Hello and welcome to Little Gold Bend, the award season podcast from Vanity Fair.

It's such an honor to present this next award.

And here are the nominees...

The Oscar goes to...

And the Oscar goes to...

And I can't deny the fact that you like me right now!

You like me!

I'm the King of the World!

There's a mistake.

Moonlight, you guys won Best Picture.

I'm Katie Rich, and in a minute, you'll hear from my colleague, Anthony Bresnacan,

who is doing our interview this week with Owen Arthur, who plays Prince Durin IV on the

new Amazon series, Lord of the Rings, The Rings of Power.

It is, yes, the second high-profile prequel to a major fantasy series, premiering this month,

the other one, of course, being the Game of Thrones prequel, House of the Dragon.

But Anthony has been immersing himself in the world of Tolkien and Middle-Earth, and

with Joanna Robinson, the two of them did a big first-look feature on The Rings of Power

for the magazine earlier this year.

So, Anthony is exactly the person you want to hear talking to Owen Arthur, and really

getting the rundown on The Rings of Power and everything that we'll learn about the world

of Middle-Earth on the show.

So let's hear from Anthony and Owen Arthur about Rings of Power.

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