Let’s go back thousands of years before The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and let’s also leave Peter Jackson out of this incarnation but take a lot of his visual design language for this new Amazon Prime series Rings of Power. The 3rd teaser trailer finally gives us something substantial to look at and some glimpses of who and what ... SHOW MORE

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