While Amazon’s upcoming “Lord of the Rings” series was born out of Jeff Bezos’ desire to find “the next ‘Game of Thrones,’” fans of J.R.R. Tolkien’s books can rest assured that this new series won’t be following in the HBO drama’s footsteps when it comes to sex and violence.
Some Tolkein fans were rankled last summer when news broke that the show – formally titled “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” – had hired an intimacy coordinator. This seemed to suggest a level of nudity and/or sex that isn’t prevalent in Tolkien’s source material, and caused fans to worry that Amazon would be straying from the books.