The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

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Season 1
Season #: 3, 2, 1
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3.0

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 2938 Ratings

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  1. m_ramone
    Sep 7, 2022
    0
    I don't think a review is necessary. Anyone who is a real fan of LOTR and Tolkien's work knows that ROP has nothing to do with these things.
  2. Anastasia_V
    Sep 5, 2022
    1
    This is mega awful! The only thing worse than Anne Boleyn (2021) so far. But it doesn't need to be taken seriously either.
    And here is a complete mixing of the author's original vision of this magical world (Tolkien's book) with crap. I think Tolkien hasn't stopped spinning in his coffin since the release of this creepy film adaptation. Although the truth is it's not an adaptation of the    This is mega awful! The only thing worse than Anne Boleyn (2021) so far. But it doesn't need to be taken seriously either.
    And here is a complete mixing of the author's original vision of this magical world (Tolkien's book) with crap. I think Tolkien hasn't stopped spinning in his coffin since the release of this creepy film adaptation. Although the truth is it's not an adaptation of the book, it's some kind of fanfic. A creepy, clownish fanfic with a political agenda. Guys, it's not even funny anymore. It's sad - what's going on with movies and TV series these days.
    STOP!    … Expand
  3. jhariss
    Sep 6, 2022
    1
    They can call it "Lord of the Ring" and try to ride the success of Tolkien's coattails, but this is NOT a Tolkien world, but a twisted "woke" version that is disgusting for destroying middle earth as we know it. Don't waste your time watching this insult of a series to all Tolkien fans.
  4. Oatieo
    Sep 3, 2022
    1
    I found it to be very slow. I wanted more action. Galadriel is so angry, she seemed almost ethereal in the PJ movies but here she seems angry and not at all otherworldly. Really liked the dwarves though. Also the elves just felt like humans. I enjoyed house of the dragon a lot more.
  5. MacLaFave
    Sep 5, 2022
    0
    I thought it was garbage. It's been ruined by modern politics and trashy casting decisions.
  6. Frosty1979
    Sep 23, 2022
    0
    This show is not just bad, but an insult to Tolkien. Nobody of the known characters behave like they should. All the newly created ones feel out of place. The writing is abysmal and nonsensical for the most parts, e.g. " What is the difference between a boat and rock? One looks down and one looks up!". Seriously?

    One remark concerning review bombing. The only true review bombing has    This show is not just bad, but an insult to Tolkien. Nobody of the known characters behave like they should. All the newly created ones feel out of place. The writing is abysmal and nonsensical for the most parts, e.g. " What is the difference between a boat and rock? One looks down and one looks up!". Seriously?

    One remark concerning review bombing. The only true review bombing has been happened in the last couple of days by people who actually upvote this abomination for political reasons, since in their ignorance they believe Amazon's cheap marketing strategy that all critics are just racists.

    Edit: Half way through the season it gets even worse. Honestly it's even worse than Disney Star Wars. Reduced rating to a 0.    … Expand
  7. FilmFan1789
    Sep 6, 2022
    1
    Wow! i didn't think it was possible for a billion dollar venture to have really bad scripting/screenplay. Enter Amazon's Rings show. The writing is clunky at best, disgustingly mediocre at worst. The script sounds like a fifth grader trying really hard to sound smart by using unnecessarily long sentences and big words. All the actors were actually decent in their performances, but evenWow! i didn't think it was possible for a billion dollar venture to have really bad scripting/screenplay. Enter Amazon's Rings show. The writing is clunky at best, disgustingly mediocre at worst. The script sounds like a fifth grader trying really hard to sound smart by using unnecessarily long sentences and big words. All the actors were actually decent in their performances, but even actors have limitations. You can only do so much with a bad script. Not their fault. Blame this show's failure on the writers and producers. i was extremely bored watching the first episode, so i will Not be watching the succeeding ones. i have better uses for my time.… Expand
  8. Plzgoodgames
    Sep 6, 2022
    1
    Empty shell, visuals were great but cringe characters and too much deviation from source material for me
  9. Perseus69
    Sep 6, 2022
    1
    Shameless woke attempt at forcing pointless diversity down your throat using a worldwide beloved author and IP. Luckily the abysmal quality of this show will convince people that they can't just ignore the problem posed by the woke virus to contemporary western culture. How did it come this?
  10. Jonase
    Sep 6, 2022
    1
    Horrível, a série não tem nada a ver com o livro, os 2 primeiros episódios são intediante.
  11. auderion
    Sep 6, 2022
    0
    Fatal, un horror, demuestra que por mucho dinero que le pongas, no importa si te cargas lo esencial.

    No quiero hacer spoiler, pero comienza con escenas que van en contra del contexto que definió tokien en su obra, y continua escena tras escena haciendo cosas raras, cambiando personajas, inventandose roles que tenía otro personaje, metiendo a razas en una época en la que no deberían    Fatal, un horror, demuestra que por mucho dinero que le pongas, no importa si te cargas lo esencial.

    No quiero hacer spoiler, pero comienza con escenas que van en contra del contexto que definió tokien en su obra, y continua escena tras escena haciendo cosas raras, cambiando personajas, inventandose roles que tenía otro personaje, metiendo a razas en una época en la que no deberían estar ahí aún... Se han cargado la linea temporal por donde les han dado la gana, han hecho una absoluta basura, una falta de repeto total a la obra original, debería darles verguenza.
    y gran parte sospecho que ha sido por intentar vender ideología barata subliminal en una obra que nada tiene que ver con toda esa bazofia, desde cambios de roles absurdos que consiguen lo contrario a lo que quieren hacer, destruir estéticas ya definidas, asignar personalidades y actitudes que no concuerdan con la historia original...

    En definitiva, es dificil fastidiarlo todo más, lo único que tengo en mi mano para quejarme ante esta mierda que habeís hecho es cancelar mi suscripción al prime de amazon, porque tiene tela....    … Expand
  12. petrch1990
    Sep 6, 2022
    0
    The streaming series formula. Find a franchise everyone knows and loves. Apply a formulaic, generic, Netflix style script (the love interest, the cliffhangers, the nasty white guy, the sex and gore). Throw in a politically correct, "diverse" cast, ensuring women are in fiesty, warrior-type roles, token black actors are front and centre in the marketing material (don't bother with actors ofThe streaming series formula. Find a franchise everyone knows and loves. Apply a formulaic, generic, Netflix style script (the love interest, the cliffhangers, the nasty white guy, the sex and gore). Throw in a politically correct, "diverse" cast, ensuring women are in fiesty, warrior-type roles, token black actors are front and centre in the marketing material (don't bother with actors of Chinese descent, they don't get so many woke points). Throw in some CGI to paste over the unimaginative script writing. Get someone to do a Hans Zimmer style soundtrack. Make some money, hollow out someone's legacy, whine that people are "racist" if they don't appreciate their nordic cultural and artistic history being "reimagined" through the lens of multiculturalism and inclusion. It's not so much terrible or infuriating as just boring and predictable.… Expand
  13. Sagan75
    Sep 3, 2022
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Very good visuals, bad script, so far from the Tolkien vision of his own world.… Expand
  14. LongTimMovieFan
    Sep 17, 2022
    3
    This is simply bad direction. There are simply too many horizontal flaws. The sets look unreal, the dialogue is flat and punch lines delivered badly, acting bad, filmwork bad, it's just generally not good. And the score is intrusive. Watch Braveheart if you want to hear a score add to the story, not interrupt it. But, it could have been great, that's why it is the director's fault.This is simply bad direction. There are simply too many horizontal flaws. The sets look unreal, the dialogue is flat and punch lines delivered badly, acting bad, filmwork bad, it's just generally not good. And the score is intrusive. Watch Braveheart if you want to hear a score add to the story, not interrupt it. But, it could have been great, that's why it is the director's fault. If "it feels like a Hallmark television show production" makes sense to you, that's sort of it. Digital imaging is clear, but so clear that it feels unreal. Some of the sets look so contrived and fake, it's unbelievable at that budget. In two episodes, there were only a couple of scenes that I forgot that I'm watching something... I had to force myself to finish watching it. Perhaps it will grab me if I watch the additional episodes. I started to ignore the interruptive musical score by the end, which was good.

    UPDATE: I watched S1:E3, and it actually got harder to watch, so I lowered from a 6 to 3. It's just bad.    … Expand
  15. Vincentvb76
    Sep 4, 2022
    1
    It got 1 from me just because of its looks but the dialogue is so bad and tries too hard to sound intellectual by spouting word nonsense and what made me turn it off was hearing the fake hobbits with fake Irish accents, there is nothing worse as an Irish to hear English people doing bad Irish accents
  16. Maciejon
    Sep 6, 2022
    0
    What they did to Galadriel is an absolute scandal and they generally butchered Tolkien's world. i Had high hopes when i heard about it but what i've seen is some dumb action powerfantasy with terrible writing not resembling LOTR at all
  17. Kott
    Sep 6, 2022
    0
    “It felt only natural to us that an adaptation of Tolkien’s work would reflect what the world actually looks like.”
    - Lindsey Weber, E.P. Amazon's LOTR Series, Vanity Fair (Feb. 2022)
    "There are certainly themes Tolkien felt were important. We made a promise to ourselves at the beginning of the process that we weren't going to put any of our own politics, our own messages or our own    “It felt only natural to us that an adaptation of Tolkien’s work would reflect what the world actually looks like.”
    - Lindsey Weber, E.P. Amazon's LOTR Series, Vanity Fair (Feb. 2022)

    "There are certainly themes Tolkien felt were important. We made a promise to ourselves at the beginning of the process that we weren't going to put any of our own politics, our own messages or our own themes into these movies. What we were trying to do was to analyse what was important to Tolkien and to try to honour that. In a way, were trying to make these films for him, not for ourselves."
    - Peter Jackson, Interview with GreenCine (Dec. 2002)    … Expand
  18. Cecily_Cambell
    Sep 5, 2022
    0
    This show has been ruined by extremely weak casting and many of the actors are unlikeable. The Harfoots were sooo boring I went to put the kettle on. Maybe one day someone will make a 'fan edit' that cuts out all the Lenny Henry scenes and black elf scenes that drag this show down, and I might watch it then, but for now I'm out.
  19. Timacek
    Sep 5, 2022
    2
    An insult to Tolkien as a Tolkien life fan iam feeling very betrayed. In a crusade for a wokeness and other politics they have absolutely bastardized proffessors work. Be ashamed amazon, i wont pity you when the shi-storm will get you. you deserve it full stop. they could not even get the prolog right when it was the ungoliath what sucked the light from the trees and it would have been soAn insult to Tolkien as a Tolkien life fan iam feeling very betrayed. In a crusade for a wokeness and other politics they have absolutely bastardized proffessors work. Be ashamed amazon, i wont pity you when the shi-storm will get you. you deserve it full stop. they could not even get the prolog right when it was the ungoliath what sucked the light from the trees and it would have been so epic scene. Shame on you amazon… Expand
  20. macro_zorki
    Sep 7, 2022
    2
    No spoilers: I watched the first two shows with my brother. he was indifferent to it, i thought it was boring and i was happy when it was finally over. I hoped that it woud be a good show, but they failed at the basic narrating skills. And i think most of the characters are anoying and the story isnt thought trough properly. the effects look good, but the others do much better with muchNo spoilers: I watched the first two shows with my brother. he was indifferent to it, i thought it was boring and i was happy when it was finally over. I hoped that it woud be a good show, but they failed at the basic narrating skills. And i think most of the characters are anoying and the story isnt thought trough properly. the effects look good, but the others do much better with much less money. I dont think i will continue watching.… Expand
  21. klymovskyi
    Sep 3, 2022
    1
    Those who made this series just hate Tolkien, his books and the original trilogy created by Peter Jackson. "Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made".
  22. Cd92
    Sep 6, 2022
    0
    More of this woke progressive **** They've absolutely butchered this, shouldn't even be associated with the lord of the rings.
  23. KingOropher
    Sep 3, 2022
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Big disappointment. Bad acting and writing. Dialogue is terrible. Crappy action sequences. New characters are laughable.… Expand
  24. MagnusB
    Sep 3, 2022
    1
    Esta serie no tiene alma, es genérica...esta serie vistosa y con mucho presupuesto fué hecha para distorsionar el esfuerzo de un genio! Que duró 60 años creando y perfeccionando su obra, para que unos progresistas vengan a meter su agenda cochina! vacía.
  25. C1W
    Sep 3, 2022
    1
    What a supreme waste of time for someone who is a true LOTR & Tolkien fan!. So sick of the Hollywood BS that puts actors in roles they are not suited for only because they are, black, or female, or gay! It's all BS!! Create better roles, and better dialogue, and give the work to whomever is the most qualified. Not who fits the 'culture' H. Wood wants to push. Didn't Dr. King say somethingWhat a supreme waste of time for someone who is a true LOTR & Tolkien fan!. So sick of the Hollywood BS that puts actors in roles they are not suited for only because they are, black, or female, or gay! It's all BS!! Create better roles, and better dialogue, and give the work to whomever is the most qualified. Not who fits the 'culture' H. Wood wants to push. Didn't Dr. King say something about the "content of one's character" and not the color of their skin, or culture, or pronouns, or blah, blah, blah. So sick of this B. S.! I do appreciate the money spent to buy the rights to produce this series as a 'Tolkienesque' work. However, I think the money would've been better spent handing it out to the poor, or a cock fight, or whatever. You pick, but this was not a positive strike toward literary advancement! I guess we now at least know how much money it takes to make JRR Tolkein turn over in his grave. At the very least.… Expand
  26. m1LckyW4Y
    Sep 3, 2022
    0
    The writing is meant to inspire and sound epic, but this fails horribly. The example is the use "for" to start any sentence: For the writing is bad, the show does not touch the soul of the viewer. For the viewer is not touched, a bad review is written.

    Another example is the dialogue: Galadriel says something, a response comes, and Galadriel overrules this in an "epic" way. There is also    The writing is meant to inspire and sound epic, but this fails horribly. The example is the use "for" to start any sentence: For the writing is bad, the show does not touch the soul of the viewer. For the viewer is not touched, a bad review is written.

    Another example is the dialogue: Galadriel says something, a response comes, and Galadriel overrules this in an "epic" way. There is also a Harfoot girl talking like a Disney princess about exploring the world. The rebuttal: Harfoots are always on the move.

    Doesn't that mean that they are exploring the lands already?

    Overall the dialogue is weak, unable to grab attention and the cast does not make you feel like you're in Middle Earth. This show is not a fantasy world, it is a fantasy. It cannot even come close to Lord of the Rings or the House of the Dragons    … Expand
  27. Ryxx
    Sep 5, 2022
    0
    Graphics were the only thing that was any good! Everything else was abysmal
  28. FtheCCap
    Sep 6, 2022
    2
    Spent a billion making it pretty while letting the custodial staff write the script
  29. KroSha
    Sep 7, 2022
    2
    I will say upfront that the production looks excellent. Clearly they spent a lot of money on the sets, props and VFX. That's where the 2 stars come in.

    It's a pity that they didn't spend any money on the writing. The cast do their best, but this is just badly written, from plot, character and dialogue perspectives. The showrunners deserve most of the blame here, as they have put    I will say upfront that the production looks excellent. Clearly they spent a lot of money on the sets, props and VFX. That's where the 2 stars come in.

    It's a pity that they didn't spend any money on the writing. The cast do their best, but this is just badly written, from plot, character and dialogue perspectives.

    The showrunners deserve most of the blame here, as they have put themselves in a position where they have changed and disrespected a large chunk of the original Tolkien lore and destroyed any credibility that the series could have had with actual Tolkien fans. They have characters go to places and do things that directly contradict with the established canon.

    What they have created is a generic Fantasy series, which is enjoyable enough in isolation, but with the names of famous, well-loved characters. These "new" characters do not act or behave like their original selves, and that is why this is not Tolkien.

    Had Amazon commissioned a completely new series, in an original setting, and brought these production values to it, it might have done well. But this is a dreadful perversion of Tolkien's mythology that I would not even excuse as fan-fiction.    … Expand
  30. Pristypaul
    Sep 5, 2022
    2
    It's a **** show! They should not use Lord of the Rings, only rings of power. Because its not Lord of the Rings, nowhere related to it.
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71

Generally favorable reviews - based on 40 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 31 out of 40
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 40
  3. Negative: 0 out of 40
  1. The New Yorker
    Reviewed by: Jo Livingstone
    Sep 16, 2022
    80
    Adar’s début drips with signifiers. ... When Adar informs Arondir in Episode 4 that he has been told many lies, some that “run so deep even the rocks and roads now believe them,” it is still a thrill. Tolkien succeeded in creating a mythic world, one that has now grown vast enough through acts of typological repetition and imitation to conquer television, too.
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  2. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Chris Barsanti
    Sep 16, 2022
    63
    With war brewing and the forging of the rings seemingly still far off, the first half of The Rings of Power’s first season constitutes little more than stage-setting for the struggle to come. Given the lack of quests and central commanding figures, it often makes for less-than-gripping drama. However, given that there are four more seasons already planned, and potentially dozens of new characters to be introduced, the slow and throat-clearing build is possibly a good sign.
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  3. TV Guide Magazine
    Reviewed by: Matt Roush
    Sep 9, 2022
    90
    The Rings of Power is a reminder of what drew many of us to epic fantasy in the first place: wonder. ... This series set in an ancient realm displays one dazzling and painterly landscape after another. Power also doesn't skimp on action. [12 - 25 Sep 2022, p.10]
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