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    Culture Flight of fantasy

    Sep 02, 2022 5 minutes
    By Tom Huddleston

    IF THERE’S ONE THING WE KNOW ABOUT THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER, it’s that this 10-part series is big. Filmed in New Zealand on a rumoured budget of a billion dollars, the show sports massive battle sequences, hordes of marauding monsters and special effects that’ll make Peter Jackson’s films of JRR Tolkien’s trilogy look like DIY fringe theatre.

    But for all its monumental scale, Rings of Power is still a story about characters: from haughty elves to ale-swilling men, from thatch-bearded dwarves to a new race of ecofriendly proto-Hobbits called Harfoots. The cast that showrunners JD Payne and Patrick McKay have assembled is remarkable: a lineup short on bankable names but huge on talent and promise, from indie movie mavens to theatrical darlings, from dashing former child actors to (at least) one alumnus of that fantasy franchise, Game of Thrones.

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