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The new Lord of the Rings prequel, The Rings of Power, is set in the Second Age of Middle-Earth - here's what that means
IGN - Amazon's Rings of Power series reportedly cost almost $60 million per episode, which is almost double the price of Stranger Things Season 4 episodes and quadruple the cost of episodes
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