I have watched the fourth episode of the drama series “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” on the amazon prime video service. Some of my acquaintances gave up reading “The Lord of the Rings”, because they thought the first chapters of the novel were dull, like “Prologue” and “Note on the Shire Records”. Everyone who has read through the novel would agree it is not a good point to suspend the reading. To grasp the whole world J.R.R. Tolkien had created, one should keep through the reading. Similar situations would be applied to watch the drama series. The movies of “The Lord of the Rings” directed by Peter Jackson have tastes as entertainments. This drama series, on the other hand, is more faithful to the Tolkien’s original stories of philosophies. I think the evaluation as a whole should be postponed till a certain period, because of the great background the stories embrace. Maybe it is a bit difficult for people who only watched the movies to trace the lines of stories; a guide information such as a map, and brief introductions to the characters should be accompanied.
As this is a story of Second Age, Morgoth is accounted to the background of the story more evidently. In the movies “The Lord of the Rings”, this first dark lord was only appeared in the phrase, “Balrog of Morgoth”, I remember. This Balrog is “Durin’s Bane”, the daemon awaken by Durin the 6th. This was the end of the story of mithril mining in Moria. In First Age, even Lord of Balrogs did exist as a servant of Morgoth. Morgoth even ruled the second dark lord Sauron, and he appears in the memory of people in Second Age much more frequent than those in Third Age. The strength of both people and evils are stronger, and the memory of Morgoth is more vivid. Adar, the first orc Morgoth had created from an elf, also appears in contrast to Sauron, which means they are counterparts of each other. The story needs more investigation for the development. I would like to watch this drama series still.
