As well as being privy to exclusive footage from the series, they were also given the opportunity to meet the showrunners behind The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, with the audience, which included around 30 of the biggest Lord of the Rings fans you will ever find, then encouraged to share their thoughts and feelings online. One such attendee, Tolkien Professor, who also happens to be the President of Signum University and scholar of J.R.R. Tolkien stated that the prequel series “is in VERY good hands.”
The praise and positivity continued with the Chair of the Tolkien Society, Shaun Gunner, who says he “fell in love with their vision.”
Major Lord of the Rings aficionado Nerd of the Rings was also invited along, leaving a half-hour video detailing the experience and concluding that “My trajectory on this show has gone from cautious to cautiously optimistic, with excitement creeping in.”
Lord of the Rings superfan, Tea with Tolkien, was also one of the lucky ones, and ran through the event in a lengthy blog post. “As a lifelong Tolkien fan, I’m no stranger to seeing adaptations go off the rails or Tolkien’s creative works being exploited for profit, so I will always retain some level of nervousness toward anything set in or inspired by Middle-earth,” they said of the experience. “But after learning so much more about the show and its creators, I do feel quite a bit more confident going forward. From what I’ve seen, it seems to me that this show is in competent hands.”
You can check out even more of the reactions courtesy of The One Ring, but so far, the general consensus seems to be that, despite concerns and misgivings, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power could end up being something quite magical and worthy of the Tolkien legacy.
