“Morfydd was a few days into being Galadriel, which is probably terrifying,” says McKay. ![]() Galadriel’s survival at sea is not just a crucial story point at the start of the series-the showrunners remember it as a pivotal moment on set in New Zealand back in March 2020. It’s the story of the creation of all those powers, where they came from, and what they did to each of those races.” The driving question behind the production, he adds, was this: “Can we come up with the novel Tolkien never wrote and do it as the mega-event series that could only happen now?” “Rings for the elves, rings for dwarves, rings for men, and then the one ring Sauron used to deceive them all. All this will center, eventually, around the incident that gives the trilogy its name. Their series will juggle 22 stars and multiple story lines, from deep within the dwarf mines of the Misty Mountains to the high politics of the elven kingdom of Lindon and the humans’ powerful, Atlantis-like island, Númenor. ![]() ![]() The showrunners, Patrick McKay and JD Payne, are agonizingly aware of the pressure. Amazon needs to definitively make the case that it can produce giant prestige shows, and with this series, it’s courting the additional danger of amending and elaborating on the canon of a beloved storyteller. Because of Bezos’s immense wealth, The Rings of Power is actually less of a financial risk than it is a reputational one.
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