In the Season 1 finale of "The Rings of Power," we get a shot of those legendary rings, an image that dissolves creepily into the iris of the man who maybe/probably is Sauron, looking over his new volcano kingdom. And we get a song. Above the crashes of thunder and magna rumblings of Mordor, a known but unexpected voice cuts through.
The words may sound familiar. So does the voice. But it's their pairing that is the most extrordinary and surprisingly, fitting. It's a poem about the rings written by J.R.R. Tolkien himself and set to music by the series' composer Bear McCreary. And it's Fiona Apple who sings the closing song for the Prime Video show, a match that makes even more sense than an elf lord and dwarf prince being best friends forever. Because Apple? She wanted this all along.
