Q 01/05

The Rings of Power streams on which service?

A) Prime Video

B) Netflix

C) Paramount+

D) Apple TV+

Answer · why

A) Prime Video

Prime Video. Founder Jeff Bezos, a lifelong Tolkien fan, had told his studio to find the next Game of Thrones, and within weeks it was bidding for the...

Q 02/05

In which Age of Middle-earth is The Rings of Power set?

A) the First Age

B) the Second Age

C) the Third Age

D) the Fourth Age

Answer · why

B) the Second Age

The Second Age. Tolkien spread its events over thousands of years, so the writers squeezed them into a single period; otherwise, they said, the human ...

Q 03/05

Which part of The Lord of the Rings supplies most of the story told in The Rings of Power?

A) The maps

B) The foreword

C) The appendices

D) The poems and songs

Answer · why

C) The appendices

The appendices. The screen rights covered only that novel and The Hobbit, so the writers gathered every mention of the era from the notes at the back ...

Q 04/05

Who are the two showrunners of The Rings of Power?

A) J. D. Payne and Patrick McKay

B) David Benioff and D. B. Weiss

C) Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens

D) Bryan Cogman and Dave Hill

Answer · why

A) J. D. Payne and Patrick McKay

J. D. Payne and Patrick McKay. Friends since a school debate team, they had no produced credit between them when their pitch, to stretch the films' fi...

Q 05/05

Which director, their former boss, put in a word that helped The Rings of Power's untested showrunners win the job?

A) Peter Jackson

B) Guillermo del Toro

C) J. A. Bayona

D) J. J. Abrams

Answer · why

D) J. J. Abrams

J. J. Abrams. The pair had worked at his company, where they developed a Star Trek film that was never made; they asked him to ring the studio on thei...