Rings of Power Returns, and Doom With It

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Facing a sudden crisis of light—literally, the mountains are rumbling and closing up all around Khazad-dûm, plunging it into the most literal darkness of these opening episodes—it’s in this sort of messy family drama that Rings of Power really finds heart, rather than in the overbearing dire portents of Lord of the Rings hanging on its shoulders.

The first three episodes that open Rings of Power‘s second season—”Elven Kings Under the Sky,” “Where the Stars are Strange,” and “The Eagle and the Sceptre”—do a noble job of catching us all up on the different narrative threads left in the wake of season one’s climax actually inching its slow-burn narrative forward (itself, perhaps, another price of that aforementioned daunting prospect).

It ties into the opening episodes’ overall theme of discontent and darkness taking hold all over Arda, but in what are arguable two of Rings of Power‘s most important plotlines, the show seemingly has swapped priorities on how we get from one dramatic point to the next, and it’s easily the weirdest, weakest part of the premiere.

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Author / Journalist: James Whitbrook

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