11-13-2017, 04:30 PM
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For some reason, I usually associate literary characters with somebody real who has their first name, so I was thinking about Tom Jones as Tom Bombadil. At least he has the singing chops. Same with Goldberry - Gold Dust Woman, so - Stevie Nicks.
Yes, I imagined Tom Bombadil and Goldberry as Tom Jones and Stevie Nicks in my mind's eye while reading it.
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11-13-2017, 06:48 PM
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I found those Hobbit films pretty tough to get through. Sounds like they could be going for a more adult tone with this series though.
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11-13-2017, 10:53 PM
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I just read the "multiple seasons" are to take place between the time of the Hobbit and LOTR.
Not sure there's enough material there for THAT to happen.
Expectations lowered.
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I don’t think there is any material of Tolkien’s that covered that ground? I imagine it would just be some expanded universe stuff about the adventures of Bilbo, occasionally guest starring zany pranksters Balin and Gollum.
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11-14-2017, 06:47 AM
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I just read the "multiple seasons" are to take place between the time of the Hobbit and LOTR.
Not sure there's enough material there for THAT to happen.
Expectations lowered.
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Loads of material for the 60-odd years between the Hobbit and LotR. The re-occupation of Dol Goldur in Mirkwood, Sauron revealing himself in Mordor. Political stuff in Gondor. The opening of Moria. Rangers fighting off bad guys in the North.
And the Silmarilian is great. Tolkien was a better myth-maker than he was a novelist. I couldn't get through LotR the last time I tried to read it, but the Silmarilion still holds up, if you're into sagas and history.
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11-14-2017, 10:02 AM
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So much epic #### happened in Silmarillion though. Fall of Gondolin, coming of the Elves, dwarves and men, Fall of Numenor... betrayal, kin-slaying, accidental incest, dark lords, balrogs, dragons, love stories. The list goes on.
I suppose there is enough background to make TV series of Hobbit-LOTR era events, but if and when Silmarillion stories ever make it to the big or small screens, it'll be awesome. Maybe.
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11-14-2017, 12:14 PM
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Second Age saga around the Fall of Gondolin would be epic.
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11-14-2017, 04:28 PM
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Count me as excited, the hobbit movies were a bit of a train wreck but I don't care I love that universe.
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11-14-2017, 04:53 PM
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Yeah, there's no shortage of stuff there. Hell, you could do a whole series simply on Balin's attempts to reclaim Moria and it's eventual fall.
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11-15-2017, 02:08 PM
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The rights acquired are the TV rights to LOTR only so Silmarillion events are unlikely in this series. There are endless possibilities just in Appendix A and B from LOTR though including:
- History of Arnor, the Northern Kingdom, it's divide into petty kingdoms and wars with the Witch King.
- History of the Gondor kings and stewards.
- History of the Rohirrim and how they made alliance with Gondor.
- Back story on the Dwarves' quest for Erebor and later Balin re-taking Moria.
- Back story on the five wizards.
- Life story of Aragorn, how he was raised in Rivendell, how he served in Rohan and Gondor under an alias, and of course the love story with Arwen.
- Chronological history of the entire second and third ages and later events of the nine companions.
Lots to work with there but without actual stories and dialogue from Tolkien it'll basically amount to fan fiction. Hopefully they put a good team together and do it justice.
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11-16-2017, 12:08 PM
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This could be huge news potentially:
https://io9.gizmodo.com/j-r-r-tolkie...sta-1820476459
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The news this week that Warner Bros. and Amazon are now working on a The Lord of the Rings series came as a bit of a surprise, since it’d been widely assumed that Christopher Tolkien would never give anyone the rights again. It’s now come out that Tolkien, who has safeguarded the rights of his father J.R.R. Tolkien’s work, recently resigned as director of Tolkien Estate—signifying a major change on the horizon for adaptations of Tolkien’s work.
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The revered Tolkien scholar, who spent decades organizing J.R.R. Tolkien’s estate, was notoriously protective of his father’s work. Movie rights for The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings had already been licensed in the 1960s (leading to the Warner Bros. films that Christopher Tolkien reportedly hated, according to a 2012 interview with Le Monde)
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Now that Christopher Tolkien has retired, the “rights frenzy” for his properties can begin, as Tolkien enthusiast Michael Martinez wrote on his blog. Currently, the plans are for an Amazon series set in the world of The Lord of the Rings, which reportedly came after a bidding war between several networks. Given that Tolkien Estate incorporated in 2011 and Christopher Tolkien is no longer holding the reins, it looks to be open season for Tolkien films, shows, theme parks, or pretty much anything else you could imagine.
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Could we see a Silmarillion adaptation now? Whoever is taking over surely will have a hard time saying no to the mountains of money being offered to them for different rights. Christopher really hated having his father's work adapted (and his own, for that matter).
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11-16-2017, 12:41 PM
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Wouldn't be surprised if Disney bought all the rights.
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11-16-2017, 03:09 PM
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Wouldn't be surprised if Disney bought all the rights.
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I wouldn't be against this. It appears they spared no expense when it came to Star Wars, so it'd be great to have them pick up the Middle earth properties. All the source material is there, so there is a good base to work with.
I only ask that they cast 100% British actors. And when I say British, I mean anyone who speaks non-North American English. Except John C Reilly for Tom Bombadil
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11-16-2017, 03:43 PM
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I'd also be ok with Disney taking over, they've done right by two of my other favourite franchises.
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03-07-2019, 12:12 PM
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Some news:
https://ew.com/tv/2019/03/07/lord-of...nd-age-amazon/
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As author J.R.R. Tolkien once said of writing his Middle-earthian books, “I wisely started with a map.” So, over the past couple of weeks, Amazon too started promoting its forthcoming The Lord of the Rings series by releasing a series of maps. While they sparked a lively debate from fans about what they all mean for the series, the time period setting is now confirmed.
“Welcome to the Second Age,” Amazon tweeted on Thursday morning.
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03-07-2019, 12:39 PM
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That's good, I'm glad they aren't going to try to shoe horn in Hobbit and LOTR references. There will be a few, but they should be consistent with the past stories.
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03-07-2019, 01:26 PM
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Yeah seems like a good choice. Setting the series on the third age would have been a pain with continuity, and just generally more limiting.
Setting things in the second age, there's less baggage, but you can still have Sauron but do him differently, and Rivendell, and use characters mentioned in the movies like Isildur, show Moria when it was still the great city of Khazad Dum...
You also don't need to fret as much about things looking or being different to what it was like in the movies. It's literally a different age.
Oh, and you can now have lots of different rings to make a big deal about instead of just the one
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03-07-2019, 01:43 PM
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Cool. I'm excited about that. Good idea to distance yourself from the current content, but still be able to draw on portions.
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03-07-2019, 02:49 PM
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#39
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I wouldn't be against this. It appears they spared no expense when it came to Star Wars, so it'd be great to have them pick up the Middle earth properties.
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Much of what they've done with all that money has been to produce mass-market trash, so yeah, no thanks.
The fact that Christopher Tolkein has relinquished control over what's done creatively with his dad's world does not bode well at all for the quality of what's produced here. There's plenty of potential for this to basically end up as another Shannara Chronicles.
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03-07-2019, 06:57 PM
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#40
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All the material in Middle Earth RPGs - is it based on the actual books, or is it all new fan fiction?
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