Stunning battles, characters greater than life intended for greatness and many dragons ... Every Game of Thrones fan is conditioned to expect these things from this franchise, but that will finally change. Viewers may be surprised by the "Knight of the Seven Kingdoms", the latest spin-off/retraining series of HBO's imagination from the imagination of the author George Rn Martin. Today brought us our first official look at the trailer for the upcoming showAnd it is already clear that he will falsify his identity together in the Westeros world. But closely, the footage brings in mind a completely different property of fantasy-that is like a cautious story of what co-creator and shower Ira Parker hopes to achieve here.

Those who found themselves thrilled with this view of the harsh and attractive adventures of Sir Duncan, High (Peter Clafi) and his loyal egg (Dexter Sol Ansel) can be reminiscent of the spiritual ancestor of the show: JRR Tolkien's "Hobbit". Known (or infamous, depending on your perspective), that the children's novel at an approximately 300 pages has been on the big screen through Peter Aksekson's films. It is barely a secret that the production of Hobbit films was largely chaosAnd much of it comes down to the wrong idea of ​​taking a small story and blowing it to the level of, well, the "Lord of the Rings".

In an unusual way, "Knight of the Seven Kingdoms" gives his creative team the opportunity to learn a key lesson on what no to do. Fortunately, we have doubt that this is exactly what they will get. Here's how.

Here's a bit of a contradictory truth that "the knight of the seven kingdoms" seems to be internalized: it should not be "playing thrones". Even when it comes to another important spin-off series set in the universe that first established in the original Smash Hit series, it seems less. The trailer teases much more deprived, grounded and (mostly) a dragon -free set this time around, which comes as a significant change in the pace of what the "house of the dragon" has founded for himself since his first season. Hack, now we are at the moment when the criticism of the second season of that show was turning around Delaying a big battle up to 3 season.

But when you look at the "Knight of the Seven Kingdoms", he couldn't feel more refreshing compared to how the "Hobbit" was sold for the first time in the early 2010. Acksexon's attempt to bring Tolkien's story about the foretelling of Bilbo Baggins's episode trip through the middle country began on a modest note, but it quickly fueled the expectations of Blockbuster on the day. The simplest and simplest narratives (Bilbo is recruited in search of some dwarfs to kill a dragon) soon to expand into a trilogy of three -hour epics, none of which could stand during their traces. Remember that quote in the "Ring Scholarship" (from Bilbo, no less) for "Butter threw too much bread?" Yes, let no one doubt the power of Tolkien's prophecy.

However, more than a decade later, the "knight of the seven kingdoms" could finally show us how to do it.

Unlike the "Hobbit", which was published as a two -part blockbuster saga before it later turned into a full trilogy, "Knight of the Seven Kingdoms" Blissively has no red flags. The author "Song of Ice and Fire" George RR Martin may have developed a reputation as something of the verbal writer through his main saga, but the original material behind this latest show is quite another animal. Novel's technical collection, despite a real Romanian series, Martin's so -called "Dunk and Egg" books were deliberately made as a bite. Although, in fact, written first before being retroactively transferred to his more famous novels, Tolkien's "hobbit" serves a similar function. Now, the "knight of the seven kingdoms" seems to be ready to continue this when it hits HBO early next year - even if fans may not be able to experience as many episodes as they are used to.

Unlike Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon, both usually ranged between 7-10 episodes per season (with a glittering exception to The last season of "Game of Thrones" and, well, we saw what happened with it), "The Knight of the Seven Kingdoms" occupies a dramatically more restrained approach. The new series will watch in just six total episodes and, once, we are actually thrilled. This is definitive proof that Ira Parker and his writers do not feel pressure to pull "hobbit" and add more stories and scale just because of it. Viewers will need to adapt to a very different treatment of this fantasy world that they know so well, but here we hope this risk is paid off ... and leave our unpleasant memories of "Hobbit" even more in the mirror.

"Knight of the Seven Kingdoms" comes to HBO on January 18, 2026.