Lord of the Rings - The Rings of Power review: A thing of beauty 

The Lord of the Rings prequel has Galadriel at its heart, but Lenny Henry and his Irish hobbits will probably be the main talking point in this country, writes Esther McCarthy 

Morfydd Clark as Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, on Amazon Prime Video. 

It boasts huge-scale set pieces, a younger, feistier Galadriel and Lenny Henry as part of a band of Irish-accented hobbits which viewers here are likely to have opinions on.

Amazon’s high-stakes and eagerly anticipated new Lord of the Rings series - estimated to be costing $1 billion - lands on Amazon as one of the most talked-about series debuts of recent years. The Rings of Power arrived on the Prime Video streaming service from Friday, September 2.