"The Rings of Power" are here to fight climate change
SalonIf "The Rings of Power" didn't give you enough fuel for hatred with its cast of color and women characters with agency who aren't victims of sexual violence all the time, here's something else for you to chew on: the series seems awfully concerned with a changing climate. The Southlands isn't a place found in Tolkien's work specifically, but in Episode 7, titled "The Eye," "The Rings of Power" supplies a pretty compelling origin story for how Mordor got its boom. Dylan Smith, Markella Kavenagh and Megan Richards in "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" Of all the groups, the Harfoots seem most clearly connected to the land. Nazanin Boniadi and Morfydd Clark in "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" In "The Rings of Power" the natural world dictates choices, a magic 8-ball for deciding.