That nomadic spirit is a show invention but, in truth, very little is known about the harfoots in Tolkien’s writing. The more you move, the harder it is for any pesky Middle Earth historian to nail you down in the historical record.
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While the folks from the Shire-with the exception of the adventurous Bagginses and friends-like to stay cozy in their holes in the ground, the harfoots in the Amazon series are nomadic. They’re what’s known as harfoots, and they’re an evolutionary predecessor to hobbits. We should clarify here that the small, furry-footed creatures in The Rings of Power are not technically hobbits.
And in Tolkien’s mythologically dense world, that means hobbits. For adventure, you need an audience surrogate. The key word here is “history.” As engaging as the exploits in The Silmarillion may be, it’s neither a novel nor an adventure story, it’s Tolkien indulging in one of his favorite pastimes: mythology.
Countless aficionados would surely disagree and wave their well-worn copies of The Silmarillion in the air as proof that Tolkien himself wrote at length about thousands of years of Middle Earth history without a single mention of a hairy foot or a cute curly head. From a certain point of view, especially when it comes to creating a franchise that fans of the Jackson films can recognize, Payne and McKay may be right. Payne, it just wouldn’t feel like Middle Earth without them. So if they’re not noteworthy, why are they here?Īccording to McKay and co-showrunner J.D. “One of the very specific things the texts say is that hobbits never did anything historic or noteworthy before the Third Age,” showrunner Patrick McKay told Vanity Fair. But Tolkien is very clear that the hobbits didn’t really enter the historical record until Bilbo in The Hobbit and then Frodo in The Lord of the Rings. A lot of fun and exciting things happened during that era, including the rise and fall of civilization on that sun-drenched island Númenor and the forging of Sauron’s infamous ring. If the recent flurry of teasers and posters is your first introduction to Amazon’s The Rings of Power, then you might have missed the fact that the story is set during Middle Earth’s Second Age, which took place thousands of years before anyone named Baggins went on any kind of adventure. There’s just one problem: The hobbits aren’t even supposed to be here. … I can feel it.” The question invokes one of Tolkien’s most popular (and tattooed) lines from The Fellowship of the Ring: “Not all those who wander are lost.” The trailer then shows a starry-eyed Nori Brandyfoot gazing upward and, after a dizzying montage of elves and arrows and dwarves, closes with her grubby little hand reaching up to grab the much larger, even grubbier hand of a mystery man. As the camera soars over exotic locations like the dazzling island kingdom of Númenor, Markella Kavenagh, who plays a hobbit-like creature named Nori Brandyfoot, asks: “Haven’t you ever wondered what else is out there? There’s wonders in this world beyond our wandering.
Just as Cate Blanchett’s Galadriel narrated the opening of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings, here was Morfydd Clark’s Galadriel melodically delivering some classic Tolkien lore about some of its boldest characters: “Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.”Ī different, smaller narrator took center stage in the short Rings teaser that premiered on Super Bowl Sunday. Tolkien adaptation The Rings of Power, audiences heard a very familiar kind of voice. When Amazon dropped its title reveal video for its lavish J.R.R. Welcome to a Field Guide to The Power of the Rings. Tolkien’s vast world, bringing you up to speed on everything you need to know before the series premieres. Over the coming months, The Ringer ’s Joanna Robinson will guide you through the mythology and lore of J.R.R. Posters have been released, a teaser dropped during the Super Bowl-but now it’s time to dive even deeper. With each day we grow ever closer to the release of Amazon’s much-anticipated, billion-dollar-budgeted Lord of the Rings series, The Rings of Power.
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