Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power Season 3 Tries Too Hard to Copy Peter Jackson’s Trilogy

The Lord of the Rings takes place in the Third Age of Middle-earth, a time when the realms of Men and Elves are in decline, though a few hints of the world’s old glory remain. Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is set thousands of years earlier, in J. R. R. Tolkien's Second Age, but spiritually it has more in common with that fallen time. After two slow seasons setting up Sauron (Charlie Vickers) as the Dark Lord of Middle-earth, co-showrunners Patrick McKay and J.D.