How Much More Sauron Prologue Do We Need?

Pull out your copy of The Silmarillion that you promised yourself you’d finish one of these days and pour yourself a goblet of Elvish wine: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is returning later this summer. The second season of Amazon’s megapricey foray into J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth debuts August 29, nearly two years after its first season premiered to a major gap between critics who were mostly approving and misogynist, racist fans who were big mad. Plot...