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The shocking decision to cancel the show before it even hit live TV came off the back of a long string of brutal reviews from critics who branded the show a 'crushing disappointment'.

In the third episode on Amazon Prime, the Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power premiere continued. Thousands of years before the tales told in J.R.R., the two-episode premiere introduced the characters of Middle-earth. Tolkien's book The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings delves into Middle-earth's Second Age. Galadriel (Morfydd Clark), along with her new friend Halbrand (Charlie Vickers), is out exploring, while Arondir (Ismael Cruz Cordova) is captured, and Nori (Markella Kavenagh) is in hot water.

J.R.R.'s two big-screen trilogies came out of J.R.R.'s two big-screen trilogies. With Amazon Studios' The Rings of Power, Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and Hobbit books, visitors will learn about Middle-earth once more. Thousands of years before the events depicted in both The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings books, the sprawling eight-episode first season is set within the Second Age of Middle-earth's history. The show will debut during a time of relative stability, but it will feature events that play a significant role in the LOTR and Hobbit franchise, including the establishing of the Rings of Power.