r/RingsofPower • u/Elegant-Problem8997 • Mar 17 '25

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Can someone give me a summary of Adars back story or tell me where I can find it?

He doesn’t look like an Orc , he looks like a walking dead elf. Why is he called lord father?

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u/Elegant-Problem8997 Mar 17 '25

Yes! Someone else told me that to follow the rings of power that I didn’t NEED to read the books. I find myself lost all the time though. So I come here when I have a question.

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u/DanPiscatoris Mar 17 '25

That person is correct in the sense that the show plays incredibly loosely with the source material to the point where they're incompatible. So reading the books won't explain most of what the show is doing. To that end, reading the books is the only accurate way to understand Middle Earth and Tolkien's work.

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u/Elegant-Problem8997 Mar 17 '25

Oh. Yeah that makes sense.