Rings of Power – Not The Immediate Disaster I Expected

So the hour long foretold has come. Amazon’s Tolkien product is finally with us. I’m not sure what to call it – it isn’t really an adaptation. The appendices of the Lord of the Rings were clearly never intended as a standalone piece of work. I suppose an extension is the best description. The story of the making of the series is already a legend in its own right, probably worthy of a song. And this tale too, no doubt will be told. I haven’t followed the twists and turns of the production particularly closely. I was of the view that if it was any good, then we’d have some entertainment. If not, it wasn’t my billion dollars that had been spent and I wasn’t obliged to watch it. But I did get interested when the trailers finally came out. They looked dreadful. So when it came out I tuned in as responding to the unhealthy but irresistable urge to watch a car crash.