The Elvish race had no beards, so that this also became a mark of an Elvish strain in certainly kingly families of Númenórean descent - but not in Amazon Prime Video's The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power! Despite the showmaker's war on hair, this has been our favourite episode of season one so far! Who is that giant statue in Númenor depicting? Why is Míriel the Queen Regent and not just the Queen? Where was Halbrand hiding that knife? What does the orc's 'father' have to do with Theo's father? Buckle in everyone, we're in for a bumpier ride than Galadriel on that horse.

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We say to you, Queen Regent of the Numenoreans, not till now have we understood the tale of your people and their fall... at least we're pretty confident we understand. What we can't understand is why Halbrand would think he has a chance in Mordor to get with Galadriel. And why is that Elf so short???

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He began a long and secret labour, and he summoned all his lore, and his power, and his subtle skill; and at the end of all they analyzed season 01 episode 02 of Amazon Prime Video's The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Why are Celebrimbor and Elrond so into that hammer? What constellation is Not-Gandalf looking for? Where is Celeborn hiding? And of course, who is Halbrand, really?

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They said it would be over quickly, but the war to re-read the Silmarillion for the nth time lasted centuries... Yes that's right, it's time to get into the nitty-gritty of Amazon Prime Video's the Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. We are only going into episode 01 here, and in the next episode you'll hear our rundown of episode 02. We've got all the facts about who Finrod was, how Elrond's lineage both makes him important and hinders him, where exactly Tirharad is, and why in Manwë's name all those Elves broke out into a well-rehearsed musical number!

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Morgoth hated the new lights, and was for a while confounded by this unlooked-for stroke, but we thought the first two episodes of season one of Amazon Prime Video's The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power were pretty good! This is our pure reaction, recorded immediately after watching - so it was very late and we were a little manic.

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Horns were blown and trumpets were braying, and the podcasters were bellowing as they waited two more weeks for Amazon Prime Video's The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. This week we are talking about the history of the Haradrim (and the Easterlings), and go into what storylines we hope the series covers.

Plus we spend way too much time talking about Batgirl, Jupiter's Legacy, and Fantastic Beasts. Are these omens of the cancellations to come? Or am I just really fixated on something I am imagining?

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We do not say anything, unless it is worth taking a long time to say, and to listen to, is our motto here at Rivenpod! So we are still talking about details from Amazon Prime Video's The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power trailers. In our 20th episode (yay!) we are talking Ents! But don't be hasty, before we can get to one of our favourite free peoples of Middle-earth, we need to address a trailer from the foreign market making its way around Twitter (catapults, anyone? ... or maybe a Galadrapult?) that has left us somewhat stunned... 

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What an evil fortune! And we are already weary of waiting for Amazon Prime Video's The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power! (APV:LOTR:TROP baby!) Now that we've gotten glimpses of the plot for season one, we're going to take a closer look at some of the most interesting lore the producers have revealed. That's right, we got Balrogs, we got palantíri, and we got some very conflicting takes on that corpse Galadriel seems so sad about...

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We were cloaked in darkness, and terror went before us; but now we've finally seen some glimpses of the plot for Amazon Prime's The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (AP:LOTR:TROP? There has got to be a better abbreviation...). We are going frame by frame through this info dump the producers were kind enough to gift us with. What's the real reason they gave away so much so quickly? Speculation abounds!

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Away I must wander this wandering trailer... We jump off right where we left off and go through the rest of the first official trailer for Amazon Prime's The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.

And also breach the topic we've been trying to avoid for a while, the negative backlash fuelled by rampant misogyny and racism in our society today. Good fun!

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