The Rings Of Power’s New Mordor Origin Story Actually Fits With Tolkien’s LOTR Mythology

Amazon’s The Rings of Power has created a new origin story for Mordor, but it actually fits into what J.R.R. Tolkien already created with Lord of the Rings. The high fantasy series takes place primarily in the Second Age and follows younger versions of Galadriel and Elrond, as well as the Moria dwarves and a group of early Halflings, all of whom become part of cataclysmic events — like the forging of the Rings of Power — that ultimately lead to the events surrounding the destruction of the One Ring by Frodo and the Fellowship chronicled in The Lord of the Rings.