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The Rings of Power season 2 has a scale and ambition close to Peter Jackson's LOTR trilogy: 1,500 orc actors in full makeup and a star learning how to forge real rings

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2 chronicles the next chapter of the Second Age tale on Prime Video, and it's going to be absolutely epic in scale. According to Nerdist, which was on ...
Polygon

Even Tolkien was never really sure where orcs came from

This week’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power delves into the deepest of Tolkien lore and the far-flung dawn of sentient life on Middle-earth to touch on a question not even the professor ...
Polygon

Galadriel’s kickass orc-fighting has unexpected weight, considering the orc babies at home

[Ed. note: This post contains spoilers for the very end of The Rings of Power season 2 episode 4.] You might side with Elrond, who practically spits when he says she stepped up purely to make sure her ...
nerdist

Yes, There Was a Baby Orc and an Orc Family on THE RINGS OF POWER Season 2 (Get Over It!)

One little orc/uruk baby is in the middle of much discussion among the lovers of Middle-earth in our world. During The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season two’s first episode, we got to meet ...
IGN

Exclusive First Look at the Orcs From Prime Video's The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

Battalions of Orcs have played pivotal roles throughout The Lord of the Rings franchise, but the creators behind The Lord of the RIngs: The Rings of Power intend to showcase the creatures more than ...
Forbes

Amazon’s ’Rings Of Power’—The Orc Family Controversy, Explained

Season 2 of Amazon’s The Rings of Power sparked controversy and online debate after the series depicted a sympathetic orc family, a subject that The Lord of the Rings film trilogy largely avoided. In ...