When Peter Jackson brought The Lord of the Rings to the big screen twenty years ago, the three-part movie released over consecutive years, becoming a Christmas blockbuster event between 2001-2003. The news that The Rings of Power could take almost that length of time to see its second season drop will probably come as a surprise to many, but the difference here is that Jackson filmed all of his movies in the same mammoth shoot and subsequently spent a year perfecting each movie for release. The Rings of Power has to spend months on filming, and then has a lot of visual effects work to complete before it can premiere.
The Rings of Power Has Not Had An Easy Ride
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Although critics have been largely on board with everything the series has done, audience reviews have been much less positive thanks to a large amount of review-bombing. Whether it has been criticisms about the casting of Black actors in certain roles, some not taking to Morfydd Clark’s Galadriel and her warrior actions, or others deciding that the series writing is “bad”, the dialogue “stupid” and the visuals “cheap.” However, none of these reviews, which tend to be 1 star of less, ever go into more than a few words of detail about why they hate the series so much.
