Everyone knows The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power struggled on Amazon, despite all their soothing noises about the success of the show.
More than half of the audience abandoned it during the first season run, and it has become something of a figure of fun to everyone from commentators to Tolkien aficionados.
Its tone seemingly from a parallel universe to the Peter Jackson films that are many people’s entry point into Middle Earth, and featuring overly shiny, expensive visuals yet somehow sporting the look of a SyFy channel original at times, it remains difficult to take it seriously.
If you can find anyone still watching it, very few of them seem to be willing to admit to openly enjoying the experience.
Still, Amazon paid stupid amounts of money for the show, so you can be damn sure the world will be required to suffer more seasons of this. However, it will be without Nazanin Boniadi.
She played series regular Bronwyn in the first season. The role was that of a human healer who was the mother of Theo (Tyroe Muhafidin) and had a forbidden romance with the elf warrior Arondir (Ismael Cruz Cordova). So far, so Tolkien for cat-ladies.
According to a report in The Hollywood Reporter Boniadi has just completed an independent movie A Mosquito in the Ear. She has also announced via Instagram that she is to step back from acting to focus on activism.
It must be nice to have that option. This must be that fully automated, luxury Communism we have been hearing so much about.
The second season covers the Second Age and Sauron’s rise to power.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power will return to Amazon Prime on August 29th.
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