The battle for one book to rule them all is on
Fantasy hunger games between ‘House of the Dragon’ and ‘The Ring of Power’ are about to commence
19 August 2022 - 05:10
As the blockbuster movie season enters its hibernation before coming furiously back to life between Thanksgiving and Christmas, the battle for obsessive fan-fuelled fantasy entertainment is moving to the living room.
Enter the dragons, elves, magic rings and iron thrones of Amazon Prime’s $500m Lord of the Rings prequel, The Rings of Power, and HBO’s slightly more modest $200m Game of Thrones prequel, House of the Dragon, to battle it out in the small-screen fantasy wars nobody really asked for...
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