“The Lord of the Rings” star shoots against Amazon’s “The Rings of Power”: That’s why he thinks the series is unnecessary

The series “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power”, the first season of which premiered on Amazon Prime Video in the fall of 2022, has not only fans: Bernard Hill, who played “The Two Towers” in the ” For example, Lord of the Rings” movies” and “The Return of the King” who played King Théoden doesn’t care much for the fantasy prequel – even though he hasn’t seen the series at all.

His criticism is not substantive, but directed against the project itself. In an interview with Bernard Hill explained that he views “The Rings of Power” as purely a money making business and has no interest in watching the series. He makes it clear that he thinks the prequel is unnecessary: ​​he thinks the franchise should have ended after Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Even with the “The Hobbit“Movies have actually gone too far, so Hill: “‘The Hobbit’ is a very short book. However, they’ve done a good job – really, really well. They’ve stretched the fabric, but you can only stretch a piece of rubber to a certain point. I think they’ve got it going got with The Hobbit, because there are undoubtedly very good things in it [den Filmen] gave.”

Of course, Bernard Hill cannot judge whether such good things could also be in “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” if he has not seen the series at all. But he just doesn’t want to look at it and has no interest in being involved: “I wish them luck and everything, but it’s just not the real thing.”

“King Théoden” did not watch the series, but “Pippin” did

Hill’s acting colleague Billy Boyd sees things differently. The Pippin actor recently explained this in an interview with that he watched the series and loved it. As a Tolkien fan, he particularly enjoyed seeing certain places for the first time, such as Khazad-dûm and Númenor. “And also things like seeing the rings for the first time – it’s all very exciting for me. I loved it!” is the conclusion of the “Lord of the Rings” star.

›› “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” on Amazon Prime Video*

If you want to see it for yourself, you can stream all eight episodes of the first season of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” with an Amazon Prime Video subscription. And who has already seen the series and urgently needs some fantasy stuff right now, we recommend you check out the first two episodes of the new series”willow” On Disney+ look inside – Entertaining fantasy adventures await you here too, with a new episode every Wednesday. And there’s another fantasy highlight this year: The Witcher: Blood Origin is coming to Netflix on December 25.

›› “Willow” on Disney+*

However, it will be some time before The Rings of Power returns to the small screen. In any case, it will continue – season 2 is already in the works, there should be a total of five seasons, which will cost Amazon the proud sum of more than a billion dollars. With the beginning of The Rings of Power season 2 However, we don’t expect until 2024. So next year fans will have to take a break from Middle-earth first.