House of the Dragon vs. The Rings of Power: Which show is more popular?

The entertainment press would love to make it so, but the fact of the matter is that two big-budget fantasy prequel TV series in progress right now -- HBO's House of the Dragon, and Prime Video's The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power -- don't so much represent a head-to-head streaming rivalry as they do a fascinating comparison between two different approaches to the game.

Direct comparisons between the two, of course, were always inevitable. How could they not be? Dragon's George R.R. Martin remains a devotee of LOTR's Tolkien. Both of these projects also represent hugely expensive gambles for their respective platforms, involving as they do the turning of encyclopedic material from their respective creators into richly drawn narratives.

Moreover, if Prime Video's The Rings of Power (which Elon Musk panned in a tweet on Monday) makes you want to re-watch the Peter Jackson movies, guess where you'll need to go? Fun fact: They're available to watch on HBO Max, which is also the streaming home for House of the Dragon.

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