Perhaps it’s quite telling that I’ve only just sat down to watch the latest episode of Rings Of Power. Had the series been as good as Amazon promised, no doubt I would have wanted to watch it as soon as it came online. Yet, as I feared, it’s quickly becoming a garbled mess: six episodes in, and there’s not much in the way of a discernible plot, little to nothing has been mentioned about the rings, and episodes just seem to be one gratuitous battle scene after another. I’m afraid I now side with the growing number of Tolkien fans who think this series should never have been created. Of course, I’ll continue to watch it, just because it’s related to my favourite books, and in the hope that it gets better; yet I must say, from what we’ve seen so far, I’m not holding my breath.