The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 1 recap

In 2017, Amazon acquired the television rights to J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings books and agreed to create a series from them. In 2022, the first season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power was finally released to much fanfare but also divisive reactions, as many thought the series took too long to set up the action. The hook for the series is that it takes place generations before any of the previous The Lord of the Rings stories, such as The Hobbit or the original The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The series is based on the histories of Middle-earth, created by Tolkien and written mostly as backstory for the original books.