Is ‘The Rings of Power’ Based on ‘The Silmarillion’?

So, to make it clear — Prime Video actually doesn’t own the rights to The Simarillion.

Per Culture Slate, one of the Rings of Power’s showrunners J.D. Payne explained in a Vanity Fair interview that, “We have the rights solely to The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King, the appendices, and The Hobbit. And that is it. We do not have the rights to The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, The History of Middle-Earth, or any of those other books.”