The best books I read in 2022
The title says it all really!
Spring Playlist: Bardcore Magic ✨
Recently I’ve been super into music that is all about those medieval folksy fantasy vibes and this playlist has bought me unmeasurable joy these past few month of Spring.
Lord of the Rings Doors of Durin backpack unboxing
When I saw a TikTok of Amber of critiquegeek unboxing the Box Lunch Lord of the Rings Doors of Durin backpack I knew I had to get one myself. And I did…like immediately, I went straight to the website and ordered it and now it finally came!!!!
...Speak friend and enter...
...Speak friend and enter...
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power teaser reaction
It’s official the Amazon Prime prequel to The Lord of the Rings will be called The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power…
Eek, I told myself I wouldn’t get excited about the prequel tv show on Amazon. But they put out a teaser and well let’s just say I am hyped…tbh I did get kinda hyped when the first image that had the two trees of Valinor in it came out but I managed to calm myself down sufficiently.
The Name
It was obvious from day one that the name would have to include Lord of the Rings despite it taking place before the Third Age and the actual time of the Lord of the Rings, it’s Marketing 101 really. But this does tell us that maybe just maybe (I mean it has to be absolutely the case doesn’t it?) Sauron will appear in physical form and under the guise of Annatar. This is cool as I’ve been delving more and more into the lore of Middle-Earth and I will be reading The Silmarillion and the Unfinished Tales soon.
Galadriel voiceover
I must say that Cate Blanchett’s Galadriel had a much more ethereal voice and the monologue at the beginning of The Fellowship of the Ring with the music playing always gives me chills and this didn’t. However, I’m not going to dismiss this version of Galadriel just yet because it’s only a teaser.
The imagery
Another thing to perhaps further suggest the physical manifestation of Sauron and the crafting of the rings taking place in the show is that the whole teaser was the forging and crafting of the title. It would be rather crap if the rings already existed so I think the series will start when they don’t exist and then go from there to the creation of the rings, the hiding of the 3 rings by the elves then the men and dwarves being given the rest of rings that are reclaimed and how this starts to poison the mortals of Middle-Earth.
Other thoughts
This better be good. I watched the Wheel of Time show when it came out and while I kinda liked it to begin with it was actually a bit naff and I don’t know whether that’s because WoT is kinda a LOTR rip off (to begin with as I’m told) or that they just adapted it a bit cheaply…like the world just looked too artificial and very much like a show not somewhere that feels lived in and narratively it was rushed. So I have a similar worry because the 1st season of Rings of Power will also be 8 episodes but because its the most expensive show ever made maybe the sets will look real and at least to the standard of Peter Jacksons’ movies which while not being perfect adaptations they are certainly absolutely fucking close!
Let me know in the comments what you think of the teaser and whether you’re excited for the show!
Read my article on 9 locations in England that inspired Tolkien's Middle Earth
The Best Books I read in 2021
While I didn't read as many books as I had hoped to in 2021 in fact I changed my goal from 75 to 50 to 45 to 40 to 30 and still failed lol! But everyone always says its quality over quantity and I must admit that I did read a few really great books, so without further ado here are the 8 books that I loved in 2021.
