Academy Award winner Sir Richard Taylor is the co-founder and creative director of New Zealand's prop and effects company Weta Workshop. He lead the team of artists who created the costumes, prosthetics, weapons, "bigatures" and weapons for the Peter Jackson film trilogy "The Lord of the Rings."

His crew returned to work on the three movies for "The Hobbit" and also worked on Amazon's first season of "Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power." From New Zealand, he spent an hour with Middle-earth Musings to talk Tolkien.

HOST: Larry D. Curtis
ENGINEER: Michale Houck

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NOTICE: This episode contains massive spoilers for the LOTR: ROP Amazon series. It assumes anyone listening will have watched all of Season One. Listen accordingly.

Writers Paul Genesse and Robert J. Defendi join host Larry D. Curtis to take a look back at the first season of Amazon's new streaming series "Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power." As well-versed storytellers and Tolkienites the trio offer both specific and broad insights, details you probably didn't notice, clues, successes and shortcoming of the first season.

They also discuss characters, moments, backflips, hopes for the future seasons and the unfortunate toxic fandom that sometimes surrounds the show.

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This episode serves as a bit of a table setting so if you want to jump into the interviews, you might want to head to Episode Two.

If you want to meet the host and hear about his history and passion with Tolkien and Middle-earth, this brief introduction is for you.

HOST: Larry D. Curtis
ENGINEER: Michale Houck

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