‘The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power’ Gets A Controversial New Trailer

‘The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power’ Gets A Controversial New Trailer

Everything about Amazon’s upcoming Lord Of The Rings show is divisive. It’s inevitable at this point. Adapting Tolkien’s writings about the Second Age into a live-action TV show is bound to be controversial among fans—especially as recent adaptations of other popular works have fallen so blisteringly short.

This includes Amazon’s adaptation of The Wheel Of Time—a bizarrely unfaithful, cheap-feeling rendition of Robert Jordan’s epic fantasy.

So it’s no wonder that this very brief teaser for The Rings Of Power should have fans in heated debate. We see very little of the Second Age in the trailer, but we get a new tagline: “Nothing is evil...in the beginning.”

Here’s the trailer:

The controversy here is the question of whether or not nothing is actually evil in the beginning, specifically in Tolkien’s fictional universe. Sauron, for instance, didn’t start off evil. He was lured to the dark side by Morgoth (aka Melkor) the first and mightiest of the Valar.

But not even Melkor started off evil. His pride and jealousy caused him to rebel against his creator, Eru Ilúvatar, the supreme deity of Arda, when his fellow Valar chose Manwë to be their lord.

So the question becomes, is there a deeper evil beyond even these deities and