Rings of Power

Dark Lords don’t do campaign speeches. Nonetheless, season two of Amazon’s Tolkien adaptation, “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,” opened with Sauron trying to persuade a small band of surviving orcs into accepting him as the new…

“I’ve seen a lot of reactions that have immediately suggested, ‘Oh, this is really sloppy,’” said Corey Olsen, a medieval studies scholar who goes by the moniker “Tolkien Professor” online, in a live Q&A interview. “ I’m feeling a…