A new era of Middle-earth! The Rings of Power explores a totally different side of The Lord of the Rings — and fittingly, the cast is full of new faces.The Amazon series is loosely focused on what author J.R.R.
Tolkien referred to as the Second Age of Middle-earth, meaning that it takes place thousands of years before the events of Peter Jackson‘s Hobbit and Lord of the Rings trilogies.
With a couple of notable exceptions, this also means that most of the characters haven’t been seen onscreen before.The also aren’t any hobbits, because as Tolkien noted, the small human-like beings didn’t really participate in Middle-earth history before the era depicted in The Lord of the Rings.
The showrunners instead decided to incorporate harfoots, which are ancestors of the beloved, food-obsessed creatures.“One of the very specific things the texts say is that hobbits never did anything historic or noteworthy before the Third Age,” executive producer Patrick McKay told Vanity Fair in February 2022. “But really, does it feel like Middle-earth if you don’t have hobbits or something like hobbits in it?”Fans of the trilogy will also recognize the character Galadriel, albeit in a much younger form.
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