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The Lord of the Rings influenced The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
Added by Media Influence Map · 23 September 2026
The influence
The Lord of the Rings
Book · 1954
The work it shaped
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
TV Series · 2022
The evidence
The series is licensed from The Lord of the Rings and its appendices only, not from The Silmarillion, which is the constraint that shapes it: the Second Age events it dramatises exist in the appendices as a chronology of names and dates, so most of the connective material is written for the series.
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