Series · Prime Video · 2022
Pass it on
The Rings of Power
68Worth an evening.
The old moral world. Uneven as a show, sound as a compass: do not serve the devouring thing.
The review
Tolkien's world was built by a man who believed courage, pity, and stewardship were facts, not aesthetics. This series is an expensive, uneven attempt to stand in that world before the Ring. Judge the attempt by its compass, not by the discourse around the budget.
The compass is right. Evil devours. Craft can be turned. Power offered as a gift is the oldest trap in the book, and the book is older than television. You do not need every episode. You need the standard it assumes: a thing can be worth losing your life for, and a shortcut that saves you by enslaving your children is not a shortcut.
Journal
Keep The Rings of Power in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 68. Yours can differ.
The glance
Household is the thin one.
Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
The eight
- 6Industry
Craft, forging, and the labor of holding a kingdom together.
- 5Household
Friendship and oaths more than nurseries. The bonds are still vows.
- 7Piety
A real evil, not a misunderstood brand. Light is allowed to be good.
- 8Courage
People stand where they could have sailed away.
- 6Republic
Kingdoms, duty, the temptation to take a shortcut with power.
- 7Temperance
Splendor is in the service of the story, not of appetite.
- 7Truth
Corruption begins as a lie about a gift.
- 8Stewardship
The whole age is about what you refuse to hand to the dark.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
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