Tolkien Middle-earth refresher course.Īnd while you could read the entire Lord of the Rings book series, The Hobbit novel and all those appendices, on which The Rings of Power is based, it might be faster just to watch the movies. Wait, how many rings now? Wasn't it just the One Ring to Rule Them All? Time for a J.R.R. Here are the 15 Bizarre Things Cut From The Lord Of The Rings Books.If you watched Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, you should know it takes place in the Second Age of Middle-earth, when the 19 rings were forged and given to elves, dwarves and humans. Some of these made their way into the LotR appendices, others included in subsequent stories and the rest left to die on the cutting room floor, quickly forgotten like poor ole Sean Bean laying on a bunch of leaves in a random forest. However, when first writing his epic, Tolkien left no idea, plot line, or arkenstone unturned. In hindsight they seem as odd as a slimy, bug-eyed skinny creature with a total disregard for good grammar. What follows are funny factoids, interesting tidbits, and mind blowing concepts that didn't make it into the books and subsequent movies, and would surprise even the greatest of Hobbit-heads. However, would we remember them so fondly if some of the items removed from the original stories had made their way into the final edit? Tolkien's Lord of the Ringssaga, or the bonafide success of the Peter Jackson films that followed. Filled with wizards, orcs, elves, fiery eyeballs, yet another Sean Bean death and a whole lot of hairy big feet, they are filled with no end of fantastically entertaining fantasy that ensure a long and lasting legacy. No one can deny the lasting brilliance of J.R.R.
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