What to Make of "Rings of Power"

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The discourse around Amazon’s Rings of Power has been fraught. So in this special crossover episode between Close Reads and Bibliophiles, David Kern and Ian Andrews try to figure out what works, what doesn’t, and why the conversation has been they way it is.

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0:00.0	Haven't you ever wondered?
0:04.0	What else is out there?
0:07.5	There's wonders in this world beyond our wandering.
0:15.5	I can feel it.
0:19.5	Hello, I'm David Kern.
0:21.3	And I'm Ian Andrews.
0:22.8	And welcome to this special bibliophiles, close reads, crossover episode in which we are going to argue and agree and complain and stand up for Rings of Power, the new Amazon Lord of the Rings series.
0:39.5	Ian, this is going to be great.
0:41.9	I'm like, I'm like not even sure where to begin.
0:44.8	Yeah.
0:45.0	How are you, friend?
0:46.1	I'm good.
0:46.9	How are you emotionally?
0:49.3	Likewise, but we've been texting and you have been going through something the last.
0:53.9	I've been having a few weeks this series came out.
0:56.8	And it might be different than what most people think.
1:00.2	Yeah.
1:00.4	Because the Lord of the Rings fandom is on fire.
1:05.6	It's burning.
1:06.3	It's burning to the ground.
1:07.7	Yeah.
1:08.2	It's this, we're this close to becoming the cause of doom, not of rings of
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