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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: agrajag on March 07, 2019, 09:50:40 PM

Title: Amazon Prime Lord of the Rings series
Post by: agrajag on March 07, 2019, 09:50:40 PM
My hype level for this is gradually rising.

https://youtu.be/36mme9rTf0Q

Anyone who is familiar with the backstory will tell you that the time and geographical setting has a lot of really cool stuff. The fall of Numenor, the Dunedain settling on Middle Earth and establishing the kingdoms or Arnor and Gondor, the wars against the Witch King of Angmar. The lineage of the kings of Gondor, etc. They have a lot of stuff to work with.

All of this stuff Tolkien briefly wrote about in the Appendices of Return of the King, so they show creators have a lot of liberty to flesh things out as they see fit. I expect the series to wrap up with the forging of the rings of power. Might have to get Amazon Prime for this.
Title: Re: Amazon Prime Lord of the Rings series
Post by: Raist on March 08, 2019, 12:26:25 AM
That's clearly better than the rumoured Young Aragorn shit.

Most epic would have been first age though :lawd
Title: Re: Amazon Prime Lord of the Rings series
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on March 08, 2019, 02:18:59 AM
Guess this can scratch that got itch once its done
Title: Re: Amazon Prime Lord of the Rings series
Post by: agrajag on March 08, 2019, 08:36:48 AM
That's clearly better than the rumoured Young Aragorn shit.

Most epic would have been first age though :lawd

Christopher Tolkien was still squatting on the rights to those when they started production, I think. I agree the first age would be badass, but much harder to adapt. It's not one cohesive narrative, and it spans thousands of years.
Title: Re: Amazon Prime Lord of the Rings series
Post by: Great Rumbler on March 08, 2019, 09:11:01 AM
At least they aren't going with the Young Aragorn angle, that generated zero interest from me.