One of the funniest things about the title The Lord of the Rings is that, within the classic novels, there’s really only one ring everybody is worried about. The rest of the rings, the nine for Men, the seven for Dwarves, and the three for Elves are, in theory, what comprises the entire purpose of The Rings of Power series on Prime Video. While Season 1 didn’t get into the forging of these rings beyond the elven variety, Season 2 is certainly giving us way more varieties of ring action, much more than ever before, and oddly, more varied than even Tolkien’s novels.
Still, the paradox of the Rings saga is the simple fact that the plural is all headed toward a singular. We’re not really thinking about the rings as a group of magical objects, we’re often thinking about them as a means to an end. And that end is simple: The One Ring, the ring to rule them all.
