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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power – Season 1, Episode 8 Alloyed

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New alliances are forged.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power — Season 1, Episode 8

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power — Season 1, Episode 8

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The Rings of Power's central mystery is finally answered in "Alloyed," a finale that is by turns sumptuous and staid while hinting at a more propulsive story to come.

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Steve Greene IndieWire 10/18/2022
That handshake between adaptations and source material, coupled with the way that director Wayne Che Yip helps bring to life those quasi-dream sequences, is a key middle ground that the show can take advantage of going forward. Go to Full Review
Brian Lowry CNN.com 10/14/2022
At 70-plus minutes, it mirrored the season as a whole: Pretty, with a few visually striking moments, but slow and bloated. Go to Full Review
Roxana Hadadi New York Magazine/Vulture 10/14/2022
4/5
The story here indulges in Tolkien lore, and in delivering moments that connect these characters to the ones we know from the novels and Peter Jackson’s films, and in slightly narrowing the focus of this very wide cast of characters for season two. Go to Full Review
Russell Holly CNET 04/05/2023
...hey, season 2 has started filming, so there's plenty of time for this great show to get even better. Go to Full Review
Austin Gilkeson The New York Review of Books 01/27/2023
Tolkien's "machine for the evocation of scholarly frisson" has been turned into an assembly line. The goal is to keep the machine running for as long as it is profitable, with no natural end in sight. Go to Full Review
Stephen A. Russell Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) 10/28/2022
The showrunners didn’t always make the brightest moves, with occasionally clunky dialogue and plotting. A hilariously rushed denouement also stole some thunder from Sauron’s diabolical plan... And yet it... set up a mighty battle to come. Go to Full Review
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Episode Info

Synopsis New alliances are forged.
Director
Wayne Yip
Creator
J.D. Payne, Patrick McKay
Executive Producer
J.D. Payne, Patrick McKay, Lindsey Weber, Callum Greene, J. A. Bayona, Belén Atienza, Justin Doble, Jason Cahill, Gennifer Hutchison, Bruce Richmond, Sharon Tal Yguado, Eugene Kelly
Screenwriter
Gennifer Hutchison, John D. Payne, Patrick McKay
Network
Prime Video
Rating
TV-14
Genre
Fantasy, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date
Oct 14, 2022