Being one of the richest people on the planet, Jeff Bezos is not used to being told what to do. But when Amazon announced it was creating The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, which is likely to become the most expensive television series ever made, he received a blunt order from his son: “Dad, don’t fuck this up.”
With legions of diehard JRR Tolkien fans ready to pore over every detail of the series, pleasing them all was always going to be as hard as traversing Mordor. And the global release of its opening shows on Friday has revealed there is, unsurprisingly, no middle ground when it comes to Middle-earth.
