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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power – Season 1, Episode 8

Alloyed

Aired Oct 14, 2022

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New alliances are forged.

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J.D. Payne

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Patrick McKay

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Morfydd Clark

Galadriel

Robert Aramayo

Elrond

Cynthia Addai-Robinson

Queen Regent Míriel

Owain Arthur

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Steve Greene

indieWire

That handshake between adaptations and source material, coupled with the way that director Wayne Che Yip helps bring to life those quasi-dream sequences, is a key middle ground that the show can take advantage of going forward.

Oct 18, 2022

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Brian Lowry

CNN.com

At 70-plus minutes, it mirrored the season as a whole: Pretty, with a few visually striking moments, but slow and bloated.

Oct 14, 2022

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Roxana Hadadi

New York Magazine/Vulture

The story here indulges in Tolkien lore, and in delivering moments that connect these characters to the ones we know from the novels and Peter Jackson’s films, and in slightly narrowing the focus of this very wide cast of characters for season two.

Rated: 4/5

Oct 14, 2022

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Russell Holly

CNET

...hey, season 2 has started filming, so there's plenty of time for this great show to get even better.

Apr 5, 2023

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Austin Gilkeson

The New York Review of Books

Tolkien's "machine for the evocation of scholarly frisson" has been turned into an assembly line. The goal is to keep the machine running for as long as it is profitable, with no natural end in sight.

Jan 27, 2023

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Stephen A. Russell

Flicks (AU, NZ, UK)

The showrunners didn’t always make the brightest moves, with occasionally clunky dialogue and plotting. A hilariously rushed denouement also stole some thunder from Sauron’s diabolical plan... And yet it... set up a mighty battle to come.

Oct 28, 2022

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Synopsis

New alliances are forged.

Executive Producer: J.D. Payne, Patrick McKay, Lindsey Weber, Callum Greene, J. A. Bayona, Belén Atienza, Justin Doble, Jason Cahill, Gennifer Hutchison, Bruce Richmond, Sharon Tal Yguado, Eugene Kelly
Network: Prime Video
Rating: TV-14
Genre: Fantasy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date: Oct 14, 2022