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"The Eagle and the Sceptre" is the third episode of the second season of the American fantasy television series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. The series is based on J. R. R. Tolkien's history of Middle-earth, primarily material from the appendices of the novel The Lord of the Rings (1954–55).
An episode of the official aftershow Inside The Rings of Power, featuring actress Felicia Day who is the host of The Official The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Podcast, was released on Prime Video and YouTube following the debut of each episode of the season. The aftershow features interviews with cast and crew as well as behind-the ...
Amazon acquired the global television rights for J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (1954–55) in November 2017. The company's streaming service, Prime Video, gave a multi-season commitment to a series based on the novel and its appendices, to be produced by Amazon Studios in association with New Line Cinema and in consultation with the Tolkien Estate. [1]
To find out how Rings of Power Season 2 is landing with viewers — and why J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic high fantasy still resonates with fans after all these years — Yahoo Entertainment spoke with ...
The hero Tuor, a Man, slays the Orc Othrod: scholars have suggested that for Tolkien, Orcs were a conveniently wholly evil enemy that could be slaughtered without mercy. [15] 2007 illustration by Tom Loback. Scholars have noted that Tolkien's Orcs are depicted as wholly evil, meaning that they could be slaughtered without regret.
This is a clever callback to season 1, when we first learned that Lumon spreads mythic (and ludicrous) propaganda between separate severed departments so that they remain distrustful and afraid of ...
Tolkien, a devout Roman Catholic, created what he came to feel was a moral dilemma for himself with his supposedly wholly evil Middle-earth peoples like Orcs, when he made them able to speak. This identified them as sentient and sapient ; indeed, he portrayed them talking about right and wrong.
Tolkien, while denying that absolute evil could exist, stated that Sauron came as near to a wholly evil will as was possible. Commentators have compared Sauron to the title character of Bram Stoker 's 1897 novel Dracula , and to Balor of the Evil Eye in Irish mythology .