The Hobbit star Richard Armitage has a very blunt response for why he won't be watching The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Armitage starred in Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy in the lead role of Thorin Oakenshield, who was on a quest to take back the Lonely Mountain. The Hobbit trilogy, which concluded in 2014, was the last live-action film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's works until Amazon acquired the rights to make a live-action TV series, The Rings of Power.
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