].<ref name="VFQuestions">{{webcite|author=burning questions about amazons the rings of power|articleurl= https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/02/10-burning-questions-about-amazons-the-rings-of-power |articlename=Amazon’s Lord of the Rings Series: FAQ|dated=14 February 2022|website=[https://www.vanityfair.com/ Vanity Fair]|accessed=16 February 2022}}</ref>

== Episodes ==
=== [[The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - Season 1|Season 1]] ===
# [[A Shadow of the Past]]
# [[Adrift]]
# [[Adar (episode)|Adar]]
# [[The Great Wave]]
# [[Partings]]
# [[Udûn (episode)|Udûn]]
# [[The Eye]]
# [[Alloyed]]

=== [[The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - Season 2|Season 2]] ===

== Cast and characters ==
''In alphabetical order''
=== Main cast introduced in Season 1 ===
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! Actor !! Role
|-
| [[Cynthia Addai-Robinson]] || [[Tar-Míriel|Queen Regent Míriel]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1547418520400658432|articlename=Cynthia Addai-Robinson is Queen Regent Míriel|dated=14 February 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=14 February 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Robert Aramayo]] || [[Elrond]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1492167519439925260|articlename=Robert Aramayo is Elrond. #LOTRROP|dated=9 June 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=11 June 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Owain Arthur]] || [[Durin IV|Prince Durin IV]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1492168323051802626|articlename=Owain Arthur is Prince Durin IV. #LOTRROP|dated=9 June 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=11 June 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Maxim Baldry]] || [[Isildur]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1547417633603059712|articlename=Maxim Baldry is Isildur|dated=14 February 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=14 February 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Nazanin Boniadi]] || [[Bronwyn]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1492168861403299841|articlename=Nazanin Boniadi is Bronwyn. #LOTRROP|dated=9 June 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=11 June 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Morfydd Clark]] || [[Galadriel]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1492167351902609413|articlename=Morfydd Clark is Galadriel. #LOTRROP|dated=9 June 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=11 June 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Ismael Cruz Córdova]] || [[Arondir]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1492168672051445771|articlename=Ismael Cruz Cordova is Arondir. #LOTRROP|dated=9 June 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=11 June 2022}}</ref>
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| [[Charles Edwards]] || [[Celebrimbor|Lord Celebrimbor]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1534220750311174144|articlename=Charles Edwards is Celebrimbor|dated=14 February 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=14 February 2022}}</ref>
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| [[Trystan Gravelle]] || [[Pharazôn]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1547418058515521537|articlename=Trystan Gravelle is Pharazôn|dated=14 February 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=14 February 2022}}</ref>
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| [[Lenny Henry|Sir Lenny Henry]] || [[Sadoc Burrows]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1533945721929420800#m|articlename=Sir Lenny Henry is Sadoc Burrows. #LOTRROP|dated=9 June 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=11 June 2022}}</ref>
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| [[Ema Horvath]] || [[Eärien]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1547417835961552896|articlename=Ema Horvath is Eärien|dated=14 February 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=14 February 2022}}</ref>
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| [[Markella Kavenagh]] || [[Elanor Brandyfoot|Elanor 'Nori' Brandyfoot]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1493253881651937283|articlename=Markella Kavenagh is Elanor ‘Nori’ Brandyfoot|dated=14 February 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=14 February 2022}}</ref>
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| [[Joseph Mawle]] || [[Adar (The Rings of Power)|Adar]]
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| [[Tyroe Muhafidin]] || [[Theo]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://mobile.twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1516457306497581056|articlename=Tyroe Muhafidin is Theo. #LOTRROP #RingsofPower|dated=19 April 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=19 April 2022}}</ref>
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| [[Sophia Nomvete]] || [[Disa|Princess Disa]] <ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1492168418358874123|articlename=Sophia Nomvete is Princess Disa. #LOTRROP|dated=9 June 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=11 June 2022}}</ref>
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| [[Lloyd Owen]] || [[Elendil|Captain Elendil]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1547417424361885696|articlename=Lloyd Owen is Elendil|dated=14 February 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=14 February 2022}}</ref>
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| [[Megan Richards]] || [[Poppy Proudfellow]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1534982703908433920#m|articlename=Megan Richards is Poppy Proudfellow. #LOTRROP|dated=9 June 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=11 June 2022}}</ref>
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| [[Dylan Smith]] || [[Largo Brandyfoot]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1534982400869945344#m|articlename=Dylan Smith is Largo Brandyfoot. #LOTRROP|dated=9 June 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=11 June 2022}}</ref>
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| [[Charlie Vickers]] || [[Halbrand]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1492169017741778944|articlename=Charlie Vickers is Halbrand. #LOTRROP|dated=9 June 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=11 June 2022}}</ref>
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| [[Leon Wadham]] || [[Kemen (The Rings of Power)|Kemen]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1547418271141560321|articlename=Leon Wadham is Kemen|dated=14 February 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=14 February 2022}}</ref>
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| [[Benjamin Walker]] || [[Gil-galad|High King Gil-galad]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1493253777415098372|articlename=Benjamin Walker is High King Gil-galad|dated=14 February 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=14 February 2022}}</ref>
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| [[Daniel Weyman]] || [[The Stranger]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1493253972639076352|articlename=Daniel Weyman is The Stranger|dated=14 February 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=14 February 2022}}</ref>
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| [[Sara Zwangobani]] || [[Marigold Brandyfoot]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1534982566448533504#m|articlename=Sara Zwangobani is Marigold Brandyfoot. #LOTRROP|dated=9 June 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=11 June 2022}}</ref>
|}

=== Introduced in Season 2 ===
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! Actor !! Role
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| [[Ben Daniels]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1598336189869699072|articlename=Welcome Ben Daniels to the cast of #TheRingsOfPower! (3/7)|dated=1 December 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=5 February 2023}}</ref> || [[Círdan]]<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://time.com/6205027/cirdan-the-rings-of-power-season-2/|articlename=Exclusive: This Fan-Favorite Character Is Joining the Second Season of The Rings of Power|dated=15 August 2022|website=Time.com|accessed=4 January 2023}}</ref><ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://www.theonering.net/torwp/2024/05/14/118329-oh-my-lord-witness-the-power-of-the-rings/|articlename=Oh, My Lord, Witness the Power of the Rings!|dated=14 May 2024|website=Time.com|accessed=}}</ref>
|-
| [[Samuel Hazeldine]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1598337442565820418|articlename=Welcome Sam Hazeldine (@samuelhazeldine) to the cast of #TheRingsOfPower! (4/7)|dated=1 December 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=5 February 2023}}</ref> || [[Adar (The Rings of Power)|Adar]]<ref name="IMBD">https://m.imdb.com/title/tt13580784/?ref_=m_ttep_ep_ep1</ref>
|-
| [[Gabriel Akuwudike]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1598333935305490433|articlename=Welcome Gabriel Akuwudike to the cast of #TheRingsOfPower! (1/7)|dated=1 December 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=5 February 2023}}</ref> || TBA
|-
| [[Oliver Alvin-Wilson]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1600507964863004672|articlename=Join us in welcoming Oliver Alvin-Wilson (@Oliver_A_Wilson) to the cast of #TheRingsOfPower! (1/8)|dated=7 December 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=5 February 2023}}</ref> || TBA
|-
| [[Yasen Atour]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1598334954622042112|articlename=Welcome Yasen ‘Zates’ Atour (@YasenAtour) to the cast of #TheRingsOfPower! (2/7)|dated=1 December 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=5 February 2023}}</ref> || TBA
|-
| [[Stuart Bowman]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1600509263301976064|articlename=Join us in welcoming Stuart Bowman (@stuartbowman) to the cast of #TheRingsOfPower! (2/8)|dated=7 December 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=5 February 2023}}</ref> || TBA
|-
| [[Gavi Singh Chera]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1600510517084409858|articlename=Join us in welcoming Gavi Singh Chera to the cast of #TheRingsOfPower! (3/8)|dated=7 December 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=5 February 2023}}</ref> || TBA
|-
| [[William Chubb]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1600511729787699205|articlename=Join us in welcoming William Chubb to the cast of #TheRingsOfPower! (4/8)|dated=7 December 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=5 February 2023}}</ref> || TBA
|-
| [[Kevin Eldon]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1600513054747361280|articlename=Join us in welcoming Kevin Eldon (@ItsKevinEldon) to the cast of #TheRingsOfPower! (5/8)|dated=7 December 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=5 February 2023}}</ref> || TBA
|-
| [[Ciarán Hinds]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/TheRingsofPower/status/1637816910535352320|articlename=Welcome Ciarán Hinds to the cast of #TheRingsOfPower! (1/3)|dated=20 March 2023|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=}}</ref> || TBA
|-
| [[William Keen]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1600514258411917312|articlename=Join us in welcoming Will Keen to the cast of #TheRingsOfPower! (6/8)|dated=7 December 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=5 February 2023}}</ref> || TBA
|-
| [[Amelia Kenworthy]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1598338715633565702|articlename=Welcome Amelia Kenworthy (@ameliakenworthy) to the cast of #TheRingsOfPower! (5/7)|dated=1 December 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=5 February 2023}}</ref> || TBA
|-
| [[Rory Michael Kinnear]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/TheRingsofPower/status/1637818133430796290|articlename=Welcome Rory Kinnear to the cast of #TheRingsOfPower! (2/3)|dated=20 March 2023|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=}}</ref> || TBA
|-
| [[Selina Lo]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1600515507895033857|articlename=Join us in welcoming Selina Lo (@itsselinalo) to the cast of #TheRingsOfPower! (7/8)|dated=7 December 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=5 February 2023}}</ref> || TBA
|-
| [[Calam Lynch]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1600516761618714628|articlename=Join us in welcoming Calam Lynch (@CalamLynch94) to the cast of #TheRingsOfPower! (8/8)|dated=7 December 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=5 February 2023}}</ref> || TBA
|-
| [[Tanya Moodie]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/TheRingsofPower/status/1637819329990348803?lang=en|articlename=Welcome Tanya Moodie to the cast of #TheRingsOfPower! (3/3)|dated=20 March 2023|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=}}</ref> || TBA
|-
| [[Nia Towle]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1598339999946113024|articlename=Welcome Nia Towle to the cast of #TheRingsOfPower! (6/7)|dated=1 December 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=5 February 2023}}</ref> || TBA
|-
| [[Nicholas Woodeson]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1598341285018058755|articlename=Welcome Nicholas Woodeson (@NickWoodeson) to the cast of #TheRingsOfPower! (7/7)|dated=1 December 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=5 February 2023}}</ref> || TBA
|}

== Production ==
=== Development ===
[[File:The Rings of Power (TV series) - Middle-earth map 1.jpg|thumb|300px|Fourth map of Middle-earth, released by Amazon on 6 March 2019]]
On [[3 November]] [[2017]], it was reported that Amazon Studios were in discussion with Warner Bros. Television and the [[Tolkien Estate]] about developing a series based on ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''.<ref>{{webcite|author=Daniel Holloway|articleurl=http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/lord-of-the-rings-amazon-1202606519/|articlename='Lord of the Rings': Amazon, Warner Bros. in Talks for Series Adaptation (EXCLUSIVE)|dated=3 November 2017|website=[http://variety.com/ Variety]|accessed=30 January 2020}}</ref> Later, in November, Amazon Studios announced they have secured the rights to develop a multi-season television series set in Middle-earth with the potential for spin-offs.<ref>{{webcite|author=Joe Otterson|articleurl=http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/lord-of-the-rings-tv-series-amazon-1202613609/|articlename=‘Lord of the Rings’ Series Moving Forward at Amazon With Multi-Season Production Commitment|dated=13 November 2017|website=[http://variety.com/ Variety]|accessed=31 July 2019}}</ref> The rights have been said to have cost close to $250 million.<ref name="DLAZ">{{webcite|author=Nellie Andreeva|articleurl=http://deadline.com/2017/11/amazon-the-lord-of-the-rings-tv-series-multi-season-commitment-1202207065/|articlename=Amazon Sets ‘The Lord of the Rings’ TV Series In Mega Deal With Multi-Season Commitment|dated=13 November 2017|website=Deadline|accessed=30 January 2020}}</ref> Amazon Studios would cooperate in the production with the Tolkien Estate, [[The Tolkien Trust]], [[HarperCollins]] and [[New Line Cinema]].<ref name="DLAZ"/>

On [[13 February]] [[2019]], Amazon's then newly created [http://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime Twitter account] associated with the show posted the quote "I wisely started with a map.", taken from Tolkien's [[Letter 144]].<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=http://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1095797330127646721|articlename=“I wisely started with a map” — J.R.R. Tolkien|dated=13 February 2019|website=Twitter|accessed=30 January 2020}}</ref> On [[15 February]], the Twitter account released a map of Middle-earth along with a line of the [[Ring Verse]], over the next few weeks different versions of the map were released with each successive one including more labels than the previous as well as more lines from the verse. On [[7 March]], the final map was released which showed a wider view of Middle-earth, including the island of [[Númenor]] and the final post "Welcome to the Second Age".<ref name="AMSA"/> [[Tom Shippey]] and artist [[John Howe]] had worked on the accuracy of the maps, however dedicated [[Tolkien fandom|fans]] had detected several mistakes and anachronisms.<ref>{{webcite|articleurl=http://narniafans.com/2019/08/interview-with-narnia-conceptual-designer-john-howe/|articlename=Interview with John Howe|website=Narnia Fans|accessed=25 June 2020}}</ref>

The fact the series were going to be set in the [[Second Age]] was predicted by [[Tolkien Society]] Chair [[Shaun Gunner]] in February.<ref>{{webcite|website=Twitter|accessed=15 February 2020|dated=18 February 2019|articleurl=http://twitter.com/ShaunGunner/status/1097505289618841601|articlename=Shaun Gunner on Twitter}}</ref>

On [[27 July]] 2019, a video was published that introduced the creative team; [[J.D. Payne]] and [[Patrick McKay]] were announced as the showrunners, the writing team consisting of Gennifer Hutchison, Helen Shang, Jason Cahill, Glenise Mullins, Justin Dohle, Stephany Folsom and Bryan Cogman, Belén Atienza, Bruce Richmond, Gene Kelly and Lindsey Weber as executive producers, Ron Ames as co-producer, Kate Hawley as costume designer, Rick Heinrichs as production designer and Jason Smith as visual effects supervisor. The team will also include Tolkien scholar [[Tom Shippey]] and artist [[John Howe]]. [[J. A. Bayona|Bayona]] will direct the first two episodes.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=http://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1155142047420080129|articlename=''Meet our Fellowship''|dated=27 July 2019|website=Twitter|accessed=30 January 2020}}</ref> In an interview with the German Tolkien Society, scholar [[Tom Shippey]] stated that events from the First and Third Ages are "off-limits".<ref>{{webcite|author=Tobias M. Eckrich |articleurl=http://www.tolkiengesellschaft.de/30918/exklusive-interview-with-tom-shippey-concerning-lotronprime/|articlename=Exclusive interview with Tom Shippey concerning LOTRonPrime|dated=29 July 2019|website=[http://www.tolkiengesellschaft.de Deutche Tolkien Gesellschaft]|accessed=6 August 2019}}</ref>

On [[17 September]] 2019, Amazon Studios announced that the series first season would be filmed in New Zealand.<ref name="AMNZ"/>

On [[18 November]] 2019, Amazon Studios Head Jennifer Salke announced that the series has been renewed for a second season.<ref>{{webcite|author=Nellie Andreeva|articleurl=http://deadline.com/2019/11/the-lord-of-the-rings-series-renewed-season-2-amazon-early-renewal-season-1-hiatus-writers-room-reassembled-1202788730/|articlename=‘The Lord Of the Rings’ Series Gets Early Season 2 Renewal By Amazon, Sets Season 1 Hiatus|dated=18 November 2019|website=Deadline|accessed=17 March 2020}}</ref>

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, production of the series first season was suspended.<ref>{{webcite|author=Chris Keall|articleurl=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12316871|articlename=Coronavirus: Amazon's Lord of the Rings production in West Auckland shut down|dated=15 March 2020|website=[http://www.nzherald.co.nz/ The New Zealand Herald]|accessed=17 July 2020}}</ref> On 9 May 2020 the New Zealand Film Commission has allowed the production of film and TV to continue in the country.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=12330716|articlename=Covid 19 coronavirus: Avatar, Lord Of The Rings filming resumes in NZ|dated=9 May 2020|website=[http://www.nzherald.co.nz/ The New Zealand Herald]|accessed=17 July 2020}}</ref>

In December 2020, [[Bryan Cogman]] left the series for Entertainment One, after completing work on the scripts for the first season.<ref>{{webcite|author=Lesley Goldberg |articleurl=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/bryan-cogman-moves-overall-deal-to-eone-exclusive|articlename=Bryan Cogman Moves Overall Deal to eOne (Exclusive)|dated=7 December 2020|website=The Hollywood Reporter|accessed=15 December 2020}}</ref>

On [[24 March]] [[2021]], Amazon Studios announced that [[Wayne Che Yip]] had joined the creative team, as both a co-executive producer and director.<ref>{{webcite|author=Matt Grobar|articleurl=http://deadline.com/2021/03/wayne-che-yip-boards-lord-of-the-rings-series-director-co-ep-amazon-studios-1234720477/|articlename=Wayne Che Yip Boards ‘The Lord Of The Rings’ Series As Director & Co-EP, Will Helm Four Episodes Of Amazon Original|dated=24 March 2021|website=[http://deadline.com/ Deadline]|accessed=5 April 2021}}</ref>

In May 2021, it was announced that [[Charlotte Brändström]] would direct another two episodes.<ref>{{webcite|author=Matt Grobar|articleurl=https://deadline.com/2021/05/the-witcher-charlotte-brandstrom-amazons-the-lord-of-the-rings-series-1234755360/|articlename=‘The Witcher’ Director Charlotte Brändström Joins Amazon’s ‘The Lord Of The Rings’ Series
|dated=13 May 2021|website=[http://deadline.com/ Deadline]|accessed=21 August 2021}}</ref>

In September 2021, it was reported that [[Howard Shore]] and [[Bear McCreary]] were in talks to compose the soundtrack for the series.<ref>{{webcite|articleurl=https://www.theonering.net/torwp/2021/09/19/111495-howard-shore-and-bear-mccreary-to-soundtrack-lotr-on-prime-series/|articlename=Howard Shore and Bear McCreary to soundtrack LOTR on Prime series|dated=September 19, 2021|website=TheOneRing.net|accessed=September 20, 2021}}</ref> In July 2022, it was officially announced their hiring, with McCreary announced to be composing the score and Shore to be writing the main title theme.<ref>{{webcite|articleurl=https://www.rollingstone.co.uk/tv/news/bear-mccreary-confirmed-as-composer-of-the-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-20549/|articlename=Composer Bear McCreary to score ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’|dated=July 21, 2022|website=Rolling Stone UK|accessed=December 03, 2022}}</ref>

On [[3 October]] 2022, production for the second season of the series begun in the United Kingdom.<ref>{{webcite|articleurl=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/the-rings-of-power-season-2-filming-1235231978/|articlename=The Rings of Power' Season 2 Starts Production in the U.K.|dated=July 21, 2022|website=The Hollywood Reporter|accessed=December 03, 2022}}</ref>

=== Casting ===
On 22 July 2019, it was reported that Amazon has made its first cast for the new series that Markella Kavenagh was in talks to play a character named "Tyra".<ref>{{webcite|author=Joe Otterson|articleurl=http://variety.com/2019/tv/news/lord-of-the-rings-series-amazon-cast-markella-kavenagh-1203268175|articlename=‘Lord of the Rings’ Series at Amazon Taps First Cast Member (EXCLUSIVE)|dated=22 July 2019|website=[http://variety.com/ Variety]|accessed=22 October 2019}}</ref>

Will Poulter was cast for an unknown role in September 2019<ref>{{webcite|author=Joe Otterson|articleurl=http://variety.com/2019/tv/news/lord-of-the-rings-series-amazon-will-poulter-cast-1203321951/|articlename=‘Lord of The Rings’ Series at Amazon Casts Will Poulter (EXCLUSIVE)|dated=4 September 2019|website=[http://variety.com/ Variety]|accessed=22 October 2019}}</ref> however in December it was reported that he left the series due to scheduling conflicts.<ref>{{webcite|author=Joe Otterson|articleurl=http://variety.com/2019/tv/news/lord-of-the-rings-series-amazon-will-poulter-1203433273/|articlename=‘Lord of the Rings’: Will Poulter No Longer Attached to Amazon Series (EXCLUSIVE)|dated=12 December 2019|website=[http://variety.com/ Variety]|accessed=13 December 2019}}</ref> This was later confirmed by Poulter in an interview.<ref>{{webcite|author=Will Richards|articleurl=http://www.nme.com/news/tv/will-poulter-explains-why-he-left-amazons-lord-of-the-rings-tv-series-2706105|articlename=Will Poulter explains why he left Amazon's 'Lord Of The Rings' TV series|dated=12 July 2020|website=[http://www.nme.com/ NME]|accessed=17 July 2020}}</ref> He was replaced by Robert Aramayo who was reported to be playing a character named "Beldor".<ref>{{webcite|author=Nellie Andreeva|articleurl=http://deadline.com/2020/01/robert-aramayo-cast-the-lord-of-the-rings-amazon-tv-series-game-of-thrones-alum-cast-1202823073/|articlename='The Lord Of the Rings': Robert Aramayo To Star In Amazon TV Series|dated=7 January 2020|website=Deadline|accessed=15 January 2020}}</ref>

In October 2019, it was reported that Maxim Baldry<ref>{{webcite|author=Jeff Sneider|articleurl=http://collider.com/lord-of-the-rings-tv-series-cast-maxim-baldry/|articlename=Exclusive: ‘Lord of the Rings’ TV Series Adds ‘Years and Years’ Star Maxim Baldry|dated=15 October 2019|website=Collider|accessed=13 December 2019}}</ref> and Joseph Mawle has joined the cast, the latter playing "Oren", the lead villain of the series.<ref>{{webcite|author=Nellie Andreeva|articleurl=http://deadline.com/2019/10/the-lord-of-the-rings-joseph-mawle-cast-star-amazon-series-oren-game-of-thrones-alum-1202765493/|articlename='The Lord Of The Rings': Joseph Mawle To Star In Amazon Series|dated=21 October 2019|website=Deadline|accessed=22 October 2019}}</ref>

In December 2019, there were reports of Ema Horvath<ref>{{webcite|author=Nellie Andreeva|articleurl=http://deadline.com/2019/12/ema-horvath-cast-the-lord-of-the-rings-amazon-series-1202806025/|articlename=‘The Lord Of The Rings’: Ema Horvath Joins Cast Of Amazon Series|dated=10 December 2019|website=Deadline|accessed=13 December 2019}}</ref> and Morfydd Clark joinining the cast, it was said that Clark is to play a "young [[Galadriel]]".<ref>{{webcite|author=Justin Kroll|articleurl=http://variety.com/2019/tv/news/lord-of-the-rings-series-galadriel-morfydd-clark-1203446284/amp/|articlename='Lord of the Rings' Series Taps Morfydd Clark as Young Galadriel (EXCLUSIVE)|dated=17 December 2019|website=[http://variety.com/ Variety]|accessed=4 January 2020}}</ref>

On 15 January 2020, the series' official social media confirmed the castings of Kavenagh, Aramayo, Mawle, Horvath, and Clark, as well as revealing new members of the cast; Owain Arthur, Nazanin Boniadi, Tom Budge, Ismael Cruz Cordova, Tyroe Muhafidin, Sophia Nomvete, Megan Richards, Dylan Smith, Charlie Vickers, and Daniel Weyman.<ref name="Meet">{{webcite|author=|articleurl=http://www.facebook.com/LOTRonPrime/photos/?tab=album&album_id=2410457885934047|articlename=Meet the first members of our fellowship. #LOTRonPrime|dated=15 January 2020|website=Facebook|accessed=15 January 2020}}</ref>

In December 2020, it was announced that 20 actors have been added to the cast; Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Maxim Baldry (reported to have joined back in October 2019), Ian Blackburn, Kip Chapman, Anthony Crum, Maxine Cunliffe, Trystan Gravelle, Sir Lenny Henry, Thusitha Jayasundera, Fabian McCallum, Simon Merrells, Geoff Morrell, Peter Mullan, Lloyd Owen, Augustus Prew, Peter Tait, Alex Tarrant, Leon Wadham, Benjamin Walker and Sara Zwangobani.<ref name="VA20">{{webcite|author=Joe Otterson|articleurl=http://variety.com/2020/tv/news/lord-of-the-rings-series-amazon-cast-1234845274/|articlename=‘Lord of the Rings’ Series at Amazon Adds 20 Actors to Cast|dated=3 December 2020|website=[http://variety.com/ Variety]|accessed=3 December 2020}}</ref>

In March 2021, Tom Budge announced that he had departed the series after filming several episodes. He explained that Amazon had decided to go in a different direction with his character after reviewing the first episodes.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=http://www.instagram.com/p/CMZnFx-HkAp/|articlename=Tom Budge on Instagram|dated=14 March 2021|website=[http://instagram.com/ Instagram]|accessed=5 April 2021}}</ref>

In July 2021, Charles Edwards, Will Fletcher, Amelie Child-Villiers, and Beau Cassidy were added to the first season's cast.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/amazon-lord-of-the-rings-tv-series-cast-1234976309/|articlename=Amazon’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ Rounds Out Sprawling Cast (Exclusive)
|dated=1 July 2021|website=Hollywood Reporter|accessed=21 August 2021}}</ref> A third of the first season's 124 speaking roles, including seven of the 32 major recurring roles, went to New Zealand actors.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://www.newsroom.co.nz/page//govt-hopes-amazon-will-come-back-to-film-more-seasons|articlename=Return of the Rings: Govt hopes Amazon will come back to film more seasons
|dated=5 August 2021|website=[https://www.newsroom.co.nz Newsroom|accessed=21 August 2021}}</ref>

=== Filming ===
==== Season 1 ====
Although pre-production on the series reportedly began in June 2018 in [[Auckland]], filming began on [[14 March]] [[2020]]<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://www.gamespot.com//articles/lord-of-the-rings-tv-show-director-shares-a-behind/1100-6474422/|articlename=
Lord Of The Rings TV Show Director Shares A Behind-The-Scenes Photo
|dated=15 March 2020|website=[https://www.gamespot.com Gamespot]|accessed=25 August 2021}}</ref> in Auckland primarily at Kumeu Film Studios and Auckland Film Studios.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/entertainment/new-zealand-set-to-be-location-for-lord-of-the-rings-1-5-billion-tv-show/|articlename=New $1.5b LOTR TV series set to film in Auckland|dated=30 June 2019|website=[https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz Newstalk ZB]|accessed=25 August 2021}}</ref> Location filming took place around Auckland in February.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://www.theonering.net/torwp/2020/02/21/107557-exclusive-spy-report-from-the-set-of-amazons-lotr-with-photos/|articlename=EXCLUSIVE:Spy Report from the Set of Amazon's LOTR with photos |dated=21 February 2020|website=[https://deadline.com Deadline]|accessed=26 December 2021}}</ref> Filming for the first two episodes was expected to continue through May,<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/real-estate/118857705/lord-of-the-rings-tv-amazon-studios-puts-out-call-for-homes-for-cast-and-crew|articlename=Lord of the Rings TV: Amazon Studios puts out call for homes for cast and crew|dated=21 February 2020|website=[https://www.stuff.co.nz Stuff]|accessed=26 December 2021}}</ref> with a four or five-month production break then planned during which footage for the two episodes would be reviewed and writing on the second season would begin.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://deadline.com/2019/11/the-lord-of-the-rings-series-renewed-season-2-amazon-early-renewal-season-1-hiatus-writers-room-reassembled-1202788730/|articlename=
‘The Lord Of the Rings’ Series Gets Early Season 2 Renewal By Amazon, Sets Season 1 Hiatus
|dated=19 January 2020|website=[https://deadline.com DEADLINE]|accessed=26 December 2021}}</ref>Production was scheduled to resume in mid-October and continue until late June 2021.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/real-estate/118857705/lord-of-the-rings-tv-amazon-studios-puts-out-call-for-homes-for-cast-and-crew|articlename= Lord of the Rings TV: Amazon Studios puts out call for homes for cast and crew|dated=19 January 2020|website=[https://www.stuff.co.nz Stuff.co]|accessed=26 December 2021}}</ref> However, filming was placed on hold indefinitely in mid-March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with around 800 cast and crew members told to stay home.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/coronavirus-amazons-lord-of-the-rings-production-in-west-auckland-shut-down/JZE3ZEXWQQIQJXH4KYENFR3LRY/?c_id=3&objectid=12316871|articlename=
Coronavirus: Amazon's Lord of the Rings production in West Auckland shut down
|dated=15 March 2020|website=[https://www.nzherald.co.nz NZherald]|accessed=26 December 2021}}</ref> In early May, the majority of filming for the first two episodes was confirmed to have been completed before the COVID-19 shutdown. Filming on the series was allowed to resume then under new safety guidelines from the New Zealand government, but, instead of completing filming for the first two episodes at that time, the filming shutdown segued into the intended production break, with filming for the first two episodes set to be completed once filming on further episodes was ready to begin.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://deadline.com/2020/05/new-zealand-returns-to-production-paving-way-for-avatar-sequels-to-resume-live-action-filming-1202929138/|articlename=
New Zealand Returns To Production, Paving Way For ‘Avatar’ Sequels & ‘The Lord Of The Rings’ Series To Resume Filming |dated=7 May 2020|website=[https://deadline.com Deadline]|accessed=26 December 2021}}</ref>

It was reported that the TV series was one of seven film and television productions that were granted exemptions to allow cast and crew members to enter New Zealand while its borders were closed to non-New Zealanders due to [[Wikipedia:COVID-19|COVID-19]]. The exemptions were granted before [[June 18]] by Economic Development Minister Phil Twyford, and applied to 93 members of the production as well as 20 family members. Around 10 percent of the series' crew were believed to be non-[[New Zealand|New Zealanders]], and many of them had remained in the country during its pandemic lockdown and did not require exemptions. Pre-production on further episodes began by July [[2020]],<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/122012197/revealed-the-six-productions-joining-avatar-in-getting-border-exemptions|articlename=
Revealed: The six productions joining Avatar in getting border exemptions
|dated=3 July 2020|website=[https://www.stuff.co.nz Stuff.co]|accessed=26 December 2021}}</ref> and filming on the series resumed on [[September 28]].<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://deadline.com/2020/09/the-lord-of-the-rings-resumes-production-amazon-new-zealand-cowboy-bebop-netflix-dtart-of-production-1234584918/|articlename=
Amazon’s ‘The Lord Of The Rings’ Resumes Production In New Zealand, Netflix’s ‘Cowboy Bebop’ Next
|dated=28 September 2020|website=[https://deadline.com Deadline]|accessed=26 December 2021}}</ref> Bayona completed filming on his episodes by December 23,<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/amazons-lord-of-the-rings-pilot-wrapped-filming/|articlename= Amazon's Lord Of The Rings Pilot Has Wrapped Filming
|dated=25 December 2020|website=[https://comicbook.com ComicBook]|accessed=26 December 2021}}</ref> with production on further episodes set to begin in January 2021 following a two week break for Christmas.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/spy-lunch-of-the-rings-the-lotr-star-spotted-on-waiheke/WFTPOF2VTQ272HKL6NT2QLHHQI/|articlename=
Spy: Lunch of the Rings? The LOTR star spotted on Waiheke
|dated=19 December 2020|website=[https://www.nzherald.co.nz NZherald]|accessed=26 December 2021}}</ref> Yip confirmed that he had begun filming his episodes by March,<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/lord-of-the-rings-amazon-wayne-che-yip-1234936829/|articlename= ‘Lord of the Rings’ Series Adds Director Wayne Che Yip as Co-Executive Producer
|dated=24 March 2021|website=[https://variety.com Variety]|accessed=26 December 2021}}</ref> and Brändström was in New Zealand for production on the series when she was announced as director in May.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://deadline.com/2021/05/the-witcher-charlotte-brandstrom-amazons-the-lord-of-the-rings-series-1234755360/|articlename= ‘The Witcher’ Director Charlotte Brändström Joins Amazon’s ‘The Lord Of The Rings’ Series |dated=13 May 2021|website=[https://deadline.com Deadline]|accessed=26 December 2021}}</ref>

==== Season 2 ====

== Marketing ==
=== Season 1 ===
[[File:The Rings of Power (TV series) - Galadriel poster.jpg|thumb|250px|One of the promotional posters released in February 2022]]
On [[19 January]] 2022, Amazon revealed of the series' full title. Instead of creating a title reveal with visual effects, the studio released an announcement video in which the letters of the title are physically cast from molten metal while an excerpt of the "[[Ring Verse]]" from ''The Lord of the Rings'' is read in voiceover. The video was directed by Klaus Obermeyer, who worked with special effects supervisor Lee Nelson under advisement by veteran special effects supervisor [[Douglas Trumbull]].<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2022/01/19/111840-prime-videos-the-lord-of-the-rings-title-reveal-exclusive-behind-the-scenes-images/|articlename=Prime Video's The Lord of the Rings TITLE REVEAL - EXCLUSIVE Behind the Scenes images|dated=3 February 2022|website=[https://www.polygon.com/ Polygon]|accessed=4 February 2022}}</ref><ref>{{webcite|author=@LOTRonPrime|articleurl=http://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1483816516327915522?cxt=HHwWhICq-dHQyZcpAAAA|articlename=Title Announcement|dated=19 January 2022|website=Twitter|accessed=19 January 2022}}</ref>

On [[3 February]], Amazon Studios revealed a series of character posters for the series.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://www.polygon.com/22915948/lord-of-the-rings-of-power-characters-posters|articlename=Amazon’s first Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power character posters are a guessing game|dated=4 February 2022|website=[https://www.polygon.com/ Polygon]|accessed=4 February 2022}}</ref> On 10 February, a "first look" was revealed with photos of some of the characters,<ref name="VanityFair">{{webcite|author=Anthony Breznican & Joanna Robinson|articleurl=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/02/amazon-the-rings-of-power-series-first-look|articlename=Amazon’s Lord of the Rings Series Rises: Inside The Rings of Power
|dated=10-Feb-2022|website=VanityFair|accessed=20-July-2022}}</ref> followed by the release of the teaser trailer on 13 February during Super Bowl LVI.<ref>{{webcite|author=Erin Carson and Jennifer Bisset|articleurl=https://www.cnet.com/culture/entertainment/amazon-introduces-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-in-new-trailer/|articlename=Amazon Introduces 'Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power' in New Trailer|website=[http://www.cnet.com/ CNet]|accessed=9 April 2022}}</ref> The official watch party for the trailer was hosted on YouTube by [[TheOneRing.net]].<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2022/02/07/111973-official-lotr-trailer-watch-party-for-prime-videos-rings-of-power-to-be-hosted-by-torn/|articlename=Official LOTR Trailer Watch party for Prime Video’s Rings of Power to be hosted by TORn!|website=[https://www.theonering.net/ TheOneRing.net]|accessed=9 April 2022}}</ref>

On [[14 July]], Amazon released another trailer for the series online.<ref>{{webcite|author=William Goodman|articleurl=https://www.gq.com/story/lord-of-the-rings-rings-of-power-trailer|articlename=What the ‘Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power’ Trailer Reveals About the New Prequel Series
|dated=14 July 2022|website=[https://www.gq.com Get Go]|accessed=22 July 2022}}</ref>

On [[23 August]], Amazon released the final trailer for the first season's series online.<ref>{{webcite|author=James White|articleurl=https://www.empireonline.com/tv/news/lotr-the-rings-of-powers-final-trailer-shows-off-giant-battles-and-epic-scale/|articlename=LOTR: The Rings Of Power’s Final Trailer Shows Off Giant Battles And Epic Scale
|dated=23 August 2022|website=[https://www.empireonline.com/ EmpireOnline]|accessed=04 October 2022}}</ref>

=== Season 2 ===
On [[13 May]] [[2024]], Amazon revealed that the color of the title card for season two is now gold instead of silver.<ref>{{webcite|author=@LOTRonPrime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/theringsofpower/status/1790013705461350892?s=46|articlename=The Teaser Trailer World Premiere Tomorrow.|dated=13 May 2024|website=Twitter|accessed=}}</ref>

On [[14 May]] 2024, Amazon released the first teaser trailer for [[The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - Season 2|Season 2]], revealing it will be released on [[29 August]] of the same year.<ref>{{webcite|author=@LOTRonPrime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/TheRingsofPower/status/1790374328649048517|articlename=Darkness will bind them. The Rings Of Power returns August 29 on @PrimeVideo.|dated=14 May 2024|website=Twitter|accessed=14 May 2024}}</ref>

== Reception ==
The first season of the series received mixed reviews,<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_lord_of_the_rings_the_rings_of_power|articlename=The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power|dated=|website=[https://www.rottentomatoes.com/ Rotten Tomatoes]|accessed=2 October 2022}}</ref><ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7631058/|articlename=The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power|dated=|website=[https://www.imdb.com/ IMDB]|accessed=2 October 2022}}</ref> with generally positive critical and generally negative audience scores on review aggregation websites.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://www.metacritic.com/tv/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power/season-1|articlename=The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power|dated=|website=[https://www.metacritic.com/ Metacritic]|accessed=14 October 2022}}</ref> Most viewers did not finish the show, particularly in the USA, with a domestic completion rate of 37%, while the rest of the world had a 45% completion rate.<ref>{{webcite|author=Kim Masters|articleurl=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/inside-amazon-studios-jen-salke-vision-shows-1235364913/|articlename=Inside Amazon Studios: Big Swings Hampered by Confusion and Frustration|dated=3 April 2023|website=[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ The Hollywood Reporter]|accessed=9 May 2023}}</ref> The series also proved controversial in many corners of Tolkien fandom with people questioning its fidelity to the source material and the depiction of certain characters.

== See also ==
* [[:Category:Images from The Rings of Power (TV series)|Images from ''The Rings of Power'' TV series]]
* [[The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 1 Soundtrack|''The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power'' Season 1 Soundtrack]]

== External links ==
* [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pL02_uTRBKw The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power - A Look Inside Season 2] on the Prime Video YouTube channel
* [http://www.amazon.com/adlp/lotronprime Official website]
* [http://www.facebook.com/LOTRonPrime/ Official Facebook page]
* [http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5gNthckomHt36m9-WH042Q/ Youtube channel]
* [https://www.fandom.com/articles/lord-rings-power-hidden-character-details ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ Cast Reveal New Character Details] on Fandom
* [https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/entertainment/lord-of-the-rings-numenor-images Númenor revealed in new Lord of the Rings series] on Amazon
* [https://www.looper.com/962547/robert-aramayo-sheds-light-on-a-younger-elrond-in-rings-of-power-exclusive-interview/ Robert Aramayo Sheds Light On A Younger Elrond In Rings Of Power - Exclusive Interview] on Looper
* [https://time.com/6205837/the-rings-of-power-amazon-most-expensive/ Inside Rings of Power, Amazon's Lord of the Rings Prequel] on Time

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The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria

2023-10-28T18:20:50Z

Crimson:

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| name=''The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria''
| image=[[File:The Lord of the Rings Return to Moria logo.png|275px]]
| developer=Free Range Games
| publisher=North Beach Games
| platform=[[wikipedia:Microsoft Windows|Microsoft Windows]], [[wikipedia:PlayStation 5|PlayStation 5]], [[wikipedia:Xbox Series X and Series S|Xbox Series X/S]]
| releasedate=[[24 October]] [[2023]] (PC) [[5 December]] 2023 (PlayStation) Early [[2024]] (Xbox)
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'''''The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria''''' is an online survival-crafting video game for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S. It is set after the events of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', during the [[Fourth Age]] when the [[Dwarves]] attempt to retake the ancient city of [[Moria]]. It is the first licensed video game that will be set mainly in the Fourth Age.<ref>{{webcite|articleurl=https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/news/the-lord-of-the-rings-return-to-moria-s-announcement-reveals-a-multiplayer-survival-game|articlename=The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria’s announcement reveals a multiplayer survival game
|dated=13-June-2022|website=[https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/ Epic Games]|accessed=12-July-2022}}</ref> The game released on [[24 October]] [[2023]] on Microsoft Windows, with the PlayStation 5 release delayed to [[5 December]] that year. The Xbox Series X/S version is expected to be released in early [[2024]].<ref>{{webcite|articleurl=https://www.gematsu.com/2023/10/the-lord-of-the-rings-return-to-moria-for-ps5-delayed-to-december-5-pc-version-goes-gold|articlename=The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria for PS5 delayed to December 5; PC version goes gold|dated=19-October-2023|website=[https://www.gematsu.com/ Gematsu]|accessed=28-October-2023}}</ref>

==Plot==
During the [[Fourth Age]], summoned to the [[Misty Mountains]] by Lord [[Gimli]], a company of [[Dwarves]] are tasked with reclaiming the lost spoils from the Dwarven homeland of [[Moria]].

==Gameplay ==
Mining and forging are key components of the game.

==Reception==

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White Council

2023-10-24T21:02:20Z

Crimson:

{{organization infobox
| name=White Council
| image=[[File:The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey - The White Council meets.jpg|250px]]
| caption=The White Council in ''[[The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey]]''
| pronun=
| othernames=Council of the Wise<ref name="SRings">{{S|Rings}}</ref>
| founded={{SA|1701}} (first)<ref>{{UT|Concerning}}, p. 254, note 10</ref> {{TA|2463}} (later)<ref name="AppBTA">{{App|TA}}</ref>
| founder=[[Galadriel]]<ref name=Mirror>{{FR|Mirror}}, p. 357</ref>
| purpose=To co-ordinate the resistance to [[Sauron]]
| members=[[Saruman]], [[Gandalf]], [[Galadriel]], [[Elrond]], [[Círdan]]
| location=
| disbanded={{TA|2953}}<ref name="AppBTA"/>
| notablefor=[[Attack on Dol Guldur]]
| gallery=the White Council
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The '''White Council''', also referred to as the '''Council of the Wise''', was a gathering of the [[Wise]] in [[Middle-earth]]. At least two different Councils were known to have existed in the history of Middle-earth: one which met at least once after [[Sauron]] was driven out of [[Eriador]] in {{SA|1701}},<ref name="UTConcerning">{{UT|Concerning}}</ref> and another which first met in {{TA|2463}}<ref name="AppBTA"/> and went on to meet irregularly throughout the course of the [[Third Age]]. The purpose of the Council was "to unite and direct the forces of the [[Westlands|West]], in resistance to the shadow."<ref name="PMThird">{{PM|Third}}</ref>

==Members==
=== Second Age ===
No members are explicitly identified as being part of the first White Council during the [[Second Age]], however it is implied that at least [[Gil-galad]] and [[Elrond]] were members as Gil-galad gave [[Vilya]] to Elrond at the Council. [[Galadriel]] and [[Celeborn]] were present in [[Rivendell|Imladris]] at the same time as the Council, making them potential candidates as well.<ref name="UTConcerning"/>

=== Third Age===
The following individuals were clearly stated to have been members of the later iteration of the White Council during the [[Third Age]]:
*[[Saruman]], the appointed leader of the Council
*[[Gandalf]]
*[[Galadriel]], who first summoned it
*[[Elrond]]
*[[Círdan]]
Other lords of the [[Eldar]] were said to have joined the Council at some point in time.<ref name="SRings"/>

==History==
A "White Council" first met in c. {{SA|1701}}.<ref group="note">In {{UT|Concerning}} it states that, "At this time the first Council was held". This followed the driving out of Sauron from [[Eregion]], which occurred {{SA|1701}} according to {{App|SA}}. According to {{UT|Concerning}}, note 10, "the first Council" was emended to "the first White Council".</ref> At this meeting it was decided that [[Rivendell|Imladris]] should become the stronghold of the [[Elves]] in [[Eriador]], rather than [[Eregion]]. It seems likely that the "White Council" of the [[Third Age]] echoed this "White Council" of the [[Second Age]].<ref>{{UT|Concerning}}, p. 254, note 10</ref>

In {{TA|2063}}<ref name="AppBTA"/> [[Gandalf]] entered [[Dol Guldur]], thus daunting the concealed [[Sauron]] into fleeing [[East|eastwards]], beginning the [[Watchful Peace]]; although this was before the formation of the Council, the feat was attributed to them.<ref>{{App|Stewards}}, "...the Watchful Peace, during which Sauron withdrew before the power of the White Council..."</ref><ref group=note>The discrepancy is noted in {{HM|Guide}}, p. 424</ref>

[[File:Angus McBride - Dol Guldur.jpg|thumb|''Dol Guldur'' by [[Angus McBride]]]]
In {{TA|2463}},<ref name="AppBTA"/> following Sauron's return to Dol Guldur and the end of the [[Watchful Peace]] in {{TA|2460|n}},<ref name="AppBTA"/> Galadriel summoned the first meeting of the White Council.<ref name=Mirror/>

There are only four known meetings of the White Council:<ref name="AppBTA"/>
* {{TA|2463}}: There were [[Saruman]], Gandalf, Elrond, Galadriel and [[Círdan]], and other lords of the Eldar. It was mooted that Gandalf be the head of the Council, but to Galadriel's dismay he refused the office as he preferred his independence. Saruman was chosen as their chief instead, because of his deep knowledge on Sauron's devices, and he begrudged Gandalf for being the desired candidate.<ref name="SRings"/>

* {{TA|2851}}: The Council met at [[Rivendell]].<ref name="UTGandalf">{{UT|Gandalf}}</ref> The Grey Pilgrim urged an attack on [[Dol Guldur]] following his discovery in the [[Third Age 2850|previous year]] that its master was indeed the returned [[Dark Lord]].<Ref name="SRings"/> Gandalf also wished to simultaneously prevent a union between Sauron and [[Smaug]] - the [[Dragon]] that had sacked [[Erebor]] not long ago.<ref>{{UT|Erebor}}</ref> Saruman overruled him, however, because in secret he had begun to covet Sauron's power for himself.<ref name="AppBTA"/> The White Wizard thus insisted that there was no reason to attack the Dark Lord, claiming therefore that, the [[One Ring]] had fallen into the Anduin, and by now it had been flown to the [[Bay of Belfalas|Sea]].<ref group=note name=repetition>According to ''Of the Rings of Power'' Saruman makes this claim in the second meeting, and in ''Appendix B'', this argument is said in the last meeting; in the [[Council of Elrond]] this claim was "repeated what he had said to us before".</ref> In reality Saruman wanted to win himself some time, knowing that the Ring would sooner or later reveal itself if it felt the growing presence of its [[Lord of the Ring (title)|master]], Sauron; moving against him, it would make the Ring hide again.<Ref name="SRings"/> Unusually for a White Council meeting, Gandalf sat apart from the others, in silence and smoking, whilst Saruman spoke against the attack on Dol Guldur. This irritated Saruman and he spoke to Gandalf afterwards, asking him why he did not join in the discussion, and mocked his smoking. Gandalf replied that [[pipe-weed]], a practice of the [[Hobbits|Halflings]], gave him 'patience'. Saruman mocked him again and in response Gandalf sent out many rings of smoke into the air and grasped them in his hand before they vanished. Saruman read this gesture as suggesting that Gandalf suspected him of wanting to possess the One Ring, or that there was a connection between the rings of power and the Halflings.<ref name="UTGandalf"/>

* {{TA|2941}}: Gandalf said that although the One Ring was lost, its existence alone allowed Sauron to still manifest - the Enemy, who now had the [[Nine Rings]] and three of the [[Seven Rings|Seven]] - and repeated his call to attack Dol Guldur.<Ref name="SRings"/> Saruman finally conceded to the assault for he had been alarmed by Sauron's searching for the One Ring in the Anduin<ref name="AppBTA"/> and believed that thrusting him from Dol Guldur would allow him to search freely.<Ref name="SRings"/> The White Council launched an [[attack on Dol Guldur]], but the Dark Lord, having already made plans, fled to [[Mordor]].<ref name="AppBTA"/><Ref name="SRings"/>

* {{TA|2953}}: Following Sauron's open declaration in {{TA|2951|n}},<ref name="AppBTA"/> there was a discussion on the [[Rings of Power]]. Saruman once again repeated his claim that the One Ring had been lost down the [[Anduin]] and into the [[Belegaer|Sea]]<ref>{{FR|Council}}</ref><ref group=note name=repetition/> this quieting Gandalf's worries about Bilbo's Ring. Afterwards, the Wizard retreated to [[Isengard]] and isolated himself from the others<ref name="AppBTA"/><Ref name="SRings"/> and would be ensnared by the Dark Lord in {{TA|3000|n}}, becoming his power-lusting vassal.<ref name="AppBTA"/>

==Portrayal in adaptations==
[[File:The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey - The White Council.jpg|thumb|250px|The White Council meets in [[Rivendell]] in ''[[The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey]]'']]
'''2012: ''[[The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey]]'':'''
:Having arrived at [[Rivendell]] with [[Thorin and Company]], [[Gandalf]] found himself unexpectedly taken by [[Elrond]] to meet with [[Galadriel]] and [[Saruman]] at Saruman's behest. Whilst the meeting is not explicitly called the "White Council," its membership and discussion points have much in common with the White Council in [[J.R.R. Tolkien|Tolkien]]'s writings. Much of the history of the [[Third Age]] is conflated and substantially altered for the film; Gandalf reveals his concerns regarding an alliance between [[Sauron]] and [[Smaug]], before telling the Council that [[Radagast]] had found [[Dol Guldur]] occupied by a [[Sauron#Sauron's Return|Necromancer]]. Ever begrudging Gandalf, Saruman dismisses Gandalf for believing Radagast's story. Gandalf and Galadriel converse [[ósanwe|telepathically]] before the [[Wizards|Wizard]] shows the Council a [[Morgul-knife|Morgul blade]] which belonged to the [[Witch-king]]; the blade and the [[Nazgûl]] had been buried together many centuries previously following the downfall of [[Angmar]]. Saruman is still skeptical about the evidence and Radagast's claims and forbids Gandalf to continue his journey. However Gandalf had already arranged for [[Thorin and Company]] to leave Rivendell during the meeting, knowing already that Saruman would hinder him out of spite and pride.

'''2014: ''[[The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies]]'':'''
:Gandalf has been imprisoned and tormented by Sauron and [[Keeper of the Dungeons|his minion]] after a failed mission to the stronghold of Dol Guldur. As Gandalf telepathically makes contact with Radagast, Galadriel arrives at the fortress to rescue him, vanquishing the [[Orcs|Orc]] jailor in the process. She and Gandalf are then surrounded by the spectres of the Nazgûl, but Elrond and Saruman arrive on the scene and attack them. Galadriel heals Gandalf while their companions battle the Nine. After Gandalf is swiftly taken to safety by Radagast, Sauron himself manifests before the council, forcing Galadriel to assume a dark, ethereal form in order to banish him, assisted by the power of [[Nenya]] and her [[Phial of Galadriel|phial]]. The [[Dark Lord]]'s spirit then flees into the East, which Elrond suggests should be kept under watch by [[Gondor]], who should be warned of the Enemy's return. Both awed and shaken by Sauron's display of strength, Saruman plays down on Galadriel and Elrond's worries, professedly vowing that he himself would deal with Sauron, and ultimately foreshadowing his later corruption.

==See also==
* [[Council of Elrond]]

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White Council

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{{organization infobox
| name=White Council
| image=[[File:The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey - The White Council meets.jpg|250px]]
| caption=The White Council in ''[[The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey]]''
| pronun=
| othernames=Council of the Wise<ref name="SRings">{{S|Rings}}</ref>
| founded={{SA|1701}} (first)<ref>{{UT|Concerning}}, p. 254, note 10</ref> {{TA|2463}} (later)<ref name="AppBTA">{{App|TA}}</ref>
| founder=[[Galadriel]]<ref name=Mirror>{{FR|Mirror}}, p. 357</ref>
| purpose=To co-ordinate the resistance to [[Sauron]]
| members=[[Saruman]], [[Gandalf]], [[Galadriel]], [[Elrond]], [[Círdan]]
| location=
| disbanded={{TA|2953}}<ref name="AppBTA"/>
| notablefor=[[Attack on Dol Guldur]]
| gallery=the White Council
}}
The '''White Council''', also referred to as the '''Council of the Wise''', was a gathering of the [[Wise]] in [[Middle-earth]]. At least two different Councils were known to have existed in the history of Middle-earth: one which met at least once after [[Sauron]] was driven out of [[Eriador]] in {{SA|1701}},<ref name="UTConcerning">{{UT|Concerning}}</ref> and another which first met in {{TA|2463}}<ref name="AppBTA"/> and went on to meet irregularly throughout the course of the [[Third Age]]. The purpose of the Council was "to unite and direct the forces of the [[Westlands|West]], in resistance to the shadow."<ref name="PMThird">{{PM|Third}}</ref>

==Members==
=== Second Age ===
No members are explicitly identified as being part of the first White Council during the [[Second Age]], however it is implied that at least [[Gil-galad]] and [[Elrond]] were members as Gil-galad gave [[Vilya]] to Elrond at the Council. [[Galadriel]] and [[Celeborn]] were present in [[RivendellA|Imladris]] at the same time as the Council, making them potential candidates as well.<ref name="UTConcerning"/>

=== Third Age===
The following individuals were clearly stated to have been members of the later iteration of the White Council during the [[Third Age]]:
*[[Saruman]], the appointed leader of the Council
*[[Gandalf]]
*[[Galadriel]], who first summoned it
*[[Elrond]]
*[[Círdan]]
Other lords of the [[Eldar]] were said to have joined the Council at some point in time.<ref name="SRings"/>

==History==
A "White Council" first met in c. {{SA|1701}}.<ref group="note">In {{UT|Concerning}} it states that, "At this time the first Council was held". This followed the driving out of Sauron from [[Eregion]], which occurred {{SA|1701}} according to {{App|SA}}. According to {{UT|Concerning}}, note 10, "the first Council" was emended to "the first White Council".</ref> At this meeting it was decided that [[Rivendell|Imladris]] should become the stronghold of the [[Elves]] in [[Eriador]], rather than [[Eregion]]. It seems likely that the "White Council" of the [[Third Age]] echoed this "White Council" of the [[Second Age]].<ref>{{UT|Concerning}}, p. 254, note 10</ref>

In {{TA|2063}}<ref name="AppBTA"/> [[Gandalf]] entered [[Dol Guldur]], thus daunting the concealed [[Sauron]] into fleeing [[East|eastwards]], beginning the [[Watchful Peace]]; although this was before the formation of the Council, the feat was attributed to them.<ref>{{App|Stewards}}, "...the Watchful Peace, during which Sauron withdrew before the power of the White Council..."</ref><ref group=note>The discrepancy is noted in {{HM|Guide}}, p. 424</ref>

[[File:Angus McBride - Dol Guldur.jpg|thumb|''Dol Guldur'' by [[Angus McBride]]]]
In {{TA|2463}},<ref name="AppBTA"/> following Sauron's return to Dol Guldur and the end of the [[Watchful Peace]] in {{TA|2460|n}},<ref name="AppBTA"/> Galadriel summoned the first meeting of the White Council.<ref name=Mirror/>

There are only four known meetings of the White Council:<ref name="AppBTA"/>
* {{TA|2463}}: There were [[Saruman]], Gandalf, Elrond, Galadriel and [[Círdan]], and other lords of the Eldar. It was mooted that Gandalf be the head of the Council, but to Galadriel's dismay he refused the office as he preferred his independence. Saruman was chosen as their chief instead, because of his deep knowledge on Sauron's devices, and he begrudged Gandalf for being the desired candidate.<ref name="SRings"/>

* {{TA|2851}}: The Council met at [[Rivendell]].<ref name="UTGandalf">{{UT|Gandalf}}</ref> The Grey Pilgrim urged an attack on [[Dol Guldur]] following his discovery in the [[Third Age 2850|previous year]] that its master was indeed the returned [[Dark Lord]].<Ref name="SRings"/> Gandalf also wished to simultaneously prevent a union between Sauron and [[Smaug]] - the [[Dragon]] that had sacked [[Erebor]] not long ago.<ref>{{UT|Erebor}}</ref> Saruman overruled him, however, because in secret he had begun to covet Sauron's power for himself.<ref name="AppBTA"/> The White Wizard thus insisted that there was no reason to attack the Dark Lord, claiming therefore that, the [[One Ring]] had fallen into the Anduin, and by now it had been flown to the [[Bay of Belfalas|Sea]].<ref group=note name=repetition>According to ''Of the Rings of Power'' Saruman makes this claim in the second meeting, and in ''Appendix B'', this argument is said in the last meeting; in the [[Council of Elrond]] this claim was "repeated what he had said to us before".</ref> In reality Saruman wanted to win himself some time, knowing that the Ring would sooner or later reveal itself if it felt the growing presence of its [[Lord of the Ring (title)|master]], Sauron; moving against him, it would make the Ring hide again.<Ref name="SRings"/> Unusually for a White Council meeting, Gandalf sat apart from the others, in silence and smoking, whilst Saruman spoke against the attack on Dol Guldur. This irritated Saruman and he spoke to Gandalf afterwards, asking him why he did not join in the discussion, and mocked his smoking. Gandalf replied that [[pipe-weed]], a practice of the [[Hobbits|Halflings]], gave him 'patience'. Saruman mocked him again and in response Gandalf sent out many rings of smoke into the air and grasped them in his hand before they vanished. Saruman read this gesture as suggesting that Gandalf suspected him of wanting to possess the One Ring, or that there was a connection between the rings of power and the Halflings.<ref name="UTGandalf"/>

* {{TA|2941}}: Gandalf said that although the One Ring was lost, its existence alone allowed Sauron to still manifest - the Enemy, who now had the [[Nine Rings]] and three of the [[Seven Rings|Seven]] - and repeated his call to attack Dol Guldur.<Ref name="SRings"/> Saruman finally conceded to the assault for he had been alarmed by Sauron's searching for the One Ring in the Anduin<ref name="AppBTA"/> and believed that thrusting him from Dol Guldur would allow him to search freely.<Ref name="SRings"/> The White Council launched an [[attack on Dol Guldur]], but the Dark Lord, having already made plans, fled to [[Mordor]].<ref name="AppBTA"/><Ref name="SRings"/>

* {{TA|2953}}: Following Sauron's open declaration in {{TA|2951|n}},<ref name="AppBTA"/> there was a discussion on the [[Rings of Power]]. Saruman once again repeated his claim that the One Ring had been lost down the [[Anduin]] and into the [[Belegaer|Sea]]<ref>{{FR|Council}}</ref><ref group=note name=repetition/> this quieting Gandalf's worries about Bilbo's Ring. Afterwards, the Wizard retreated to [[Isengard]] and isolated himself from the others<ref name="AppBTA"/><Ref name="SRings"/> and would be ensnared by the Dark Lord in {{TA|3000|n}}, becoming his power-lusting vassal.<ref name="AppBTA"/>

==Portrayal in adaptations==
[[File:The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey - The White Council.jpg|thumb|250px|The White Council meets in [[Rivendell]] in ''[[The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey]]'']]
'''2012: ''[[The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey]]'':'''
:Having arrived at [[Rivendell]] with [[Thorin and Company]], [[Gandalf]] found himself unexpectedly taken by [[Elrond]] to meet with [[Galadriel]] and [[Saruman]] at Saruman's behest. Whilst the meeting is not explicitly called the "White Council," its membership and discussion points have much in common with the White Council in [[J.R.R. Tolkien|Tolkien]]'s writings. Much of the history of the [[Third Age]] is conflated and substantially altered for the film; Gandalf reveals his concerns regarding an alliance between [[Sauron]] and [[Smaug]], before telling the Council that [[Radagast]] had found [[Dol Guldur]] occupied by a [[Sauron#Sauron's Return|Necromancer]]. Ever begrudging Gandalf, Saruman dismisses Gandalf for believing Radagast's story. Gandalf and Galadriel converse [[ósanwe|telepathically]] before the [[Wizards|Wizard]] shows the Council a [[Morgul-knife|Morgul blade]] which belonged to the [[Witch-king]]; the blade and the [[Nazgûl]] had been buried together many centuries previously following the downfall of [[Angmar]]. Saruman is still skeptical about the evidence and Radagast's claims and forbids Gandalf to continue his journey. However Gandalf had already arranged for [[Thorin and Company]] to leave Rivendell during the meeting, knowing already that Saruman would hinder him out of spite and pride.

'''2014: ''[[The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies]]'':'''
:Gandalf has been imprisoned and tormented by Sauron and [[Keeper of the Dungeons|his minion]] after a failed mission to the stronghold of Dol Guldur. As Gandalf telepathically makes contact with Radagast, Galadriel arrives at the fortress to rescue him, vanquishing the [[Orcs|Orc]] jailor in the process. She and Gandalf are then surrounded by the spectres of the Nazgûl, but Elrond and Saruman arrive on the scene and attack them. Galadriel heals Gandalf while their companions battle the Nine. After Gandalf is swiftly taken to safety by Radagast, Sauron himself manifests before the council, forcing Galadriel to assume a dark, ethereal form in order to banish him, assisted by the power of [[Nenya]] and her [[Phial of Galadriel|phial]]. The [[Dark Lord]]'s spirit then flees into the East, which Elrond suggests should be kept under watch by [[Gondor]], who should be warned of the Enemy's return. Both awed and shaken by Sauron's display of strength, Saruman plays down on Galadriel and Elrond's worries, professedly vowing that he himself would deal with Sauron, and ultimately foreshadowing his later corruption.

==See also==
* [[Council of Elrond]]

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Secondary world

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{{quote|Part of the attraction of [The Lord of the Rings] is, I think, glimpses of a large history in the background: an attraction like that of viewing far off an unvisited island, or seeing the towers of a distant city gleaming in a sunlit mist.|J.R.R. Tolkien<ref>{{L|247}}, p. 333</ref>}}
'''Secondary world''' is a term used by [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] to refer to a consistent fictional world or setting, created by someone in the process of [[sub-creation]], within a real ''primary'' world. The world of [[Arda]], and generally the setting of the [[legendarium]], is Tolkien's secondary world. His views regarding the "secondary world" can be found in the essays ''[[The Monsters and the Critics]]''.

Tolkien claimed that the author should respect his creation, grant it internal consistency, and let it obtain "life" of its own. The tales should have several dimensions: geography, characters, languages, timeline, all being interdependent. The "scenery" should seem able to sustain the events and characters it hosts, and this would make the world's immersive effect credible to the reader. Nowadays the concept of a secondary world is better known as a [[Wikipedia:conworld|conworld]] or a [[Wikipedia:fictional universe|fictional universe]].

Tolkien believed in the philosophical concept of sub-creation, which is founded on the idea that any creation by mankind is an emulation of the true creation of God. In the instance of the secondary world, Tolkien constructed the secondary world using materials and experiences derived from the primary world. Tolkien believed that sub-creating helps us understand the Creation better, and of course the Creator (God). This view, while influenced by his Roman Catholic faith, is Tolkien's own derived philosophy.

Students of Tolkien's works use the term "primary" and "secondary" to refer to two dimensions of the creation of Middle-earth. For example one can study Tolkien's [[languages]] being aware of both the primary and secondary factors. For instance, the primary world history of [[Sindarin]] refers to the creation process of the language by young Tolkien, from [[Gnomish]] until [[Noldorin]], and finally [[Sindarin]] proper. In contrast, the secondary world history of the language refers to the fictional history, and the etymological evolution of the language of the [[Elves]], from [[Primitive Quendian]] not long after their [[Awakening of the Elves|awakening]] to the numerous languages and dialects found by the end of the [[First Age]] and beyond. There are also many secondary world versions of this history, each one belonging to the various levels of the myth.

Mysteries and gaps found anywhere in the legendarium can discussed and solved with reference to both the primary and secondary worlds. These concepts are also known as "in-universe" and "out-of-universe" perspectives in other franchises.
==See also==
*[[Canon]]
*[[Mythopoeia]]
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==External links==
*[[Wikipedia:conworld|conworld]]
*[[Wikipedia:fictional universe|fictional universe]]
*[[Wikipedia:canon (fiction)|canon]]
*[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/In-universe In-universe] term explained from the perspective of Star Wars.

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Sub-creation

2023-07-20T18:30:45Z

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'''Sub-creation''' was a term used by [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] for a philosophical concept that he applied to all aspects of his life, including his work on the [[legendarium]]. It described the inclination of all living beings to create things within the primary world (i.e. the physical world in which they inhabit), using materials and experiences derived from the primary world. The primary world in this framework came to exist through an act of true creation - that is to say the creation of something from nothing.

In real life, Tolkien, as a Catholic, credited this act of true creation to the Christian God. Within the legendarium, however, the Creator is known as [[Ilúvatar|Eru Ilúvatar]]. When describing the relationship between the legendarium and the real world, Tolkien would often refer to [[Arda]] as his [[secondary world]], constructed within a real primary world.

===In Arda===
"Sub-creation" was used to describe the creative efforts of the [[Ainur]] and [[Incarnate]]s, such as [[Elves]], [[Men]], [[Dwarves]], and [[Hobbits]], all of whom are themselves either creations of [[Ilúvatar|Eru Ilúvatar]] or, in the case of the Dwarves, created by the [[Valar|Vala]] [[Aulë]] and later given life by Eru. These creations, therefore, come about through the process of "sub-creation", as true creation is the province of Eru alone.

A notable example of sub-creation and its limitations is [[Morgoth]]'s efforts to produce races such as [[Orcs]] and [[Trolls]]. Unable to duplicate true creation, Morgoth instead corrupted or emulated beings already in existence: Orcs were produced either from corrupted Elves or Men, while Trolls were said to have been made in mockery of the [[Ents]] using the element of stone. Morgoth was hence unable to master true creation, and ultimately all that he did would in the end serve only to further the plan which Eru had set into motion at the beginning of [[Eä]].

===In reality===
"Sub-creation" was also used by [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] to refer to process of worldbuilding and creating myths. In this context, a human author is a "little maker", creating his own world as a subset within God's primary creation. Like the beings of [[Middle-earth]], Tolkien saw his works as mere emulation of the true creation performed by God.

===See also===
*[[Mythopoeia]]

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The Lord of the Rings: Gollum

2023-07-05T20:27:56Z

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{{video game infobox
| name=''The Lord of the Rings: Gollum''
| image=[[File:The Lord of the Rings Gollum - Twitter logo.jpg|250px]]
| developer=[[Daedalic Entertainment]]
| publisher=Daedalic Entertainment [[Nacon]]
| platform=[[wikipedia:PS4|PS4]], [[wikipedia:PS5|PS5]], [[wikipedia:Xbox One|Xbox One]], [[wikipedia:Xbox Series X and Series S|Xbox Series X/S]], [[wikipedia:PC|PC]], [[wikipedia:Nintendo Switch|Nintendo Switch]]
| releasedate=[[25 May]] [[2023]]
}}

'''''The Lord of the Rings: Gollum''''', known on social media as '''@GollumGame''' for short, is a video game for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S, featuring [[Gollum]] as the main protagonist. It is set between the events of ''[[The Hobbit]]'' and ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', during the time in which Gollum is searching for the [[One Ring]]. The game was originally scheduled for release in [[1 September]] [[2022]],<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://mobile.twitter.com/GollumGame/status/1529100043726295040|articlename=Gollum's quest for his precious will begin on September 1, 2022! Coming on PC & consoles and at a later date on Nintendo Switch. #GollumGame💍|dated=|website=Twitter|accessed=}}</ref> but on [[25 July]] 2022, it was announced that there would be a further delay of "a few months".<ref> {{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://mobile.twitter.com/GollumGame/status/1551598260732792832|articlename=An important message.|dated=|website=Twitter|accessed=}}</ref> It was later announced on [[24 March]] [[2023]] that the game would release on [[25 May]], with the Nintendo Switch version releasing later in the year.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://mobile.twitter.com/GollumGame/status/1638966374428205061|articlename=Sméagol will swear it on the Precious, your new adventure in Middle-earth begins on May 25, 2023! Watch the Gameplay Showcase: https://youtu.be/YOBqFV6EO80|dated=|website=Twitter|accessed=}}</ref>

A special edition called the '''Precious Edition''' was announced on [[14 April]] 2023. The contents include the full game, an [[Art Exhibition]] application, the [[Lore Compendium]] DLC, a 45 minute [[The Lord of the Rings: Gollum (Original Soundtrack)|original soundtrack]], and [[Sindarin]] voice acting. Early access to the [[Emotes Pack]] DLC is also included as a pre-order bonus.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://twitter.com/GollumGame/status/1646847013508505600|articlename=Yes Precious, we have a Special Edition! 💍 💿 The Full Game 🖼️ The Art Exhibition Application 📜 The Lore Compendium 🎼 A 45-min OST 📣 Sindarin Voice Acting Pre-order and get the Emotes Pack DLC, which includes 6 of Gollum’s iconic gestures and sayings.|dated=|website=Twitter|accessed=}}</ref>

==Plot==
The game explores a never-before-told story about [[Gollum]], and is set eight years before the [[War of the Ring]].<ref>{{webcite|articleurl=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/lord-rings-gollum-video-game-works-1196607|articlename='Lord of the Rings: Gollum' Video Game in the Works From German Studio Daedalic|website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|dated=2019-03-25|accessed=24-March-2023}}</ref><ref>{{webcite|articleurl=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GAeidRkDYc|articlename=The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™ - The Making Of The Untold Story|website=YouTube|dated=24 March 2023|accessed=}}</ref>

After Gollum is tortured in [[Mordor]], he is enslaved to work in the mines of the [[Ephel Duath]] on the edge of Mordor. Here Gollum fulfils his tasks, and sometimes stealthily causes some mischief.<ref>{{webcite|articleurl=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR_NIjb3igg|articlename=Worst Game of the Year So Far|website=YouTube|dated=26 May 2023|accessed=}}</ref> Upon escaping enslavement, Gollum enters the tunnels of [[Shelob]].<ref>{{webcite|articleurl=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amFwTazR_I0|articlename=I Can't Stop Playing This Trash|website=YouTube|dated=28 May 2023|accessed=}}</ref>

The game cuts to the [[Elvenking's Halls]] upon fleeing Shelob, where Gollum is brought before [[Thranduil]]. Gollum is granted some freedoms, and befriends an [[Elf]] named [[Mell]]. She helps you find the [[Riddlemaster]], who turns out to be the main antagonist. Upon killing him, Gollum manages to escape [[Mirkwood]], and the game ends.<ref>{{webcite|articleurl=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qFsXC6jQik|articlename=I Finally Finished This Trash|website=YouTube|dated=30 May 2023|accessed=}}</ref>

==Gameplay==
The game was designed with a focus on stealth,<ref>{{webcite|articleurl=https://www.gaming.net/the-lord-of-the-rings-gollum-everything-we-know|articlename=The Lord of the Rings Gollum - Everything We Know|website=Gaming.net|dated=18 July 2022|accessed=}}</ref> platforming,<ref>{{webcite|articleurl=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR_NIjb3igg|articlename=Worst Game of the Year So Far|website=YouTube|dated=26 May 2023|accessed=}}</ref> and [[Gollum]]'s split personality.<ref>{{webcite|articleurl=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1265780/The_Lord_of_the_Rings_Gollum|articlename=The Lord of the Rings: Gollum|website=Steam|accessed=}}</ref>

==Reception==
The game has received overwhelmingly negative feedback, with some calling it the worst game of the year.<ref>{{webcite|articleurl=https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-lord-of-the-rings-gollum-is-the-worst-reviewed-game-of-2023|articlename=The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is the worst reviewed game of 2023|website=VGC|accessed=}}</ref><ref>{{webcite|articleurl=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR_NIjb3igg|articlename=Worst Game of the Year So Far|website=YouTube|accessed=}}</ref> Headlines include ''boil it, mash it, stick it in the bin'',<ref>{{webcite|articleurl=https://www.theguardian.com/games/2023/may/25/the-lord-of-the-rings-gollum-daedalic-entertainment-nacon-video-game-review|articlename=The Lord of the Rings: Gollum review - boil it, mash it, stick it in the bin|website=The Guardian|dated=25 May 2023|accessed=}}</ref> referencing [[Samwise Gamgee|Sam]]'s line in the film, ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers]]''. On Metacritic, it got a Metascore of 39/100, and a user score of 2.0/10 as of [[5 July]] 2023.<ref>{{webcite|articleurl=https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/the-lord-of-the-rings---gollum|articlename=The Lord of the Rings: Gollum|website=Metacritic|accessed=5 July 2023}}</ref>
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The Lord of the Rings: Gollum

2023-07-05T20:25:09Z

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'''''The Lord of the Rings: Gollum''''', known on social media as '''@GollumGame''' for short, is a video game for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S, featuring [[Gollum]] as the main protagonist. It is set between the events of ''[[The Hobbit]]'' and ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', during the time in which Gollum is searching for the [[One Ring]]. The game was originally scheduled for release in [[1 September]] [[2022]],<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://mobile.twitter.com/GollumGame/status/1529100043726295040|articlename=Gollum's quest for his precious will begin on September 1, 2022! Coming on PC & consoles and at a later date on Nintendo Switch. #GollumGame💍|dated=|website=Twitter|accessed=}}</ref> but on [[25 July]] 2022, it was announced that there would be a further delay of "a few months".<ref> {{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://mobile.twitter.com/GollumGame/status/1551598260732792832|articlename=An important message.|dated=|website=Twitter|accessed=}}</ref> It was later announced on [[24 March]] [[2023]] that the game would release on [[25 May]], with the Nintendo Switch version releasing later in the year.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://mobile.twitter.com/GollumGame/status/1638966374428205061|articlename=Sméagol will swear it on the Precious, your new adventure in Middle-earth begins on May 25, 2023! Watch the Gameplay Showcase: https://youtu.be/YOBqFV6EO80|dated=|website=Twitter|accessed=}}</ref>

A special edition called the '''Precious Edition''' was announced on [[14 April]] 2023. The contents include the full game, an [[Art Exhibition]] application, the [[Lore Compendium]] DLC, a 45 minute [[The Lord of the Rings: Gollum (Original Soundtrack)|original soundtrack]], and [[Sindarin]] voice acting. Early access to the [[Emotes Pack]] DLC is also included as a pre-order bonus.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://twitter.com/GollumGame/status/1646847013508505600|articlename=Yes Precious, we have a Special Edition! 💍 💿 The Full Game 🖼️ The Art Exhibition Application 📜 The Lore Compendium 🎼 A 45-min OST 📣 Sindarin Voice Acting Pre-order and get the Emotes Pack DLC, which includes 6 of Gollum’s iconic gestures and sayings.|dated=|website=Twitter|accessed=}}</ref>

==Plot==
The game explores a never-before-told story about [[Gollum]], and is set eight years before the [[War of the Ring]].<ref>{{webcite|articleurl=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/lord-rings-gollum-video-game-works-1196607|articlename='Lord of the Rings: Gollum' Video Game in the Works From German Studio Daedalic|website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|dated=2019-03-25|accessed=24-March-2023}}</ref><ref>{{webcite|articleurl=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GAeidRkDYc|articlename=The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™ - The Making Of The Untold Story|website=YouTube|dated=24 March 2023|accessed=}}</ref>

After Gollum is tortured in [[Mordor]], he is enslaved to work in the mines of the [[Ephel Duath]] on the edge of Mordor. Here Gollum fulfils his tasks, and sometimes stealthily causes some mischief.<ref>{{webcite|articleurl=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR_NIjb3igg|articlename=Worst Game of the Year So Far|website=YouTube|dated=26 May 2023|accessed=}}</ref> Upon escaping enslavement, Gollum enters the tunnels of [[Shelob]].<ref>{{webcite|articleurl=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amFwTazR_I0|articlename=I Can't Stop Playing This Trash|website=YouTube|dated=28 May 2023|accessed=}}</ref>

The game cuts to the [[Elvenking's Halls]] upon fleeing Shelob, where Gollum is brought before [[Thranduil]]. Gollum is granted some freedoms, and befriends an [[Elf]] named [[Mell]]. She helps you find the [[Riddlemaster]], who turns out to be the main antagonist. Upon killing him, Gollum manages to escape [[Mirkwood]], and the game ends.<ref>{{webcite|articleurl=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qFsXC6jQik|articlename=I Finally Finished This Trash|website=YouTube|dated=30 May 2023|accessed=}}</ref>

==Gameplay==
The game was designed with a focus on stealth,<ref>{{webcite|articleurl=https://www.gaming.net/the-lord-of-the-rings-gollum-everything-we-know|articlename=The Lord of the Rings Gollum - Everything We Know|website=Gaming.net|dated=18 July 2022|accessed=}}</ref> platforming,<ref>{{webcite|articleurl=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR_NIjb3igg|articlename=Worst Game of the Year So Far|website=YouTube|dated=26 May 2023|accessed=}}</ref> and [[Gollum]]'s split personality<ref>{{webcite|articleurl=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1265780/The_Lord_of_the_Rings_Gollum|articlename=The Lord of the Rings: Gollum|website=Steam|accessed=}}</ref>.

==Reception==
The game has received overwhelmingly negative feedback, with some calling it the worst game of the year.<ref>{{webcite|articleurl=https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-lord-of-the-rings-gollum-is-the-worst-reviewed-game-of-2023|articlename=The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is the worst reviewed game of 2023|website=VGC|accessed=}}</ref><ref>{{webcite|articleurl=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR_NIjb3igg|articlename=Worst Game of the Year So Far|website=YouTube|accessed=}}</ref> Headlines include ''boil it, mash it, stick it in the bin''<ref>{{webcite|articleurl=https://www.theguardian.com/games/2023/may/25/the-lord-of-the-rings-gollum-daedalic-entertainment-nacon-video-game-review|articlename=The Lord of the Rings: Gollum review - boil it, mash it, stick it in the bin|website=The Guardian|dated=25 May 2023|accessed=}}</ref>, referencing [[Samwise Gamgee|Sam]]'s line in the film, ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers]]''. On Metacritic, it got a Metascore of 39/100, and a user score of 2.0/10 as of [[5 July]] 2023.<ref>{{webcite|articleurl=https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/the-lord-of-the-rings---gollum|articlename=The Lord of the Rings: Gollum|website=Metacritic|accessed=5 July 2023}}</ref>
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J.R.R. Tolkien's inspirations/notes

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==General notes==

*General - JRRT discusses his sources in a letter to L.M. Cutts (see [[Letter to L.M. Cutts]]).
*General - [[Letter 337]] (from a letter to 'Mr Wrigley'): "I fear you may be right that the search for the sources of ''The Lord of the Rings'' is going to occupy academics for a generation or two. I wish this need not be so. To my mind it is the particular use in a particular situation of any motive, whether invented, deliberately borrowed, or unconsciously remembered that is the most interesting thing to consider."

==Life and experiences==

*The inspiration for the character Tom Bombadil was a puppet which was stuck in the toilet. The puppet belonged to one of Tolkien's sons, and after Tolkien had "saved" it, he wrote a poem dedicated to Tom. In the poem the character meets Goldberry, a waternymph. (A pretty bad joke, thinking about what the poor puppet experienced.)
*We followed a section of the Pilgrims' Way, leading to Canterbury. 'The Bull' is a common name for old pubs. It refers not to the animal but to the Papal Bull the innkeeper had purchased to permit him to traffic with pilgrims. The area is also where Tolkien came from, and the gnarled treeroots twisting out into sunken lanes certainly suggest a possible genesis for the ents.
*Sam gardener – Tolkien's love of plants (and perhaps gardening)
*Last year a Birmingham nature reserve that is thought to have inspired parts of Tolkien's novels was renamed The Shire Country Park, after the place where hobbits dwell in Middle Earth.
It includes Moseley Bog, which dates back to the Bronze Age, and is thought to have inspired the "Old Forest" in the books.
Sarehole Mill, near the family home and now a museum, is viewed as being the "great mill" of The Shire.
*university of Birmingham clock tower - eye of sauron, orthanc ?

==Literary inspirations==

===The Bible and Christian theology===

*Tolkien carefully chose the date when the Fellowship began their journey to destroy the One Ring: the 25th of December, the same day that the Virgin Mary gave birth to Jesus Christ.
*Just as Tolkien carefully chose the date when the Fellowship set out from Rivendell, he was just as careful with choosing the date when the One Ring was destroyed: March 25th, the day Jesus Christ died and defeated Satan.
*Balrogs – fallen angels with cut wings in Bible
*Morgoth - means in Elvish the same as Satan in Hebrew: "the Enemy, the Adversary"
*The Bible and the Book of Enoch tell of a group of angels that descended from heaven and took women as their wives. They bore children that were taller, stronger and more intelligent than normal.
*Man means "Adan" in Sindarin, in reference to Adam the first man
*Prior to seeing the movies I had read, Holy Blood Holy Grail, as was aware of the San Graal or royal blood. Tolkien also realized the importance of this and wrote, ‘but in the wearing of the swift years of Middle-earth, the line of Meneldil son of Anaron failed, and the tree withered, and blood of the Numenoreans became mingled with that of lesser man’.

===English literature and myths===

*[[The Seafarer (poem)]]

====''The Hobbit'' and ''Beowulf''====

During his time as a professor at the [[University of Oxford]] Tolkien studied Anglo-Saxon. One of the Anglo-Saxon pieces of literature he studied is the epic poem ''[[Beowulf (poem)|Beowulf]]'', about which he wrote essays such as ''[[The Monsters and the Critics]]''. Interesting parallels can be found between ''The Hobbit'' and ''Beowulf''.

The plots of the two stories are very similar. In both of them a party of 13 sets out to seek satisfaction for a crime committed by a dragon. Both parties contain a thief, which in ''The Hobbit'' is Bilbo, who steals a cup from the sleeping dragon's hoard by using a secret passage. Both dragons then awake from their deep slumber and cause terror and destruction. Both dragons are well protected by their armour, a natural one in ''Beowulf'' and one made of gold and diamonds in ''The Hobbit'', but finally they are killed.

But not only the plots share similarities, both main characters, Bilbo and Beowulf, share characteristics. Both heroes defy their enemies with their supernatural power, which in Bilbo's case is the ring and in Beowulf's case is his supernatural strength. While Beowulf has the help of God, Bilbo often prevails because of his sheer luck. Both are of noble ancestry and both get separated from their group, Bilbo in the mountains, Beowulf when he is captured by Grendel's mother.

Additionally some elements of Anglo-Saxon culture can be found. In both books a king, which in Anglo-Saxon sometimes is called ring or gold giver, awards his warriors with treasures and war gear. In Anglo-Saxon culture poems are important, as they contain the people's history and they are sung by scops. Two of these songs are found in ''Beowulf'' and more in ''The Hobbit''. Tolkien's dwarves particularly mirror Anglo-Saxon society, both in their warrior nature and in their desire for jewelry and war gear. The dwarven writing system, or [[Cirth]], also has clear influences from Anglo-Saxon runic alphabets such as ''Futhark''.

===Finnish myths===

*Tom bombadil – from Väinämöinen? Check http://www.minastirith.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=17;t=000024;p=5#000107
*Talking (sentient) animals – talking animals in Kalevala ?
*Maglor, daeron – väinämöinen (mighty singer) ?
*Singing contest of sauron and felagund – singing contest between väinämöinen and joukahainen ?
*Art of singing – art of singing in Kalevala
*Hísilómë (the name) – Hiisi in kalevala?
*Bard's black arrow – joukahainen's special bow and arrows
*it is said that they [Lossoth] can run on the ice with bones on their feet, and have carts without wheels. – skis and sleds in Kalevala?
*Treebeard – tapio in kalevala ?
*Ents – talking trees in kalevala?
**Now she asks the trees the question,
**And the forest gives this answer:
**"We have care enough already,
**Cannot think about thy matters;
**Cruel fates have we to battle,
**Pitiful our own misfortunes!
**We are felled and chopped in pieces,
**Cut in blocks for hero-fancy,
**We are burned to death as fuel,
**No one cares how much we suffer."
*witchking – Pakkanen (?) in kalevala
*abandoned homestead – lemminkäinen returns to his house burned down in kalevala (rune 29)
*Tolkien's Finnish Connection: Echoes of the Kalevala in Middle-earth by Anne Petty [actively writing this now]
*For me, most of the similarities between Vainamoinen and Gandalf stop at the repeated line "Old reliable Väinämöinen" (or so it is translated), though there are I guess some other small similarities (such as being saved by an eagle): the characters of the two characters are quite distinct.

===Old Norse myths===

*ragnarök - dagor dagorath
*Röac - Hugin and Munin ?
*The hag Louhi's theft of the sun and moon, which plunges Kaleva-land into darkness, suggests Tolkien's myth of Melkor's destruction of the two Lamps.
*halls of mandos - valhalla
*Finrod Felagund (slaying werewolf with hands and teeth, thus saving Beren) - Sigurd (killing wolf with hands and teeth)
*eldar (the name) – from norse (?) eld, eldar
*ingvë – yngve, frej in prose edda?
*Ingvi (?) – ynglings in prose edda
*Brand – in prose edda
*Golden hair – thor's and sif's hair in prose edda
*Hobbits' interest in genealogy – icelanders'
*máhanaxar - Then said Gangleri: "Where is the chief abode or holy place of the gods?" Hárr answered: 'That is at the Ash of Yggdrasill; there the gods must give judgment everyday."
**“The third root of the Ash stands in heaven; and under that root is the well which is very holy, that is called the Well of Urdr; there the gods hold their tribunal.” in Prose Edda
*mîm (the name) – mîmir in Prose or Poetic Edda
*tulkas: “He delights in wrestling and in contests of strength; and he rides no steed, for he can outrun all things that go on feet, and he is tireless.” – Thor in Prose Edda: “Thor walks to the judgment, and wades those rivers which are called thus”
*elvenhome – alfheimr in Prose Edda
*Vanyar (light elves) – light-elves in Prose Edda ?
*Noldor (deep elves) – dark-elves in Prose Edda ?
*Elves of the light - light-elves in Prose Edda ?
*Dark elves - dark-elves In Prose Edda ?
**“That which is called Álfheimr[1] is one, where dwell the peoples called Light-Elves; but the Dark-Elves dwell down in the earth, and they are unlike in appearance, but by far more unlike in nature. The Light-Elves are fairer to look upon than the sun, but the Dark-Elves are blacker than pitch.
*gimli – gimle (the sky) in prose edda
*island ferry: in prose edda:
**She took from the north, out of Jötunheim, four oxen which were the soils of a certain giant and, herself, and set them before the plow. And the plow cut so wide and so deep that it loosened up the land; and the oxen drew the land out into the sea and to the westward, and stopped in a certain sound. There Gefjun set the land, and gave it a name, calling it Selund. And from that time on, the spot whence the land had been torn up is water: it is now called the Lögr in Sweden; and bays lie in that lake even as the headlands in Selund. Thus says Bragi, the ancient skald:
**Gefjun drew from Gylfi | gladly the wave-trove's free-hold,
**Till from the running beasts | sweat reeked, to Denmark's increase;
**The oxen bore, moreover, | eight eyes, gleaming brow-lights,
**O'er the field's wide: booty, | and four heads in their plowing
*He also knew the myths of the Norse God Odin, king of the Vikings and owner of a ring that bound other rings and their wearers to him. Other tales that he studied included The Saga of the Ring and The Kingdom of the Circle.
*Like many other things in Tolkien's mythos, the idea of half-elves is borrowed from Norse mythology, where elves occasionally had children with humans.

===Greek myths===

*Lúthien singing back Beren from Mandos – Orpheus, Eurydice, hades
*Voyages of Eärendil – Homer's odyssey
*taniquetil - olympus

===Modern authors and books===

*Tolkien's favorite fantasy/sci-fi authors were:
**E.R. Eddison
**John Christopher
**Isaac Asimov
**Mary Renault
*I just finished reading H. G. Wells’s 1908 novel The War in the Air, a grimly prophetic tale of high-tech war and aerial bombardment, and I find myself wondering whether Tolkien ever read it. Because not only is the main character, Bert Smallways, remarkably hobbity (as is his character arc), but Bert’s return home at the end of the novel is strikingly similar to “The Scouring of the Shire.”
*In its rather grandiloquent fashion (with a long line probably inspired by William Morris). John Garth, ''Tolkien and the Great War'', p. 35.
*In his hand he bore a single arrow, black-feathered and barbed with steel, but the point was painted red. - In A Tale of the House of the Wolfings by William Morris the Wolfings are summoned to war against the Romans in part by a messenger who carries 'the token of the war-arrow ragged and burnt and bloody' (Chapter 2).
*New Erewhon: Erewhon (= ‘Nowhere’) is the title of a satire by Samuel Butler (1872). News from Nowhere: a fantasy of the future by William Morris (1890).
*The sherd of Amenartas was in Greek (provided by Andrew Lang) of the period from which it was supposed to have survived, not in English spelt as well as might be in Greek letters. [For the sherd of Amenartas see H. Rider Haggard, She, chapter 3.]
*the house of the wolfings by william morris: Thiodolf's lover is not human, but one of the Vala, who has given up her immortality for love. Afraid that he may die in battle she tries to save his life with a dwarfish coat of mail. The coat of mail is magic; but it is also cursed, and it is only towards the end of the story that Thiodolf fully understands that it can only save his life at the cost of betraying others: "This mail is for the ransom of a man and the ruin of a folk". And in this society, if the folk is ruined the individual is also ruined.
*Several commentators, most notably John D. Rateliff in 'She and Tolkien', Mythlore 8, no. 2, whole no. 28 (Summer 1981), have pointed out possible influences on Galadriel by aspects of Ayesha in works by H. Rider Haggard: She (1887), Ayesha: The Return of She (1905), She and Allan (1921), and Wisdom's Daughter (1923). Rateliff writes:
The most obvious parallel is She herself - Ayesha, Wisdom's daughter, She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed. An exceedingly beautiful woman, so beautiful that all who see her remember the sight ever after, She rules a small, isolated, ancient kingdom, the borders of which no one is allowed to pass. Strangers are admitted only if she has sent word beforehand to admit them, and even then they must make part of the journey blindfolded. Beautiful and terrible, worshipful but fearsome, she is not only wise and beautiful but also immortal.... Like She, Galadriel is immortal, wise, queenly, and beautiful beyond belief. There are important differences between Ayesha and Galadriel, but the similarities are striking, [p. 6]
Steve Linley in 'Tolkien and Haggard: Some Thoughts on Galadriel', Anor 23 (1991) comments that both Galadriel and Ayesha 'have a powerful gaze, the effect of which on the recipient being the feeling of being laid bare or psychologically "denuded"', and 'both live amidst a culture of preservation; Ayesha, however, preserves only herself, for selfish reasons.... She treats all other human beings as a lesser species. . . . Ayesha actively seeks power and world domination', whereas Galadriel rejects the power the Ring would have given her. However, Linley points out that had Galadriel accepted the Ring 'the reader familiar with She might recognise that Galadriel would come to resemble Ayesha more closely in respect of her less appealing characteristics' (pp. 12, 13, 14).
In 1966 Tolkien told Henry Resnik: 'I suppose as a boy She interested me as much as anything' (An Interview with Tolkien', Niekas 18 (Spring 1967). P- 40).
In 'She and Tolkien', Mythlore 8, no. 2, whole no. 28 (Summer 1981), John D. Rateliff further notes that in Rider Haggard's She, Chapter 13, 'we are told of "a vessel like a font cut in carved stone ... full of pure water" (described in She and Allan [Chapter 22] as "a marble tripod on which stood a basin half full of water"). Both Galadriel and Ayesha use this "mirror" to show the heroes visions of distant places and use it themselves to see what is happening in the outer world' (p. 7). But there are differences in what the mirror shows. Ayesha says:
That water is my glass; in it I see what passes if I care to summon up the pictures which is not often. Therein I can show thee what thou wilt of the past, if be anything that has to do with this country and with what I have known, or anything that thou, the gazer hast known. Think of a face if thou wilt, and it shall be reflected from thy mind upon the water. I know not all the secret yet - I can read nothing in the future. [She, Chapter 13]
*She lifted up her hand and from the Ring that she wore there issued a great light that illumined her alone and left all else dark. She stood before Frodo seeming now tall beyond measurement, and beautiful beyond enduring, terrible and worshipful. Then she let her hand fall, and the light faded ... and lo! she was shrunken: a slender elf-woman, clad in simple white - John D. Rateliff in 'She and Tolkien', Mythlore 8, no. 2, whole no. 28 (Summer 1981), cites the following from H. Rider Haggard's Ayesha: The Return of She, Chapter 19, as a possibly unconscious influence on this scene:
She began slowly to stroke her abundant hair, then her breast and body. Wherever her fingers passed the mystic light was born, until ... she shimmered from head to foot like the water of the phosphorescent sea, a being glorious yet fearful to behold. Then she waved her hand, and save for the gentle radiance on her brow, became as she had been. [p. 6]
===Other literary inspirations===

*Goldilocks and the Three Bears

==Other inspiration==

*Legolas is the only one in the Fellowship who prefers the bow and arrow as a weapon. This has its origins in ancient myths about elves who shot arrows down from Heaven. The myths came from tales about ancient gods who threw bolts of lightning.

==Unsorted==

*Meneltarma, fuin (the mountain in Dorthonion) – koli, sinai, olympus ?
*Manwë – ukko, zeus, thor?
*Woods of hísilómë – Hiisi's dark forest ?
*http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/images/red.jpg
*chapter in red fairy book: “soria moria castle”
*maia (the name) – The Strange Adventures of Little Maia in The Olive Fairy Book ?
*journey into mordor – The Golden Key of George MacDonald, two children search for the mysterious "land from where the shadows fall."
*Hobbits – AH p. 9
*Goblins – gibbelins in Lord Dunsany
*Balin (name) – HotH1 p. 24
*fimbulfambi (name) - HotH1 p. 24
*Middle-earth – middangeard
*Mirkwood, wild wood – myrkwood in the Prose Edda, HotH1 p. 19
*Gandalf (the name) – in heimskringla
*Elvenhome – alfheim in heimskringla
*Red Book of Westmarch - Red Book of Hergest in the Mabinogion, Everyman edition by Lady Charlotte Guest (http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/mab/index.htm)
*Ea - in the The Seven Evil Spirits
*Erech – in The Seven Tablets of Creation
*Swans – in kalevala?
*Kalevala (http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/kalec10.txt):
**Puhuri, the north-wind, the father of Pakkanen (frost) is sometimes personified as a gigantic eagle.
*Black stream in The hobbit – black Tuoni river in kalevala?
*Ilúvatar – from finnish
*whole shire was invited – in kalevala:
**Thereupon the trusted maiden
**Spread the wedding-invitations
**To the people of Pohyola,
**To the tribes of Kalevala;
**Asked the friendless, asked the homeless
**Asked the laborers and shepherds,
**Asked the fishermen and hunters,
**Asked the deaf, the dumb, the crippled,
**Asked the young, and asked the aged,
**Asked the rich, and asked the needy;
**Did not give an invitation
**To the reckless Lemminkainen,
**Island-dweller of the ocean.
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farthing
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_%28division%29
*farthings on iceland
*three farthing stone - Even more exciting, we found the Four Shire Stone (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v111/Lizallinos/Knitted%20Hobbits/Moreton%20in%20the%20Marsh/fourshirestone.jpg), Tolkien's inspiration for his own Three Farthing Stone! It was so easy to imagine him stopping there on his way to visit his brother in Evesham, having a little rest and thinking to himself, "I must put something of the sort in my book.."! The Four Shire Stone marks the spot where four Shires came together in Tolkien's day.
*http://www.rootsweb.com/~engcots/4ShireStonePhotos.html
*four farthings - warwickshire, worcestershire, oxfordshire, gloucestershire ?
*Bree – moreton-in-marsh?
*shire – english shire
*http://www.wagner-dc.org/haymes04_lec.html
*gondor – venice: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/1858273.stm
*http://www.sffworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9282
*http://www.sffworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11556
*http://www.sffworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8522&page=1&pp=15
*http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.books.tolkien/msg/3fad9c3c879f5a2c?output=gplain
*http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.tolkien/msg/bdb4b12467dc0ad1?output=gplain
*golfimbul – golf and fimbultul
*middle-earth – midgard
*And Hárr answered: "She is ring-shaped without, and round about her without lieth the deep sea; and along the strand of that sea they gave lands to the races of giants for habitation. But on the inner earth they made a citadel round about the world against the hostility of the giants, and for their citadel they raised up the brows of Ymir the giant, and called that place Midgard.
*Aulë at the prayer of Yavanna wrought two mighty lamps for the lighting of the Middle-earth which he had built amid the encircling seas.
*Middle-earth (the name) – “midgard”
*Valimar - Asgard in Prose Edda
*Telperion and Laurelin – Ash and Embla in Prose Edda
*Their halls are above the everlasting snow, upon Oiolossë, the uttermost tower of Taniquetil, tallest of all the mountains upon Earth. When Manwë there ascends his throne and looks forth, if Varda is beside him, he sees further than all other eyes, through mist, and through darkness, and over the leagues of the sea. – “There is one abode called Hlidskjálf, and when Allfather sat in the high-seat there, he looked out over the whole world and saw every man's acts, and knew all things which he saw.” in Prose Edda
*Greatest in strength and deeds of prowess is Tulkas, who is surnamed Astaldo, the Valiant. He came last to Arda, to aid the Valar in the first battles with Melkor. He delights in wrestling and in contests of strength; and he rides no steed, for he can outrun all things that go on feet, and he is tireless. His hair and beard are golden, and his flesh ruddy; his weapons are his hands. He has little heed for either the past or the future, and is of no avail as a counsellor, but is a hardy friend. – “The Earth was his daughter and his wife; on her he begot the first son, which is Ása-Thor: strength and prowess attend him, wherewith he overcometh all living things.” in Prose Edda
*In seven hours the glory of each tree waxed to full and waned again to naught; and each awoke once more to life an hour before the other ceased to shine. Thus in Valinor twice every day there came a gentle hour of softer light when both trees were faint and their gold and silver beams were mingled. Telperion was the elder of the trees and came first to full stature and to bloom; and that first hour in which he shone, the white glimmer of a silver dawn, the Valar reckoned not into the tale of hours, but named it the Opening Hour, and counted from it the ages of their reign in Valinor. Therefore at the sixth hour of the First Day, and of all the joyful days thereafter, until the Darkening of Valinor, Telperion ceased his time of flower; and at the twelfth hour Laurelin her blossoming. And each day of the Valar in Aman contained twelve hours, and ended with the second mingling of the lights, in which Laurelin was waning but Telperion was waxing. – “Nörfi or Narfi is the name of a giant that dwelt in Jötunheim: he had a daughter called Night; she was swarthy and dark, as befitted her race. She was given to the man named Naglfari; their son was Audr. Afterward she was wedded to him that was called Annarr; Jörd[1] was their daughter. Last of all Dayspring had her, and he was of the race of the Æsir; their son was Day: he was radiant and fair after his father. Then Allfather took Night, and Day her son, and gave to them two horses and two chariots, and sent them up into the heavens, to ride round about the earth every two half-days. Night rides before with the horse named Frosty-Mane, and on each morning he bedews the earth with the foam from his bit. The horse that Day has is called Sheen-Mane, and he illumines all the air and the earth from his mane." in Prose Edda
*Moon and sun – “A certain man was named Mundilfari, who had two children; they were so fair and comely that he called his son Moon, and his daughter Sun, and wedded her to the man called Glenr. But the gods were incensed at that insolence, and took the brother and sister, and set them up in the heavens; they caused Sun to drive those horses that drew the chariot of the sun, which the gods had fashioned, for the world's illumination, from that glowing stuff which flew out of Múspellheim. Those horses are called thus: Early-Wake and All-Strong; and under the shoulders of the horses the gods set two wind-bags to cool them, but in some records that is called 'iron-coolness.' Moon steers the course of the moon, and determines its waxing and waning.”
*But Tilion was wayward and uncertain in speed, and held not to his appointed path; and he sought to come near to Arien, being drawn by her splendour, though the flame of Anar scorched him, and the island of the Moon was darkened. – “It is no marvel that she hastens furiously: close cometh he that seeks her, and she has no escape save to run away." Then said Gangleri: "Who is he that causes her this disquiet?" Hárr replied: "It is two wolves; and he that runs after her is called Skoll; she fears him, and he shall take her. But he that leaps before her is called Hati Hródvitnisson. He is eager to seize the moon; and so it must be." in Prose Edda
*Draugluin, carcharoth – “The saying runs thus: from this race shall come one that shall be mightiest of all, he that is named Moon-Hound; he shall be filled with the flesh of all those men that die, and he shall swallow the moon, and sprinkle with blood the heavens and all the lair; thereof-shall the sun lose her shining, and the winds in that day shall be unquiet and roar on every side.” in Prose Edda
*Straight road - Bifröst in Prose Edda
*Dwarves – dwarves in Prose Edda:
**Next after this, the gods enthroned themselves in their seats and held judgment, and called to mind whence the dwarves had quickened in the mould and underneath in the earth, even as do maggots in flesh. The dwarves had first received shape and life in the flesh of Ymir, and were then maggots; but by decree of the gods had become conscious with the intelligence of men, and had human shape. And nevertheless they dwell in the earth and in stones.
*Durin (the name) – durin in Vóluspá
*Dwalin (the name) – dwalin in Vóluspá
*nain (the name) – nain in Vóluspá
*dain (the name) – dain in Vóluspá
*bifur (the name) – bifur in Vóluspá
*bafur (the name) – bafur in Vóluspá
*bombur (the name) – bombur in Vóluspá
*nori (the name) – nori in Vóluspá
*ori (the name) – ori in Vóluspá
*oin(the name) – oin in Vóluspá
*thorin (the name) – thorin in Vóluspá
*fili (the name) – fili in Vóluspá
*fundin (the name) – fundin in Vóluspá
*thrór (the name) – thrór in Vóluspá
*gloin (the name) – gloin in Vóluspá
*dori (the name) – dori in Vóluspá
*oakenshield (the name) – eikinskjalde in Vóluspá
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eagle_and_Child
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hobbit
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_Rings
*http://www.minastirith.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=002123
*http://www.bplphoto.co.uk/TolkiensBirmingham/
*Tirith – terrace?
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_%28folklore%29
*minas tirith and ithil – tale of two cities?
**http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_Saint_Michel
**http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Michael%27s_Mount
**http://skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=164632
**http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Brueghel-tower-of-babel.jpg
*Westfold – vestfold in norway
*http://www.users.muohio.edu/shermalw/honors_2001_fall/honors_papers_2000/COMPTON_TOLKEIN.HTML
*http://faculty.jbu.edu/jhimes/Silmarillion-Kalevala.html
*grima in foster brothers' tale
*Frodo – frode?
*http://www.tolkiensociety.org/media/Who_is_who.html
*Variags – variags (varangians)
*Manwë – odin
*Ilúvatar - odin
*Mahal – taj mahal?
*Tulkas – lithuanian tulkas
*Tulkas – thor
*Orome - thor
*Grond, the Hammer of the Underworld – mjöllne
*Gandalf, resurrection – balder
*Gondorians – Egyptians
*Berúthiel – skadi
*The eye – odin's one eye ?
*Osse, uinen – njord
*Aldarion, erendis – njord, skadi ?
*Cats – tolkiens dislike of cats
*Yavanna – freja, frej
*Rúmil, daeron – brage ?
*Angainor – gleipne, drone, löding ?
*Este – eir
*Corsairs – mediterranean corsairs
*Vala – vala (völva)
*http://scv.bu.edu/~aarondf/Rivimages/realriv.html
*gondors roads – roman roads
*green dragon – pub in oxford, RC p. 44, AH p. 61, HotH p. 98
*http://forums.theonering.com/viewtopic.php?p=3301734&sid=10faf5ebdebf575e0a7f6ced9ffe0660#3301734
*valarin – protogermanic?
*Huorns – brothers grimm?
*Boromirs funeral – scylds funeral
*Ents – McDonald’s ”phantastes”
*Tuna – town?
*Bingo – stuffed koala bears, the ‘bingos’
*The darkness of the present days has had some effect on it [LR]. Though it is not an 'allegory'.
*http://www.herenistarion.org/cgi-bin/bb/YaBB.cgi?board=Literary_Inspiration;action=display;num=1093379016
*http://www.herenistarion.org/cgi-bin/bb/YaBB.cgi?board=Literary_Inspiration;action=display;num=1088739671
*http://www.thetolkienwiki.org/wiki.cgi?Mythology/%c9arendel
*easterlings – Asians?
*http://www.herenistarion.org/cgi-bin/bb/YaBB.cgi?board=History;action=display;num=1088711162
*http://www.herenistarion.org/parmanole/PNbiblical.html
*http://www.herenistarion.org/parmanole/PNTracingEpic.html
*http://www.herenistarion.org/beyondtheshire/BTS9.html
*Hobbit (the name) – page 1-2 of RC
*Red book (the name) – page 2 of RC
*Device of the found manuscript – page 2 of RC
*Hobbits – RC pg. 3, 5, 8
*Hobbits – pygmies
*Bullroarer (the name) – nomenclature
*Use of Beowulf in "The King of the Golden Hall"
*Tolkien in the Land of Arthur: the Old Forest Episode
*http://www.travellady.com/Issues/Issue64/64E-hobbits.htm
*http://pourtolkien.free.fr/jardillierArthur.html
*Tolkien himself talks about Elrond as an allegory of lore, the Eregion elves representing science and machinery; Saruman representing industrialisation; Tom Bombadil as the spirit of the vanishing Oxfordshire countryside; etc etc etc.
*Possible sources of tolkien’s bullroarer, mythprint 37
*Isumbras (the name ?) – RC pg. 6
*Shire (the name) – RC pg. 7
*Elder days (name) – RC pg. 9
*Middle-earth – RC pg. 9-10
*Bilbo (name) – RC pg. 10, AH p. 33-34, HotH p. 47-48
*Frodo (name) – RC pg. 10
*Old world – RC pg. 10
*Greenwood (name) – RC pg. 11
*Misty mountains (name) – RC pg. 11-12
*Misty mountains – RC pg. 12
*Mirkwood (name) – RC pg. 12-13
*Harfoots (name) – RC pg. 13
*Stoors (name) – RC pg. 13
*Fallohides (name) – RC pg. 14
*Hobbits: emigration into eriador – RC pg 14
*Weathertop (name) – RC pg 14
*Wilderland (name) – RC pg. 14
*Loudwater – RC pg. 14-15
*Took – RC pg. 15
*Master of brandy hall – RC pg. 15
*As for the Bounty of 1420... it always reminded me of the giddiness in West following the two World Wars: baby-booms and economic growths following long years under a Shadow.
*The Shire] is in fact more or less a Warwickshire village of about the period of the Diamond Jubilee ... Letters, 230 (#178)
*But, of course, if we drop the 'fiction' of long ago, 'The Shire' is
based on rural England and not any other country in the world...
[Later in the same letter he implied that the Shire was "an imag-
inary mirror" of England.] Letters, 250 (#190)
* There is no special reference to England in the 'Shire' -- except
of course that as an Englishman brought up in an 'almost rural'
village of Warwickshire on the edge of the prosperous bourgeoisie of
Birmingham (about the time of the Diamond Jubilee!) I take my models
like anyone else -- from such 'life' as I know.
Letters, 235 (#181)
*Shire – RC pg. 23, ribble valley?
*But none were more dangerous than the Great Willow: his heart was rotten, but his strength was green; and he was cunning, and a master of winds – wind in the willows
*But I suppose that the Quendi are in fact in these histories very little akin to the Elves and Fairies of Europe; and if I were pressed to rationalize, I should say that they represent really Men with greatly enhanced aesthetic and creative faculties, greater beauty and longer life, and nobility – the Elder Children, doomed to fade before the Followers (Men), and to live ultimately only by the thin line of their blood that was mingled with that of Men, among whom it was the only real claim to 'nobility'.
*Orcs (the word is as far as I am concerned actually derived from Old English orc 'demon', but only because of its phonetic suitability) are nowhere clearly stated to be of any particular origin. But since they are servants of the Dark Power, and later of Sauron, neither of whom could, or would, produce living things, they must be 'corruptions'. They are not based on direct experience of mine; but owe, I suppose, a good deal to the goblin tradition (goblin is used as a translation in The Hobbit, where orc only occurs once, I think), especially as it appears in George MacDonald, except for the soft feet which I never believed in.
*Westernesse – Rc pg. 16
*Bree, chetwood – RC pg.16
*Gondor – RC pg. 17-18
*Belfalas – RC pg. 18
*Lune – pg. 19
*Marcho, blanco – RC pg. 19
*Thain – RC pg. 21
*Sullong – RC pg. 23
*Orcs –RC pg. 24-26
*Michel delving (name) – RC pg. 26
*Mathom (name) – RC pg. 26
*Smial – RC pg. 27
*White downs – RC pg. 28
*March (name) – RC pg. 28
*“one could see the Sea from the top of that tower” – RC pg. 28-29
*”thatched with dry grass or straw, or roofed with turves” – RC pg. 29
*Brandybuck (name) – RC pg. 29
*Oldbuck (name) – RC pg. 29
*Herblore – RC pg. 30
*Tobold (name) – tobacco
*Hornblower – RC pg. 31, 760
*Isengrim – RC pg. 31
*Prancing pony (name) – RC pg. 31
*Prancing pony - http://www.thepublican.com/story.asp?sectioncode=7&storycode=53323
*Farthing – RC pg. 32
*Boffin (name) – RC pg. 33
*Norbury (name) – RC pg. 33
*Shire-moot – RC pg. 34
*Shirriff (name) – RC pg. 35
*§51 Barnabas is [added: not] an exception. Barnabas Butterbur was a Man of Bree, not a hobbit. I gave him this name for various reasons. First of all a personal one. On an old grey stone in a quiet churchyard in southern England I once saw in large letters the name Barnabas Butter. That was long ago and before I had seen the Red Book, but the name came back to me when the character of the stout innkeeper of Bree was presented to me in Frodo's record. The more so because his name, in agreement with the generally botanical type of name favoured in Bree, was actually Butterburr, or in the C.S. Zilbarāpha [> Zilbirāpha]. Barnabas has unfortunately only a very slight phonetic similarity to the real first-name of the innkeeper: Barabatta (or Batti). This was the nickname of the landlord of 'The Pony' which he had borne so long that if he ever had another given-name it had been forgotten: it means 'quick-talker or babbler'. Still, in converting Batti Zilbarāpha [> Zilbirāpha] into Barney Butterbur I do not think I have been unjust.
*Gondor – Gondwanaland?
*Númenor – iceland?
*“only a feather in their caps” – RC pg. 35
*Bounders – RC pg. 35-36
*Gandalf (name) – RC pg. 36
*Thorin (name) – RC pg. 36
*Samwise – RC pg. 39
*The original red book has not been preserved – RC pg. 41
*Meriadoc, peregrin, pippin (names) – RC pg. 42
*Númenor (name) – RC pg. 42
*Sauron (name) – RC pg. 43
*Este – rest?
*A long expected party – RC pg. 52
*Baggins, bag end – AH p. 30-31, HotH p. 45-46
*bag end, bag end (name) - AH p. 29
*baggins (name), bag end (name) - HotH p. 45, toad of toad hall
*Eleventy-first – RC pg. 52
*The Hill – RC pg. 52
*Sackville – RC pg. 53
*Sackville-baggins – RC p. 762
*Tweens – RC pg. 54
*Gerontius, old took – RC pg. 54, AH p. 34
*Hamfast – RC pg. 55
*Gamgee – RC pg. 55
*Holman – RC pg. 56
*Bagshot row – RC pg. 56
*Noakes – RC pg. 57
*Buckland – RC pg. 57-58
*Hobbit speech – RC 58-59
*Gorbadoc – RC pg. 59
*Miller – RC pg. 60
*Warren – RC pg. 60
*Gandalf – RC pg. 61-62, AH p. 36-39
*bladorthin (proto-gandalf) - HotH p. 51
*Shire – RC pg. 64
*Gandalf’s fireworks – RC pg. 65 ?
*Took, grubb, chubb, burrows, bolger, Bracegirdle, brockhouse, goodbody, hornblower, proudfoot – RC pg. 66
*bolger (name) - HotH1 p. xiv ?
*Crackers – RC pg. 68
*Springle-ring – RC pg. 68
*Misty mountains – RC pg. 70
*The road goes ever on – RC pg. 71
*Saruman (name) – RC p. 81
*Sauron’s practice of giving rings – RC p. 84
*One ring – RC p. 38, 85, 88-89, The Magic Ring http://www.valancourtbooks.com/themagicring.html, HotH p. 48
*Smeagol, deagol – RC p. 86
*Black country – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Country
*Bounders – rc pg. 753-754
*Buckland – rc pg. 754
*Bracegirdle – rc pg. 754
*brandybuck – rc pg. 754
*chubb – rc pg. 755
*corsairs – rc pg. 755
*cotton – rc pg. 755
*http://www.jitterbug.com/origins/lotr.html
*tuor as a slave – kullervo as a slave
*entwives –
**Summer-daughter, magic maiden,
**Southern mother of the woodlands,
**Pine-tree daughter, Kateyatar,
**Pihlayatar, of the aspen,
**Alder-maiden, Tapio's daughter,
**Daughter of the glen, Millikki,
**And the mountain-maid, Tellervo,
**Of my herds be ye protectors,
** In kalevala
*Goldberry –
** Rise thou virgin of the valley,
**From the springs arise in beauty,
**Rise thou maiden of the fountain,
**Beautiful, arise in ether,
** In kalevala
*Treebeard –
**Knippana [Kuippana], O King of forests,
**Thou the gray-beard of the woodlands,
**Watch thy dogs in fen and fallow,
** In kalevala
*Maggot’s dogs –
** Only laid aside some cabbage,
**For the herdsman, Kullerwoinen;
**Set apart some wasted fragments,
**Leavings of the dogs at dinner,
**
** Silloin Ilmarin emäntä, paimenen pajattaessa,
**Kullervoisen kukkuessa, jo oli vuollut voivatinsa,
**itse rieskansa reväisnyt, kakkaransa kaivaellut;
**keittänyt vetisen vellin, kylmän kaalin Kullervolle,
**jos' oli rakki rasvan syönyt, '''Musti''' murkinan pitänyt,
**'''Merkki''' syönyt mielin määrin, '''Halli''' haukannut halunsa.
** In kalevala
*Entwives – Eurydice ?
*Ents marching on isengard – birnam wood to dunsinane hill
*Incest of túrin and nienor – incest of kullervo and kalervo’s daughter in kalevala
*Nienor and lalaith – the two sisters of kullervo in kalevala
*Death of lalaith – death of most of kullervo’s kin in kalevala
*going out he lifted up his hand towards the North, crying: "Marrer of Middle-earth, would that I might see thee face to face, and mar thee as my lord Fingolfin did!" -
**These the words of Kullerwoinen:
**Wait, yea wait, thou Untamoinen,
**Thou destroyer of my people;
**When I meet thee in the combat,
**I will slay thee and thy kindred,
**I will burn thy homes to ashes!"
*Suicide of nienor – suicide of kullervo’s sister in kalevala
*Gurthang – kullervo’s sword in kalevala
*Suicide of túrin – suicide of kullervo in kalevala
*"Hail Gurthang, iron of death, thou alone now remainest! But what lord or loy-alty dost thou know, save the hand that wieldeth thee? From no blood wilt thou shrink! Wilt thou take Túrin Turambar? Wilt thou slay me swiftly?" - corresponding words in W.F. Kirby's Kalevala translation
*http://web.archive.org/web/20060108125654/http://www.scandga.org/Insights/2001-02+Winter/Tolkien.htm
*hegel and tolkien - http://www.lotrplaza.com/forum/display_topic_threads.asp?ForumID=49&TopicID=194948&PagePosition=1&PagePostPosition=1
*nazgul - it remains remarkable that nasc is the word for 'ring' in Gaelic [Irish; in Scottish usually written nasg]... I have no liking at all for *Gaelic from Old Irish downwards, as a language, but it is of course of great historical and philological interest, and I have at times studied it [With alas! very little success] ?
*annatar – finnish antaa, anna
*valinor - Valhalla, http://www.lotrplaza.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=217644
*arveduis ship - lemminkäinens ship
*gold and silver - gold and silver in kalevala
*gold, silver, sun, moon - rune 49 in kalevala
*narsil/andúril - the sword that is forged by ilmarinen for väinämöinen & rune 45, 46 in kalevala
*the moon, the sun, stars - väinämöinen's sword
*nimrodel, goldberry, ulmo - rune 40 in kalevala
*http://www.minastirith.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=5;t=000109;p=1#000013
*his boots were yellow - kullervo's blue socks
*entwife - tapio's wife ?
*ulmo - ahto in kalevala
*gandalf opening the gate of moria - väinämöinen opening the gate of pohja mountain in kalevala rune 42
*arkenstone - sampo in kalevala ?
*one ring, rings of power, galadriel's dust - sampo in rune 42, 43 in kalevala
*uinen - vellamo in kalevala
*silmaril - sampo in rune 39 in kalevala
*fimbrethil - birch in rune 44 in kalevala ?
*dark plague - 8 sons of louhis daughter bringing plague to väinö in rune 45 in kalevala
*carcharoth - bear coming to kalevala in rune 46 in kalevala
*silmaril in carcharoth - fish swallowing fish swallowing fish swallowing spark from ukko's sword in rune 47 in kalevala
*gandalf (or frodo) leaving ME - väinämöinen sailing away in rune 50 in kalevala
*straight road - väinämöinen sailing away in rune 50 in kalevala
*gandalf - väinämöinen in kalevala
*mandos - tuoni in kalevala
*lúthien bringing back beren from mandos(?) - lemminkäinen's mother bringing back lemminkäinen from tuoni in kalevala
*elf-friend - RC p. 756
*fair folk - RC p. 757
*feanor - ilmarinen in kalevala
*feanor creating the silmarils and/or sauron creating the one ring - ilmarinen creating sampo in kalevala
*The effect of the Sampo is like that of the One Ring, which causes moral corruption and fierce war.
*http://tolkiensarda.se/new/nummer/magsidor/art28_3.php
*http://www.theonering.net/features/notes/note8.html
*noldor – r from Swedish?
*Timpinen – finnish
*http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/GenerateContent?CONTENT_ITEM_ID=42452&CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE=0&MENU_ID=13150
*http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/GenerateContent?CONTENT_ITEM_ID=2668&CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE=0&MENU_ID=1765
*”he was interested in roots and beginnings” – scholarship p. 30
Herb-master – scholarship p. 29
*Bilbo – John Garth, 'Frodo and the Great War', in ''The Lord of the Rings 1954-2004: Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Blackwelder''; gorbo in the marvellous land of snergs (AH p. 6-7)
*belladonna (name) - AH p. 34
*Bilbo mature – Garth, 'Frodo and the Great War', p. 42
*Lotr taking a more adult tone – Garth, 'Frodo and the Great War', p. 42
*Adventurous hobbits – Garth, 'Frodo and the Great War', 'p. 42
*Frodo’s uncertainty – Garth, 'Frodo and the Great War', p. 42-43
*Autumn 1418 – Garth, 'Frodo and the Great War', p. 43
*Frodo – Garth, 'Frodo and the Great War', p. 43
*Woses – rc p. 764-765
*Halls of Mandos in Valinor - Catholic doctrine of Purgatory)
*Buckland – buckland in oxfordshire
*http://www.adrian.smith.clara.net/brill.html
*The industrialization of the Shire was based on Tolkien's witnessing of the extension of the Industrial Revolution to rural Warwickshire during his youth, and especially the deleterious consequences thereof. The rebellion of the hobbits and the restoration of the pre-industrial Shire may be interpreted as a prescription of voluntary simplicity as a remedy to the problems of modern society.
*The 4 hobbits – Garth, 'Frodo and the Great War', p. 43
*Frodo-sam – Garth, 'Frodo and the Great War', p. 43-44
*Laugh on the edge of mordor – Garth, 'Frodo and the Great War', p. 44
*Frodo – Garth, 'Frodo and the Great War', p. 44
*Frodo and sam in mordor – Garth, 'Frodo and the Great War', p. 44
*Burden of the ring – Garth, 'Frodo and the Great War', p. 44
*Eye of sauron – Garth, 'Frodo and the Great War', p. 45
*Surprise, concealment – Garth, 'Frodo and the Great War', p. 45
*Witchking – Garth, 'Frodo and the Great War', p. 45
*Nazgûl – Garth, 'Frodo and the Great War', p. 45
*Nazgûl, flying – Garth, 'Frodo and the Great War', p. 45-46
*Black breath, vapour – Garth, 'Frodo and the Great War', p. 46
*Barrow-downs – Garth, 'Frodo and the Great War', p. 46-47, the Rollright Stones on the Warwickshire - Oxfordshire border, http://www.cv81pl.freeserve.co.uk/rollright.htm
*http://www.sf-fandom.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=197465
*laurelin, (mallorn) – laburnum “golden rain”
*telperion, white tree – silver cherry
*ilmarin – ilmarinen in Kalevala
*After the destruction of Númenor, the Undying Lands were removed from Arda so that Men could not reach them and only the Elves could go there by the Straight Road and in ships capable of passing out of the Spheres of the earth. By special permission of the Valar, the Hobbits Frodo Baggins, Bilbo Baggins, and Samwise Gamgee were also permitted to go to Valinor, as well as Gimli the Dwarf. -
It has been suggested that the concept was based on Hy Brasil, a mythical land that can reputedly be seen off the coast of Ireland for one day in every seven years.
*http://www.minastirith.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=2;t=000735;p=1#000018
*http://www.virtualbrum.co.uk/tolkien.htm
*http://www.minastirith.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=3;t=000264
*http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/4766929.stm
*http://www.minastirith.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=4;t=000250
*http://www.thetolkienforum.com/showthread.php?t=18227&highlight=%22white+tree%22
*http://sf-fandom.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=19638&highlight=white+tree
*http://www.lotrplaza.com/forum/display_topic_threads.asp?ForumID=49&TopicID=202121&PagePosition=1&PagePostPosition=1
*http://www.lotrplaza.com/forum/display_topic_threads.asp?ForumID=46&TopicID=201375&PagePosition=1&PagePostPosition=1
*pub in oxford: the elm tree
*corpses of the dead marshes – Garth, 'Frodo and the Great War', p. 47
*lights of the dead marshes – Garth, 'Frodo and the Great War', p. 48
*orthanc - AOTC p. 88
*http://www.minastirith.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=2;t=000546;p=1
*http://www.minastirith.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=2;t=000742;p=1#000006
*A possible real-life inspiration for Tolkien were the Barrow Downs of Warwickshire, near the village of Long Compton.
*the Great Barrows, and the green mounds, and the stone-rings upon the hills and in the hollows of the hills - This description recalls the prehistoric burial mounds and stone circles in England and elsewhere in Europe.
*Lúthien obtains a brief respite in which they both return to Middle-earth 'alive' – though not mingling with other people : a kind of Orpheus-legend in reverse, but one of Pity not of Inexorability.
*Even in the house the heat could be intense, and he had to be clothed entirely in white. 'Baby does look such a fairy when he's very much dressed-up in white frills and white shoes,' Mabel wrote to her husband's mother. 'When he's very much undressed I think he looks more of an elf still.'
*Lórien (in valinor) – breidablick ?
*Witch-king, morgoth – vindlone in edda ?
*Moria – biblical ?
*But I have the autumn wanderlust upon me, and would fain be off with a knapsack on my back and no particular destination, other than a series of quiet inns.
*http://www.houseofnames.com/xq/asp.fc/qx/boffin-family-crest.htm
*'Much Hemlock' echoes the name Much Wenlock in Shropshire (Much
'Great', as Michel [Delving)
*As for the 'land of Morīah' (note stress): that has no connexion (even 'externally') whatsoever. Internally there is no conceivable connexion between the mining of Dwarves, and the story of Abraham. I utterly repudiate any such significances and symbolisms. My mind does not work that way; and (in my view) you are led astray by a purely fortuitous similarity, more obvious in spelling than speech, which cannot be justified from the real intended significance of my story.
*Standelf means 'stone-quarry' (Old English stan-(ge)delf, surviving
in the place-name Stonydelph in Warwickshire).
*Standelf combines Old English stem 'stone, stones' and delf 'digging, mine, quarry, ditch', thus stan-gedelf 'quarry'; compare 'Stonydelph' in Warwickshire.
*Needlehole is also the name of a village in Gloucestershire. Its elements needle + hole are simple, but 'hole' again suggests the Hobbit tendency to dig.
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chivery
*angainor - Spake again the magic eagle:
**Why this ringing of thine anvil,
**Why this knocking of thy hammer,
**Tell me what thy hands are forging?"
**This the answer of the blacksmith:
**"'Tis a collar I am forging
**For the neck of wicked Louhi,
**Toothless witch of Sariola,
**Stealer of the silver sunshine,
**Stealer of the golden moonlight;
**With this collar I shall bind her
**To the iron-rock of Ehstland!"
*http://www.lotrplaza.com/forum/display_topic_threads.asp?ForumID=21&TopicID=204718&PagePosition=2&PagePostPosition=1
*http://www.lotrplaza.com/forum/display_topic_threads.asp?ForumID=21&TopicID=204739&PagePosition=2&PagePostPosition=1
*The men of the Vales of Anduin loosed arrows with “great bows of yew,” according the Lord of the Eagles in The Hobbit. The description is reminiscent of late medieval Welsh longbows.
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huns
*huns’ horses: sacred for the hunt?
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodwose
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohirrim
*Minyatur – miniature?
*Avari – avars, avari, http://www.euratlas.com/big/big0500.htm
*The antipathy between the Rohirrim and the Dunlendings resembles the historical tension between the Anglo-Saxon settlers of Britain and the native Celts.
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susa
*Meduseld means "mead hall" from the Old English medu meaning "mead" - a honeyed wine - and sæld meaning "hall." A mead hall was the hall of a chief in Anglo-Saxon times where banquets were held. Heorot, the mead hall of Hrothgar in Beowulf, is an example.
*Beorn is an Old English word meaning "man, warrior." It originally meant "bear" and was derived from the word béo meaning "bee" in reference to a bear's love of honey.
*The name Beorn is also related to the Old Norse word bjorn meaning "bear." Bjorn - or Bjarni - was a man in the Norse legend "The Saga of Hrolf Kraki" who was cursed to become a bear by day and man by night. Bjorn's son Bothvarr Bjarki was able to send a bear-form into battle. Bjarki means "little bear."
*http://www.minastirith.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=002291;p=1
*http://www.tolkiensociety.com/t_wend/2002_report.html
*The dwarves of course are quite obviously - wouldn't you say that in many ways they remind you of the Jews? Their words are Semitic obviously, constructed to be Semitic.
*Now Dwarves have their own secret language, but like Jews and Gypsis [sic] use the language of the country.
*I do think of the 'Dwarves' like Jews: at once native and alien in their habitations, speaking the languages of the country, but with an accent due to their own private tongue.....
*Ayesha, haggard: http://www.lotrplaza.com/forum/display_topic_threads.asp?ForumID=46&TopicID=158743&PagePostPosition=1
*The detail of Beren losing his hand to Carcharoth was possibly modelled after the Germanic legend of the god Tyr, who lost his hand to the wolf Fenris.
*The Prose Edda
*The Poetic Edda
*Nazgûl – wendigo ?
*http://www.minastirith.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=3;t=000270
*http://www.lotrplaza.com/forum/display_topic_threads.asp?ForumID=21&TopicID=205489&PagePosition=1&PagePostPosition=1
*http://www.godchecker.com/pantheon/finnish-mythology.php?deity=TAPIO
*Tolkien most likely based lembas on bread known as hard tack that was used during long sea voyages and military campaigns as a primary foodstuff. This very un-magical bread was little more than flour and water which had been baked hard and would keep for months as long as it was kept dry. However, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa wrote in his book Libri tres de occulta philosophia (Book 3, Chapter 13) of a herb from Scythia that allowed people to go for twelve days afterward without any need for food or water. It is also possible that Tolkien based lembas on this description in Agrippa's writings.
*'Its actual origin as an "invention"', however, as Tolkien writes in a manuscript quoted in Parma Eldalamberon 12 (1998), p. xi, 'goes back to at least 1915, its real source being Gothic *midu (=Gmc. [Germanic] medu) ["mead"] + wopeis ["sweet"], then supposed to have been developed so: miduwopi > miduwodi > mifuwofi > miruvore'.
*http://www.minastirith.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=001188
*Eluréd and elurín, and elros and Elrond being borne away – chronology p. 2
*Sea – chronology p. 2, 4
*http://www.minastirith.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=002327;p=1
*? - Hilary sometimes meets him with a lamp
*Gondor – chronology p. 6
*"Puss-cat Mew" also features a "glove of invisibility" which I thought a remarkable parallel to Tolkien's Ring, although not as sinister.
*Puss cat mew
*You can still see the little postern gate in the college wall on Magdalen bridge where Lewis let Tolkien out at around 2 am. He and Dyson went on walking and talking for another two hours! And be sure, when you enter the quad from the porter's lodge, to look backwards and upwards. There are mediaeval gargoyles on the wall there. One is _definitely_ Gollum!
*And the accomodation he enjoyed in one of the Alpine huts - just a bed on the floor, with a cover - sounds to me very much like that which Tom offered the hobbits in his penthouse [a penthouse being, in this case, a room built onto the side of the house].
*? – the ingoldsby legends
*? – j.m. barrie’s peter pan
*? – Thucydides
*? – the birds of Aristophanes
*? – whitby ruined abbey
*? – the lost explorers: a tale of the trackless desert
*? – scouting for buller
*? – john Ruskin
*? – shakespeare’s Richard II
*? – sheridan’s the rivals
*? – “out of doors literature”, mountaineering, al fresco in poetry, walking tours…
*Koh-i-noor diamond in a jelly ?
*? - Final tragedy of sigurd and brynhild in völsunga saga
*? – Richard Jefferies
*? – woolly-haired prognathous Papuan parent
*Francis bacon wrote shakespeare’s works?
*? – king Edward II’s procession
*? - Aristophanes’ play The Peace in which Ronald takes the part of Hermes
*Some had long stabbing thorns, some hooked barbs that rent like knives. – wait-a-bit ?
*? – wake-robin
*? – wake-wort
*“wildered and waworn in wanhope bound them” – William morris, The Wood Beyond the World
*hobbit – hobbledehoy, rabbit, Babbitt, ring of words pg. 54, HotH p. xiii, 59
*arkenstone – ring of words pg. 54
*númenor – numinous, ring of words pg. 55
*gil-galad – gilgamesh and galahad, ring of words pg. 55
*name-choosing – ring of words pg. 55
*nazgûl - http://www.lotrplaza.com/forum/display_topic_threads.asp?ForumID=49&TopicID=210754&PagePosition=1&PagePostPosition=1
*Eärendil – ring of words p. 56
*wingilot– ring of words p. 56
*niggle – tolkien, ring of words p. 57
*bounder – ring of words p. 57
*lockhole - ring of words p. 57
*waybread - ring of words p. 57
*cracks of doom - ring of words p. 57
*weapontake - ring of words p. 59
*arkenstone - ring of words p. 59
*ent - ring of words p. 59
*dernhelm - ring of words p. 59
*mathom - ring of words p. 59
*smial - ring of words p. 59
*emnet - ring of words p. 59
*months of the shire calendar - ring of words p. 59
*elfsheen - ring of words p. 59
*dwimmerlaik - ring of words p. 59
*easterling - ring of words p. 59
*elven - ring of words p. 59
*mannish - ring of words p. 59
*sigaldry - ring of words p. 59
*westernesse - ring of words p. 59
*daymeal - ring of words p. 59
*elvenhome - ring of words p. 59
*oakenshield - ring of words p. 59
*over-heaven - ring of words p. 59
*warg - ring of words p. 59
*farthing - ring of words p. 60
*flet - ring of words p. 60
*halfling - ring of words p. 60
*walter scott
*hiawatha ?
*Reliques of ancient english poetry
*lord macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome, ring of words p. 66
*works of George Dasent; Popular Tales from the Norse, Njal's Saga
*moria – ring of words p. 66
*edward bulwer-lytton, ring of words p. 66
*charles kingsley, ring of words p. 66
*charles kingsley's Hereward to wake, ring of words p. 66
*horse-boy, ring of words p. 66
*ruffling, ring of words p. 66
*william morris, ring of words p. 69-72
*meduseld – hall of the wolfings, ring of words p. 73-74
*hans christian andersen, ring of words p. 76
*backarappers - ring of words p. 78
*bob-owlers - ring of words p. 78
*gaffers - ring of words p. 78
*gammers - ring of words p. 78
*mithered - ring of words p. 78
*ninnyhammer - ring of words p. 78
*taters - ring of words p. 78
*varmint - ring of words p. 78
*go for - ring of words p. 78
*hay - ring of words p. 78
*marish - ring of words p. 78
*north-away - ring of words p. 78
*by - ring of words p. 78
*gladden - ring of words p. 78
*nasturtian - ring of words p. 78
*oliphaunt - ring of words p. 78
*shirriff - ring of words p. 78
*leg it - ring of words p. 78
*peaching - ring of words p. 79
*staggerment - ring of words p. 79
*bogosity - ring of words p. 79
*thinnuous - ring of words p. 79
*rhymeroyals - ring of words p. 79
*pennywhistles - ring of words p. 79
*tintrumpets - ring of words p. 79
*creamhorns - ring of words p. 79
*confusticate - ring of words p. 79
*bebother - ring of words p. 79
*flabbergastation - ring of words p. 79
*grabsome - ring of words p. 79
*vanishment - ring of words p. 79
*night-speech - ring of words p. 80
*riding-pony - ring of words p. 80
*spell-enslaved - ring of words p. 80
*war-beacon - ring of words p. 80
*beggar-beard - ring of words p. 80
*oathkeeper - ring of words p. 80
*windwrithen - ring of words p. 80
*herb-master - ring of words p. 80
*dragon-guarded - ring of words p. 80
*elf-friend - ring of words p. 80
*mountain-roots - ring of words p. 80
*forest-gloom - ring of words p. 80
*forest-silence - ring of words p. 80
*sea-sighing - ring of words p. 80
*curious-minded - ring of words p. 80
*quiet-footed - ring of words p. 80
*spell-enslaved - ring of words p. 80
*march-ward- ring of words p. 81
*elvenhome- ring of words p. 81
*lore-master- ring of words p. 81
*E.R.. eddison: the worm ouroboros, ring of words p. 82, HoTH1 p. 17
*owen barfield
*amidmost - ring of words p. 89
*midmost - ring of words p. 89
*arkenstone - ring of words p. 89
*eorclanstanas - ring of words p. 90
*unlight - ring of words p. 225
*malefit - ring of words p. 226
*attercop - ring of words p. 91
*spiders in TH - ring of words p. 91
*Cob - ring of words p. 92
*Lob - ring of words p. 92
*shelob - ring of words p. 92
*vista – spanish?
*backarapper - ring of words p. 92
*bane - ring of words p. 93
*kôr – haggard's 'She', John Garth, ''Tolkien and the Great War'', pp. 78-80
*The name Luthany, of a country, occurs five times in Francis
Thompson's poem The Mistress of Vision. As noted previously
(I. 29) my father acquired the Collected Poems of Francis Thompson
in 1913 -- 14; and in that copy he made a marginal note against one of
the verses that contains the name Luthany -- though the note is not
concerned with the name. But whence Thompson derived Luthany
I have no idea. He himself described the poem as'afantasy'(Everard
Meynell, The Life ofFrancis Thompson, 1913, p. 237).
This provides no more than the origin of the name as a series of sounds
*Rohan and Moria mentioned in my father's letter of 1967on this subject (The
Letters of j R. R. Tolkien, pp. 383 -- 4)
*a subtle literary reference to King Lear that connects triangularly the Lord of the Nazgûl, Denethor, and Shakespeare’s mad King. , also haggard's eric brighteyes

*Mr. Howard Green, Tolkien’s imaginary Snorri-cum-Lönnrot, is a type familiar in nineteenth-century adventure ﬁction, the remote but realistic pseudo-editor who provides the occasion for the story and interjects explanatory notes and comments. H. Rider Haggard was fond of the device, employing it in She and King Solomon’s Mines, and Tolkien has followed in his footsteps.

*but he found that he had put it back in his pocket - John D. Rateliff notes in 'She and Tolkien', Mythlore 8, no. 2, whole no. 28 (Summer 1981) a similarity between this incident in The Lord of the Rings and a passage in She and Allan by H. Rider Haggard, whose She Tolkien knew and admired:
There is also an echo of the One Ring . . . when Allan Quatermain is given a magic amulet which he is warned to keep safe. He wears it on a chain around his neck and keeps it hidden under his shirt [as Frodo does after leaving Rivendell], only bringing out on rare occasions or at great need. Soon after he receives it, a magician tells him he will not be able to throw it away even if he wanted to and challenges him to try:
I did try, but something seemed to prevent me from accomplishing my purpose of giving the carving back to Zikali as I wished to do. First my pipe got in the way of my hand, then the elephant hairs caught in the collar of my coat; then a pang of rheumatism to which I was accustomed from an old injury, developed of a sudden in my left arm, and lastly I grew tired of bothering about the thing, [p. 7, Haggard quotation from Chapter 1]

*the tides of fate are flowing - An echo, perhaps, of 'There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood leads on to fortune' (Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act IV, Scene 3).
*the air itself seemed black and heavy to breathe. When lights appeared Sam rubbed his eyes.... He first saw ... a wisp of pale sheen ... some like misty flames - In H. Rider Haggard's She the protagonists also pass through unpleasant marshes:
Never did I see a more dreary and depressing scene. Miles on miles of quagmire, varied only by bright green strips of comparatively solid ground, and by deep sullen pools fringed with tall rushes. . .. Undoubtedly, however, the worst feature of the swamp was the awful smell of rotting vegetation that hung about it, which at times was positively overpowering, and the malarious exhalations that accompanied it, which we were of course obliged to breathe.
This marsh is by no means dead: it contains many birds and reptiles, including poisonous snakes, and clouds of mosquitoes. At night one of the heroes sees 'impish marsh-born balls of fire, rolled this way and that' (Chapter 10; compare will-o'-the wisp, note for p. 314).
*it shrank, and the shrivelled face became rags of skin upon a hideous skull. - Readers, including John D. Ratehff and Jared Lobdell, have noted a similarity between Tolkien's description of the death of Saruman and the sudden ageing and death of Ayesha in H. Rider Haggard's She:
Smaller she grew and smaller yet, till she was no larger than a monkey. Now the skin had puckered into a million wrinkles, and on the shapeless face was the stamp of unutterable age ... nobody ever saw anything like the frightful age that was graven on that fearful countenance, no bigger now than that of a two-months' child, though the skull remained the same size, or nearly so. ... I took up Ayesha's kirtle and the gauzy scarf... and, averting my head so that I might not look upon it, covered up that dreadful relic____[She, Chapter XXVI]
*‘The Battle of the Eastern Field’ deals not with war but with rugby, being the tongue-in-cheek account of a match in 1911. Its model was Lord Macaulay’s then-popular Lays of Ancient Rome, and it is at least moderately amusing. In the guise of Roman clans it depicts the rival school houses, Measures’ in red and Richards’ in green, and it is full of boys charging around in names that are much too big for them. Wiseman surely lurks behind Sekhet, a nod to his fair hair and his passion for ancient Egypt. (Tolkien, it seems, did not then realize that Sekhet is a female deity. [Footnote: He had perhaps only encountered the name in Rider Haggard’s She, which lists ‘Sekhet, the lion-headed’ among the Egyptian powers, but does not specify her gender.]' John Garth, ''Tolkien and the Great War'', p. 20.
*Massed together, trees comprise The Wood at the World's End [60], its title a commingling of two by William Morris {The Wood beyond the World and The Well at the World's End}.
*Personally I do not think that either war (and of course not the atomic bomb) had any influence upon either the plot or the manner of its unfolding. Perhaps in landscape. The Dead Marshes and the approaches to the Morannon owe something to Northern France after the Battle of the Somme. They owe more to William Morris and his Huns and Romans, as in The House of the Wolfings or The Roots of the Mountains.
*But that was the very reason that he now found The House of the Wolfings so absorbing. Morris's view of literature coincided with his own. In this book Morris had tried to recreate the excitement he himself had found in the pages of early English and Icelandic narratives. The House of the Wolfings is set in a land which is threatened by an invading force of Romans. Written partly in prose and partly in verse, it centres on a House or family-tribe that dwells by a great river in a clearing of the forest named Mirkwood, a name taken from ancient Germanic geography and legend. Many elements in the story seem to have impressed Tolkien. Its style is highly idiosyncratic, heavily laden with archaisms and poetic inversions in an attempt to recreate the aura of ancient legend. Clearly Tolkien took note of this, and it would seem that he also appreciated another facet of the writing: Morris's aptitude, despite the vagueness of time and place in which the story is set, for describing with great precision the details of his imagined landscape. Tolkien himself was to follow Morris's example in later years.
*No account of the external events of Tolkien's life can provide more than a superficial explanation of the origins of his mythology. Certainly the device that linked the stories in the first draft of the book (it was later abandoned) owes something to William Morris's The Earthly Paradise; for, as in that story, a sea-voyager arrives at an unknown land where he is to hear a succession of tales.
*The style of 'The Fall of Gondolin' suggests that Tolkien was influenced by William Morris, and it is not unreasonable to suppose that the great battle which forms the central part of the story may owe a little of its inspiration to Tolkien's experiences on the Somme – or rather to his reaction to those experiences, for the fighting at Gondolin has a heroic grandeur entirely lacking in modern warfare. But in any case these were only superficial 'influences': Tolkien used no models or sources for his strange and exciting tale. Indeed its two most notable characteristics are entirely his own device: the invented names, and the fact that the majority of the protagonists are elves. Strictly speaking it could be said that the elves of The Silmarillion grew out of the 'fairy folk' of Tolkien's early poems, but really there is little connection between the two. Elves may have arisen in his mind as a result of his enthusiasm for Francis Thompson's 'Sister Songs' and Edith's fondness for 'little elfin people', but the elves of The Silmarillion have nothing whatever to do with the 'tiny leprechauns' of 'Goblin Feet'. They are to all intents and purposes men: or rather, they are Man before the Fall which deprived him of his powers of achievement. Tolkien believed devoutly that there had once been an Eden on earth, and that man's original sin and subsequent dethronement were responsible for the ills of the world; but his elves, though capable of sin and error, have not 'fallen' in the theological sense, and so are able to achieve much beyond the powers of men. They are craftsmen, poets, scribes, creators of works of beauty far surpassing human artefacts. Most important of all they are, unless slain in battle, immortal. Old age, disease, and death do not bring their work to an end while it is still unfinished or imperfect. They are therefore the ideal of every artist. These, then, are the elves of The Silmarillion, and of The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien himself summed up their nature when he wrote of them: 'They are made by man in his own image and likeness; but freed from those limitations which he feels most to press upon him. They are immortal, and their will is directly effective for the achievement of imagination and desire.'
*'William Morris’s use of verse in his pseudo-medieval romances was also to leave its mark on Tolkien’s own early poetry.' John Garth, ''Tolkien and the Great War'', p. 14.
*'But first he launched into a retelling of part of the Kalevala, in the verse-and-prose manner of William Morris. This was the Story of Kullervo, about a young fugitive from slavery. It is a strange story to have captured the imagination of a fervent Roman Catholic: Kullervo unwittingly seduces his sister, who kills herself, and then he too commits suicide. But the appeal perhaps lay partly in the brew of maverick heroism, young romance, and despair: Tolkien, after all, was in the midst of his enforced separation from Edith Bratt. The deaths of Kullervo’s parents may have struck a chord, too. An overriding attraction, though, was the sounds of the Finnish names, the remote primitivism, and the Northern air.' John Garth, ''Tolkien and the Great War'', p. 26.

*Wormtongue - A '"modernized" form of the nickname of Grima, the evil counsellor of Rohan = Rohan [Old English] wyrm-tunge "snake-tongue"' {Nomenclature). Tolkien was undoubtedly familiar with the Icelandic tale of Gunnlaug the Worm-tongue, translated by William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson (published 1869), but there the name Wormtongue was given to a poet because of his sharp wit.

*All's well as ends Better - A play on the proverb All's well that ends well.
*Bane – ring of words p. 93
*bee-hunter - ring of words p. 94
*beorn - ring of words p. 95
*skin-changer - ring of words p. 96
*blunderbuss - ring of words p. 97
*carrock - ring of words p. 98
*a little mist was laid on it - This is one of several similarities to King Lear which Michael D.C. Drout ('Tolkien's Prose Style and its Literary and Rhetorical Effects', Tolkien Studies 1 (2004)) finds in this part of The Lord of the Rings. In Act V, Scene 3 of Shakespeare's play, Lear, hoping that Cordelia is not dead, says: 'Lend me a looking glass / If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, / Why, then she lives.'
*All that is gold does not glitter - Compare the traditional saying all that glitters is not gold (in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, 'All that glisters is not gold'). In his 'Canon's Yeoman's Tale' in the Canterbury Tales Chaucer says: 'But al thyng which that shyneth as the gold / Nis nat gold, as that I have heard told.'
*From the ashes afire shall be woken - For this Tom Shippey has suggested an inspiration by Spenser's Faerie Queene: 'There shall a sparke of fire, which hath long-while / Bene in his ashes raked up and hid / Be freshly kindled...' (quoted in The Road to Middle-earth, 2nd edn., p. 317, n. 9).
*A plague on Dwarves and their stiff necks - This (and 'i plague on the stiff necks of Elves', p. 347, I: 362) seems to echo 'a plagut o' both your houses', in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Act III, Scene 1.
*Gandalf bore his staff - The mention of Gandalf's staff here among swords, knife, bow, and axe suggests that it may be considered a weapon, but it is never used as such. Wizards or magicians traditionally have staffs which sometimes seem essential to the performing of magic (Prospero in Shakespeare's Tempest, for instance, breaks his staff when he renounces magic).
*Confusticate – ring of words p. 99
*bebother – ring of words p. 100
*flabbergastation - – ring of words p. 100
*a 'bagger' is a ring thief in 19th Century slang
*Smaug is (supposedly) the present tense of the prehistoric German word Smugan, to squeeze through a hole, so it means squeezed through a hole.
*Also found in the Eddas is the forest of Myrkwood
*I searched Nazgul and this is what it came up with.
It is of Persian origin and there is one Kazah origin which means "delicate flower" But of course if Tolkien ever intended to use it he CERTAINLY would NOT have known the Kazah term as a Ringwraith is not a delicate flower!
*According to one of Tolkien's letters, Irish Gaelic for ring is nasc; Scottish is nazg. But Tolkien admitted he had neither name in mind when he made up the word; he found these words years later while looking for something else! Of course, he mused, he may have seen the word[s] and had them in the back of his mind whislt composing..
*http://www.lotrplaza.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=212055
*http://www.lotrplaza.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=212033
*Arise now... - Tom Shippey has suggested that this 'call to arms' is influenced by Hnasf 's call in the Old English Finnesburg Fragment. 'Awaken now, my warriors! Grasp your coats of mail, think of deeds of valour, bear yourselves proudly, be resolute!' (translation in J.R.R. Tolkien, Finn and Hengest: The Fragment and the Episode (1982), p. 147).
*I do not recollect ever having heard the name Gondar (in Ethiopia) before your letter
*JS. Ryan in “German Mythology Applied--the Extension of the Literary
Folk Memory” notes that the Arkenstone’s name means “peerless stone” and . ’
that the name Gimli suggests “gimlet,” ”an appropriate notion of boring for a
delver and rock cutter.“28 Further, Gimli is the only dwarf to pass over the
sea to -the Grey Havens. Certainly, Snorri’s description of a hall called Gimle
from the Poetic Edda was in the soup pot: “At the southern end of the
heaven is that hall which is fairest of all, and brighter than the sun; and it is
c&led Gimle.“29 If the dwarfs name has been suggested by Northern
literature, so has his character. Gimli’s flowery statement, ” . l l the Lady
Galadriel is above all the jewels that lie beneath the earth,” epitomizes the
typical concerns of a dwarf with the treasures of the earth.
*Tolkien records this idea of a vanishing people in
the prologue to The Lord of the FZings, but not for his dwarves. He says that ’
hobbits are a very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are
today. . l Even in ancient days they were as a rule, shy of ‘the big folk,’ as
they call us, and now they avoid us with dismay and are becoming hard to
find” (I, 10). The dwarves of the sagas and the hobbits of Middle-earth
share a shyness about the company of men.
*In The Unfinished Tales, Tolkien also names the proud wife of Tar-Aldarion, Erendis, again employing the dwarf name as part of the compound.
The story of the Scandinavian god Njord and his wife Skadi seems relevant.
Njord wishes to live in his home by the sea but Skadi protests that the
screaming seagulls keep her from sleeping. Similarly, Njord does not like
the mountain wolves howling in Skadi’s home Thrymheim: he misses the
song of the seaside swans.37 Aldarion cannot live without the sea while
Erendis would perish with it. The scene in which Aldarion rides up from
the haven of Andunie, looks back over the sea, and succumbs to the sealonging
recalls a similar scene in the NW’s Saa. Gunnar has been exiled
and prepares to take ship from Iceland, but riding down to the ship, his
horse stumbles, he looks around at the land, sees that it is fair, and
determines to stay.38 AIdarion continues in his love of the sea and Erendis
in her proud disdain for his trips. She does indeed have a dwarfish stiff
neck.
*Mîm exemplifies the dwarves of the sagas: he is proud, has healing power, loves gold, curses freely, lives in a stone home, and barters shrewdly.
*Noel also sees an interesting parallel between the Ents and
Entwives and the Scandinavian god Njord and his wife Skadi, as discussed
above in the section on dwmes .68 Like Skadi and Njord whose living
preferences are diverse, the Entwives choices about domestic
arrangements do not agree with the Ents’. The wives separate themselves to
live in a land of domestic plants and agriculture while the Ents prefer wilder
woods.
*Zimmermann also notes that the 16th century Guve of Gisborne quoted in Tolkien’s 1925 essay contains a meter which may be detected in the “Song of the Ents and Entwives” (II, 800 8 1)
*he became professor at Oxford at age 33 [which, as he tells us is the hobbits' 'coming of age']
*http://fan.theonering.net/writing/reviews/files/spain_trail1.html
*elven – ring of words p. 117
*glittering caves - cheddar gorge, chronology p. 238
*''hyne wyrdfornam,
**sypdan he for wlenco wean dhsode,
**fahde to Frysum. He pa fatwe wag,
**eorclan-stdnas ofer yda ful,
**rice peoden; he under rande gecranc.''(lines 1205-09)
**This is translated by R. M. Liuzza in his Beowulf (2000) as follows:
**''Fate struck him down
**when in his pride he went looking for woe,
**a feud with the Frisians. He wore that finery,
**those precious stones, over the cup of the sea,
**that powerful lord, and collapsed under his shield.'' (P- 9o)
**(The origin of the name Theoden, King of Rohan in The Lord of the Rings, is seen in line 1209, where in ''peoden'' the Anglo-Saxon character ''p'' (thorn) represents th. It is an Anglo-Saxon word meaning "prince" or "king," here translated lord.)
*the old lists - Treebeard's 'lore of living creatures' recalls the list of fish, animals, and so forth, with suitable epithets for poetry, included in the Skaldskaparmal in Snorri Sturluson's Edda.
*the lost and regained sun and the moon from towards the end of the Kalevala
*Gondor and Arnor- Rome and it's later split into east and west (or in middle earth's case north and south).
*the Arthurian story of Balin and Balan, as in f.e. Malory/Tennyson/Swinburne, with the strong but 'unlucky' warrior who is banished from a king for his rough manners and who eventually kills a beloved - Túrin?
*"The Iliad" was a pretty big influence on Tolkien. A lot of his heroes borrow from Homeric archetypes. And the fall of Troy also inspired the Fall of Gondolin. [Michael Martinez]
*Tolkien said that Turin’s story was “an attempt to reorganise the tale of Kullervo the hapless into a form of my own”. Kullervo appears in the Finnish Kalevala. Both characters were born after their fathers were lost in battle (though Hurin, Turin’s father, was imprisoned rather than killed). Both commit accidental incest; and, in both cases, the sister throws herself into a river. Both Kullervo and Túrin die by falling on their sentient black swords, both of which speak, and agree to drink their masters’ blood. There are other sources, too: the battles of Túrin and Glaurung the dragon echo Beowulf, but they are closer to the Norse saga of Sigurd and Fafnir. Sigurd digs a trench and stabs Fafnir from beneath; Túrin hides in a gorge and does the same. Both are abandoned by their fearful companions, Regin and Dorlas respectively.
*Gandalf’s feelings on pity and his speech on mercy (and Frodo’s eventually actions towards Gollum) strike true of Portia’s speech on mercy in Shakepeare’s "A Merchant of Venice."
*lord dunsany
*odyssey, homer ?
*agamemnon, electra ?
*xanadu ?
*Horn of Gondor (Boromir) - Horn in Song of Roland ?
*deor - deor's complaint
*the first riddle ?
*hengest (hengist) and horsa ?
*crist
*Túrin’s proclivity for falling into trances is difficult to understand and justify as a plot device. His trancelike state recalls Brynhild’s sleep on the magic mountain, but her trance is a punishment for disobedience to Odin.
*Túrin’s character flaw is not well enough defined. He suffers from hubris but also from a kind of unbecoming fecklessness, which is not quite a tragic quality. All of this is equally true of Sigurd.
*The incest theme seems underused; its plot significance in the Volsunga Saga is much more compelling.
*Túrin’s fate is overdetermined. Like Oedipus, he is doomed by the curse on his father, though the curse here is the personal and seemingly disproportionate malice of a fallen archangel, mediated by a malevolent dragon. Like Kullervo, he is doomed by his own flawed character: reckless, brooding, unyielding in pride.
*nirnaeth arnoediad - battle of the somme ?
*Look at the wizard Väinamöinen or something. He`s the real hero and disappeard in the deep. After a while he took form in a body, not a soul. What does this look alike? GANDALF the WIZARD.
*Yes I agree that there are some traces of the sootsayer Väinämöinen in Gandalf. They both are powerfull in lore and (with nothing better to call it) chant (for Väinämöinen’s ’magic’, again for the lack of a better word, happens through song and Gandalf’s through prayer.) and they are still no gods or prime creators. They both have the same kind of appearance too, but that can be said for many other characters that also have other qualities in common with Gandalf and may have ´been an influence when coming up with him. One of them is the Norse headgod Odin.
*And to me at least Väinämöine resembles much more Radagast with his powers of being able to communicate with animals and taking care of nature. Of course Gandalf posesses some of these qualities too, but not as much as Radagast. But then again I would have to go with the grey colour instead of the brown for Väinämöinen if there would be one appointed to him.
*Angainor on Melkor - The chaining of Fenris
*The Eye of Woden - The Eye of Sauron ?
*ilúvatar - ilmatar ?
*sador labadal's injury - chronology p. 42, 5 jun 1913 ?
*booth (WotJ p. 279) - WotJ p. 303, note 36
*elvish words ending with -nen and -tar - finnish
*The Hobbit, hobbits - beowulf, andrew lang, brothers grimm, e.h. knatchbull-hugessen, rudyard kipling, william morris, george macdonald, especially the princess and the goblin and the princess and curdie. And certainly, you don’t have to look far to see numerous connections between the Hobbits and the Snergs — in their physical descriptions, their love of communal feasting, the numerous similar locations through which the heroes of the two stories travel, such as dangerous forests and underground caverns
*'mellon' - 'sesam' ?
*exchange between bilbo and gandalf - AH p. 39
*Turin Turambar (name) - reminds one of the name of a hero of a Kullervo-themed song, Turu (?) Tuurikkainen
*http://praxeology.net/unblog12-05.htm#09
*http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/05/06/in_the_beginning_/
*The Hobbt, later part - HotH1 p. 25
*http://www.lotrplaza.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=216402
*execution of eöl - execution at the tarpeian rock in rome ?
* While debating whether to break up the chair for winter firewood, Sador talks to Túrin, the young son of Húrin who will soon be sent into exile and become the wandering, accursed hero of this gloomy, gory and highly compelling tale. "I wasted my time," Sador says of his long labors, "though the hours seemed pleasant. But all such things are short-lived; and the joy in the making is their only true end, I guess." It's impossible not to hear John Ronald Reuel Tolkien reproaching or consoling himself with these words.
*http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3777/is_200210/ai_n9135926/print
*http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0OON/is_4_23/ai_99848426/print
*last desert - the gobi desert (HotH p. 9, 17, 43)
*far east - china (HotH p. 9, 17)
*luthany (tol eressea) - england (HotH p. 17)
*kortirion - warwick (HotH p. 17)
*tavrobel - HotH1 p. 17, http://www.lotrplaza.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=213443
*anachronisms in The Hobbit - HotH p. 18, 43
*beleriand, broceliand (name?) - HotH p. 20
*bolt - HotH p. 26
*bolt, tolkien's other early work - HotH p. 55
*valar - HotH p. 64
*the silmarillion - HotH p. 64
*early tolkien - beyond the fields we know: the short stories of lord dunsany by rateliff
*ossiriand (name) - HotH p. 26
*éowyn - HotH p. 42
*Three is Company - this is surely a deliberate mis-quoting of the well-known RL proverb 'Two's company, three's a crowd'.
*the hill (name), the water (name) - HotH1 p. 45
*He used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep, and every path was its tributary. "It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door," he used to say. "You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to. - The Road is a recurring image in Tolkien's writings, often in contrast with the security and comfort of home. It was also a common literary motif when he was young, when there were fewer cars and people walked a great deal. The 'open road' held the promise of freedom and adventure, but also of risk and uncertainty. In The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, Mr Toad praises 'the open road, the dusty highway, the heath, the common, the hedgerows, the rolling downs! Camps, villages, towns, cities! Here to-day, up and off to somewhere else to-morrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement!' (Chapter 2).
*maiar - fays
*fairy and mortal man - thomas rymer theme
*The line "Grief is a hone to a hard mind" reminds me of the scene in Macbeth where Malcolm says to Macduff: "Be this the whetstone of your sword: let grief convert to anger; blunt not the heart, enrage it." (4.3.228-9)
*the mewlips - lord dunsany's 'the hoard of the giggelins' in 'the book of wonder'
*hobbit names - HotH p. 60
*narrator in TH - HotH p. 55, 64
*círdan - väinämöinen as shipwright ?
*proverbs in LR - http://www.lotrplaza.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=218078
*while the Turin story drew its core plot from THE KALEVALA it takes its tone and mood instead from THE VOLSUNGA SAGA -- that is, the story of Sigurd, a doomed hero who does great deeds.
*dragons sleeping on treasure - HotH p. 75
*trolls' (and orc's'?) speech - AH p. 70
*the trolls encounter in TH - AH p. 72
*the dragon's visit - AH p. 61
*Elendil - Nimruzir in Adunaic, like Noah in Genesis, also both survived the Deluge in boats
*the hobbit - through the looking glass, lewis carroll (HotH p. 56)
*Tolkienists regard Sam as Frodo's batman. In the British Army, a batman was an orderly who acted as the personal servant of an officer. It was a role with which Tolkien (who served as an Army officer in the First World War) would have been extremely familiar. Sam undertakes all of the typical roles of a batman — he runs errands for Frodo, he cooks, he transports him (or at least carries him), and he carries his luggage. Tolkien confirmed this interpreta
**"My Sam Gamgee is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognized as so far superior to myself"
**Commpare to the relation between Don Quixote and his squire Sancho Panza, and the gradual "Quixotization" of Sancho.
*tharni - character in lord dunsany's plays of god and men
*the staff broke because Gandalf smashed it down on the stone like Moses outside the land of Caanan (which was likewise why Moses also could no longer lead his people).
*galdor (name) - http://www.ealdriht.org/galdor.html, http://www.wyrdwords.vispa.com/heathenry/galdor.html
*dark plague (morgoth and sauron) - the black plague
*dorwinion (land of wine) - vinland ?
*bombur produced a drum - HotH2 p. 784
*pipe-weed - HotH2 p. 783
*'Come not between the Nazgûl and his prey! - 'Come not between the dragon and his wrath' in King Lear
*Longshanks was a nickname of Edward I, King of England (ruled 1272-1307).
*The scene in which Imrahil shows Éowyn to be alive by noting that her faint breath shows on his polished vambrace is similar to the scene in Lear where the King tries to determine if Cordelia still lives. Tolkien writes: Then the prince seeing her beauty, though her face was pale and cold, touched her hand as he bent to look more closely on her. “Men of Rohan!” he cried. “Are there no leeches among you? She is hurt to the death maybe, but I deem that she yet lives.” And he held the bright-burnished vambrace that was upon his arm before her cold lips, and behold! a little mist was laid on it hardly to be seen. (RK, V, vi, 121)Compare Lear: “Lend me a looking glass; / If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, / Why, then she lives.” (V, iii, 266-67) The rage of Éomer upon ﬁnding Éowyn apparently dead is also similar to Lear’s rage at the death of Cordelia: “Éowyn, Éowyn!” he cried at last: “Éowyn, how come you here? What madness or devilry is this? Death, death, death! Death take us all!” Then without taking counsel or waiting for the approach of the men of the City, he spurred headlong back to the front of the great host, and blew a horn, and cried aloud for the onset. Over the ﬁeld rang his clear voice calling: “Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending!” (RK, V, vi, 119)Compare Lear: “And my poor fool11 is hanged! No, no, no life?Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou’lt come no moreNever, never, never, never, never!” (V, iii, 311-14)
*south downs - south downs near Lullington, Sussex ?
*Tolkien had decided to rename Saeros to Orgol, with negative meaning in Sindarin, and permitting a pun on Old English orgol, orgel "pride", cognate, but not ancestral, to Modern English orgulous
*I also realized almost immediately that the quest for the ring was actually a grail quest. It was King Arthur and Camelot all over again.

*Midgewater Marshes. Translate by sense. The name was suggested by Mývatn in Iceland, of the same meaning.
*tolkien's various methods of literary construction - amon hen 208 p. 14
*The Adventures of Tom Bombadil', which was published in the Oxford Magazine in 1934. It tells of Tom's encounters with 'Goldberry, the River-woman's daughter', with the 'Old Man Willow' which shuts him up in a crack of its bole (an idea, Tolkien once said, that probably came in part from Arthur Rackham's tree-drawings), with a family of badgers, and with a 'Barrow-wight', a ghost from a prehistoric grave of the type found on the Berkshire Downs not far from Oxford.
*the saruman passage - the company they keep p. 117
*http://www.lotrplaza.com/Archive4/display_topic_threads.asp?ForumID=46&TopicID=155483&PagePosition=3
*poem about charles williams, the company they keep p. 69

==External links==
*[http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/dec/09/tolkien-death-of-smaug-began-america-middle-earth Tolkien’s death of Smaug: American inspiration revealed] by [[John Garth]]

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Gandalf

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| caption="A Light in the Dark" by [[:Category:Images by Matt Stewart|Matt Stewart]]
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| titles=Guardian of the Third Age [[Gandalf/Names#The Grey|The Grey]] [[The White]] [[Gandalf/Names#The White Rider|White Rider]] [[Gandalf/Names#The White Pilgrim|White Pilgrim]]
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| location=No fixed abode
| affiliation=[[Five Guardians]], [[Order of Wizards]], [[White Council]], [[Thorin and Company]], [[Fellowship of the Ring]]
| language=[[Valarin]], [[Elvish]], [[Westron]], [[Hobbitish]]
| birth=[[Creation of the Ainur]]
| birthlocation=[[Timeless Halls]]
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| height=5'6"<ref name="MB">{{HM|MB}}, page 49</ref>
| hair=Long white, silver beard<ref name="Meetings">{{FR|Meetings}}</ref>
| eyes=Black that could become red
| clothing=Grey robes (later white), blue hat, grey scarf, black boots<ref name="Party"/>
| weapons=Staff [[Glamdring]] [[Narya]]
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{{Quote|Gandalf was shorter in stature than the [[Elrond|other]] [[Glorfindel|two]]; but his long white hair, his sweeping silver beard, and his broad shoulders, made him look like some wise king of ancient legend. In his aged face under great snowy brows his eyes were set like coals that could suddenly burst into fire.|''[[The Fellowship of the Ring]]'', "[[Many Meetings]]"}}

'''Gandalf''' was one of the five [[Order of Wizards|Istari]] sent to [[Middle-earth]] by the [[Valar]] in the [[Third Age]]. In [[Valinor]] he was known as Olórin. Gandalf was instrumental in bringing about the demise of [[Sauron]] in {{TA|3019}}, chiefly by encouraging others and dispensing his wisdom at pivotal times. He was originally robed in grey, and second to [[Saruman]] in the Order of Wizards. After his fall in [[Moria]], Gandalf returned to Middle-earth as head of the Order, robed in white. He was noteworthy for his keen interest in [[Hobbits]].

==History==
===Early history===
[[File:Kip Rasmussen - Olorin in the Gardens of Lorien.jpg|thumb|''Olorin in the Gardens of Lorien'' by [[:Category:Images by Kip Rasmussen|Kip Rasmussen]]]]
The wisest of the [[Maiar]], Gandalf was created by [[Ilúvatar]] before the [[Music of the Ainur]].<ref name="Ainu">{{S|Ainu}}</ref> At the beginning of [[Time]], he was amongst the [[Ainur]] who entered into [[Eä]].<ref name="SVala">{{S|Vala}}</ref> In his "youth" he was known as '''''Olórin''''' and lived in [[Lórien (Valinor)|Lórien]]. Yet his ways often took him to Nienna, from whom he learned pity and patience.<ref name=vala>{{S|IIc}}, p. 316</ref> He became one of the [[Maiar]] who served [[Manwë]], [[Varda]], [[Irmo]], and [[Nienna]]. He was associated with light and fire, much like [[Varda]].

After the Valar discovered the primeval [[Elves]] at [[Cuiviénen]], Olórin was sent there as one of the [[Five Guardians]] to guard the Elves from the forces of [[Melkor]].<ref>{{NM|P1xiii}}, p. 95</ref> It is unclear how long he remained or if he accompanied the [[Eldar]] on the [[Great Journey]]. But it is said he loved the Elves, and throughout his early life, he walked [[Unseen]] among them, or wore a [[Fana]] that appeared like an Elf, and he sent them fair visions in their hearts that made them wiser. Throughout his existence, he followed the example of Nienna, taking pity on the sorrows of the [[Children of Ilúvatar]] and driving those who listened to him out of despair.<ref name=vala/>

===Third Age===
====Arrival in Middle-earth====
During the [[Third Age]], while [[Sauron|Sauron's]] 'dark spirit of malice' was increasing over [[Middle-earth]], the Valar chose the [[Istari]], missionaries from among the Maiar, to go to Middle-earth and help the [[Portal:Characters|peoples]]. [[Manwë]] selected Olórin, who, at first, did not wish to go, as he feared Sauron. However, Manwë said that it was all the more reason why he should go.<ref name="Istari">{{UT|13}}</ref> Furthermore, [[the One Ring]], the location of much of Sauron's power, presumably still existed somewhere in Middle-earth.

Olórin submitted to the will of Manwë and departed Valinor to [[Mithlond]] in the year {{TA|1000}}.<ref name="Istari"/> He arrived shortly after two other Istari, [[Curumo]] and [[Aiwendil]], at about the same time the [[Necromancer]] appeared in [[Mirkwood]]. Like the other Wizards, he took the shape of an old man. He was robed in grey.

At Mithlond, he was welcomed by [[Glorfindel]], his friend from Valinor who was sent to Middle-earth earlier on a similar mission, and [[Círdan]] the shipwright, who possessed [[Narya]], one of the [[Three Rings|Three]] Elven [[Rings of Power]]. Círdan divined in Olórin a sense of strength and power despite his appearance as a bent and aged old man. Círdan gave Narya to Olórin with a prediction of his future struggles with evil, and a promise that it would support and aid him in his labours. Then Círdan said "''But as for me, my heart is with the [[Belegaer|Sea]], and I will dwell by the grey shores until the last ship sails. I will await you.''"<ref name="ThirdAge">{{App|B2}}</ref>

[[File:John Howe - Gandalf the Grey.jpg|thumb|''Gandalf the Grey'' by [[John Howe]]]]
Gandalf then began his sojourn in Middle-earth, going about as a wanderer and counsellor. Unlike Saruman, Gandalf did not take up a single permanent residence. Gandalf never went to the [[east]]<ref name="TT Window p. 670">{{TT|Window}}, p. 670</ref> and apparently restricted his activities to the [[Westlands]] of Middle-earth, where the remnants of the [[Dúnedain]] and the [[Eldar]] remained to oppose Sauron. He was known by many names during the long years he remained in Middle-earth: Elves named him ''[[Gandalf/Names#Mithrandir|Mithrandir]]'', the Grey Pilgrim, while the men of [[Arnor]] named him '''Gandalf''', which became his most common name. He was also known as ''[[Gandalf/Names#Incánus|Incánus]]'' in the south, and ''[[Gandalf/Names#Tharkûn|Tharkûn]]'' to the [[Dwarves]].<ref name="Istari"/>

A legend says that Gandalf was given the [[Elfstone]] of [[Eärendil]] by [[Yavanna]] to bring to the peoples of Middle-earth; this was to be a token that the Valar had not forsaken them. He gave it to [[Galadriel]], and remarked prophetically that she would in turn pass it to an individual who would also be called [[Aragorn|Elessar]].<ref>{{UT|6}}</ref>

====Early vigilance====
Around {{TA|1100}},<ref name="ThirdAge"/> the Istari and the Eldar discovered that some evil entity resided at [[Dol Guldur]] in Mirkwood. Dark shapes moved in the forest and evil began to multiply in the woods. Some thought a [[Nazgûl]] had returned to torment the world, or some new evil was arising. Gandalf was unsure, and feared that perhaps Sauron himself might have returned.<ref name="Rings">{{S|Rings}}</ref>
[[File:John Howe - Pass the Doors of Dol Guldur.jpg|thumb|left|''Pass the Doors of Dol Guldur'' by [[John Howe]]]]
Over the next two hundred years the evil continued to grow, as well as the source directing it. [[Orcs]] were multiplying in the [[Misty Mountains]] and elsewhere. The [[Witch-king]], the mightiest of the Nazgûl, had built a fortress in [[Angmar]] in the Northern wastelands and waged unending war against the Kingdom of [[Arnor]]. Meanwhile [[Moria]] and [[Minas Ithil]] fell under a shadow, while other wars, plagues, and catastrophes occurred across Middle-earth. Gandalf went to Dol Guldur in {{TA|2063|n}} to discover its secret.<ref name="ThirdAge"/> An entity known only as the '[[Necromancer]]' fled before him preventing Gandalf from identifying him.<ref name="Rings"/> After Gandalf's incursion, the evil there seemed to desist, and its absence allowed for some centuries of calmness.

That peaceful period was known as the [[Watchful Peace]] and lasted for almost four hundred years. However, the Nazgûl had used this period to prepare for Sauron's return, which occurred in {{TA|2460|n}}.<ref name="ThirdAge"/> Realising the returning evil, the [[Wise]] formed the [[White Council]] three years later. [[Galadriel]], bearer of one of the Three Elven Rings and mighty among the Eldar, wished Gandalf to be the chief of the Council, but he refused the position wishing to set down no roots and to maintain his independence; Saruman took this place because of his vast knowledge.<ref name="Rings"/>

During his wanderings in [[Eriador]], Gandalf met and befriended the isolated and secretive people of the [[Hobbits]] in their country, [[The Shire]]. During the [[Long Winter]] of {{TA|2758|n}} Gandalf came to their aid.<ref name="ThirdAge"/> It was then when he witnessed and admired the pity and courage the humble Hobbits reserved in their hearts.<ref name="Erebor"/>

When King [[Thráin|Thráin II]], a dwarf of the royal line of [[Lonely Mountain]], disappeared on a journey to [[Erebor]], Gandalf looked for him. At some point after {{TA|2845|n}} he entered the abandoned city of Khazad-dûm. After his vain search, the Wizard exited through the [[Doors of Durin]]; however this experience did not help him know how to open the doors from the outside.<ref name=journey>{{FR|Journey}}</ref>

In {{TA|2850|n}}, his quest led him once more to Dol Guldur, this time in secrecy.<ref name="ThirdAge"/> He found Thráin in the dungeons, who gave the Wizard his last possessions, the [[Thrór's Map|map]] and key to Erebor.<ref name="Durin">{{App|Durin}}</ref> Most importantly, Gandalf found that the Necromancer was no Nazgûl, but was Sauron himself, and he had taken [[Ring of Thrór|the last]] of the [[Seven Rings]] from the Dwarf King. Sauron was gathering the remaining [[Rings of Power]] and possibly searching for his lost [[The One Ring|One Ring]].

Gandalf escaped Dol Guldur and returned to the White Council.<ref name="Rings"/> After relating his discoveries, he urged the council to attack Sauron while the One Ring was still lost and Sauron's power immature. But Saruman said that it was better to watch and wait, and that the One Ring had long ago rolled from [[Anduin]] to the Sea.<ref name="Rings"/> The majority of the council agreed with Saruman. [[Elrond]] Half-elven, a powerful member of the council, later privately told Gandalf he had a foreboding that the Ring would be found, and that the war to end the [[Ages|Age]] was coming. Indeed, he added, he feared that it would end in darkness and despair. Gandalf encouraged him, saying there were many "strange chances," and that, "''help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter''".<ref name="Rings"/> Gandalf did not yet realise that Saruman now wanted the Ring for himself and was secretly searching for it along the banks of the river Anduin.

====Quest for Erebor====
Gandalf would visit the Shire occasionally and participate in the [[Midsummer]]-eve parties of the [[Old Took]] where he impressed young Hobbits with his fireworks, and his stories about [[Dragons]], [[Orcs#Orcs and Goblins|Goblins]] and princesses.<ref name="Erebor"/> He was thus known to be "responsible for so many quiet lads and lasses going off into the Blue for mad adventures". He also met a relatively adventurous Hobbit named [[Bilbo Baggins]] although he was far from "adventuresome."<ref name="Party"/>

Gandalf was concerned about the weak state of the North. [[Smaug]] the [[Dragons|Dragon]] had destroyed both the [[Kingdom under the Mountain]] and the town of [[Dale]], and Gandalf feared that [[Sauron]] might use the desolation around Erebor to regain the northern passes in the mountains and the old lands of Angmar. Gandalf knew that exiled Dwarf [[King of Durin's Folk]] [[Thorin Oakenshield]] planned to battle against Smaug, but he knew that it would not be enough. In {{TA|2941|n}},<ref name="ThirdAge"/> while staying the night in [[Bree]], Gandalf happened across the Dwarf King.<ref name="Erebor">{{UT|Erebor}}</ref> Thorin initiated conversation; he had been having a strange feeling urging him to seek Gandalf. Gandalf was intrigued, for he had thought to seek Thorin as well. They found they were taking the same road for a while (Thorin passing through [[the Shire]] on his way to the [[Blue Mountains|Ered Luin]]), and they agreed to travel together. Thorin wanted advice, and Gandalf in turn wanted to discuss the Dragon Smaug with Thorin.
[[File:David T. Wenzel - Good Morning Mr. Baggins.jpg|thumb|''Good Morning Mr. Baggins'' by [[David T. Wenzel]]]]
Ultimately, Gandalf concocted a plan wherein Thorin could destroy Smaug and recover his family fortune, albeit with a "burglar" of Gandalf's own choosing. Gandalf had a feeling that a Hobbit should be involved, and he remembered Bilbo Baggins. At first he found only [[Holman Cotton]] as Bilbo had left on the occasion of the [[Yestare|Elven new year]], something that persuaded Gandalf that Bilbo was the right person for the job.<ref name="Erebor"/> He visited Bilbo later, bringing along the kinsmen of Thorin.<ref name="Party">{{H|Party}}</ref> In the end Gandalf convinced the reluctant Baggins to become a burglar for Thorin.

Gandalf accompanied [[Thorin and Company]] to [[Rivendell]]. Gandalf saved them from a trio of [[Stone-trolls]], and later obtained the legendary sword [[Glamdring]] from their [[Trolls|Troll]]-hoard; Gandalf bore it thenceforth.<ref name="Mutton">{{H|Mutton}}</ref> He also helped Thorin and Company through the [[Misty Mountains]]. When they unknowingly camped in the [[Front Porch]] of the [[Goblin-town]], the Goblins captured the whole company except Gandalf, who surprised them much later by killing the [[Great Goblin]] and then rescuing the Dwarves and leading them to the exit.<ref name="Hill">{{H|Hill}}</ref> It was during this time that Bilbo obtained a "magic ring".<ref name="Riddles">{{H|Riddles}}</ref> The hobbit initially claimed he "won" it from the creature "[[Gollum]]" while the company was under the Misty Mountains,<ref name="Pan">{{H|Pan}}</ref> and he kept it secret from Gandalf for some time.
[[File:Darrell Sweet - The Lord of the Eagles.jpg|thumb|''The Lord of the Eagles'' by [[Darrell Sweet]]]]
On their escape out, the Company was saved by the [[Eagles]] of the Misty Mountains; Gandalf once had healed the [[Great Eagle]] from a poisoned wound,<ref name="Pan"/> and thenceforth they became friends. The Eagles picked them up and flew them to their eyrie. The next day, they dropped them to the other side of the Mountains.<ref name="Pan"/>

Gandalf then sought the hospitality of [[Beorn]], persuading him to welcome and host the whole Company in his [[Beorn's Hall|hall]]. But then he left the quest prior to its completion; after leading the Company to the outskirts of the [[Forest Gate]], he gave them some final advice (but little did he know that the lands had changed by then) before they entered [[Mirkwood]], and went to attend other obligations.<ref>{{H|Queer}}</ref> The [[White Council]] had met under the gravest of circumstances: Sauron's vast power was returning, even without his Ring. Gandalf at last convinced the Council to attack Dol Guldur, to which even Saruman agreed (as by now he feared Sauron as a rival, and wished to delay his search for the Ring). Gandalf joined his peers in assailing [[Dol Guldur]], ridding [[Mirkwood]] of the Necromancer's presence, who fled to [[Mordor]].<ref name="ThirdAge">{{App|B2}}</ref> When he was about to finish his task, news about what happened to Thorin's Company in Mirkwood reached him, and he realised that the instructions he gave them did not help; they had lost their way, and then vanished from the imprisonment of the [[Silvan Elves|Wood-elves]], who had captured them. He was anxious to get back to them as soon as possible.<ref>{{H|Welcome}}</ref>

Meanwhile Thorin's quest was successful: Erebor was retaken and Smaug was killed,<ref name="Fire">{{H|Fire}}</ref> but when Gandalf finally arrived to the area, he found the [[Dwarves of Erebor]] and [[Dwarves of the Iron Hills|the Iron Hills]] preparing for an attack by the [[Lake-men]] and the [[Elves of Mirkwood]]. He was with [[Bard]] and [[Thranduil]] and revealed his presence trying to reason with Thorin. When the attack was beginning, Gandalf halted them, to warn that the [[Orcs]] and [[Wargs]] were coming to claim the treasure. He invited [[Dáin Ironfoot]] for council, and soon Dwarves, Elves and Men formed an alliance, and defeated the [[Orcs of the Misty Mountains]] in the [[Battle of Five Armies]].<ref name="Burst">{{H|Burst}}</ref>

King Thorin was mortally wounded and after his funeral and the reestablishment of Erebor under Dáin, Bilbo and Gandalf left Erebor for the Shire; on the way, they celebrated [[Yule]] at Beorn's, and then returned to Rivendell, where Gandalf discussed with [[Elrond]] the events of Dol Guldur and the Lonely Mountain. Gandalf had accomplished his immediate goal, which was to destroy Smaug, who could have been used to disastrous effect by Sauron. A large number of Orcs and Wargs also were killed in the North, removing threats to Rivendell and Lothlórien.<ref name="Erebor"/> But they both agreed that it would be better if the Necromancer were banished from the world altogether.<ref name="H19">{{H|19}}</ref>

As Gandalf and Bilbo passed by the site of their former encounter with the stone-trolls, they recovered the gold of the troll-hoard they had buried.<ref name="H19"/>

Gandalf was amazed by the hobbit; until then he had paid no attention to hobbits and knew little of them. For the rest of his sojourn in Middle-earth, Gandalf took a special interest in hobbits, and particularly in the Baggins family. [[Third Age 2949|Years later]], he and Balin paid a visit to Bilbo, discussing the news from Erebor and Dale.<ref name="ThirdAge"/><ref name="H19"/>

====Return of the Shadow====
Despite the Council's hopes, Sauron was not weakened by this attack. He had foreseen the move that drove him from Mirkwood, and his retreat was but a feint. Ten years after the attack, Sauron declared himself openly in Mordor in {{TA|2951|n}} and rebuilt [[Barad-dûr]]. The White Council met for one last time in {{TA|2953|n}} to debate about the [[Rings of Power]]. Saruman quieted his peers, claiming to have knowledge that the One Ring was lost in the [[Belegaer]]. After their meeting, Saruman, jealous and afraid of Gandalf, set spies to watch all his movements; this would affect the peaceful Hobbits, as from this, Saruman discovered their existence and noted Gandalf's interest in the Shire. As a result, he started sending agents to [[Bree]] and the [[Southfarthing]].<ref name="ThirdAge"/>

[[Gollum]] had come to Gandalf's knowledge, having left his hideout. He was looking for the thief of his ring: Bilbo. The [[Elves of Mirkwood]] had informed Gandalf that Gollum was traversing the forest. Then, coinciding with Sauron's declaration, Gollum apparently turned towards [[Mordor]] and was lost. Gandalf neglected the matter because he "had much else to think of at that time" and still trusted Saruman's knowledge. Later, Gandalf would regret this.<ref name=shadow/>

Meanwhile, Sauron began reassembling his forces for the final blow against the West. [[Easterlings]] from [[Khand]] and beyond the [[Sea of Rhûn]], joined by men from [[Harad]] reinforced his stronghold in [[Mordor]]; Orcs, trolls, and other foul beasts were multiplying while his minions were searching the Anduin for any sign of his precious One Ring.

Gandalf met [[Aragorn]], the hidden [[Heir of Isildur]] in {{TA|2956|n}}, and soon became friends with him.<ref name="ThirdAge"/> From that point on, Aragorn and Gandalf often worked together towards a common end - the defeat of Sauron.

He visited [[Minas Tirith]] and was welcomed by [[Faramir]], the son of the [[Ruling Steward]] [[Denethor]], and taught him from his wisdom. This displeased Denethor, who didn't trust Gandalf.<ref>{{App|Stewards}}</ref>

[[File:Darrell Sweet - The Arrival of Gandalf.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''The Arrival of Gandalf'' by [[Darrell Sweet]]]]
During this period Gandalf visited the Shire frequently, especially his friend Bilbo Baggins, and his younger cousin, [[Frodo Baggins]]. He noted Bilbo's unusual youthfulness, despite his advancing age; the suspicious "[[The One Ring|magic ring]]" that Bilbo had acquired during his adventure began to weigh on his mind. Gandalf recalled the deceit Bilbo used in originally claiming it for his own — Bilbo had later admitted to stealing it from [[Gollum]]. Gandalf could see that Bilbo was very preoccupied with the ring. Such un-hobbitlike behaviour aroused his suspicions. In {{TA|3001|n}} he organised [[Bilbo's Farewell Party]], and before leaving the Shire, he convinced Bilbo to leave the Ring for Frodo. He then emphatically warned Frodo not to use it; Gandalf had begun to suspect that the "magic ring" was indeed a [[Ring of Power]].<ref name=party>{{FR|Party}}</ref> Around that time, Gandalf became unpopular in the Shire; he was blamed for Bilbo's disappearance, and was even accused of plotting with Frodo to get a hold on Bilbo's wealth.<ref name=party/><Ref name=shadow>{{FR|Shadow}}</ref>

Gandalf was keen to find out more about Bilbo's ring, so he left the Shire,<ref name=party/> and resumed his search for Gollum. In this, he sought the help of [[Aragorn]]. The [[Rangers of the North]] were put to guard the Shire more closely.<ref name="ThirdAge"/> Gandalf showed up only [[Third Age 3004|three years later]] to check on Frodo and the Shire, and continued for the next four years always turning up unexpectedly and disappearing before dawn. In {{TA|3009|n}} he renewed the hunt for [[Gollum]] with Aragorn, searching in the [[vales of Anduin]], [[Mirkwood]], [[Rhovanion]], and even to the edges of Mordor. The search lasted eight years, for Gandalf did not know that Gollum had been captured by Sauron.<ref name="ThirdAge"/> Gandalf regretted ignoring Gollum for so many years, as his trail had become cold, resulting in many dark and dangerous days for Gandalf.<ref name=shadow/>

Studying the records in [[Minas Tirith]], Gandalf found the [[Scroll of Isildur]] in {{TA|3017|n}}, and from this, pieced together the missing history of the One Ring. On his way back to the Shire, he got word from the [[Galadhrim]] that Aragorn had finally captured Gollum<ref name="ThirdAge"/> and so he went to [[Mirkwood]] to meet him. For days he interrogated him in order to verify what he already knew. A great fear came over him when he learned that Gollum had been to [[Barad-dûr]]. Sauron had tortured Gollum and learned of the "magic ring", as well as the names "Shire" and "Baggins". The effects that Gandalf had seen on Gollum and Bilbo convinced him that Bilbo's Ring was not simply one of the [[Rings of Power]]: it was the ''[[The One Ring|One Ruling Ring]]'' of Sauron. Gandalf then returned in haste to the Shire.<ref name=shadow/><ref name=council>{{FR|Council}}</ref>

====War of the Ring====
[[File:Alan Lee - The Shadow of the Past.jpg|thumb|''The Shadow of the Past'' by [[Alan Lee]]]]
Gandalf returned to the Shire on [[12 April]] {{TA|3018}} and proved to Frodo that Bilbo's ring was the ancient [[One Ring]] which the Dark Power of [[Mordor]] was looking for. He told Frodo that he gathered much of this information by interrogating the creature [[Gollum]]. Frodo exclaimed that Gollum should have been killed, however Gandalf speculated that perhaps Gollum would have a part to play before the end, and in any case, it was not for Frodo to decide who should live and who should die.<ref>{{FR|Shadow}}</ref>

Gandalf suggested that he should leave the Shire soon and take the Ring to [[Rivendell]]. Frodo decided to leave on his next birthday, pretending to be moving to [[Buckland]], to which Gandalf agreed. The wizard stayed in the Shire for over two months,<ref name=three>{{FR|Three}}</ref> during which time, on [[1 May]] he went to [[Sarn Ford]] and met again Aragorn, informing him of Frodo's plans.<ref>{{FR|Strider}}</ref> He had a sense of foreboding and heard [[Sauron's attack on Osgiliath|disturbing news about war]] in [[Gondor]] and a [[Black Shadow]].<ref name=council/> He decided to leave for the South and left Frodo, promising to return for his birthday-farewell party in autumn, so that they would go to Rivendell together.<ref name=three/>

He wandered around [[Eriador]] hearing news from the refugees who had a fear they could not speak about, until he met [[Radagast]] who brought a message from [[Saruman]] that he must seek him at once, and a warning that the [[Ringwraiths]] were looking for the Shire.<ref name=council/> Gandalf went to [[the Prancing Pony]] at [[Bree]]. Believing that he would not be able to return to Frodo in time, he wrote [[Gandalf's letter|a letter]],<ref name=council/> urging him to move as soon as possible for Rivendell, and seek someone named "Strider", whose real name was Aragorn, with a [[Riddle of Strider|riddle]] to identify him; Gandalf would then try to catch up with them when he could. He instructed [[Barliman Butterbur]] to send the letter to [[Hobbiton]] and to expect a Mr. [[Baggins]] to arrive at the inn under the name of "[[Mr. Underhill]]". He left the inn, but Barliman would forget to send the letter.<ref>{{FR|Strider}}</ref>

=====Treachery of Saruman=====
[[File:Ted Nasmith - Gandalf Escapes Upon Gwaihir.jpg|thumb|left|''Gandalf Escapes Upon Gwaihir'' by [[Ted Nasmith]]]]
Soon thereafter, Gandalf arrived at Isengard. At their meeting, Saruman at last revealed his desire for the One Ring.<ref name=council/> He offered to his "''old friend and helper''" that they take the Ring for themselves and seize power from Sauron. Gandalf rejected this with horror, and was imprisoned by Saruman on the pinnacle of [[Orthanc]]. [[Gwaihir]], chief of the Eagles, soon arrived and helped Gandalf escape.<ref name=council/> Gandalf knew he needed to return quickly to the Shire, as Frodo (and the Ring) were in grave danger from both Sauron's Nazgûl and Saruman's treacherous desire for the Ring.

Gandalf hurriedly went to [[Rohan]], desiring to find a strong steed; there he obtained [[Shadowfax]] from King [[Théoden]], who later resented the gift.<ref name=council/> This lord of horses and Gandalf forged a special bond, and Gandalf made quick use of Shadowfax's incredible strength and endurance.

Gandalf sped to the Shire. Fortunately, Frodo had already left the Shire without waiting for Gandalf,<ref name=council/> and was seeking [[Rivendell]]. Upon his arrival, Gandalf learned that the Nazgûl, arrayed as [[Nazgûl|Black Riders]], had been searching the area. Dismayed, he set out for Bree; Barliman apologised to Gandalf for forgetting to send the letter, and was worried that the hobbits had left with Strider, the suspicious [[Rangers of the North|Ranger]]. But for Gandalf, this was a hope which far exceeded his expectations. After congratulating a puzzled Barliman, Gandalf slept the night at the inn and in the morning left for [[Weathertop]], a high point in the region, to observe the surrounding area.<ref name=council/>
[[File:Ted Nasmith - Fire on Weathertop.jpg|thumb|''Fire on Weathertop'' by [[Ted Nasmith]]]]
There he was assaulted at night by the Nazgûl, but drove them off after a great battle of light and flame.<ref name=B3>{{App|B3}}</ref> These phenomena were seen by Aragorn and the hobbits from afar, although they were unaware that Gandalf was involved.<ref>{{FR|I11}}</ref> Before leaving Weathertop, he marked some stones with the [[cirth|certh]] G for them to find. The next day he escaped to the north, followed by four Riders.<ref name=council></ref>

He then went directly to Rivendell, arriving a few days sooner than [[Aragorn]].<ref name=B3/> But when they arrived, Gandalf and Elrond joined their powers to cause a flood in [[Bruinen]] to drown the Riders, allowing Frodo some time to reach Rivendell.<ref name=council/> Then they welcomed Glorfindel, Aragorn and the hobbits upon their arrival. Frodo was sick with a [[Morgul-wound]], but was still in possession of the Ring.

=====Fellowship of the Ring=====
Elrond called a [[Council of Elrond|Council]] after Frodo was healed to consider the momentous decision of what would be done with the Ring. By chance, representatives of most of the free peoples were in Rivendell for various reasons. Elrond and Gandalf advised that the Ring should be destroyed in the fires of [[Orodruin]], where it was made. Others dissented or objected, but they eventually submitted to Gandalf's plan. Ultimately, Elrond appointed the [[Fellowship of the Ring]] as nine walkers, numerically set against Sauron's nine Nazgûl. The relatively small number reflected the realisation by Elrond and the other council members that the quest of Mount Doom would not rely upon strength of arms, but on stealth and good fortune. Gandalf was chosen to lead the company, which included [[Aragorn]], [[Boromir]], [[Legolas]] the Elf, [[Gimli]] the Dwarf, and the hobbits Frodo Baggins, who was named the [[Ring-bearer]], and [[Samwise Gamgee]], [[Peregrin Took]], and [[Meriadoc Brandybuck]].<ref name=council/>

Several obstacles stood in the company's way. The vast [[Misty Mountains]] had to be crossed, for Gandalf was determined not to lead the company near [[Isengard]]. Gandalf decided to take a southern route to the [[Redhorn Pass]] and there to cross the [[Misty Mountains]] near [[Caradhras]], thereby traversing the mountain range and avoiding Isengard.<ref name="The Ring Goes South, p. 283">{{FR|South}}, p. 283</ref> When this attempt failed due to a terrible storm, he decided to take the Fellowship through the ruins of Moria, where the remains of the great Dwarven city of [[Moria|Khazad-dûm]] was now a labyrinth of tunnels under the mountains. Others in the company were loathe enter the maze, as it was now the lair of orcs and something known only as "Durin's Bane".

At the [[Doors of Durin]] on the west side of the mountains, Gandalf, after some delay, spoke the password and led the company into the dark. Having been in Moria on an earlier perilous errand, he was somewhat familiar with the underground passages. Eventually the party came to the [[Chamber of Mazarbul]], where Gandalf read the [[Book of Mazarbul|Book of Records]], which revealed the fate of [[Balin]], the leader of an ill-fated attempt to re-colonise Moria. Soon after, the party was attacked by orcs, and forced to flee the chamber. By then, Gandalf was well aware of their location and he led the party quickly towards the eastern exit.
[[File:John Howe - Gandalf Falls with the Balrog.jpg|thumb|''Gandalf Falls with the Balrog'' by [[John Howe]]]]
However, [[Durin's Bane]] caught up to the group at the [[Bridge of Khazad-dûm]]. Gandalf and Legolas immediately realised what it was: a [[Balrogs|Balrog]] of [[Morgoth]]. Gandalf faced the demon and broke the bridge upon which they both stood, leaving the beast to fall into a seemingly bottomless chasm. But the Balrog's whip lashed out, and grasped Gandalf by the knees, causing him to fall into the pit. While falling, Gandalf shouted "Fly, you fools" and vanished into the abyss.<ref name=bridge>{{FR|Bridge}}</ref>

Yet Gandalf did not die; he and the Balrog fought long in the bowels and deep places of [[Arda]]. After restless pursuit over the course of eight days, Gandalf and the beast finally came to the summit of the [[Endless Stair]] upon the peak of [[Celebdil]]. There, he [[Battle of the Peak|fought the demon]] for two days and nights. The Balrog had burst into flame anew when it exited the stairs; ice, wind, and smoke swirled about them as they duelled. Gandalf used his last measure of strength to slay the Balrog, throwing him down the mountainside in ruin. Gandalf's spirit then left his body, having sacrificed himself to save the Fellowship.

=====Gandalf the White=====
But Gandalf's spirit did not depart Middle-earth forever. As the only one of the five Istari to stay true to his errand, Olórin was sent back to mortal lands by [[Ilúvatar|Eru]], and he became Gandalf once again. Yet, as he was now the sole emissary of the Valar to Middle-earth, he was granted the power to "reveal" more of his inner [[Maiar]] strength. This naked power that lay within him was seldom used during the remainder of his time in Middle-earth, as his mission was essentially the same: to support and succour those who opposed Sauron. Nevertheless, when Gandalf's wrath was kindled his "unveiled" strength was such that few of Sauron's servants could withstand him.
[[File:Ted Nasmith - Gandalf Returns.jpg|thumb|left|''Gandalf Returns'' by [[Ted Nasmith]]]]
As he lay on the mountaintop, the great eagle [[Gwaihir]] came up and bore him to [[Lothlórien]], where he was clothed and replenished, and given a new staff by [[Galadriel]]. Gandalf soon learned that Frodo had left the Fellowship and was travelling to Mount Doom. As Frodo was beyond his assistance now, Gandalf promptly went south to [[Fangorn Forest]], where he met the [[Three Hunters]]: [[Aragorn]], [[Legolas]], and [[Gimli]], and gave them messages from Galadriel. From them, he learned that Sam went with Frodo, and he was pleased with this.<ref name="TT White"/>{{rp|496}} Then he called forth [[Shadowfax]], and rode with them to [[Edoras]]. There he found that Saruman's spy [[Gríma|Gríma Wormtongue]] had deceived King [[Théoden]] into hopeless impotence. Gandalf quickly deposed Wormtongue and encouraged Théoden to ride west to war against [[Saruman]]. By now, Gandalf was keenly aware that the great war to end the age was beginning; if Saruman conquered Rohan, then Gondor would be alone with enemies on all sides.

At Gandalf's encouragement, King Théoden went west to Helm's Deep where he was quickly besieged; Gandalf then searched for [[Erkenbrand]] and the forces of the [[Westfold]], which he later found and led to the Deep, thus breaking the siege. Meanwhile, the [[Ents]], along with the hobbits Merry and Pippin, moved against Saruman and sent [[Huorns]] against the orcs, resulting in the utter ruin of the outer walls of [[Isengard]] and the complete annihilation of Saruman's orcs. After the battle, Gandalf went to [[Orthanc]] with Théoden, Aragorn, and a small group. There Saruman rejected Gandalf's offer of forgiveness with contempt. Gandalf then broke Saruman's staff and cast him from the Order and the Council.<ref name="TT Voice"/>{{rp|583}} Gandalf imposed a strict watch on Isengard by the Ents and then advised King Théoden to ride to Gondor's defence as soon as possible. The wizard's mind had already turned to Gondor and the coming climactic battle in the east.

=====Siege of Minas Tirith=====
[[File:Donato Giancola - The White Rider.jpeg|thumb|right|200px|''The White Rider'' by [[Donato Giancola]]]]
As a 'reward' for Pippin, who had foolishly gazed into a [[Palantíri|palantír]], Gandalf took the Hobbit with him to [[Minas Tirith]], the last bastion of the west. Soon after arriving, Gandalf confronted [[Denethor|Denethor II]], the [[Ruling Steward]], and learned that he was near despair over the death of his eldest son, [[Boromir]]. Pippin entered the Steward's service in payment of the debt that he and Merry owed: the death of Boromir. Ostensibly they were allies, but the Steward treated him with disrespect and suspicion. When [[Faramir]], the Steward's younger son, returned from [[Osgiliath]] and was attacked by Nazgûl, Gandalf upon Shadowfax drove them away by revealing the power within him. Later, Faramir told him that Frodo and Sam were still alive and headed towards Mordor.<ref name="RK Siege">{{RK|Siege}}</ref>{{rp|812}}

The city was soon besieged by a vast force from Mordor, led by the [[Witch-king]]. An ill-advised counter attack resulted in Faramir receiving a wound from a poisoned dart; he lay near death inside the Tower. Still, Gandalf encouraged the men of Minas Tirith to have hope, and dispelled the fear of the Ringwraiths by his very presence. But Sauron's catapults hurled flaming bolts upon the city; soon the first circle of the city burned unchecked. Denethor then lost all heart as the city burned and his only remaining son hovered near death. He abandoned his leadership of the city, and Gandalf then took it upon himself to direct the defence of the city. When the gigantic battering ram [[Grond (battering ram)|Grond]] destroyed the ancient entrance to the city, Gandalf placed himself alone at the ruined gateway. The Witch-king then appeared in the midst of the blasted gate upon a black horse and threatened Gandalf with death; but Gandalf did not move — seated upon Shadowfax he defied the mightiest of Sauron's minions. However, the stand-off ended inconclusively, as the morning arrived along with the host of the Rohirrim. Hearing the horns of the [[Riders of Rohan]], the Witch-king departed.

However, Gandalf did not pursue his foe, for Pippin brought him news that Denethor was about to burn himself and his son Faramir to death on a pyre like the heathen kings of old. Gandalf rushed to stop this, and was able to save Faramir, but not Denethor, whose despair and grief had overcome his mind. Gandalf then learned how it was that Denethor's will had been broken: the Steward clutched a palantír in his hands as he burned.

Nevertheless, and against all hope, the siege was broken. [[Éowyn]] of Rohan and Merry defeated the Witch-king, whose last wail was heard by many as he was reduced to impotence. Soon after, Aragorn arrived with a large host of men from the southern fiefs upon a captured pirate fleet from Umbar. The forces of the men of the west then utterly defeated Sauron's attack against Minas Tirith, relieving the city and killing virtually all of the invaders. Gandalf's carefully laid plans and words of wisdom, along with acts of heroism not seen since the [[Elder Days]], had defeated Sauron's first move.

=====Last battle=====
But the attack against Minas Tirith was only a part of Sauron's plan to devastate the west and make himself the ruler of Middle-earth. Other armies moved in the north against [[Lonely Mountain|Erebor]] and the Kingdom of Thranduil, as well as against Lothlórien and other points along the [[Anduin]]. Still commanding vast armies of orcs and men, the Dark Lord soon would move against Gondor again; the remnants of the Edain and their allies had little hope against his almost limitless resources.

In Minas Tirith, Gandalf was selected by Aragorn, [[Imrahil]], and [[Éomer]] (the remaining lords of the west) to be their leader in the coming final battles. This would be the culmination of Gandalf's efforts in Middle-earth. Fully aware that the west would stand or fall on the outcome of Frodo's mission, he advised the lords to drive north to the [[Morannon]], thereby drawing Sauron's eye away from Frodo's likely location. This plan would likely result in a catastrophic loss for the outnumbered army, but it gave Frodo a chance to achieve the quest of Mount Doom.

Led by Gandalf and Aragorn, the army of the West crossed the Anduin and marched north, pausing occasionally to announce their coming, and to dispatch small numbers of men to lesser tasks. Upon arriving at the Black Gate, the forces halted and prepared for battle. As they ordered their companies, the foul [[Mouth of Sauron]] rode forth to parley with them; he revealed Frodo's [[mithril coat]] and Arnor-blade and implied that their owner was captured and tortured. The emissary of Sauron then proposed that the forces of the west surrender; Gandalf however was undaunted, and, seizing his friend's belongings, rejected Sauron's offer. In shock, the Mouth of Sauron turned back towards the Black Gate, which slowly opened to reveal a vast army of orcs and trolls advancing on the lords of the west. Sauron's trap was sprung.

Yet Sauron himself became the victim of Gandalf's trap. Unbeknownst to all, Frodo and Sam had succeeded in scaling Mount Doom. Even as the Battle of Morannon began, Frodo stood at the [[Crack of Doom]]. But the power and lure of the Ring finally overcame his will and he placed the ring upon his finger, claiming it as his own. Immediately the Nazgûl were summoned by their lord, as he in terror realised his blunder: his enemies intended to destroy his Ring.

[[File:Ted Nasmith - The Shadow of Sauron.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''The Shadow of Sauron'' by [[Ted Nasmith]]]]
But Gandalf's foresight proved accurate again as the creature Gollum, who had been doggedly following the Ring-bearer, seized the Ring from Frodo, and, while celebrating his reunion with "his precious," unwittingly fell into the fires of Orodruin. The ring was unmade as the fiery mountain erupted. The tower of [[Barad-dûr]] and the [[Towers of the Teeth]] began to collapse, their foundations crumbling. The Ring-wraiths burned out like shooting stars, and Sauron was reduced to a mere shadow of malice, never to torment the world again.

With Sauron gone, his forces scattered; the Men of the West now set upon them with fury. Gandalf announced the success of the [[Ring-bearer]] and the end of Sauron; the quest had been fulfilled. Seeing that victory was achieved, Gandalf then mounted [[Gwaihir]] the Eagle for the third time, and set out for Mount Doom in search of Frodo and Sam. To his great relief, the two were found on the slopes of Orodruin, clinging to life amid the volcanic eruptions.<ref>{{RK|Doom}}</ref>{{rp|948-51}} The great quest was over.

====End of the Order====
In Minas Tirith, Gandalf and the remaining members of the Fellowship reunited. At the coronation of King [[Aragorn|Elessar]], Gandalf, at Aragorn's request, set the crown upon the King’s head, and declared "''Now come the days of the King, and may they be blessed while the thrones of the [[Valar]] endure!''". Thus Gandalf ushered in the new age of men.

After the coronation and wedding of Aragorn to [[Arwen]], Gandalf left with the rest of the remaining Fellowship on the journey home. For Gandalf, it was his last long journey in Middle-earth. His errand to Arda had been fulfilled; Sauron had been defeated. He said farewell to his friends one by one until at last only the four Hobbits remained at his side. At the borders of the Shire he, too, turned away. He left the Hobbits to settle the affairs of the Shire themselves, for the shattered pieces of evil still remaining in the world were no longer his concern, and went to talk to [[Tom Bombadil]].<ref>{{RK|Homeward}}</ref>{{rp|996}}

What Gandalf did during the next two years is unknown; it is possible that his "''long talk''" with Bombadil was just that. At any rate, on [[29 September]] {{TA|3021|n}}, he met [[Frodo Baggins|Frodo]] at [[Mithlond]], ready to take the [[White Ship]] over the [[Belegaer|sea]] to [[Aman]]. He wore [[Narya]] openly on his finger, and Shadowfax was beside him (perhaps even to take ship with him). His mission was over, and his homecoming after more than 2000 years was nigh. He bade farewell to [[Samwise Gamgee|Samwise]], [[Meriadoc Brandybuck|Merry]], and [[Peregrin Took|Pippin]] (the latter two of whom he had forewarned of the passage), then boarded the ship beside Frodo, Bilbo, Elrond, and Galadriel. The ship passed west upon the sea,<ref>{{RK|Havens}}</ref> and then took the hidden straight path to [[Valinor]]. Gandalf became Olórin once more. There, presumably, he dwells still in the gardens of [[Irmo]]. Olórin, the wisest of the Maiar and the sole Istar to remain true to his mission, had successfully kindled the hearts of the [[free peoples]] of Middle-earth to overcome the evil of their time. 

==Characteristics==
===Personality===
[[File:Roger Garland - Gandalf.jpg|left|thumb|The Grey Pilgrim relaxing. Art by [[Roger Garland]]]]
Gandalf is often described in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' as quick to anger, and equally quick to laugh.<ref name="Lorien">{{FR|Lorien}}</ref>
His deep wisdom clearly derived from the patience he learned in Valinor, just as his care for all creatures of good will must have come from his strong sense of pity for the weak. Both his patience and sense of pity were revealed again and again, extending even to the servants of his enemies.
[[File:J.R.R. Tolkien - G for Gandalf.png|thumb|Gandalf's signature, the [[cirth|rune]] "G".]]
Keen observers of Gandalf often detected a veiled power, usually revealed in his eyes, which appeared deep and wise.<ref>{{RK|MT}}</ref>{{rp|757}} He was alternately affectionate and brusque; he often surprised others with his bluntness when time was of the essence. Gandalf consistently upbraided foolish behaviour, but also richly rewarded those who acted with good intentions.

Hobbits appealed to him more than to the other Wizards, and he went often to the Shire for respites from his errands. It may be that he was amused by their nature. It may also be because they were untouched by the great evils of the world, and were more in touch with nature than Men; perhaps their agrarian lifestyle appealed to Gandalf's innate spirit and reminded him of the gardens of Valinor.

===Appearance===
[[File:John Howe - Gandalf the Grey 02.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''Gandalf the Grey'' by [[John Howe]]]]

The first description of Gandalf is preserved in the initial pages of ''The Hobbit'', written in the early 1930s. Gandalf's fame is alluded to even before his physical description ("Tales and adventures sprouted up all over the place wherever he went, in the most extraordinary fashion"), while the protagonist's ("unsuspecting Bilbo") impression is that of:
{{Blockquote|...an old man with a staff. He had a tall pointed blue hat, a long grey cloak, a silver scarf over which a white beard hung down below his waist, and immense black boots.|''[[The Hobbit]]'', "[[An Unexpected Party]]"}}

Later, [[J.R.R. Tolkien|Tolkien]] wrote:
{{Blockquote|...a figure strongly built and with broad shoulder, though shorter than the average of men and now stooped with age, leaning on a thick rough-cut staff as he trudged along... Gandalf's hat was wide-brimmed [...] with a pointed conical crown, and it was ''blue''; he wore a long ''grey'' cloak, but this would not reach much below his knees. It was of an elven silver-grey hue, though tarnished by wear - as is evident from the general use of grey in [[The Lord of the Rings|the book]]... But his colours were always white, silver-grey, and blue - except for the boots he wore when walking in the wild...Gandalf even bent must have been at least 5 ft. 6... Which would make him a short man even in modern England, especially with the reduction of a bent back.<ref name="MB" />}}

Although some of the Wise knew his true nature, his "wizard-like" appearance caused many to mistake him for a simple conjurer. After his return, his "signature colour" changed from grey to white, for he had been sent back to replace the corrupt Saruman as the chief of the Wizards. In the book, he claimed that, in some ways, he now "was Saruman", or rather Saruman as he should have been.<ref name="TT White"/>{{rp|495}}

[[Círdan]] the Shipwright divined in him "the greatest spirit and the wisest" out of all of the Wizards that came from the West, and so he entrusted the care of [[Narya]], one of the [[Three Rings]] of the Elves, to Gandalf rather than to Saruman.<ref name="Istari"/>

===Powers and abilities===
[[File:Roger Thomasson - Gandalf the Grey.jpg|thumb|''Gandalf the Grey'' by [[Roger Thomasson]]]]
Gandalf demonstrated extensive knowledge of the land and an assortment of magical abilities from trivial to essential. For example he would use his powers for entertainment, by blowing glowing smoke rings that moved around a room at his direction, and [[Bilbo Baggins]] remembered him for his fantastic fireworks displays. He created blinding flashes and other pyrotechnics to distract the [[Orcs|goblins]] of the [[Misty Mountains]], aiding the dwarves in their escape from [[Goblin-town]]. On the eastern slopes, he turned pine cones into flaming projectiles that threw hot sparks and started fires that would not easily go out. He was also able to come and go from the presence of [[Thorin and Company]] without being noticed.

He again displayed his proficiency with pyrotechnics at [[Bilbo's Farewell Party]]. When the Fellowship is attacked by [[Wargs]] in [[Eregion|Hollin]], Gandalf speaks words of power to inflame the trees on the hillock where the company had camped. He was also able to start fires under blizzard conditions, create light of varying intensity for the journey through [[Moria]], magically secure doors, and break the [[Bridge of Khazad-dûm]]. When angered or aroused for battle, he seemed to grow in height and assume a terrifying aspect.<ref name=party/>{{rp|34}} He fought the [[Durin's Bane|Balrog of Moria]] and killed his opponent, although he did not himself survive the battle.

Sent back to [[Middle-earth]] as Gandalf the White, he possessed greater charisma and a limited degree of clairvoyance, although he was unable to peer into the land of [[Mordor]] to see the progress of Frodo and [[Samwise Gamgee|Sam]]. His power and authority had increased so that he could break [[Saruman]]'s staff with a spoken command, showing his authority to throw the treacherous wizard out of the order.<ref name="TT Voice">{{TT|Voice}}</ref>{{rp|583}} He also was successful in preventing Sauron's Eye from locating Frodo.<ref name="TT White">{{TT|White}}</ref>

Gandalf was the bearer of [[Narya]], the Ring of Fire, and described himself as the "servant of the [[Secret Fire]]" and "wielder of the [[flame of Anor]]".<ref name=bridge/> Many of Gandalf's displays of power were related to fire in some way. It is not known, though, whether or to what extent his possession of Narya affected his abilities.

===Special equipment===
It is unknown whether Gandalf required his staff to exercise certain powers. At times it appeared to focus or extend his powers, such as its emanation of light. [[Gríma|Gríma Wormtongue]] tried to forbid Gandalf from bringing it into [[Edoras]] in a clear attempt to limit his powers.<ref>{{TT|King}}</ref>{{rp|514}}

When he arrived in Middle-earth, Gandalf received the Elven ring [[Narya]] from [[Círdan]].<ref name=Istari/> Gandalf wore it from that time to the end of the Third Age but how he used its powers is not known.

In {{TA|2941}}, Gandalf acquired the Elven sword [[Glamdring]] from the treasure hoard of a band of trolls.<ref name="Mutton"/> He continued to wield this weapon throughout ''The Lord of the Rings'', in particular during his fight with the [[Durin's Bane|Balrog]] in Moria.

Throughout his time in Middle-earth Gandalf often was seen with a pipe which he used to smoke Old Toby.

==Etymology==
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Within the legendarium, ''Gandalf'' translates an unknown name of the meaning "Elf-of-the-wand (or cane/staff)", or more literary "Wand-elf", in old northern Mannish. Most denizens of Middle-earth incorrectly assumed Gandalf was a [[Men|Man]], although he was really a Maia spirit (approximately equivalent to an angel). However, a less common misconception that occurred during the beginning of his career in Middle-earth was that for someone to be [[Immortality|immortal]] and use as much magic as he did, he must have been an Elf. Although it soon became apparent to all that he could not be an Elf, as he was old and Elves do not generally age, the nickname stuck with him. He later gave it as his name to others he met who did not know its original meaning.

==Other names==
{{Main|Gandalf/Names}}

==Other versions of the legendarium==
In early manuscripts of ''[[The Hobbit]]'', the name ''[[Bladorthin]]'' was used by Tolkien for the character who later would be named ''Gandalf''. The name ''Gandalf'' was instead used for the character known as [[Thorin]] in the published works.<ref>{{HH|Intro}}</ref>

==Inspiration==
[[File:Georg von Rosen - Oden som vandringsman, 1886 (Odin, the Wanderer).jpg|thumb|''Oden som vandringsman'' (''Odin the Wanderer'') by Georg von Rosen]]
[[File:Josef Madlener - Der Berggeist.jpg|left|thumb|''[[Der Berggeist]]'' by [[Josef Madlener]]]]

''Gandalfr''
appears in the list of dwarves in the ''[[Völuspá]]'' of the Elder Edda, the name means "Cane-elf". Tolkien took the name along with the other dwarves' names when he wrote ''The Hobbit'' in the 1930s. He came to regret the creation of this "rabble of eddaic-named dwarves [...] invented in an idle hour",<ref>{{TI|Runes}}, p. 452</ref> since it forced him to come up with an explanation of why Old Norse names should be used in [[Third Age]] Middle-earth. He solved the dilemma in 1942 by the explanation that [[Old Norse]] was a ''translation'' of the [[language of Dale]]. The figure of Gandalf has other influences from Germanic mythology, particularly Odin in his incarnation as "the Wanderer", an old man with one eye, a long white beard, a wide brimmed hat, and a staff: Tolkien states that he thinks of Gandalf as an ''"Odinic wanderer"'' in a letter of 1946.<ref>{{L|107}}</ref>

Tolkien had a postcard labelled ''[[Der Berggeist]]'' ("the mountain spirit"), and on the paper cover in which he kept it, he wrote "the origin of Gandalf" at some point. The postcard reproduces a painting of a bearded figure, sitting on a rock under a pine tree in a mountainous setting. He wears a wide-brimmed round hat and a long cloak and a white fawn is nuzzling his upturned hands.
[[Humphrey Carpenter]] in his 1977 biography said that Tolkien had bought the postcard during his 1911 holiday in Switzerland. However, Manfred Zimmerman discovered that the painting was by German artist Josef Madlener and dates to the late 1920s.<ref>[[Manfred Zimmerman]], "The Origin of Gandalf and Josef Madlener", in [[Mythlore|''Mythlore'']] [[Mythlore 34|34]] (Winter [[1983]])</ref> Carpenter concluded that Tolkien was probably mistaken about the origin of the postcard himself. Tolkien must have acquired the card at some time in the early 1930s, at a time when ''The Hobbit'' had already begun to take shape.

==Portrayals in adaptations==
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|File:The Hobbit (1966 film) - Gandalf.png|Gandalf in [[The Hobbit (1966 film)|''The Hobbit'' (1966 film)]]
|File:The Hobbit (1977 film) - Gandalf.jpg|Gandalf in [[The Hobbit (1977 film)|''The Hobbit'' (1977 film)]]
|File:The Lord of the Rings (1978 film) - Gandalf.jpg|Gandalf the Grey in [[The Lord of the Rings (1978 film)|''The Lord of the Rings'' (1978 film)]]
|File:The Lord of the Rings (1978 film) - Gandalf the White.jpg|Gandalf the White in [[The Lord of the Rings (1978 film)|''The Lord of the Rings'' (1978 film)]]
|File:War in Middle Earth - Gandalf and three hobbits.png|Gandalf in ''[[J.R.R. Tolkien's War in Middle Earth]]''
|File:LOTR-Gandalf 1990-1--1-.png|Gandalf in [[J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I (1990 video game)|''J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I'' (1990 video game)]]
|File:LOTR vol. 1 SNES Gandalf in the Shire.png|Gandalf in [[J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I (SNES)|''J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I'' (SNES)]]
|File:1121208-ror 010-1-.png|Gandalf in ''[[J.R.R. Tolkien's Riders of Rohan]]''
|File:The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring - Gandalf reading the Book of Mazarbul.jpg|Gandalf the Grey in ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring]]''
|File:The Lord of the Rings - The Motion Picture Trilogy - Gandalf the White.jpg|Gandalf the White in ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers]]''
|File:The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring (video game) - Gandalf.JPG|Gandalf in [[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (video game)|''The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring'' (video game)]]
|File:Gandalf 2Towers.png|Gandalf in [[The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (video game)|''The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers'' (video game)]]
|File:The Lord of the Rings- The Two Towers GBA - Gandalf, Frodo and Legolas.png|Gandalf in [[The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (video game)#Game Boy Advance version|''The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers'' (Game Boy Advance)]]
|File:The Hobbit (2003) Gandalf.JPG|Gandalf in ''[[The Hobbit (2003 video game)|''The Hobbit'' (2003 video game)]]
|File:Gandalf EA RotK.png|Gandalf in [[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (video game)|''The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'' (video game)]]
|File:The Lord of the Rings- The Return of the King GBA - Gandalf.png|Gandalf in [[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (video game)|''The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'' (Game Boy Advance)]]
|File:The Lord of the Rings Online - Gandalf the Grey.png|Gandalf the Grey in ''[[The Lord of the Rings Online]]''
|File:The Lord of the Rings Online - Gandalf the White.jpg|Gandalf the White in ''[[The Lord of the Rings Online]]''
|File:The Lord of the Rings Online Shadows of Angmar - Gandalf.png|Gandalf the Grey in ''[[The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar]]''
|File:The Lord of the Rings- Conquest -Gandalf fighting Orcs.png|'''[[The Lord of the Rings: Conquest]]''
|File:Aragorn's Quest - Gandalf the White.jpg|Gandalf the White in ''[[The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest]]''
|File:Gandalf in LOTR- War in the North-1.png|''[[The Lord of the Rings: War in the North]]''
|File:Lego - Gandalf the Grey mini figure.png|Gandalf the Grey as a ''[[Lego]] mini figure''
|File:Guardians of Middle-earth - Gandalf.png|Gandalf the Grey in ''[[Guardians of Middle-earth]]''
|File:The Hobbit (film series) - Gandalf.jpg|Gandalf the Grey in [[The Hobbit (film series)|''The Hobbit'' (film series)]]
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===Films===
'''1966: [[The Hobbit (1966 film)|''The Hobbit'' (1966 film)]]:'''
:Gandalf's role is drastically reduced. He lives in a tower, where Thorin, the [[Mika Milovana|princess]] and the guard meet him to discuss the killing of [[Smaug|Slag]]. He introduces them to Bilbo, but does not go on the quest.<ref name="Deitch">{{webcite|articleurl=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=UBnVL1Y2src|articlename=The Hobbit.mp4|dated=5 January 2012|website=YouTube|accessed=10 January 2012}}</ref>

'''1977: [[The Hobbit (1977 film)|''The Hobbit'' (1977 film)]]:'''
:The voice of Gandalf was provided by [[John Huston]].

'''1978: [[The Lord of the Rings (1978 film)|''The Lord of the Rings'' (1978 film)]]:'''
:Gandalf was voiced by [[William Squire]]. [[John A. Neris]] played him in the live-action filming used for rotoscoping.<ref>Jerry Beck, ''The Animated Movie Guide'', page 154 (at [http://books.google.com/books?id=fTI1yeZd-tkC&pg=PA154&dq=%22John+A.+Neris%22&hl=nl#PPA154,M1 GoogleBooks])</ref>

'''1980: [[The Return of the King (1980 film)|''The Return of the King'' (1980 film)]]:'''
:[[John Huston]] reprised his role as Gandalf. In this adaptation, the tale is told by a minstrel of [[Gondor]], yet in the story, Gandalf serves as the narrator. Gandalf the White is portrayed without difference from Gandalf the Grey, in ''The Hobbit''.

'''1985: [[The Hobbit (1985 television film)|''The Fairytale Adventures of Mr. Baggins, the Hobbit'' (1985 film)]]:'''
:Ivan Krasko played Gandalf.

'''2001: ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring]]'':'''
:[[Ian McKellen]] was cast as Gandalf. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his portrayal.

'''2002: ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers]]'':'''
:Perhaps the most striking difference from all other adaptations is the difference between Gandalf the Grey and Gandalf the White. Where earlier no visible or audible difference was made, Gandalf the White is portrayed as much more virile, and with a shorter (and whiter) beard.

'''2003: ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]]'':'''
:Because [[Imrahil]] had been cut from the film, it was up to Gandalf to lead the troops after the madness and death of [[Denethor]].

'''2012-14: [[The Hobbit (film series)|''The Hobbit'' (film series)]]:'''
:[[Ian McKellen|Sir Ian McKellen]] reprised his role as Gandalf the Grey.<ref name="PJCasting">{{webcite|author=[[Peter Jackson]]|articleurl=http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150168211921558|articlename=Production begins in New Zealand on The Hobbit|dated=20-March-2011|website=[http://www.facebook.com/ Facebook]|accessed=23-Dec-2011}}</ref> A description of Gandalf in ''The Hobbit'' films was released by the studio:

:{{Blockquote|One of the most powerful Wizards in all Middle-earth, Gandalf the Grey joins the quest to reclaim the Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor and the great treasure that lies within its stone halls from a fire-breating dragon, Smaug the Terrible. Along the way, Gandalf finds evidence that an ancient evil may have found its way back into the world. In order to uncover the truth, Gandalf must leave his companions to fend for themselves – a journey that will take him into the darkest corners of Middle-earth where his worst suspicions are confirmed.|[[Warner Bros.]]<ref name="HobbitApp">{{webcite|author=[[Warner Bros.]]|articleurl=http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hobbit-movies/id545808528|articlename=Hobbit Movies|dated=7-September-2012|website=[http://itunes.apple.com/ Apple iPhone/iPad App]|accessed=19-September-2012}}</ref>}}

===Television===
'''1993: [[Hobitit|''Hobitit'']]:'''
:Actor [[Vesa Vierikko]] played both Gandalf the Grey and Gandalf the White. He appeared in 6 of 8 episodes.

===Radio series===
'''1955: [[The Lord of the Rings (1955 radio series)|''The Lord of the Rings'' (1955 radio series)]]:'''
:The voice of Gandalf was provided by [[Norman Shelley]].<ref>{{L|175}}</ref>

'''1968: [[The Hobbit (1968 radio series)|''The Hobbit'' (1968 radio series)]]:'''
:The voice of Gandalf was provided by [[Heron Carvic]].

'''1979: [[The Hobbit (1979 radio series)|''The Hobbit'' (1979 radio series)]]:'''
:The voice of Gandalf was provided [[Bernard Mayes]].

'''1979: [[The Lord of the Rings (1979 radio series)|''The Lord of the Rings'' (1979 radio series)]]:'''
:[[Bernard Mayes]] reprised his role as Gandalf.

'''1980: [[Der Hobbit (1980 German radio series)|''Der Hobbit'' (1980 German radio series)]]:'''
:Gandalf is played by Bernhard Minetti.

'''1981: [[The Lord of the Rings (1981 radio series)|''The Lord of the Rings'' (1981 radio series)]]:'''
:[[Michael Hordern]] read the part of Gandalf. He had not read the book, and thought his agent made a mistake in telling him how many episodes he had to do. He did not know Gandalf's early death would prove only temporarily.<ref>[[Brian Sibley]], "[http://briansibleytheworks.blogspot.com/2008/01/this-page-is-still-under-construction_23.html The Ring Goes Ever On: The Making of BBC Radio's ''The Lord of the Rings'']", at ''[http://briansibleytheworks.blogspot.com/ Brian Sibley:The Works]''</ref>

'''1989: [[Hobit (1989 Slovak radio series)|''Hobit'' (1989 Slovak radio series)]]:'''
:The voice of Gandalf is provided by Karol Machata.

'''1992: [[Der Herr der Ringe (1992 German radio series)|''Der Herr der Ringe'' (1992 German radio series)]]:'''
:Gandalf is played by Manfed Steffen.

'''2001-2003: [[Pán prsteňov (2001-2003 Slovak radio series)|''Pán prsteňov'' (2001-2003 Slovak radio series)]]:'''
:The voice of Gandalf is provided by Martin Huba.

===Games===
'''1982: [[The Hobbit (1982 video game)|''The Hobbit'' (1982 video game)]]:'''
:Gandalf can be met on several moments of the game's story line.<ref>[http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=ZXComputing/Issue8304/Pages/ZXComputing830400076.jpg ''ZX Computing'', iss. 8304, p. 76] reproduced at [http://www.worldofspectrum.org/archive.html World of Spectrum - Archive] (retrieved at 14 August 2010)</ref>

'''1990: [[J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I (1990 video game)|''J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I'' (1990 video game)]]:'''
:Gandalf can be "recruited" by [[Frodo Baggins]] as a playable character.

'''1990: ''[[J.R.R. Tolkien's Riders of Rohan]]'':'''
:Gandalf is one of the main characters of the game and one of the several heroes of the [[Rohan]] faction.

'''1994: [[J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I (SNES)|''J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I'' (SNES)]]:'''
:Gandalf can be acquired as a playable character.

'''2002: [[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (video game)|''The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring'' (video game)]]:'''
:[[Tom Kane]] provided the voice of Gandalf. He is a playable character in several levels, including the fight with [[Durin's Bane]].

'''2002: [[The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (video game)|''The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers'' (video game)]]:'''
:The voice of Gandalf is provided by [[Ian McKellen]]. Gandalf the Grey appears at the campsite of the [[Fellowship of the Ring|fellowship]] in ''The Gates of Moria'' and during the fight of [[Balin's Tomb]] in ''Balin's Tomb''. He latter reappears in the game as Gandalf the White at the start of the mission ''The Plains of Rohan'', where he leaves Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli to search Éomer and his army. He also appears in some cutscenes.

'''2002: [[The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (video game)#Game Boy Advance version|''The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers'' (Game Boy Advance)]]:'''
:In the [[wikipedia:Game Boy Advance|Game Boy Advance version]] of [[The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (video game)|The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers]] Gandalf is a playable character. Gandalf's story starts with a conservation between Gandalf and [[Théoden]], after which the story goes back to the [[Caradhras]], where the Fellowship tries to travel over the [[Misty Mountains]]. When that road fails, the Fellowship goes back and travels through [[Moria]]. In Moria Gandalf and the other member of the Fellowship are separated. After finding [[Frodo Baggins|Frodo]], [[Aragorn]] and [[Gimli]] the fellowship is attacked by a [[Cave-trolls|Cave-troll]] and [[Orcs#Orcs and Goblins|Goblins]]. After Gandalf defeats the Cave-troll the Fellowship has to flee for the [[Balrogs|Balrog]]. When they reach the [[Bridge of Khazad-dûm]] a cutscene is shown, in which Gandalf destroys the bridge and falls with the Balrog in the depths. After the fall Gandalf has to follow the footsteps of the Balrog through the depths of Moria and the [[Endless Stair]] until he reaches [[Durin's Tower]], where he has to defeat the Balrog.

:After being revived he returns as Gandalf the White in Fangorn, where he defeats several [[Trolls]] and [[Crebain]]. After defeating a stronger Forrest troll, named Fangorn troll, Gandalf meets Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli. After a cutscene, the game moves to [[Edoras]]. Gandalf heals the corrupted Théoden in Edoras, and then travels through [[Rohan]] in search of [[Éomer]]. Gandalf convinces Éomer to lead his army to [[Helm's Deep]].

:The game ends with the [[Battle of the Hornburg|Battle of Helm's Deep]], in which Gandalf and Éomer fight alongside Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli and [[Éowyn]] while protecting the wall, the [[Hornburg]] and the [[Glittering Caves]]. In the final level Gandalf has to destroy the siege weapons that bombard the Hornburg. The game ends with a conservation between Gandalf, Aragorn, Gimli and Théoden.

'''2003: [[The Hobbit (2003 video game)|''The Hobbit'' (2003 video game)]]:'''
:[[Jim Ward]] provided the voice of Gandalf. He is shown with actual [[magic]]: he can shoot blue bolts of lightning from his staff.

'''2003: [[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (video game)|''The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'' (video game)]]:'''
:Gandalf is the narrator, and a playable character. The game is built around him; the cut scene narration shows how he planned for the [[War of the Ring]]. He has several missions, collectively called the "Path of the Wizard". The first is the [[Battle of the Hornburg|the Battle of Helm's Deep]], which serves as a training mission. He has to fight [[Uruk-Hai]] in the forest of [[Huorns]] and [[Ents]] in "The Road to Isengard". After that, the missions move to [[Minas Tirith]]: the first mission, "Top of the Wall", has Gandalf warding off ladders and siege towers. In the second, "Courtyard", he has to protect civilians from the invading Orcs. His last playing mission is the [[Battle of the Morannon|Battle of the Black Gate]].

'''2003: [[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (video game)|''The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'' (Game Boy Advance)]]:'''
:Just like on the console version of the game, Gandalf is a playable character. He has many missions, collectively called the "The Journey of the Wizard". He starts in a flooded [[Isengard]], where he has to kill several [[Uruk-hai]] and [[Crebain]] before he confronts [[Saruman]]. After the defeat of Saruman he travels to [[Minas Tirith]] through Rohan and the Misty Mountains. At the [[Pelennor Fields]] Gandalf has to protect the [[Beacons of Gondor|beacons]], so Rohan can be warned. During the [[Battle of the Pelennor Fields|Battle of Minas Tirith]] he has to protect the gate, before making his way to the [[House of the Stewards|Steward's Tomb]]. Here Gandalf has to kill Denethor, before he burns [[Faramir]]. After the battle Gandalf travels through [[Ithilien]] to the [[Black Gate]], where he confronts a Nazgûl.

'''2004: ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age]]'':'''
:Gandalf, voiced by [[Ian McKellen]], is a character in [[Electronic Arts|EA's]] "alternative [[Fellowship of the Ring|fellowship]]" game. In his battle against Durin's Bane, he is aided by the main characters.

'''2004: ''[[The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring]]'':'''
:Gandalf is voiced by [[Steven M. Kramer]], renowned for playing older mentor types.

'''2004: ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth]]'':'''
:In non-storyline skirmishes Gandalf is the hero of the Gondor faction, who possesses several magical abilities. At first, he appears as Gandalf "the Grey", and becomes "Gandalf the White" after reaching level 5 (out of 10). Gandalf also narrates the prologue scene, repeating almost word for word the lines said by Galadriel in the ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring]]''.

:His involvement in the storyline is notable for major differences from the original tale. First of all, Gandalf survives his encounter with Balrog, defeating him at the Bridge of Khazad-dum and continues the journey with the Fellowship - by the time of arrival in Lothlorien he already appears as Gandalf the White. He is present during the ambush at [[Amon Hen]], where thanks to his involvement Boromir is saved from certain death. Merry and Pippin are captured regardless and Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli and Boromir give chase, while Gandalf departs them to see to dealings in Rohan, including freeing of King Théoden from the spell. Following the Battle of Helm's Deep he travels to Minas Tirith along with both Pippin and Boromir, where they participate in the Siege of the city.

'''2006: ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II]]'':'''
:Gandalf is a hero for the "Men of the West" faction. Similar to the first game, he appears as Gandalf the Grey initially and Gandalf the White after level 5. He plays no part in the main storyline, but appears in the alternate "evil" campaign: after Sauron reclaims the Ring and lays waste to southern lands, Gandalf and few other survivors meet their end during a last stand in Rivendell.

'''2007: ''[[The Lord of the Rings Online]]'':'''
:Gandalf is a non-playable character voiced by [[Harry Chase]], who narrates cutscenes and instances throughout the original game, before the first expansion. He first meets the Dwarven characters in Ered Luin in {{TA|2941}}, shortly before the Quest for Erebor. Later, characters of all races meet him in Bree in October of {{TA|3018}}, but he is too busy with concerns for Frodo and the Ring and merely sends them away to find Radagast. Finally, the players have a chance to have a proper conversation with him in Rivendell, following the Council of Elrond. During that time, Gandalf is involved in several quests, including helping the player wreck havoc among the Goblins stirring at the [[High Pass]]. After the Fellowship leaves Rivendell, players are able to retrace many of their steps, including the marks left by Gandalf such as the Burnt Top in [[Eregion]] and the remains of his fire at the pass of [[Caradhras]]. Later, Lady [[Galadriel]] bids the player to find the sings of Gandalf following his fall from the Bridge of Khazad-dum - said signs include his burnt hat at the Foundations of Stone in Moria and the sings of his struggle with the Balrog at the [[Endless Stair]] - those allow Galadriel to discern that Mithrandir is not truly dead. Players later meet him as Gandalf the White in [[Caras Galadhon]] shortly after the Fellowship has departed Lothlorien. During that time, he engages into a spiritual battle with a Gaunt-Lord Gortheron the Doom-Caller; his display of his new abilities encourages the band of Free People players and allows them to defeat the servant of Sauron.

:Gandalf is also present in several historic "session plays", during which players witness the important events their characters were not present for. Such events include Gandalf infiltrating [[Dol Guldur]] with the help of an Elf named Raddir, first meeting between Gandalf and Aragorn on the outskirts of Lothlorien and Gandalf's imprisonment atop Orthanc by Saruman.

'''2009: ''[[The Lord of the Rings: Conquest]]'':'''
:[[Martin Jarvis]] provides the voice of Gandalf. He is a playable mage hero and has three special powers: "Healing Wisdom", "You Shall not Pass!" and "Cleansing Fire". In the good campaign he appears at the end of the Isengard mission, where he has to kill Saruman in [[Orthanc]]. In Moria he can be played to destroy the [[Balrog]] and in Minas Tirith he has to defend the gates of the second ring. He is also one of the four playable heroes in the last mission, [[The Battle of the Morannon|the battle of the Black Gate]]. He appears aswell in the end of the last mission, the Shire, of the evil campaign, in which he is defeated by [[Sauron]].
:He is also playable in the Shire, Isengard, Minas Tirith and Moria with the ''Conquest'' Mode, in Isengard and Minas Tirith in the ''Team Deathmatch'' mode, the citadel of Minas Tirith in ''Capture the Ring'' mode, and at the Black Gate, Minas Morgul, Mout Doom and the Shire during ''Hero Team Deatmatch'' mode.

'''2011: ''[[The Lord of the Rings: War in the North]]'':'''
:Gandalf is voiced by [[Tom Kane]], who also narrates the introduction of the game. He tells that heroes like "[[Aragorn|Aragorn the King]]", "[[Frodo Baggins|Frodo the Ringbearer]]" and "'''Gandalf the Wizard'''" are rightly honored, but that without a few heroes - [[Eradan (video game character)|Eradan]], [[Andriel]] and [[Farin (video game character)|Farin]] - the north of [[Middle-earth]] would have been lost.<ref>[[The Lord of the Rings: War in the North]], ''Prologue''</ref>
:He also appears in [[Rivendell]] later in the game. Players can interact with him and learn of various important events, yet the conversations do not unlock any side-quests and do not affect the main story in any way.

'''2012: ''[[Guardians of Middle-earth]]'':'''
:Gandalf is a mage-type "guardian" with four abilities: ''Narya's Power'', ''Flame of Anor'', ''Fireworks'' and ''Gandalf's Might''.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=http://www.guardiansofmiddleearth.co.uk/guardians/gandalf|articlename=''Guardians of Middle-earth'': Gandalf|dated=|website=[http://www.guardiansofmiddleearth.com/ ''Guardians of Middle-earth'' official website]|accessed=16 July 2012}}</ref>

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'''''Many that live deserve death and some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be so eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the wise cannot see all ends.''''' ~ [[Gandalf]] in ''[[The Fellowship of the Ring]].''

I am also the "Gandalf" that began some Tolkien pages at Wikiquote.org, and the "Gandalf" at Wikipedia.org as well, (though I have not done as much there). ~ [[User:Gandalf|Gandalf]] 12:03, 11 Jun 2005 (EDT)

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Hi! I'm KingAragorn and I was born in [[J.R.R. Tolkien|J.R.R. Tolkien's]] home city of [[Birmingham]], United Kingdom. I'm fascinated by the entirety of Tolkien's works and therefore I can't really pinpoint any specific areas of interest. However as [[Tolkien Gateway:Projects#Locations|Locations Supervisor]] I am interested in ensuring that we have high-standard articles for every location mentioned in Tolkien's works. I am proud to have initiated Tolkien Gateway's [[Tolkien Gateway:Meetings|meetings]], something which has proved essential in getting important and long-term decisions made.

==Links==
*[[User:KingAragorn/Sandbox|Sandbox 1]]
*[[User:KingAragorn/Sandbox2|Sandbox 2]]
*[[User:KingAragorn/Sandbox3|Sandbox 3]]
*[[User:KingAragorn/Sandbox4|Sandbox 4]]
*[[User:KingAragorn/Applications|Applications]]
*[[User:KingAragorn Bot|KingAragorn Bot]]
**[[Special:Contributions/KingAragorn Bot|Contributions]]
**[[User:KingAragorn Bot/Scripts|Scripts]]

==Maintenance==
*[[Tolkien Gateway:To-do/Files without license templates|Files without licence templates]]:
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==Favourites==
*[[User:Gamling/Hobbitdates]]
*[[Blue Wizards]]
*[[Isengard]]
*[[Master of Lake-town]]
*[[Orthanc]]
*[[Radagast]]
*[[Smaug]]
*[[Thorin]]
*[[White Council]]

==To-do==
*[[Dagor Dagorath]]
*[[Canon]]
*[[Glorfindel]]
*[[Saruman]]
*[[Wizards]]
*[[:Category:Books and documents within the legendarium]]
*Wanted pages:
**''[[The J.R.R. Tolkien Audio Collection]]''
**''[[J.R.R. Tolkien Reads and Sings The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' (Caedmon TC 1477)
**[[Tales and Songs of Bimble Bay]]
***"[[Glip]]" (?1928)

==My humble collection==
*By [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]:
**''[[The Hobbit]]''
***''The Hobbit'' (London: Unwin Books, 1966)
***''The Hobbit'' (London: HarperCollins, 1998)
***''[[The Annotated Hobbit: Revised and Expanded Edition]]'' (annotated by [[Douglas A. Anderson]])
***''The Hobbit'' (illustrated and signed by Jemima Catlin)
**''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''
***''[[The Return of the King]]'' (London: HarperCollins, 1991)
***''[[The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' (London: HarperCollins, 2001)
***''[[The Two Towers]]'' (London: HarperCollins, 2001)
***''The Return of the King'' (London: HarperCollins, 2001)
***[[The Lord of the Rings (50th Anniversary Edition)|''The Lord of the Rings'' (50th Anniversary Edition)]] (London: HarperCollins, 2004) [Kindle edn, 2009]
**''[[Tales from the Perilous Realm]]''
**''[[Bilbo's Last Song]]'' (London: Red Fox, 2012)
*Works with contributions by J.R.R. Tolkien:
**''[[Fifty New Poems for Children]]'' (includes [[Goblin Feet]], attributed to J.R.R. [[Tolkein]])
*Edited by [[Christopher Tolkien]] and/or [[Christina Scull]] and [[Wayne G. Hammond]]:
**[http://www.tolkienbooks.net/php/details.php?reference=62130 ''The Silmarillion''], 1st edn/1st impression (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1977)
**[http://www.tolkienbooks.net/php/details.php?reference=62170 ''The Silmarillion''], BCA Edition, 1978
**''The Silmarillion'' [Kindle edn, 2011]
**''[[Unfinished Tales]]'' (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980)
**''Unfinished Tales'' [Kindle edn, 2009]
**''[[The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien]]''
**''[[The History of Middle-earth]]:''
**#''[[The Book of Lost Tales Part One]]''
**#''[[The Book of Lost Tales Part Two]]''
**#''[[The Lays of Beleriand]]''
**#''[[The Shaping of Middle-earth]]''
**#''[[The Lost Road and Other Writings]]''
**#''[[The Return of the Shadow]]''
**#''[[The Treason of Isengard]]''
**#''[[The War of the Ring]]''
**#''[[Sauron Defeated]]''
**#''[[Morgoth's Ring]]''
**#''[[The War of the Jewels]]''
**#''[[The Peoples of Middle-earth]]''
**#''[[The History of Middle-earth Index]]''
**''[[Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo]]''
**''[[Tree and Leaf]]'' (with [[Mythopoeia]] and [[The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son]])
**''[[Mr. Bliss]]''
**''[[The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays]]''
**''[[Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien]]''
**''[[J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator]]''
**''[[Roverandom]]''
**''[[The Children of Húrin]]''
**''[[The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún]]''
**''[[The Fall of Arthur]]''
**''[[Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary]]''
**''[[The Adventures of Tom Bombadil]]'' (pocket edn)
*By others:
**[[Humphrey Carpenter]], ''[[J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography]]''
**Humphrey Carpenter, ''[[The Inklings (book)|The Inklings]]''
**David Colbert, ''The Magical Worlds of the Lord of the Rings''
**[[David Day]], ''[[A Tolkien Bestiary]]''
**[[Daniel Falconer]], ''[[The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey: Chronicles: Art & Design]]''
**[[Karen Wynn Fonstad]], ''[[The Atlas of Middle-earth]]''
**[[John Garth]], ''[[Tolkien and the Great War]]'' (2nd edn)
**John Garth, ''[[Tolkien at Exeter College]]'' (signed)
**[[Peter Gilliver]] et al, ''[[The Ring of Words]]''
**[[Wayne G. Hammond]] and [[Christina Scull]], ''[[The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion]]'' (2nd edn)
**[[Randel Helms]], ''[[Tolkien's World (by Randel Helms)|Myth, Magic and Meaning in Tolkien's World]]''
**[[Hither Shore 9|''Hither Shore'' 9]]
**[[Corey Olsen]], ''[[Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit]]''
**[[John D. Rateliff]], ''[[The History of The Hobbit]]''
**[[Christina Scull]] and [[Wayne G. Hammond]], ''[[The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide|The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: Reader's Guide]]''
**Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond, ''[[The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide|The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: Chronology]]''
**[[Tom Shippey]], ''[[The Road to Middle-earth]]'' (signed by Tom Shippey)
**Tom Shippey, ''[[J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century]]'' (signed by Tom Shippey)
**[[Brian Sibley]], ''[[The Lord of the Rings: Official Movie Guide]]''
**Brian Sibley, ''[[The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey: Official Movie Guide]]''
**''St Austin Review: The Catholic Genius of J.R.R. Tolkien'', vol. 8, no. 4 (July/August 2008)
**[[Elizabeth M. Stephen]], ''[[Hobbit to Hero|Hobbit to Hero: The Making of Tolkien's King]]'' (one signed by Elizabeth Stephen, one not)
**[[Barbara Strachey]], ''[[Journeys of Frodo]]''
**''[[The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey: The Movie Storybook]]''
**''[[The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey: The World of Hobbits]]''
**''[[The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug: Annual 2014]]''
**[[The Tolkien Society|Tolkien Society]] publications:
***''[[The Tolkien Society Guide to Oxford]]''
***[[Amon Hen 232|''Amon Hen'' 232]], [[Amon Hen 236|236]], [[Amon Hen 237|237]], [[Amon Hen 238|238]], [[Amon Hen 239|239]], [[Amon Hen 240|240]], [[Amon Hen 241|241]], [[Amon Hen 242|242]], [[Amon Hen 243|243]], [[Amon Hen 244|244]], [[Amon Hen 245|245]], [[Amon Hen 246|246]], [[Amon Hen 247|247]], [[Amon Hen 248|248]], [[Amon Hen|249]], [[Amon Hen|250]]
***[[Mallorn 53|''Mallorn'' 53]], [[Mallorn 54|''Mallorn'' 54]], [[Mallorn 54|''Mallorn'' 55]]
**''[[The Tolkien Diary 1999]]''
**''[[The Tolkien Diary 2005]]''
**''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Visual Companion]]''
**[[John Tolkien]] and [[Priscilla Tolkien]], ''[[The Tolkien Family Album]]''
**''[[Tolkien Studies]]'':
**#''Tolkien Studies'', [[Tolkien Studies: Volume 1|vol. 1]] (2004) [Digital]
**#''Tolkien Studies'', [[Tolkien Studies: Volume 2|vol. 2]] (2005) [Digital]
**#''Tolkien Studies'', [[Tolkien Studies: Volume 3|vol. 3]] (2006) [Digital]
**#''Tolkien Studies'', [[Tolkien Studies: Volume 4|vol. 4]] (2007) [Digital]
**#''Tolkien Studies'', [[Tolkien Studies: Volume 5|vol. 5]] (2008) [Digital]
**#''Tolkien Studies'', [[Tolkien Studies: Volume 6|vol. 6]] (2009) [Digital]
**#''Tolkien Studies'', [[Tolkien Studies: Volume 7|vol. 7]] (2010) [Digital]
**#''Tolkien Studies'', [[Tolkien Studies: Volume 8|vol. 8]] (2011) [Digital]
**#''Tolkien Studies'', [[Tolkien Studies: Volume 9|vol. 9]] (2012) [Digital]
**#''Tolkien Studies'', [[Tolkien Studies: Volume 10|vol. 10]] (2013) [Digital]
**''[[Tolkien's World: Paintings of Middle-earth]]''
**[[Hilary Tolkien]], ed. [[Angela Gardner]], ''[[Black & White Ogre Country]]''
*Audiobooks and radio series:
**''The Hobbit'', dramatisation (BBC Radio, 1968)
**[[The Lord of the Rings (1981 radio series)|''The Lord of the Rings'' (1981 radio series)]], CD Boxset
**''The Silmarillion'', unabridged audiobook, read by Martin Shaw (HarperCollins, 2002)
*Documentaries:
**''[[J.R.R.T.: A Film Portrait of J.R.R. Tolkien]]''
*Films:
**[[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (extended edition)|''The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring'' (extended edition)]]
**[[The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (extended edition)|''The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers'' (extended edition)]]
**[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (extended edition)|''The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'' (extended edition)]]
**''The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy'' (Extended Edition) Blu-ray
*Soundtracks:
**''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]]''
**''[[The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - Special Edition]]''
**''[[The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - Special Edition]]''
*Video games:
**''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth]]'', PC edition ([[Electronic Arts]], 2004)
**''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II]]'', PC edition (Electronic Arts, 2006)
**''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (video game)|The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]]'', PS2 edition (Electronic Arts, 2003)
**''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age]]'', PS2 edition (Electronic Arts, 2004)
**''[[The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring]]'', PC edition ([[Sierra Entertainment]], 2003)
**[[The Hobbit (2003 video game)|''The Hobbit'']], PC and PS2 editions (Sierra Entertainment, 2003)
*Miscellaneous:
**Christmas card from [[The Tolkien Society]] (2013), illustration by [[Jenny Dolfen]]
**''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers]]'', Large Release Standee
**Tudor Mint, The Lord of the Rings (Series 2), "Gandalf and Frodo" (designed by Sharon Riley)
**Weta Workshop, Minas Tirith Minature
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Hi there! I'm '''Ederchil''', I'm 32 years old and from Groningen, The Netherlands (don't you call that [[Unquendor|Holland]]). The name Ederchil - I've been using it for a couple of years now - is a rough translation of my first name, Olof - "descendant of forefathers".

==Ederchil namespace==
* [[User:Ederchil/Sandbox]] - my personal sandbox
* [[User:Ederchil/Sandbox2]] - because one was not enough
* [[User:Ederchil/Sandbox3]] - because I should really finish any of the above two
* [[User:Ederchil/Templates]] - various test-templates
* [[User:Ederchil/Orcs PiA]]
* [[User:Ederchil/Sandbox4]] - '''Blank slate'''; or, ''I'm really getting fed up with IMDb''
* [[User:Ederchil/Full cast]] - a (not so) full cast of [[The Lord of the Rings (film series)|''The Lord of the Rings'' (film series)]]. Outdated, unsourced and unformatted, thus unreliable.

==My Tolkien library==
===Books===
====Works by [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]====
* ''[[The Hobbit]]'' (1991 Grafton paperback)
* ''The Hobbit'' ([[Houghton Mifflin]] Box set paperback)
* ''[[The Hobbit|De Hobbit, of: Daarheen en Weer Terug]]'' (translation by [[Max Schuchart]]) ([[1976]] Prisma Pocket Paperback)
* ''[[The Hobbit|De Hobbit, of: Dêrhinne en Wer Werom]]'' (translation by [[Anne Tjerk Popkema]]) (2009 Elikser paperback)

* ''[[The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' (1991 Grafton paperback)
* ''The Fellowship of the Ring'' (Houghton Mifflin Box set paperback)
* ''[[The Fellowship of the Ring|De Reisgenoten]]'' (translation by Max Schuchart) (1973 Prisma Pocket paperback)

* ''[[The Two Towers]]'' (1999 black cover paperback)
* ''The Two Towers'' (Houghton Mifflin Box set paperback)
* ''[[The Two Towers|De Twee Torens]]'' (translation by Max Schuchart) (1973 Prisma Pocket paperback)

* ''[[The Return of the King]]'' (2002 film tie-in paperback)
* ''The Return of the King'' ([[Houghton Mifflin]] Box set paperback)
* ''[[The Return of the King|De Terugkeer van de Koning]]'' (translation by Max Schuchart) (1973 Prisma Pocket paperback)

* ''[[The Lord of the Rings (50th Anniversary Edition)|The Lord of the Rings'' (50th anniversary edition)]], (2007 red cover paperback)
* ''[[Farmer Giles of Ham]]'' (edited by [[Wayne G. Hammond]] and [[Christina Scull]])
* ''[[The Road Goes Ever On (book)|The Road Goes Ever On]]'' (with [[Donald Swann]]), 3rd edition.
* ''[[The Children of Húrin]]''
* ''[[Roverandom]]''
* ''[[Tales from the Perilous Realm]]'' (2002 black cover paperback)
* ''Tales from the Perilous Realm'' (2008 expanded hardcover)
* ''[[Finn and Hengest]]'' (edited by [[Alan Bliss]])
* ''[[Letters from Father Christmas]]'' (edited by [[Baillie Tolkien]]) (2008 hardcover)
* ''[[The Annotated Hobbit]]'' (edited by [[Douglas A. Anderson]])
* ''[[Tolkien on Fairy-Stories]]'' (edited by [[Verlyn Flieger]] and [[Douglas A. Anderson]])
* ''[[Tree and Leaf, Smith of Wootton Major, The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth]]''
* ''[[Bilbo's Last Song]]''

====Edited by [[Christopher Tolkien]]====
* ''[[Unfinished Tales]]''
* ''[[The Silmarillion]]'' (with [[Guy Gavriel Kay|Guy Kay]])
* ''[[The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien]]'' (with [[Humphrey Carpenter]])
* ''[[The History of Middle-earth]]'':
:#''[[The Book of Lost Tales Part One]]''
:#''[[The Book of Lost Tales Part Two]]''
:#''[[The Lays of Beleriand]]''
:#''[[The Shaping of Middle-earth]]''
:#''[[The Lost Road and Other Writings]]''
:#''[[The Return of the Shadow]]''
:#''[[The Treason of Isengard]]''
:#''[[The War of the Ring]]''
:#''[[Sauron Defeated]]''
:#''[[Morgoth's Ring]]''
:#''[[The War of the Jewels]]''
:#''[[The Peoples of Middle-earth]]''
:#''[[The History of Middle-earth: Index|Index]]''
* ''[[Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo]]''
* ''[[The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún]]''

====Other works, alphabetically====
* N.N.: ''[[Tolkien's World: Paintings of Middle-earth]]''
* N.N.: ''[[The Tolkien Name in History]]''
* [[Stanley P. Baldwin|Baldwin, Stanley P.]]: ''[[J.R.R. Tolkien (Library of Great Authors)]]''
* [[Robert S. Blackham|Blackham, Robert S.]]: ''[[Tolkien's Oxford]]''
* [[J.W. Braun|Braun, J.W.]]: ''[[The Lord of the Films]]''
* [[Humphrey Carpenter|Carpenter, Humphrey]]: ''[[J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography]]''
* [[Colin Duriez|Duriez, Colin]]: ''[[Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings]]''
* [[Colin Duriez|Duriez, Colin]]: ''[[J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis: The Story of their Friendship]]''
* [[Angie Errigo|Errigo, Angie]]: ''[[The rough Guide to The Lord of the Rings]]''
* [[Robley Evans|Evans, Robley]]: ''[[J.R.R. Tolkien (Writers for the 70's)]]''
* [[Karen Wynn Fonstad|Fonstad, Karen Wynn]]: ''[[The Atlas of Middle-earth]]''
* [[Robert Foster|Foster, Robert]]: ''[[The Complete Guide to Middle-earth]]''
* [[John Garth|Garth, John]]: ''[[Tolkien and the Great War]]''
* [[Robert Giddings|Giddings, Robert]]: ''[[J.R.R. Tolkien: The Shores of Middle-earth]]''
* [[James H. Gillam|Gillam, James H.]]: ''[[Treasures From the Misty Mountains]]''
* [[Peter Gilliver|Gilliver, Peter]] ''et al.'': ''[[The Ring of Words]]''
* [[Christopher Gilson|Gilson, Christopher]] (ed): ''[[Parma Eldalamberon]]'' 1-5, 11, 15, 17
* [[Wayne G. Hammond|Hammond, Wayne G.]] and [[Christina Scull|Scull, Christina]]: ''[[J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator]]''
* [[Wayne G. Hammond|Hammond, Wayne G.]] and [[Christina Scull|Scull, Christina]]: ''[[The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide]]''
* [[Wayne G. Hammond|Hammond, Wayne G.]] and [[Christina Scull|Scull, Christina]]: ''[[The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion]]''
* [[Karen Haber|Haber, Karen]]: ''[[Meditations on Middle-earth]]''
* Hardy, G.B.: ''[[CliffsNotes on The Lord of the Rings]]''
* [[Randel Helms|Helms, Randel]]: ''[[Myth, Magic and Meaning in Tolkien's World]]''
* [[Gregory Hildebrandt, Jr.|Hildebrandt, Gregory Jr.]], ''[[Greg and Tim Hildebrandt: The Tolkien Years]]''
* [[Carl F. Hostetter|Hostetter, Carl F.]] (ed): ''[[Vinyar Tengwar]]'', complete 1-49.
* [[Clyde S. Kilby|Kilby, Clyde S.]]: ''[[Tolkien and The Silmarillion]]''
* [[Paul H. Kocher|Kocher, Paul H.]], ''[[Master of Middle-earth|Tolkien: Meester van Midden-aarde]]'' (translated by [[Max Schuchart]])
* [[Alan Lee|Lee, Alan]]: ''[[The Lord of the Rings Sketchbook]]''
* [[Jared Lobdell|Lobdell, Jared C.]]: ''[[A Tolkien Compass]]'' (1st ed)
* [[Jared Lobdell|Lobdell, Jared C.]]: ''[[A Tolkien Compass]]'' (3rd ed)
* [[Joseph Pearce|Pearce, Joseph]]: ''[[Tolkien: Man and Myth]]''
* [[John D. Rateliff|Rateliff, John D.]]: ''[[The History of The Hobbit]]'':
:#''Part 1: Mr. Baggins''
:#''Part 2: Return to Bag End''
* [[René van Rossenberg|Rossenberg, René van]] (editor): ''[[Lembas-extra]]'' [[Lembas-extra 1990|1990]]
* [[Gary Russell|Russell, Gary]]: ''[[The Art of The Lord of the Rings (film book)|The Art of The Lord of the Rings]]''
* [[Andy Serkis|Serkis, Andy]]: ''[[Gollum: How We Made Movie Magic]]''
* [[Tom Shippey|Shippey, Tom]]: ''[[J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century]]''
* [[Tom Shippey|Shippey, Tom]]: ''[[The Road to Middle-earth]]''
* [[Brian Sibley|Sibley, Brian]]: ''[[The Lord of the Rings: Official Movie Guide]]''
* [[Brian Sibley|Sibley, Brian]]: ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Making of the Movie Trilogy]]''
* [[Brian Sibley|Sibley, Brian]], [[John Howe|Howe, John]]: ''[[The Maps of Tolkien's Middle-Earth]]''
* [[Chris Smith|Smith, Chris]]: ''[[The Lord of the Rings: Weapons and Warfare]]''
* Strachey, Barbera: ''[[Journeys of Frodo]]''
* [[Hilary Tolkien|Tolkien, Hilary]], [[Angela Gardner|Gardner, Angela]], ''[[Black & White Ogre Country]]''
* [[J.E.A. Tyler|Tyler, J.E.A.]], ''[[The Tolkien Companion]]''
* Uyldert, Mellie: ''[[Symboliek van Tolkien's In de ban van de ring]]''
* [[Johan Vanhecke|Vanhecke, Johan]], ''[[In de ban van de Hobbit]]''
* Weide, Sjoerd van der (editor): ''[[Lembas-extra]]'' [[Lembas-extra 1992|1992]]
* [[Richard C. West|West, Richard C.]]: ''[[Tolkien Criticism: An Annotated Checklist]]'' (2nd, revised edition)
* [[Michael White|White, Michael]], ''[[Tolkien: A Biography|Tolkien: Een Biografie]]'' (translation by Laurens van Mastrigt)

===Adaptations===
====Films====
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring]]'', theatrical and extended
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers]]'', theatrical and extended
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]]'', theatrical and extended
* [[The Lord of the Rings (1978 film)|''The Lord of the Rings'' (1978 film)]]
* [[The Hobbit (1977 film)|''The Hobbit'' (1977 film)]]
* [[The Return of the King (1980 film)|''The Return of the King'' (1980 film)]]
====Radio====
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings (1981 radio series)|The Lord of the Rings]]''
* [[Tales from the Perilous Realm (1992 radio series)|''Tales from the Perilous Realm'' (1992 radio series)]]
* [[The Hobbit (1968 radio series)|''The Hobbit'' (1968 radio series)]]

====Video Games====
* [[The Hobbit (2003 video game)|''The Hobbit'' (2003 video game)]]
* [[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (video game)|''The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring'' (video game)]]
* [[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (video game)|''The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'' (video game)]]
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth]]''
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II]]''
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II: The Rise of the Witch-king]]''
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring]]''
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings: Conquest]]''

====Other====
* ''[[The Hobbit (comic book)]]''
* ''[[The Film Book of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings]]''
* ''[[Warren Special Edition: The Lord of the Rings‎]]''
* ''[[Bored of the Rings (comic)]]''

===Documentaries===
* ''[[Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring]]''
* ''[[Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King]]''
* ''[[Secrets of Middle-earth: Inside Tolkien's Lord of the Rings]]''
* ''[[Ringers: Lord of the Fans]]''
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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

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'''''The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power''''', originally marketed as '''''The Lord of the Rings on Prime''''', is an online television series based on the writings of [[J.R.R. Tolkien]], namely ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' and its [[The Lord of the Rings Appendices|Appendices]]. It is created and produced by [[Amazon Studios]] working alongside the [[Tolkien Estate]], the [[The Tolkien Trust|Tolkien Trust]], [[HarperCollins]] and [[New Line Cinema]]. Set in the [[Second Age]] of [[Middle-earth]],<ref name="AMSA">{{webcite|author=|articleurl=http://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1103656946509344768|articlename=Welcome to the Second Age:|dated=7 March 2019|website=Twitter|accessed=30 January 2020}}</ref> it explores new storylines preceding J.R.R. Tolkien's ''[[The Fellowship of the Ring]].''<ref name="AMNZ">{{webcite|author=|articleurl=http://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-studios-announces-new-zealand-location-its-upcoming|articlename=Amazon Studios Announces New Zealand as Location for Its Upcoming Series Based on The Lord of the Rings|dated=17 September 2019|website=Amazon|accessed=18 September 2019}}</ref> The story, which in Tolkien's writings spanned thousands of years, is condensed into a single point in time to avoid time jumps in the interest of narrative cohesion.<ref name="VanityFair"></ref> The first two episodes were released on [[1 September]] of [[2022]]<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://www.whathifi.com/advice/how-to-watch-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-release-date-trailer-cast-episodes|articlename=How to watch Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power – release date, trailer, cast, episodes available now|dated=2 September 2022|website=[https://www.whathifi.com/ What Hi-Fi]|accessed=10 October 2022}}</ref>, although they were originally scheduled to be released on [[2 September]] of the same year, the anniversary of J.R.R. Tolkien's death.<ref>{{webcite|author=@LOTRonPrime|articleurl=http://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1422255647106617359|articlename=A new journey beings|dated=2 August 2021|website=Twitter|accessed=2 August 2021}}</ref>

== Premise ==
{{blockquote|Amazon Studios' forthcoming series brings to screens for the very first time the heroic legends of the fabled Second Age of Middle-earth's history. This epic drama is set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, 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 the greatest villain that ever flowed from Tolkien's pen threatened to cover all the world in darkness. Beginning in a time of relative peace, the series follows an ensemble cast of characters, both familiar and new, as they confront the long-feared re-emergence of evil to Middle-earth. From the darkest depths of the Misty Mountains, to the majestic forests of the elf-capital of Lindon, to the breathtaking island kingdom of Númenor, to the furthest reaches of the map, these kingdoms and characters will carve out legacies that live on long after they are gone.|Official synopsis<ref>{{webcite|author=Justin Sewell|articleurl=http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2021/01/12/110065-exclusive-official-show-synopsis-for-amazons-lord-of-the-rings-series/|articlename=EXCLUSIVE: Official Show Synopsis for Amazon’s LORD OF THE RINGS Series|dated=12 January 2021|website=[http://www.theonering.net TheOneRing]|accessed=13 January 2021}}</ref>}}

== Source material and copyrights ==
The showrunners said that they wish to "come up with the novel Tolkien never wrote and do it as the mega-event series".<ref name="VanityFair"></ref> They explained that they only have the copyrights to adapt ''[[The Hobbit]]'' and ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' along with its [[Appendices]], without the rights to ''[[The Silmarillion]]'', ''[[Unfinished Tales]]'' or other books that contain the vast majority of Tolkien's writings on the [[Second Age]].<ref name="VFQuestions">{{webcite|author=burning questions about amazons the rings of power|articleurl= https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/02/10-burning-questions-about-amazons-the-rings-of-power |articlename=Amazon’s Lord of the Rings Series: FAQ|dated=14 February 2022|website=[https://www.vanityfair.com/ Vanity Fair]|accessed=16 February 2022}}</ref>

== Episodes ==
=== [[The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - Season 1|Season 1]] ===
# [[A Shadow of the Past]]
# [[Adrift]]
# [[Adar (episode)|Adar]]
# [[The Great Wave]]
# [[Partings]]
# [[Udûn (episode)|Udûn]]
# [[The Eye]]
# [[Alloyed]]

=== [[The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - Season 2|Season 2]] ===

== Cast and characters ==
''In alphabetical order''
=== Main cast introduced in Season 1 ===
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|-
| [[Cynthia Addai-Robinson]] || [[Tar-Míriel|Queen Regent Míriel]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1547418520400658432|articlename=Cynthia Addai-Robinson is Queen Regent Míriel|dated=14 February 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=14 February 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Robert Aramayo]] || [[Elrond]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1492167519439925260|articlename=Robert Aramayo is Elrond. #LOTRROP|dated=9 June 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=11 June 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Owain Arthur]] || [[Durin IV|Prince Durin IV]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1492168323051802626|articlename=Owain Arthur is Prince Durin IV. #LOTRROP|dated=9 June 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=11 June 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Maxim Baldry]] || [[Isildur]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1547417633603059712|articlename=Maxim Baldry is Isildur|dated=14 February 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=14 February 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Nazanin Boniadi]] || [[Bronwyn]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1492168861403299841|articlename=Nazanin Boniadi is Bronwyn. #LOTRROP|dated=9 June 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=11 June 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Morfydd Clark]] || [[Galadriel]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1492167351902609413|articlename=Morfydd Clark is Galadriel. #LOTRROP|dated=9 June 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=11 June 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Ismael Cruz Córdova]] || [[Arondir]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1492168672051445771|articlename=Ismael Cruz Cordova is Arondir. #LOTRROP|dated=9 June 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=11 June 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Charles Edwards]] || [[Celebrimbor|Lord Celebrimbor]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1534220750311174144|articlename=Charles Edwards is Celebrimbor|dated=14 February 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=14 February 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Trystan Gravelle]] || [[Pharazôn]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1547418058515521537|articlename=Trystan Gravelle is Pharazôn|dated=14 February 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=14 February 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Lenny Henry|Sir Lenny Henry]] || [[Sadoc Burrows]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1533945721929420800#m|articlename=Sir Lenny Henry is Sadoc Burrows. #LOTRROP|dated=9 June 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=11 June 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Ema Horvath]] || [[Eärien]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1547417835961552896|articlename=Ema Horvath is Eärien|dated=14 February 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=14 February 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Markella Kavenagh]] || [[Elanor Brandyfoot|Elanor 'Nori' Brandyfoot]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1493253881651937283|articlename=Markella Kavenagh is Elanor ‘Nori’ Brandyfoot|dated=14 February 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=14 February 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Joseph Mawle]] || [[Adar (The Rings of Power)|Adar]]
|-
| [[Tyroe Muhafidin]] || [[Theo]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://mobile.twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1516457306497581056|articlename=Tyroe Muhafidin is Theo. #LOTRROP #RingsofPower|dated=19 April 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=19 April 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Sophia Nomvete]] || [[Disa|Princess Disa]] <ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1492168418358874123|articlename=Sophia Nomvete is Princess Disa. #LOTRROP|dated=9 June 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=11 June 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Lloyd Owen]] || [[Elendil|Captain Elendil]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1547417424361885696|articlename=Lloyd Owen is Elendil|dated=14 February 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=14 February 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Megan Richards]] || [[Poppy Proudfellow]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1534982703908433920#m|articlename=Megan Richards is Poppy Proudfellow. #LOTRROP|dated=9 June 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=11 June 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Dylan Smith]] || [[Largo Brandyfoot]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1534982400869945344#m|articlename=Dylan Smith is Largo Brandyfoot. #LOTRROP|dated=9 June 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=11 June 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Charlie Vickers]] || [[Halbrand]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1492169017741778944|articlename=Charlie Vickers is Halbrand. #LOTRROP|dated=9 June 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=11 June 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Leon Wadham]] || [[Kemen (The Rings of Power)|Kemen]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1547418271141560321|articlename=Leon Wadham is Kemen|dated=14 February 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=14 February 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Benjamin Walker]] || [[Gil-galad|High King Gil-galad]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1493253777415098372|articlename=Benjamin Walker is High King Gil-galad|dated=14 February 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=14 February 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Daniel Weyman]] || [[The Stranger]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1493253972639076352|articlename=Daniel Weyman is The Stranger|dated=14 February 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=14 February 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Sara Zwangobani]] || [[Marigold Brandyfoot]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1534982566448533504#m|articlename=Sara Zwangobani is Marigold Brandyfoot. #LOTRROP|dated=9 June 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=11 June 2022}}</ref>
|}

=== Introduced in Season 2 ===
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! Actor !! Role
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| Unknown actor || [[Círdan]]<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://time.com/6205027/cirdan-the-rings-of-power-season-2/|articlename=Exclusive: This Fan-Favorite Character Is Joining the Second Season of The Rings of Power|dated=15 August 2022|website=Time.com|accessed=4 January 2023}}</ref>
|-
| [[Samuel Hazeldine]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1598337442565820418|articlename=Welcome Sam Hazeldine (@samuelhazeldine) to the cast of #TheRingsOfPower! (4/7)|dated=1 December 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=5 February 2023}}</ref> || [[Adar (The Rings of Power)|Adar]]<ref name="IMBD">https://m.imdb.com/title/tt13580784/?ref_=m_ttep_ep_ep1</ref>
|-
| [[Gabriel Akuwudike]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1598333935305490433|articlename=Welcome Gabriel Akuwudike to the cast of #TheRingsOfPower! (1/7)|dated=1 December 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=5 February 2023}}</ref> || TBA
|-
| [[Oliver Alvin-Wilson]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1600507964863004672|articlename=Join us in welcoming Oliver Alvin-Wilson (@Oliver_A_Wilson) to the cast of #TheRingsOfPower! (1/8)|dated=7 December 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=5 February 2023}}</ref> || TBA
|-
| [[Yasen Atour]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1598334954622042112|articlename=Welcome Yasen ‘Zates’ Atour (@YasenAtour) to the cast of #TheRingsOfPower! (2/7)|dated=1 December 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=5 February 2023}}</ref> || TBA
|-
| [[Stuart Bowman]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1600509263301976064|articlename=Join us in welcoming Stuart Bowman (@stuartbowman) to the cast of #TheRingsOfPower! (2/8)|dated=7 December 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=5 February 2023}}</ref> || TBA
|-
| [[Gavi Singh Chera]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1600510517084409858|articlename=Join us in welcoming Gavi Singh Chera to the cast of #TheRingsOfPower! (3/8)|dated=7 December 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=5 February 2023}}</ref> || TBA
|-
| [[William Chubb]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1600511729787699205|articlename=Join us in welcoming William Chubb to the cast of #TheRingsOfPower! (4/8)|dated=7 December 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=5 February 2023}}</ref> || TBA
|-
| [[Ben Daniels]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1598336189869699072|articlename=Welcome Ben Daniels to the cast of #TheRingsOfPower! (3/7)|dated=1 December 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=5 February 2023}}</ref> || TBA
|-
| [[Kevin Eldon]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1600513054747361280|articlename=Join us in welcoming Kevin Eldon (@ItsKevinEldon) to the cast of #TheRingsOfPower! (5/8)|dated=7 December 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=5 February 2023}}</ref> || TBA
|-
| [[Ciarán Hinds]] || TBA
|-
| [[William Keen]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1600514258411917312|articlename=Join us in welcoming Will Keen to the cast of #TheRingsOfPower! (6/8)|dated=7 December 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=5 February 2023}}</ref> || TBA
|-
| [[Amelia Kenworthy]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1598338715633565702|articlename=Welcome Amelia Kenworthy (@ameliakenworthy) to the cast of #TheRingsOfPower! (5/7)|dated=1 December 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=5 February 2023}}</ref> || TBA
|-
| [[Rory Michael Kinnear]] || TBA
|-
| [[Selina Lo]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1600515507895033857|articlename=Join us in welcoming Selina Lo (@itsselinalo) to the cast of #TheRingsOfPower! (7/8)|dated=7 December 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=5 February 2023}}</ref> || TBA
|-
| [[Calam Lynch]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1600516761618714628|articlename=Join us in welcoming Calam Lynch (@CalamLynch94) to the cast of #TheRingsOfPower! (8/8)|dated=7 December 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=5 February 2023}}</ref> || TBA
|-
| [[Tanya Moodie]] || TBA
|-
| [[Nia Towle]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1598339999946113024|articlename=Welcome Nia Towle to the cast of #TheRingsOfPower! (6/7)|dated=1 December 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=5 February 2023}}</ref> || TBA
|-
| [[Nicholas Woodeson]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1598341285018058755|articlename=Welcome Nicholas Woodeson (@NickWoodeson) to the cast of #TheRingsOfPower! (7/7)|dated=1 December 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=5 February 2023}}</ref> || TBA
|}

== Production ==
=== Development ===
[[File:The Rings of Power (TV series) - Middle-earth map 1.jpg|thumb|300px|Fourth map of Middle-earth, released by Amazon on 6 March 2019]]
On [[3 November]] [[2017]], it was reported that Amazon Studios were in discussion with Warner Bros. Television and the [[Tolkien Estate]] about developing a series based on ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''.<ref>{{webcite|author=Daniel Holloway|articleurl=http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/lord-of-the-rings-amazon-1202606519/|articlename='Lord of the Rings': Amazon, Warner Bros. in Talks for Series Adaptation (EXCLUSIVE)|dated=3 November 2017|website=[http://variety.com/ Variety]|accessed=30 January 2020}}</ref> Later, in November, Amazon Studios announced they have secured the rights to develop a multi-season television series set in Middle-earth with the potential for spin-offs.<ref>{{webcite|author=Joe Otterson|articleurl=http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/lord-of-the-rings-tv-series-amazon-1202613609/|articlename=‘Lord of the Rings’ Series Moving Forward at Amazon With Multi-Season Production Commitment|dated=13 November 2017|website=[http://variety.com/ Variety]|accessed=31 July 2019}}</ref> The rights have been said to have cost close to $250 million.<ref name="DLAZ">{{webcite|author=Nellie Andreeva|articleurl=http://deadline.com/2017/11/amazon-the-lord-of-the-rings-tv-series-multi-season-commitment-1202207065/|articlename=Amazon Sets ‘The Lord of the Rings’ TV Series In Mega Deal With Multi-Season Commitment|dated=13 November 2017|website=Deadline|accessed=30 January 2020}}</ref> Amazon Studios would cooperate in the production with the Tolkien Estate, [[The Tolkien Trust]], [[HarperCollins]] and [[New Line Cinema]].<ref name="DLAZ"/>

On [[13 February]] [[2019]], Amazon's then newly created [http://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime Twitter account] associated with the show posted the quote "I wisely started with a map.", taken from Tolkien's [[Letter 144]].<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=http://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1095797330127646721|articlename=“I wisely started with a map” — J.R.R. Tolkien|dated=13 February 2019|website=Twitter|accessed=30 January 2020}}</ref> On [[15 February]], the Twitter account released a map of Middle-earth along with a line of the [[Ring Verse]], over the next few weeks different versions of the map were released with each successive one including more labels than the previous as well as more lines from the verse. On [[7 March]], the final map was released which showed a wider view of Middle-earth, including the island of [[Númenor]] and the final post "Welcome to the Second Age".<ref name="AMSA"/> [[Tom Shippey]] and artist [[John Howe]] had worked on the accuracy of the maps, however dedicated [[Tolkien fandom|fans]] had detected several mistakes and anachronisms.<ref>{{webcite|articleurl=http://narniafans.com/2019/08/interview-with-narnia-conceptual-designer-john-howe/|articlename=Interview with John Howe|website=Narnia Fans|accessed=25 June 2020}}</ref>

The fact the series were going to be set in the [[Second Age]] was predicted by [[Tolkien Society]] Chair [[Shaun Gunner]] in February.<ref>{{webcite|website=Twitter|accessed=15 February 2020|dated=18 February 2019|articleurl=http://twitter.com/ShaunGunner/status/1097505289618841601|articlename=Shaun Gunner on Twitter}}</ref>

On [[27 July]] 2019, a video was published that introduced the creative team; [[J.D. Payne]] and [[Patrick McKay]] were announced as the showrunners, the writing team consisting of Gennifer Hutchison, Helen Shang, Jason Cahill, Glenise Mullins, Justin Dohle, Stephany Folsom and Bryan Cogman, Belén Atienza, Bruce Richmond, Gene Kelly and Lindsey Weber as executive producers, Ron Ames as co-producer, Kate Hawley as costume designer, Rick Heinrichs as production designer and Jason Smith as visual effects supervisor. The team will also include Tolkien scholar [[Tom Shippey]] and artist [[John Howe]]. [[J. A. Bayona|Bayona]] will direct the first two episodes.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=http://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1155142047420080129|articlename=''Meet our Fellowship''|dated=27 July 2019|website=Twitter|accessed=30 January 2020}}</ref> In an interview with the German Tolkien Society, scholar [[Tom Shippey]] stated that events from the First and Third Ages are "off-limits".<ref>{{webcite|author=Tobias M. Eckrich |articleurl=http://www.tolkiengesellschaft.de/30918/exklusive-interview-with-tom-shippey-concerning-lotronprime/|articlename=Exclusive interview with Tom Shippey concerning LOTRonPrime|dated=29 July 2019|website=[http://www.tolkiengesellschaft.de Deutche Tolkien Gesellschaft]|accessed=6 August 2019}}</ref>

On [[17 September]] 2019, Amazon Studios announced that the series first season would be filmed in New Zealand.<ref name="AMNZ"/>

On [[18 November]] 2019, Amazon Studios Head Jennifer Salke announced that the series has been renewed for a second season.<ref>{{webcite|author=Nellie Andreeva|articleurl=http://deadline.com/2019/11/the-lord-of-the-rings-series-renewed-season-2-amazon-early-renewal-season-1-hiatus-writers-room-reassembled-1202788730/|articlename=‘The Lord Of the Rings’ Series Gets Early Season 2 Renewal By Amazon, Sets Season 1 Hiatus|dated=18 November 2019|website=Deadline|accessed=17 March 2020}}</ref>

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, production of the series first season was suspended.<ref>{{webcite|author=Chris Keall|articleurl=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12316871|articlename=Coronavirus: Amazon's Lord of the Rings production in West Auckland shut down|dated=15 March 2020|website=[http://www.nzherald.co.nz/ The New Zealand Herald]|accessed=17 July 2020}}</ref> On 9 May 2020 the New Zealand Film Commission has allowed the production of film and TV to continue in the country.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=12330716|articlename=Covid 19 coronavirus: Avatar, Lord Of The Rings filming resumes in NZ|dated=9 May 2020|website=[http://www.nzherald.co.nz/ The New Zealand Herald]|accessed=17 July 2020}}</ref>

In December 2020, [[Bryan Cogman]] left the series for Entertainment One, after completing work on the scripts for the first season.<ref>{{webcite|author=Lesley Goldberg |articleurl=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/bryan-cogman-moves-overall-deal-to-eone-exclusive|articlename=Bryan Cogman Moves Overall Deal to eOne (Exclusive)|dated=7 December 2020|website=The Hollywood Reporter|accessed=15 December 2020}}</ref>

On [[24 March]] [[2021]], Amazon Studios announced that [[Wayne Che Yip]] had joined the creative team, as both a co-executive producer and director.<ref>{{webcite|author=Matt Grobar|articleurl=http://deadline.com/2021/03/wayne-che-yip-boards-lord-of-the-rings-series-director-co-ep-amazon-studios-1234720477/|articlename=Wayne Che Yip Boards ‘The Lord Of The Rings’ Series As Director & Co-EP, Will Helm Four Episodes Of Amazon Original|dated=24 March 2021|website=[http://deadline.com/ Deadline]|accessed=5 April 2021}}</ref>

In May 2021, it was announced that [[Charlotte Brändström]] would direct another two episodes.<ref>{{webcite|author=Matt Grobar|articleurl=https://deadline.com/2021/05/the-witcher-charlotte-brandstrom-amazons-the-lord-of-the-rings-series-1234755360/|articlename=‘The Witcher’ Director Charlotte Brändström Joins Amazon’s ‘The Lord Of The Rings’ Series
|dated=13 May 2021|website=[http://deadline.com/ Deadline]|accessed=21 August 2021}}</ref>

In September 2021, it was reported that [[Howard Shore]] and [[Bear McCreary]] were in talks to compose the soundtrack for the series.<ref>{{webcite|articleurl=https://www.theonering.net/torwp/2021/09/19/111495-howard-shore-and-bear-mccreary-to-soundtrack-lotr-on-prime-series/|articlename=Howard Shore and Bear McCreary to soundtrack LOTR on Prime series|dated=September 19, 2021|website=TheOneRing.net|accessed=September 20, 2021}}</ref> In July 2022, it was officially announced their hiring, with McCreary announced to be composing the score and Shore to be writing the main title theme.<ref>{{webcite|articleurl=https://www.rollingstone.co.uk/tv/news/bear-mccreary-confirmed-as-composer-of-the-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-20549/|articlename=Composer Bear McCreary to score ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’|dated=July 21, 2022|website=Rolling Stone UK|accessed=December 03, 2022}}</ref>

On [[3 October]] 2022, production for the second season of the series begun in the United Kingdom.<ref>{{webcite|articleurl=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/the-rings-of-power-season-2-filming-1235231978/|articlename=The Rings of Power' Season 2 Starts Production in the U.K.|dated=July 21, 2022|website=The Hollywood Reporter|accessed=December 03, 2022}}</ref>

=== Casting ===
On 22 July 2019, it was reported that Amazon has made its first cast for the new series that Markella Kavenagh was in talks to play a character named "Tyra".<ref>{{webcite|author=Joe Otterson|articleurl=http://variety.com/2019/tv/news/lord-of-the-rings-series-amazon-cast-markella-kavenagh-1203268175|articlename=‘Lord of the Rings’ Series at Amazon Taps First Cast Member (EXCLUSIVE)|dated=22 July 2019|website=[http://variety.com/ Variety]|accessed=22 October 2019}}</ref>

Will Poulter was cast for an unknown role in September 2019<ref>{{webcite|author=Joe Otterson|articleurl=http://variety.com/2019/tv/news/lord-of-the-rings-series-amazon-will-poulter-cast-1203321951/|articlename=‘Lord of The Rings’ Series at Amazon Casts Will Poulter (EXCLUSIVE)|dated=4 September 2019|website=[http://variety.com/ Variety]|accessed=22 October 2019}}</ref> however in December it was reported that he left the series due to scheduling conflicts.<ref>{{webcite|author=Joe Otterson|articleurl=http://variety.com/2019/tv/news/lord-of-the-rings-series-amazon-will-poulter-1203433273/|articlename=‘Lord of the Rings’: Will Poulter No Longer Attached to Amazon Series (EXCLUSIVE)|dated=12 December 2019|website=[http://variety.com/ Variety]|accessed=13 December 2019}}</ref> This was later confirmed by Poulter in an interview.<ref>{{webcite|author=Will Richards|articleurl=http://www.nme.com/news/tv/will-poulter-explains-why-he-left-amazons-lord-of-the-rings-tv-series-2706105|articlename=Will Poulter explains why he left Amazon's 'Lord Of The Rings' TV series|dated=12 July 2020|website=[http://www.nme.com/ NME]|accessed=17 July 2020}}</ref> He was replaced by Robert Aramayo who was reported to be playing a character named "Beldor".<ref>{{webcite|author=Nellie Andreeva|articleurl=http://deadline.com/2020/01/robert-aramayo-cast-the-lord-of-the-rings-amazon-tv-series-game-of-thrones-alum-cast-1202823073/|articlename='The Lord Of the Rings': Robert Aramayo To Star In Amazon TV Series|dated=7 January 2020|website=Deadline|accessed=15 January 2020}}</ref>

In October 2019, it was reported that Maxim Baldry<ref>{{webcite|author=Jeff Sneider|articleurl=http://collider.com/lord-of-the-rings-tv-series-cast-maxim-baldry/|articlename=Exclusive: ‘Lord of the Rings’ TV Series Adds ‘Years and Years’ Star Maxim Baldry|dated=15 October 2019|website=Collider|accessed=13 December 2019}}</ref> and Joseph Mawle has joined the cast, the latter playing "Oren", the lead villain of the series.<ref>{{webcite|author=Nellie Andreeva|articleurl=http://deadline.com/2019/10/the-lord-of-the-rings-joseph-mawle-cast-star-amazon-series-oren-game-of-thrones-alum-1202765493/|articlename='The Lord Of The Rings': Joseph Mawle To Star In Amazon Series|dated=21 October 2019|website=Deadline|accessed=22 October 2019}}</ref>

In December 2019, there were reports of Ema Horvath<ref>{{webcite|author=Nellie Andreeva|articleurl=http://deadline.com/2019/12/ema-horvath-cast-the-lord-of-the-rings-amazon-series-1202806025/|articlename=‘The Lord Of The Rings’: Ema Horvath Joins Cast Of Amazon Series|dated=10 December 2019|website=Deadline|accessed=13 December 2019}}</ref> and Morfydd Clark joinining the cast, it was said that Clark is to play a "young [[Galadriel]]".<ref>{{webcite|author=Justin Kroll|articleurl=http://variety.com/2019/tv/news/lord-of-the-rings-series-galadriel-morfydd-clark-1203446284/amp/|articlename='Lord of the Rings' Series Taps Morfydd Clark as Young Galadriel (EXCLUSIVE)|dated=17 December 2019|website=[http://variety.com/ Variety]|accessed=4 January 2020}}</ref>

On 15 January 2020, the series' official social media confirmed the castings of Kavenagh, Aramayo, Mawle, Horvath, and Clark, as well as revealing new members of the cast; Owain Arthur, Nazanin Boniadi, Tom Budge, Ismael Cruz Cordova, Tyroe Muhafidin, Sophia Nomvete, Megan Richards, Dylan Smith, Charlie Vickers, and Daniel Weyman.<ref name="Meet">{{webcite|author=|articleurl=http://www.facebook.com/LOTRonPrime/photos/?tab=album&album_id=2410457885934047|articlename=Meet the first members of our fellowship. #LOTRonPrime|dated=15 January 2020|website=Facebook|accessed=15 January 2020}}</ref>

In December 2020, it was announced that 20 actors have been added to the cast; Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Maxim Baldry (reported to have joined back in October 2019), Ian Blackburn, Kip Chapman, Anthony Crum, Maxine Cunliffe, Trystan Gravelle, Sir Lenny Henry, Thusitha Jayasundera, Fabian McCallum, Simon Merrells, Geoff Morrell, Peter Mullan, Lloyd Owen, Augustus Prew, Peter Tait, Alex Tarrant, Leon Wadham, Benjamin Walker and Sara Zwangobani.<ref name="VA20">{{webcite|author=Joe Otterson|articleurl=http://variety.com/2020/tv/news/lord-of-the-rings-series-amazon-cast-1234845274/|articlename=‘Lord of the Rings’ Series at Amazon Adds 20 Actors to Cast|dated=3 December 2020|website=[http://variety.com/ Variety]|accessed=3 December 2020}}</ref>

In March 2021, Tom Budge announced that he had departed the series after filming several episodes. He explained that Amazon had decided to go in a different direction with his character after reviewing the first episodes.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=http://www.instagram.com/p/CMZnFx-HkAp/|articlename=Tom Budge on Instagram|dated=14 March 2021|website=[http://instagram.com/ Instagram]|accessed=5 April 2021}}</ref>

In July 2021, Charles Edwards, Will Fletcher, Amelie Child-Villiers, and Beau Cassidy were added to the first season's cast.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/amazon-lord-of-the-rings-tv-series-cast-1234976309/|articlename=Amazon’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ Rounds Out Sprawling Cast (Exclusive)
|dated=1 July 2021|website=Hollywood Reporter|accessed=21 August 2021}}</ref> A third of the first season's 124 speaking roles, including seven of the 32 major recurring roles, went to New Zealand actors.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://www.newsroom.co.nz/page//govt-hopes-amazon-will-come-back-to-film-more-seasons|articlename=Return of the Rings: Govt hopes Amazon will come back to film more seasons
|dated=5 August 2021|website=[https://www.newsroom.co.nz Newsroom|accessed=21 August 2021}}</ref>

=== Filming ===
==== Season 1 ====
Although pre-production on the series reportedly began in June 2018 in [[Auckland]], filming began on [[14 March]] [[2020]]<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://www.gamespot.com//articles/lord-of-the-rings-tv-show-director-shares-a-behind/1100-6474422/|articlename=
Lord Of The Rings TV Show Director Shares A Behind-The-Scenes Photo
|dated=15 March 2020|website=[https://www.gamespot.com Gamespot]|accessed=25 August 2021}}</ref> in Auckland primarily at Kumeu Film Studios and Auckland Film Studios.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/entertainment/new-zealand-set-to-be-location-for-lord-of-the-rings-1-5-billion-tv-show/|articlename=New $1.5b LOTR TV series set to film in Auckland|dated=30 June 2019|website=[https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz Newstalk ZB]|accessed=25 August 2021}}</ref> Location filming took place around Auckland in February.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://www.theonering.net/torwp/2020/02/21/107557-exclusive-spy-report-from-the-set-of-amazons-lotr-with-photos/|articlename=EXCLUSIVE:Spy Report from the Set of Amazon's LOTR with photos |dated=21 February 2020|website=[https://deadline.com Deadline]|accessed=26 December 2021}}</ref> Filming for the first two episodes was expected to continue through May,<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/real-estate/118857705/lord-of-the-rings-tv-amazon-studios-puts-out-call-for-homes-for-cast-and-crew|articlename=Lord of the Rings TV: Amazon Studios puts out call for homes for cast and crew|dated=21 February 2020|website=[https://www.stuff.co.nz Stuff]|accessed=26 December 2021}}</ref> with a four or five-month production break then planned during which footage for the two episodes would be reviewed and writing on the second season would begin.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://deadline.com/2019/11/the-lord-of-the-rings-series-renewed-season-2-amazon-early-renewal-season-1-hiatus-writers-room-reassembled-1202788730/|articlename=
‘The Lord Of the Rings’ Series Gets Early Season 2 Renewal By Amazon, Sets Season 1 Hiatus
|dated=19 January 2020|website=[https://deadline.com DEADLINE]|accessed=26 December 2021}}</ref>Production was scheduled to resume in mid-October and continue until late June 2021.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/real-estate/118857705/lord-of-the-rings-tv-amazon-studios-puts-out-call-for-homes-for-cast-and-crew|articlename= Lord of the Rings TV: Amazon Studios puts out call for homes for cast and crew|dated=19 January 2020|website=[https://www.stuff.co.nz Stuff.co]|accessed=26 December 2021}}</ref> However, filming was placed on hold indefinitely in mid-March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with around 800 cast and crew members told to stay home.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/coronavirus-amazons-lord-of-the-rings-production-in-west-auckland-shut-down/JZE3ZEXWQQIQJXH4KYENFR3LRY/?c_id=3&objectid=12316871|articlename=
Coronavirus: Amazon's Lord of the Rings production in West Auckland shut down
|dated=15 March 2020|website=[https://www.nzherald.co.nz NZherald]|accessed=26 December 2021}}</ref> In early May, the majority of filming for the first two episodes was confirmed to have been completed before the COVID-19 shutdown. Filming on the series was allowed to resume then under new safety guidelines from the New Zealand government, but, instead of completing filming for the first two episodes at that time, the filming shutdown segued into the intended production break, with filming for the first two episodes set to be completed once filming on further episodes was ready to begin.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://deadline.com/2020/05/new-zealand-returns-to-production-paving-way-for-avatar-sequels-to-resume-live-action-filming-1202929138/|articlename=
New Zealand Returns To Production, Paving Way For ‘Avatar’ Sequels & ‘The Lord Of The Rings’ Series To Resume Filming |dated=7 May 2020|website=[https://deadline.com Deadline]|accessed=26 December 2021}}</ref>

It was reported that the TV series was one of seven film and television productions that were granted exemptions to allow cast and crew members to enter New Zealand while its borders were closed to non-New Zealanders due to [[Wikipedia:COVID-19|COVID-19]]. The exemptions were granted before [[June 18]] by Economic Development Minister Phil Twyford, and applied to 93 members of the production as well as 20 family members. Around 10 percent of the series' crew were believed to be non-[[New Zealand|New Zealanders]], and many of them had remained in the country during its pandemic lockdown and did not require exemptions. Pre-production on further episodes began by July [[2020]],<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/122012197/revealed-the-six-productions-joining-avatar-in-getting-border-exemptions|articlename=
Revealed: The six productions joining Avatar in getting border exemptions
|dated=3 July 2020|website=[https://www.stuff.co.nz Stuff.co]|accessed=26 December 2021}}</ref> and filming on the series resumed on [[September 28]].<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://deadline.com/2020/09/the-lord-of-the-rings-resumes-production-amazon-new-zealand-cowboy-bebop-netflix-dtart-of-production-1234584918/|articlename=
Amazon’s ‘The Lord Of The Rings’ Resumes Production In New Zealand, Netflix’s ‘Cowboy Bebop’ Next
|dated=28 September 2020|website=[https://deadline.com Deadline]|accessed=26 December 2021}}</ref> Bayona completed filming on his episodes by December 23,<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/amazons-lord-of-the-rings-pilot-wrapped-filming/|articlename= Amazon's Lord Of The Rings Pilot Has Wrapped Filming
|dated=25 December 2020|website=[https://comicbook.com ComicBook]|accessed=26 December 2021}}</ref> with production on further episodes set to begin in January 2021 following a two week break for Christmas.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/spy-lunch-of-the-rings-the-lotr-star-spotted-on-waiheke/WFTPOF2VTQ272HKL6NT2QLHHQI/|articlename=
Spy: Lunch of the Rings? The LOTR star spotted on Waiheke
|dated=19 December 2020|website=[https://www.nzherald.co.nz NZherald]|accessed=26 December 2021}}</ref> Yip confirmed that he had begun filming his episodes by March,<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/lord-of-the-rings-amazon-wayne-che-yip-1234936829/|articlename= ‘Lord of the Rings’ Series Adds Director Wayne Che Yip as Co-Executive Producer
|dated=24 March 2021|website=[https://variety.com Variety]|accessed=26 December 2021}}</ref> and Brändström was in New Zealand for production on the series when she was announced as director in May.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://deadline.com/2021/05/the-witcher-charlotte-brandstrom-amazons-the-lord-of-the-rings-series-1234755360/|articlename= ‘The Witcher’ Director Charlotte Brändström Joins Amazon’s ‘The Lord Of The Rings’ Series |dated=13 May 2021|website=[https://deadline.com Deadline]|accessed=26 December 2021}}</ref>

==== Season 2 ====

== Marketing ==
=== Season 1 ===
[[File:The Rings of Power (TV series) - Galadriel poster.jpg|thumb|250px|One of the promotional posters released in February 2022]]
On [[19 January]] 2022, Amazon revealed of the series' full title. Instead of creating a title reveal with visual effects, the studio released an announcement video in which the letters of the title are physically cast from molten metal while an excerpt of the "[[Ring Verse]]" from ''The Lord of the Rings'' is read in voiceover. The video was directed by Klaus Obermeyer, who worked with special effects supervisor Lee Nelson under advisement by veteran special effects supervisor [[Douglas Trumbull]].<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2022/01/19/111840-prime-videos-the-lord-of-the-rings-title-reveal-exclusive-behind-the-scenes-images/|articlename=Prime Video's The Lord of the Rings TITLE REVEAL - EXCLUSIVE Behind the Scenes images|dated=3 February 2022|website=[https://www.polygon.com/ Polygon]|accessed=4 February 2022}}</ref><ref>{{webcite|author=@LOTRonPrime|articleurl=http://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1483816516327915522?cxt=HHwWhICq-dHQyZcpAAAA|articlename=Title Announcement|dated=19 January 2022|website=Twitter|accessed=19 January 2022}}</ref>

On [[3 February]], Amazon Studios revealed a series of character posters for the series.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://www.polygon.com/22915948/lord-of-the-rings-of-power-characters-posters|articlename=Amazon’s first Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power character posters are a guessing game|dated=4 February 2022|website=[https://www.polygon.com/ Polygon]|accessed=4 February 2022}}</ref> On 10 February, a "first look" was revealed with photos of some of the characters,<ref name="VanityFair">{{webcite|author=Anthony Breznican & Joanna Robinson|articleurl=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/02/amazon-the-rings-of-power-series-first-look|articlename=Amazon’s Lord of the Rings Series Rises: Inside The Rings of Power
|dated=10-Feb-2022|website=VanityFair|accessed=20-July-2022}}</ref> followed by the release of the teaser trailer on 13 February during Super Bowl LVI.<ref>{{webcite|author=Erin Carson and Jennifer Bisset|articleurl=https://www.cnet.com/culture/entertainment/amazon-introduces-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-in-new-trailer/|articlename=Amazon Introduces 'Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power' in New Trailer|website=[http://www.cnet.com/ CNet]|accessed=9 April 2022}}</ref> The official watch party for the trailer was hosted on YouTube by [[TheOneRing.net]].<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2022/02/07/111973-official-lotr-trailer-watch-party-for-prime-videos-rings-of-power-to-be-hosted-by-torn/|articlename=Official LOTR Trailer Watch party for Prime Video’s Rings of Power to be hosted by TORn!|website=[https://www.theonering.net/ TheOneRing.net]|accessed=9 April 2022}}</ref>

On [[14 July]], Amazon released another trailer for the series online.<ref>{{webcite|author=William Goodman|articleurl=https://www.gq.com/story/lord-of-the-rings-rings-of-power-trailer|articlename=What the ‘Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power’ Trailer Reveals About the New Prequel Series
|dated=14 July 2022|website=[https://www.gq.com Get Go]|accessed=22 July 2022}}</ref>

On [[23 August]], Amazon released the final trailer for the first season's series online.<ref>{{webcite|author=James White|articleurl=https://www.empireonline.com/tv/news/lotr-the-rings-of-powers-final-trailer-shows-off-giant-battles-and-epic-scale/|articlename=LOTR: The Rings Of Power’s Final Trailer Shows Off Giant Battles And Epic Scale
|dated=23 August 2022|website=[https://www.empireonline.com/ EmpireOnline]|accessed=04 October 2022}}</ref>

=== Season 2 ===

== Reception ==
The first season of the series received mixed reviews,<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_lord_of_the_rings_the_rings_of_power|articlename=The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power|dated=|website=[https://www.rottentomatoes.com/ Rotten Tomatoes]|accessed=2 October 2022}}</ref><ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7631058/|articlename=The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power|dated=|website=[https://www.imdb.com/ IMDB]|accessed=2 October 2022}}</ref> with generally positive critical and generally negative audience scores on review aggregation websites.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://www.metacritic.com/tv/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power/season-1|articlename=The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power|dated=|website=[https://www.metacritic.com/ Metacritic]|accessed=14 October 2022}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[:Category:Images from The Rings of Power (TV series)|Images from ''The Rings of Power'' TV series]]
* [[The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 1 Soundtrack|''The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power'' Season 1 Soundtrack]]

== External links ==
* [http://www.amazon.com/adlp/lotronprime Official website]
* [http://www.facebook.com/LOTRonPrime/ Official Facebook page]
* [http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5gNthckomHt36m9-WH042Q/ Youtube channel]
* [https://www.fandom.com/articles/lord-rings-power-hidden-character-details ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ Cast Reveal New Character Details] on Fandom
* [https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/entertainment/lord-of-the-rings-numenor-images Númenor revealed in new Lord of the Rings series] on Amazon
* [https://www.looper.com/962547/robert-aramayo-sheds-light-on-a-younger-elrond-in-rings-of-power-exclusive-interview/ Robert Aramayo Sheds Light On A Younger Elrond In Rings Of Power - Exclusive Interview] on Looper
* [https://time.com/6205837/the-rings-of-power-amazon-most-expensive/ Inside Rings of Power, Amazon's Lord of the Rings Prequel] on Time

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| name=The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
| director=
| producer=[[J.D. Payne]] (showrunner) [[Patrick McKay]] (showrunner) Christina Morgan (executive producer) Lindsey Weber (executive producer) [[Callum Greene]] (executive producer) Justin Doble (executive producer) Gennifer Hutchison (executive producer) Jason Cahill (executive producer) [[J. A. Bayona]] (executive producer) Belén Atienza (executive producer) Eugene Kelly (executive producer) Bruce Richmond (executive producer) Sharon Tal Yguado (executive Producer) Ron Ames Chris Newman
| writer='''Novels:''' [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] '''Screenplay:''' John D. Payne and Patrick McKay (mainly)
| narrator=
| starring=''[[#Cast and characters|see below]]''
| music=[[Bear McCreary]] [[Howard Shore]] (main theme)
| cinematography=
| editing=
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| released=[[1 September]] [[2022]] (''[[A Shadow of the Past]]'' & ''[[Adrift]]'')
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'''''The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power''''', originally marketed as '''''The Lord of the Rings on Prime''''', is an online television series based on the writings of [[J.R.R. Tolkien]], namely ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' and its [[The Lord of the Rings Appendices|Appendices]]. It is created and produced by [[Amazon Studios]] working alongside the [[Tolkien Estate]], the [[The Tolkien Trust|Tolkien Trust]], [[HarperCollins]] and [[New Line Cinema]]. Set in the [[Second Age]] of [[Middle-earth]],<ref name="AMSA">{{webcite|author=|articleurl=http://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1103656946509344768|articlename=Welcome to the Second Age:|dated=7 March 2019|website=Twitter|accessed=30 January 2020}}</ref> it explores new storylines preceding J.R.R. Tolkien's ''[[The Fellowship of the Ring]].''<ref name="AMNZ">{{webcite|author=|articleurl=http://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-studios-announces-new-zealand-location-its-upcoming|articlename=Amazon Studios Announces New Zealand as Location for Its Upcoming Series Based on The Lord of the Rings|dated=17 September 2019|website=Amazon|accessed=18 September 2019}}</ref> The story, which in Tolkien's writings spanned thousands of years, is condensed into a single point in time to avoid time jumps in the interest of narrative cohesion.<ref name="VanityFair"></ref> The first two episodes were released on [[1 September]] of [[2022]]<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://www.whathifi.com/advice/how-to-watch-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-release-date-trailer-cast-episodes|articlename=How to watch Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power – release date, trailer, cast, episodes available now|dated=2 September 2022|website=[https://www.whathifi.com/ What Hi-Fi]|accessed=10 October 2022}}</ref>, although they were originally scheduled to be released on [[2 September]] of the same year, the anniversary of J.R.R. Tolkien's death.<ref>{{webcite|author=@LOTRonPrime|articleurl=http://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1422255647106617359|articlename=A new journey beings|dated=2 August 2021|website=Twitter|accessed=2 August 2021}}</ref>

== Premise ==
{{blockquote|Amazon Studios' forthcoming series brings to screens for the very first time the heroic legends of the fabled Second Age of Middle-earth's history. This epic drama is set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, 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 the greatest villain that ever flowed from Tolkien's pen threatened to cover all the world in darkness. Beginning in a time of relative peace, the series follows an ensemble cast of characters, both familiar and new, as they confront the long-feared re-emergence of evil to Middle-earth. From the darkest depths of the Misty Mountains, to the majestic forests of the elf-capital of Lindon, to the breathtaking island kingdom of Númenor, to the furthest reaches of the map, these kingdoms and characters will carve out legacies that live on long after they are gone.|Official synopsis<ref>{{webcite|author=Justin Sewell|articleurl=http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2021/01/12/110065-exclusive-official-show-synopsis-for-amazons-lord-of-the-rings-series/|articlename=EXCLUSIVE: Official Show Synopsis for Amazon’s LORD OF THE RINGS Series|dated=12 January 2021|website=[http://www.theonering.net TheOneRing]|accessed=13 January 2021}}</ref>}}

== Source material and copyrights ==
The showrunners said that they wish to "come up with the novel Tolkien never wrote and do it as the mega-event series".<ref name="VanityFair"></ref> They explained that they only have the copyrights to adapt ''[[The Hobbit]]'' and ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' along with its [[Appendices]], without the rights to ''[[The Silmarillion]]'', ''[[Unfinished Tales]]'' or other books that contain the vast majority of Tolkien's writings on the [[Second Age]].<ref name="VFQuestions">{{webcite|author=burning questions about amazons the rings of power|articleurl= https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/02/10-burning-questions-about-amazons-the-rings-of-power |articlename=Amazon’s Lord of the Rings Series: FAQ|dated=14 February 2022|website=[https://www.vanityfair.com/ Vanity Fair]|accessed=16 February 2022}}</ref>

== Episodes ==
=== [[The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - Season 1|Season 1]] ===
# [[A Shadow of the Past]]
# [[Adrift]]
# [[Adar (episode)|Adar]]
# [[The Great Wave]]
# [[Partings]]
# [[Udûn (episode)|Udûn]]
# [[The Eye]]
# [[Alloyed]]

=== [[The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - Season 2|Season 2]] ===

== Cast and characters ==
''In alphabetical order''
=== Main cast introduced in Season 1 ===
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! Actor !! Role
|-
| [[Cynthia Addai-Robinson]] || [[Tar-Míriel|Queen Regent Míriel]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1547418520400658432|articlename=Cynthia Addai-Robinson is Queen Regent Míriel|dated=14 February 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=14 February 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Robert Aramayo]] || [[Elrond]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1492167519439925260|articlename=Robert Aramayo is Elrond. #LOTRROP|dated=9 June 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=11 June 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Owain Arthur]] || [[Durin IV|Prince Durin IV]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1492168323051802626|articlename=Owain Arthur is Prince Durin IV. #LOTRROP|dated=9 June 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=11 June 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Maxim Baldry]] || [[Isildur]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1547417633603059712|articlename=Maxim Baldry is Isildur|dated=14 February 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=14 February 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Nazanin Boniadi]] || [[Bronwyn]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1492168861403299841|articlename=Nazanin Boniadi is Bronwyn. #LOTRROP|dated=9 June 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=11 June 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Morfydd Clark]] || [[Galadriel]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1492167351902609413|articlename=Morfydd Clark is Galadriel. #LOTRROP|dated=9 June 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=11 June 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Ismael Cruz Córdova]] || [[Arondir]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1492168672051445771|articlename=Ismael Cruz Cordova is Arondir. #LOTRROP|dated=9 June 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=11 June 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Charles Edwards]] || [[Celebrimbor|Lord Celebrimbor]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1534220750311174144|articlename=Charles Edwards is Celebrimbor|dated=14 February 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=14 February 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Trystan Gravelle]] || [[Pharazôn]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1547418058515521537|articlename=Trystan Gravelle is Pharazôn|dated=14 February 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=14 February 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Lenny Henry|Sir Lenny Henry]] || [[Sadoc Burrows]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1533945721929420800#m|articlename=Sir Lenny Henry is Sadoc Burrows. #LOTRROP|dated=9 June 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=11 June 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Ema Horvath]] || [[Eärien]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1547417835961552896|articlename=Ema Horvath is Eärien|dated=14 February 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=14 February 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Markella Kavenagh]] || [[Elanor Brandyfoot|Elanor 'Nori' Brandyfoot]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1493253881651937283|articlename=Markella Kavenagh is Elanor ‘Nori’ Brandyfoot|dated=14 February 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=14 February 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Joseph Mawle]] || [[Adar (The Rings of Power)|Adar]]
|-
| [[Tyroe Muhafidin]] || [[Theo]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://mobile.twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1516457306497581056|articlename=Tyroe Muhafidin is Theo. #LOTRROP #RingsofPower|dated=19 April 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=19 April 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Sophia Nomvete]] || [[Disa|Princess Disa]] <ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1492168418358874123|articlename=Sophia Nomvete is Princess Disa. #LOTRROP|dated=9 June 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=11 June 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Lloyd Owen]] || [[Elendil|Captain Elendil]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1547417424361885696|articlename=Lloyd Owen is Elendil|dated=14 February 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=14 February 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Megan Richards]] || [[Poppy Proudfellow]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1534982703908433920#m|articlename=Megan Richards is Poppy Proudfellow. #LOTRROP|dated=9 June 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=11 June 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Dylan Smith]] || [[Largo Brandyfoot]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1534982400869945344#m|articlename=Dylan Smith is Largo Brandyfoot. #LOTRROP|dated=9 June 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=11 June 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Charlie Vickers]] || [[Halbrand]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1492169017741778944|articlename=Charlie Vickers is Halbrand. #LOTRROP|dated=9 June 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=11 June 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Leon Wadham]] || [[Kemen (The Rings of Power)|Kemen]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1547418271141560321|articlename=Leon Wadham is Kemen|dated=14 February 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=14 February 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Benjamin Walker]] || [[Gil-galad|High King Gil-galad]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1493253777415098372|articlename=Benjamin Walker is High King Gil-galad|dated=14 February 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=14 February 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Daniel Weyman]] || [[The Stranger]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1493253972639076352|articlename=Daniel Weyman is The Stranger|dated=14 February 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=14 February 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Sara Zwangobani]] || [[Marigold Brandyfoot]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1534982566448533504#m|articlename=Sara Zwangobani is Marigold Brandyfoot. #LOTRROP|dated=9 June 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=11 June 2022}}</ref>
|}

=== Introduced in Season 2 ===
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! Actor !! Role
|-
| Unknown actor || [[Círdan]]<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://time.com/6205027/cirdan-the-rings-of-power-season-2/|articlename=Exclusive: This Fan-Favorite Character Is Joining the Second Season of The Rings of Power|dated=15 August 2022|website=Time.com|accessed=4 January 2023}}</ref>
|-
| [[Samuel Hazeldine]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1598337442565820418|articlename=Welcome Sam Hazeldine (@samuelhazeldine) to the cast of #TheRingsOfPower! (4/7)|dated=1 December 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=5 February 2023}}</ref> || [[Adar (The Rings of Power)|Adar]]<ref name="IMBD">https://m.imdb.com/title/tt13580784/?ref_=m_ttep_ep_ep1</ref>
|-
| [[Gabriel Akuwudike]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1598333935305490433|articlename=Welcome Gabriel Akuwudike to the cast of #TheRingsOfPower! (1/7)|dated=1 December 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=5 February 2023}}</ref> || TBA
|-
| [[Oliver Alvin-Wilson]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1600507964863004672|articlename=Join us in welcoming Oliver Alvin-Wilson (@Oliver_A_Wilson) to the cast of #TheRingsOfPower! (1/8)|dated=7 December 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=5 February 2023}}</ref> || TBA
|-
| [[Yasen Atour]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1598334954622042112|articlename=Welcome Yasen ‘Zates’ Atour (@YasenAtour) to the cast of #TheRingsOfPower! (2/7)|dated=1 December 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=5 February 2023}}</ref> || TBA
|-
| [[Stuart Bowman]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1600509263301976064|articlename=Join us in welcoming Stuart Bowman (@stuartbowman) to the cast of #TheRingsOfPower! (2/8)|dated=7 December 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=5 February 2023}}</ref> || TBA
|-
| [[Gavi Singh Chera]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1600510517084409858|articlename=Join us in welcoming Gavi Singh Chera to the cast of #TheRingsOfPower! (3/8)|dated=7 December 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=5 February 2023}}</ref> || TBA
|-
| [[William Chubb]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1600511729787699205|articlename=Join us in welcoming William Chubb to the cast of #TheRingsOfPower! (4/8)|dated=7 December 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=5 February 2023}}</ref> || TBA
|-
| [[Ben Daniels]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1598336189869699072|articlename=Welcome Ben Daniels to the cast of #TheRingsOfPower! (3/7)|dated=1 December 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=5 February 2023}}</ref> || TBA
|-
| [[Kevin Eldon]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1600513054747361280|articlename=Join us in welcoming Kevin Eldon (@ItsKevinEldon) to the cast of #TheRingsOfPower! (5/8)|dated=7 December 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=5 February 2023}}</ref> || TBA
|-
| [[Ciarán Hinds]] || TBA
|-
| [[William Keen]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1600514258411917312|articlename=Join us in welcoming Will Keen to the cast of #TheRingsOfPower! (6/8)|dated=7 December 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=5 February 2023}}</ref> || TBA
|-
| [[Amelia Kenworthy]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1598338715633565702|articlename=Welcome Amelia Kenworthy (@ameliakenworthy) to the cast of #TheRingsOfPower! (5/7)|dated=1 December 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=5 February 2023}}</ref> || TBA
|-
| [[Rory Michael Kinnear]] || TBA
|-
| [[Selina Lo]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1600515507895033857|articlename=Join us in welcoming Selina Lo (@itsselinalo) to the cast of #TheRingsOfPower! (7/8)|dated=7 December 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=5 February 2023}}</ref> || TBA
|-
| [[Calam Lynch]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1600516761618714628|articlename=Join us in welcoming Calam Lynch (@CalamLynch94) to the cast of #TheRingsOfPower! (8/8)|dated=7 December 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=5 February 2023}}</ref> || TBA
|-
| [[Tanya Moodie]] || TBA
|-
| [[Nia Towle]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1598339999946113024|articlename=Welcome Nia Towle to the cast of #TheRingsOfPower! (6/7)|dated=1 December 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=5 February 2023}}</ref> || TBA
|-
| [[Nicholas Woodeson]]<ref>{{webcite|author=The Lord of the Rings on Prime|articleurl=https://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1598341285018058755|articlename=Welcome Nicholas Woodeson (@NickWoodeson) to the cast of #TheRingsOfPower! (7/7)|dated=1 December 2022|website=[https://twitter.com Twitter]|accessed=5 February 2023}}</ref> || TBA
|}

== Production ==
=== Development ===
[[File:The Rings of Power (TV series) - Middle-earth map 1.jpg|thumb|300px|Fourth map of Middle-earth, released by Amazon on 6 March 2019]]
On [[3 November]] [[2017]], it was reported that Amazon Studios were in discussion with Warner Bros. Television and the [[Tolkien Estate]] about developing a series based on ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''.<ref>{{webcite|author=Daniel Holloway|articleurl=http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/lord-of-the-rings-amazon-1202606519/|articlename='Lord of the Rings': Amazon, Warner Bros. in Talks for Series Adaptation (EXCLUSIVE)|dated=3 November 2017|website=[http://variety.com/ Variety]|accessed=30 January 2020}}</ref> Later, in November, Amazon Studios announced they have secured the rights to develop a multi-season television series set in Middle-earth with the potential for spin-offs.<ref>{{webcite|author=Joe Otterson|articleurl=http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/lord-of-the-rings-tv-series-amazon-1202613609/|articlename=‘Lord of the Rings’ Series Moving Forward at Amazon With Multi-Season Production Commitment|dated=13 November 2017|website=[http://variety.com/ Variety]|accessed=31 July 2019}}</ref> The rights have been said to have cost close to $250 million.<ref name="DLAZ">{{webcite|author=Nellie Andreeva|articleurl=http://deadline.com/2017/11/amazon-the-lord-of-the-rings-tv-series-multi-season-commitment-1202207065/|articlename=Amazon Sets ‘The Lord of the Rings’ TV Series In Mega Deal With Multi-Season Commitment|dated=13 November 2017|website=Deadline|accessed=30 January 2020}}</ref> Amazon Studios would cooperate in the production with the Tolkien Estate, [[The Tolkien Trust]], [[HarperCollins]] and [[New Line Cinema]].<ref name="DLAZ"/>

On [[13 February]] [[2019]], Amazon's then newly created [http://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime Twitter account] associated with the show posted the quote "I wisely started with a map.", taken from Tolkien's [[Letter 144]].<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=http://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1095797330127646721|articlename=“I wisely started with a map” — J.R.R. Tolkien|dated=13 February 2019|website=Twitter|accessed=30 January 2020}}</ref> On [[15 February]], the Twitter account released a map of Middle-earth along with a line of the [[Ring Verse]], over the next few weeks different versions of the map were released with each successive one including more labels than the previous as well as more lines from the verse. On [[7 March]], the final map was released which showed a wider view of Middle-earth, including the island of [[Númenor]] and the final post "Welcome to the Second Age".<ref name="AMSA"/> [[Tom Shippey]] and artist [[John Howe]] had worked on the accuracy of the maps, however dedicated [[Tolkien fandom|fans]] had detected several mistakes and anachronisms.<ref>{{webcite|articleurl=http://narniafans.com/2019/08/interview-with-narnia-conceptual-designer-john-howe/|articlename=Interview with John Howe|website=Narnia Fans|accessed=25 June 2020}}</ref>

The fact the series were going to be set in the [[Second Age]] was predicted by [[Tolkien Society]] Chair [[Shaun Gunner]] in February.<ref>{{webcite|website=Twitter|accessed=15 February 2020|dated=18 February 2019|articleurl=http://twitter.com/ShaunGunner/status/1097505289618841601|articlename=Shaun Gunner on Twitter}}</ref>

On [[27 July]] 2019, a video was published that introduced the creative team; [[J.D. Payne]] and [[Patrick McKay]] were announced as the showrunners, the writing team consisting of Gennifer Hutchison, Helen Shang, Jason Cahill, Glenise Mullins, Justin Dohle, Stephany Folsom and Bryan Cogman, Belén Atienza, Bruce Richmond, Gene Kelly and Lindsey Weber as executive producers, Ron Ames as co-producer, Kate Hawley as costume designer, Rick Heinrichs as production designer and Jason Smith as visual effects supervisor. The team will also include Tolkien scholar [[Tom Shippey]] and artist [[John Howe]]. [[J. A. Bayona|Bayona]] will direct the first two episodes.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=http://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1155142047420080129|articlename=''Meet our Fellowship''|dated=27 July 2019|website=Twitter|accessed=30 January 2020}}</ref> In an interview with the German Tolkien Society, scholar [[Tom Shippey]] stated that events from the First and Third Ages are "off-limits".<ref>{{webcite|author=Tobias M. Eckrich |articleurl=http://www.tolkiengesellschaft.de/30918/exklusive-interview-with-tom-shippey-concerning-lotronprime/|articlename=Exclusive interview with Tom Shippey concerning LOTRonPrime|dated=29 July 2019|website=[http://www.tolkiengesellschaft.de Deutche Tolkien Gesellschaft]|accessed=6 August 2019}}</ref>

On [[17 September]] 2019, Amazon Studios announced that the series first season would be filmed in New Zealand.<ref name="AMNZ"/>

On [[18 November]] 2019, Amazon Studios Head Jennifer Salke announced that the series has been renewed for a second season.<ref>{{webcite|author=Nellie Andreeva|articleurl=http://deadline.com/2019/11/the-lord-of-the-rings-series-renewed-season-2-amazon-early-renewal-season-1-hiatus-writers-room-reassembled-1202788730/|articlename=‘The Lord Of the Rings’ Series Gets Early Season 2 Renewal By Amazon, Sets Season 1 Hiatus|dated=18 November 2019|website=Deadline|accessed=17 March 2020}}</ref>

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, production of the series first season was suspended.<ref>{{webcite|author=Chris Keall|articleurl=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12316871|articlename=Coronavirus: Amazon's Lord of the Rings production in West Auckland shut down|dated=15 March 2020|website=[http://www.nzherald.co.nz/ The New Zealand Herald]|accessed=17 July 2020}}</ref> On 9 May 2020 the New Zealand Film Commission has allowed the production of film and TV to continue in the country.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=12330716|articlename=Covid 19 coronavirus: Avatar, Lord Of The Rings filming resumes in NZ|dated=9 May 2020|website=[http://www.nzherald.co.nz/ The New Zealand Herald]|accessed=17 July 2020}}</ref>

In December 2020, [[Bryan Cogman]] left the series for Entertainment One, after completing work on the scripts for the first season.<ref>{{webcite|author=Lesley Goldberg |articleurl=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/bryan-cogman-moves-overall-deal-to-eone-exclusive|articlename=Bryan Cogman Moves Overall Deal to eOne (Exclusive)|dated=7 December 2020|website=The Hollywood Reporter|accessed=15 December 2020}}</ref>

On [[24 March]] [[2021]], Amazon Studios announced that [[Wayne Che Yip]] had joined the creative team, as both a co-executive producer and director.<ref>{{webcite|author=Matt Grobar|articleurl=http://deadline.com/2021/03/wayne-che-yip-boards-lord-of-the-rings-series-director-co-ep-amazon-studios-1234720477/|articlename=Wayne Che Yip Boards ‘The Lord Of The Rings’ Series As Director & Co-EP, Will Helm Four Episodes Of Amazon Original|dated=24 March 2021|website=[http://deadline.com/ Deadline]|accessed=5 April 2021}}</ref>

In May 2021, it was announced that [[Charlotte Brändström]] would direct another two episodes.<ref>{{webcite|author=Matt Grobar|articleurl=https://deadline.com/2021/05/the-witcher-charlotte-brandstrom-amazons-the-lord-of-the-rings-series-1234755360/|articlename=‘The Witcher’ Director Charlotte Brändström Joins Amazon’s ‘The Lord Of The Rings’ Series
|dated=13 May 2021|website=[http://deadline.com/ Deadline]|accessed=21 August 2021}}</ref>

In September 2021, it was reported that [[Howard Shore]] and [[Bear McCreary]] were in talks to compose the soundtrack for the series.<ref>{{webcite|articleurl=https://www.theonering.net/torwp/2021/09/19/111495-howard-shore-and-bear-mccreary-to-soundtrack-lotr-on-prime-series/|articlename=Howard Shore and Bear McCreary to soundtrack LOTR on Prime series|dated=September 19, 2021|website=TheOneRing.net|accessed=September 20, 2021}}</ref> In July 2022, it was officially announced their hiring, with McCreary announced to be composing the score and Shore to be writing the main title theme.<ref>{{webcite|articleurl=https://www.rollingstone.co.uk/tv/news/bear-mccreary-confirmed-as-composer-of-the-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-20549/|articlename=Composer Bear McCreary to score ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’|dated=July 21, 2022|website=Rolling Stone UK|accessed=December 03, 2022}}</ref>

On [[3 October]] 2022, production for the second season of the series begun in the United Kingdom.<ref>{{webcite|articleurl=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/the-rings-of-power-season-2-filming-1235231978/|articlename=The Rings of Power' Season 2 Starts Production in the U.K.|dated=July 21, 2022|website=The Hollywood Reporter|accessed=December 03, 2022}}</ref>

=== Casting ===
On 22 July 2019, it was reported that Amazon has made its first cast for the new series that Markella Kavenagh was in talks to play a character named "Tyra".<ref>{{webcite|author=Joe Otterson|articleurl=http://variety.com/2019/tv/news/lord-of-the-rings-series-amazon-cast-markella-kavenagh-1203268175|articlename=‘Lord of the Rings’ Series at Amazon Taps First Cast Member (EXCLUSIVE)|dated=22 July 2019|website=[http://variety.com/ Variety]|accessed=22 October 2019}}</ref>

Will Poulter was cast for an unknown role in September 2019<ref>{{webcite|author=Joe Otterson|articleurl=http://variety.com/2019/tv/news/lord-of-the-rings-series-amazon-will-poulter-cast-1203321951/|articlename=‘Lord of The Rings’ Series at Amazon Casts Will Poulter (EXCLUSIVE)|dated=4 September 2019|website=[http://variety.com/ Variety]|accessed=22 October 2019}}</ref> however in December it was reported that he left the series due to scheduling conflicts.<ref>{{webcite|author=Joe Otterson|articleurl=http://variety.com/2019/tv/news/lord-of-the-rings-series-amazon-will-poulter-1203433273/|articlename=‘Lord of the Rings’: Will Poulter No Longer Attached to Amazon Series (EXCLUSIVE)|dated=12 December 2019|website=[http://variety.com/ Variety]|accessed=13 December 2019}}</ref> This was later confirmed by Poulter in an interview.<ref>{{webcite|author=Will Richards|articleurl=http://www.nme.com/news/tv/will-poulter-explains-why-he-left-amazons-lord-of-the-rings-tv-series-2706105|articlename=Will Poulter explains why he left Amazon's 'Lord Of The Rings' TV series|dated=12 July 2020|website=[http://www.nme.com/ NME]|accessed=17 July 2020}}</ref> He was replaced by Robert Aramayo who was reported to be playing a character named "Beldor".<ref>{{webcite|author=Nellie Andreeva|articleurl=http://deadline.com/2020/01/robert-aramayo-cast-the-lord-of-the-rings-amazon-tv-series-game-of-thrones-alum-cast-1202823073/|articlename='The Lord Of the Rings': Robert Aramayo To Star In Amazon TV Series|dated=7 January 2020|website=Deadline|accessed=15 January 2020}}</ref>

In October 2019, it was reported that Maxim Baldry<ref>{{webcite|author=Jeff Sneider|articleurl=http://collider.com/lord-of-the-rings-tv-series-cast-maxim-baldry/|articlename=Exclusive: ‘Lord of the Rings’ TV Series Adds ‘Years and Years’ Star Maxim Baldry|dated=15 October 2019|website=Collider|accessed=13 December 2019}}</ref> and Joseph Mawle has joined the cast, the latter playing "Oren", the lead villain of the series.<ref>{{webcite|author=Nellie Andreeva|articleurl=http://deadline.com/2019/10/the-lord-of-the-rings-joseph-mawle-cast-star-amazon-series-oren-game-of-thrones-alum-1202765493/|articlename='The Lord Of The Rings': Joseph Mawle To Star In Amazon Series|dated=21 October 2019|website=Deadline|accessed=22 October 2019}}</ref>

In December 2019, there were reports of Ema Horvath<ref>{{webcite|author=Nellie Andreeva|articleurl=http://deadline.com/2019/12/ema-horvath-cast-the-lord-of-the-rings-amazon-series-1202806025/|articlename=‘The Lord Of The Rings’: Ema Horvath Joins Cast Of Amazon Series|dated=10 December 2019|website=Deadline|accessed=13 December 2019}}</ref> and Morfydd Clark joinining the cast, it was said that Clark is to play a "young [[Galadriel]]".<ref>{{webcite|author=Justin Kroll|articleurl=http://variety.com/2019/tv/news/lord-of-the-rings-series-galadriel-morfydd-clark-1203446284/amp/|articlename='Lord of the Rings' Series Taps Morfydd Clark as Young Galadriel (EXCLUSIVE)|dated=17 December 2019|website=[http://variety.com/ Variety]|accessed=4 January 2020}}</ref>

On 15 January 2020, the series' official social media confirmed the castings of Kavenagh, Aramayo, Mawle, Horvath, and Clark, as well as revealing new members of the cast; Owain Arthur, Nazanin Boniadi, Tom Budge, Ismael Cruz Cordova, Tyroe Muhafidin, Sophia Nomvete, Megan Richards, Dylan Smith, Charlie Vickers, and Daniel Weyman.<ref name="Meet">{{webcite|author=|articleurl=http://www.facebook.com/LOTRonPrime/photos/?tab=album&album_id=2410457885934047|articlename=Meet the first members of our fellowship. #LOTRonPrime|dated=15 January 2020|website=Facebook|accessed=15 January 2020}}</ref>

In December 2020, it was announced that 20 actors have been added to the cast; Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Maxim Baldry (reported to have joined back in October 2019), Ian Blackburn, Kip Chapman, Anthony Crum, Maxine Cunliffe, Trystan Gravelle, Sir Lenny Henry, Thusitha Jayasundera, Fabian McCallum, Simon Merrells, Geoff Morrell, Peter Mullan, Lloyd Owen, Augustus Prew, Peter Tait, Alex Tarrant, Leon Wadham, Benjamin Walker and Sara Zwangobani.<ref name="VA20">{{webcite|author=Joe Otterson|articleurl=http://variety.com/2020/tv/news/lord-of-the-rings-series-amazon-cast-1234845274/|articlename=‘Lord of the Rings’ Series at Amazon Adds 20 Actors to Cast|dated=3 December 2020|website=[http://variety.com/ Variety]|accessed=3 December 2020}}</ref>

In March 2021, Tom Budge announced that he had departed the series after filming several episodes. He explained that Amazon had decided to go in a different direction with his character after reviewing the first episodes.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=http://www.instagram.com/p/CMZnFx-HkAp/|articlename=Tom Budge on Instagram|dated=14 March 2021|website=[http://instagram.com/ Instagram]|accessed=5 April 2021}}</ref>

In July 2021, Charles Edwards, Will Fletcher, Amelie Child-Villiers, and Beau Cassidy were added to the first season's cast.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/amazon-lord-of-the-rings-tv-series-cast-1234976309/|articlename=Amazon’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ Rounds Out Sprawling Cast (Exclusive)
|dated=1 July 2021|website=Hollywood Reporter|accessed=21 August 2021}}</ref> A third of the first season's 124 speaking roles, including seven of the 32 major recurring roles, went to New Zealand actors.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://www.newsroom.co.nz/page//govt-hopes-amazon-will-come-back-to-film-more-seasons|articlename=Return of the Rings: Govt hopes Amazon will come back to film more seasons
|dated=5 August 2021|website=[https://www.newsroom.co.nz Newsroom|accessed=21 August 2021}}</ref>

=== Filming ===
==== Season 1 ====
Although pre-production on the series reportedly began in June 2018 in [[Auckland]], filming began on [[14 March]] [[2020]]<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://www.gamespot.com//articles/lord-of-the-rings-tv-show-director-shares-a-behind/1100-6474422/|articlename=
Lord Of The Rings TV Show Director Shares A Behind-The-Scenes Photo
|dated=15 March 2020|website=[https://www.gamespot.com Gamespot]|accessed=25 August 2021}}</ref> in Auckland primarily at Kumeu Film Studios and Auckland Film Studios.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/entertainment/new-zealand-set-to-be-location-for-lord-of-the-rings-1-5-billion-tv-show/|articlename=New $1.5b LOTR TV series set to film in Auckland|dated=30 June 2019|website=[https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz Newstalk ZB]|accessed=25 August 2021}}</ref> Location filming took place around Auckland in February.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://www.theonering.net/torwp/2020/02/21/107557-exclusive-spy-report-from-the-set-of-amazons-lotr-with-photos/|articlename=EXCLUSIVE:Spy Report from the Set of Amazon's LOTR with photos |dated=21 February 2020|website=[https://deadline.com Deadline]|accessed=26 December 2021}}</ref> Filming for the first two episodes was expected to continue through May,<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/real-estate/118857705/lord-of-the-rings-tv-amazon-studios-puts-out-call-for-homes-for-cast-and-crew|articlename=Lord of the Rings TV: Amazon Studios puts out call for homes for cast and crew|dated=21 February 2020|website=[https://www.stuff.co.nz Stuff]|accessed=26 December 2021}}</ref> with a four or five-month production break then planned during which footage for the two episodes would be reviewed and writing on the second season would begin.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://deadline.com/2019/11/the-lord-of-the-rings-series-renewed-season-2-amazon-early-renewal-season-1-hiatus-writers-room-reassembled-1202788730/|articlename=
‘The Lord Of the Rings’ Series Gets Early Season 2 Renewal By Amazon, Sets Season 1 Hiatus
|dated=19 January 2020|website=[https://deadline.com DEADLINE]|accessed=26 December 2021}}</ref>Production was scheduled to resume in mid-October and continue until late June 2021.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/real-estate/118857705/lord-of-the-rings-tv-amazon-studios-puts-out-call-for-homes-for-cast-and-crew|articlename= Lord of the Rings TV: Amazon Studios puts out call for homes for cast and crew|dated=19 January 2020|website=[https://www.stuff.co.nz Stuff.co]|accessed=26 December 2021}}</ref> However, filming was placed on hold indefinitely in mid-March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with around 800 cast and crew members told to stay home.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/coronavirus-amazons-lord-of-the-rings-production-in-west-auckland-shut-down/JZE3ZEXWQQIQJXH4KYENFR3LRY/?c_id=3&objectid=12316871|articlename=
Coronavirus: Amazon's Lord of the Rings production in West Auckland shut down
|dated=15 March 2020|website=[https://www.nzherald.co.nz NZherald]|accessed=26 December 2021}}</ref> In early May, the majority of filming for the first two episodes was confirmed to have been completed before the COVID-19 shutdown. Filming on the series was allowed to resume then under new safety guidelines from the New Zealand government, but, instead of completing filming for the first two episodes at that time, the filming shutdown segued into the intended production break, with filming for the first two episodes set to be completed once filming on further episodes was ready to begin.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://deadline.com/2020/05/new-zealand-returns-to-production-paving-way-for-avatar-sequels-to-resume-live-action-filming-1202929138/|articlename=
New Zealand Returns To Production, Paving Way For ‘Avatar’ Sequels & ‘The Lord Of The Rings’ Series To Resume Filming |dated=7 May 2020|website=[https://deadline.com Deadline]|accessed=26 December 2021}}</ref>

It was reported that the TV series was one of seven film and television productions that were granted exemptions to allow cast and crew members to enter New Zealand while its borders were closed to non-New Zealanders due to [[Wikipedia:COVID-19|COVID-19]]. The exemptions were granted before [[June 18]] by Economic Development Minister Phil Twyford, and applied to 93 members of the production as well as 20 family members. Around 10 percent of the series' crew were believed to be non-[[New Zealand|New Zealanders]], and many of them had remained in the country during its pandemic lockdown and did not require exemptions. Pre-production on further episodes began by July [[2020]],<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/122012197/revealed-the-six-productions-joining-avatar-in-getting-border-exemptions|articlename=
Revealed: The six productions joining Avatar in getting border exemptions
|dated=3 July 2020|website=[https://www.stuff.co.nz Stuff.co]|accessed=26 December 2021}}</ref> and filming on the series resumed on [[September 28]].<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://deadline.com/2020/09/the-lord-of-the-rings-resumes-production-amazon-new-zealand-cowboy-bebop-netflix-dtart-of-production-1234584918/|articlename=
Amazon’s ‘The Lord Of The Rings’ Resumes Production In New Zealand, Netflix’s ‘Cowboy Bebop’ Next
|dated=28 September 2020|website=[https://deadline.com Deadline]|accessed=26 December 2021}}</ref> Bayona completed filming on his episodes by December 23,<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/amazons-lord-of-the-rings-pilot-wrapped-filming/|articlename= Amazon's Lord Of The Rings Pilot Has Wrapped Filming
|dated=25 December 2020|website=[https://comicbook.com ComicBook]|accessed=26 December 2021}}</ref> with production on further episodes set to begin in January 2021 following a two week break for Christmas.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/spy-lunch-of-the-rings-the-lotr-star-spotted-on-waiheke/WFTPOF2VTQ272HKL6NT2QLHHQI/|articlename=
Spy: Lunch of the Rings? The LOTR star spotted on Waiheke
|dated=19 December 2020|website=[https://www.nzherald.co.nz NZherald]|accessed=26 December 2021}}</ref> Yip confirmed that he had begun filming his episodes by March,<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/lord-of-the-rings-amazon-wayne-che-yip-1234936829/|articlename= ‘Lord of the Rings’ Series Adds Director Wayne Che Yip as Co-Executive Producer
|dated=24 March 2021|website=[https://variety.com Variety]|accessed=26 December 2021}}</ref> and Brändström was in New Zealand for production on the series when she was announced as director in May.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://deadline.com/2021/05/the-witcher-charlotte-brandstrom-amazons-the-lord-of-the-rings-series-1234755360/|articlename= ‘The Witcher’ Director Charlotte Brändström Joins Amazon’s ‘The Lord Of The Rings’ Series |dated=13 May 2021|website=[https://deadline.com Deadline]|accessed=26 December 2021}}</ref>

==== Season 2 ====

== Marketing ==
=== Season 1 ===
[[File:The Rings of Power (TV series) - Galadriel poster.jpg|thumb|250px|One of the promotional posters released in February 2022]]
On [[19 January]] 2022, Amazon revealed of the series' full title. Instead of creating a title reveal with visual effects, the studio released an announcement video in which the letters of the title are physically cast from molten metal while an excerpt of the "[[Ring Verse]]" from ''The Lord of the Rings'' is read in voiceover. The video was directed by Klaus Obermeyer, who worked with special effects supervisor Lee Nelson under advisement by veteran special effects supervisor [[Douglas Trumbull]].<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2022/01/19/111840-prime-videos-the-lord-of-the-rings-title-reveal-exclusive-behind-the-scenes-images/|articlename=Prime Video's The Lord of the Rings TITLE REVEAL - EXCLUSIVE Behind the Scenes images|dated=3 February 2022|website=[https://www.polygon.com/ Polygon]|accessed=4 February 2022}}</ref><ref>{{webcite|author=@LOTRonPrime|articleurl=http://twitter.com/LOTRonPrime/status/1483816516327915522?cxt=HHwWhICq-dHQyZcpAAAA|articlename=Title Announcement|dated=19 January 2022|website=Twitter|accessed=19 January 2022}}</ref>

On [[3 February]], Amazon Studios revealed a series of character posters for the series.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://www.polygon.com/22915948/lord-of-the-rings-of-power-characters-posters|articlename=Amazon’s first Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power character posters are a guessing game|dated=4 February 2022|website=[https://www.polygon.com/ Polygon]|accessed=4 February 2022}}</ref> On 10 February, a "first look" was revealed with photos of some of the characters,<ref name="VanityFair">{{webcite|author=Anthony Breznican & Joanna Robinson|articleurl=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/02/amazon-the-rings-of-power-series-first-look|articlename=Amazon’s Lord of the Rings Series Rises: Inside The Rings of Power
|dated=10-Feb-2022|website=VanityFair|accessed=20-July-2022}}</ref> followed by the release of the teaser trailer on 13 February during Super Bowl LVI.<ref>{{webcite|author=Erin Carson and Jennifer Bisset|articleurl=https://www.cnet.com/culture/entertainment/amazon-introduces-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-in-new-trailer/|articlename=Amazon Introduces 'Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power' in New Trailer|website=[http://www.cnet.com/ CNet]|accessed=9 April 2022}}</ref> The official watch party for the trailer was hosted on YouTube by [[TheOneRing.net]].<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2022/02/07/111973-official-lotr-trailer-watch-party-for-prime-videos-rings-of-power-to-be-hosted-by-torn/|articlename=Official LOTR Trailer Watch party for Prime Video’s Rings of Power to be hosted by TORn!|website=[https://www.theonering.net/ TheOneRing.net]|accessed=9 April 2022}}</ref>

On [[14 July]], Amazon released another trailer for the series online.<ref>{{webcite|author=William Goodman|articleurl=https://www.gq.com/story/lord-of-the-rings-rings-of-power-trailer|articlename=What the ‘Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power’ Trailer Reveals About the New Prequel Series
|dated=14 July 2022|website=[https://www.gq.com Get Go]|accessed=22 July 2022}}</ref>

On [[23 August]], Amazon released the final trailer for the first season's series online.<ref>{{webcite|author=James White|articleurl=https://www.empireonline.com/tv/news/lotr-the-rings-of-powers-final-trailer-shows-off-giant-battles-and-epic-scale/|articlename=LOTR: The Rings Of Power’s Final Trailer Shows Off Giant Battles And Epic Scale
|dated=23 August 2022|website=[https://www.empireonline.com/ EmpireOnline]|accessed=04 October 2022}}</ref>

=== Season 2 ===

== Reception ==
The first season of the series received mixed reviews,<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_lord_of_the_rings_the_rings_of_power|articlename=The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power|dated=|website=[https://www.rottentomatoes.com/ Rotten Tomatoes]|accessed=2 October 2022}}</ref><ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7631058/|articlename=The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power|dated=|website=[https://www.imdb.com/ IMDB]|accessed=2 October 2022}}</ref> with generally positive critical and generally negative audience scores on review aggregation websites.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://www.metacritic.com/tv/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power/season-1|articlename=The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power|dated=|website=[https://www.metacritic.com/ Metacritic]|accessed=14 October 2022}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[:Category:Images from The Rings of Power (TV series)|Images from ''The Rings of Power'' TV series]]
* [[The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 1 Soundtrack|''The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power'' Season 1 Soundtrack]]

== External links ==
* [http://www.amazon.com/adlp/lotronprime Official website]
* [http://www.facebook.com/LOTRonPrime/ Official Facebook page]
* [http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5gNthckomHt36m9-WH042Q/ Youtube channel]
* [https://www.fandom.com/articles/lord-rings-power-hidden-character-details ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ Cast Reveal New Character Details] on Fandom
* [https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/entertainment/lord-of-the-rings-numenor-images Númenor revealed in new Lord of the Rings series] on Amazon
* [https://www.looper.com/962547/robert-aramayo-sheds-light-on-a-younger-elrond-in-rings-of-power-exclusive-interview/ Robert Aramayo Sheds Light On A Younger Elrond In Rings Of Power - Exclusive Interview] on Looper
* [https://time.com/6205837/the-rings-of-power-amazon-most-expensive/ Inside Rings of Power, Amazon's Lord of the Rings Prequel] on Time

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