The next thing I want to point out is the form of media these two adaptations take and how adapting for television isn’t as easy as some people might make it out to be. See, on one hand, you have the Lord of the Rings and its film trilogy, and on the other, you have the events of the Second Age and the Rings of Power. As mentioned earlier, one of these lacks in source material, and the other, well, not so much. The Rings of Power is obviously the one that lacks in this department, and considering the form of media it takes, it arguably has more to prove. Not only do McKay and Payne have to add in a considerable amount of material due to the lack of, well, material, but also because they’re adapting for television and not film. With film, most of the time productions need to cut things from the book they’re adapting in order to shorten the run time. But with TV, you typically have more time to work with. In the case of the Rings of Power, that’s not necessarily a good thing, considering, once again, the lack of source material. This sort of revelation comes as no surprise to those who have already concluded that Amazon would have to add material to make the Rings of Power work. Those that still have a problem with the production believe there is enough written material out there for Amazon to base an entire series on – which there simply isn’t. I do find it extremely important, though, for Amazon to properly spread out the source material they do have in order to constitute the Rings of Power’s existence as a series.
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