chuds don't want anything special that panders to them, they just want the absence of woke leftoid pandering. Like the original LOTR trilogy that chuds and normies alike love and cherish as a great adaption.
literally everyone but the most moronic of contrarians considers LOTR 1-3 to be a great adaption.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Among book fans they are generally regarded as poor adaptions.
The Tolkien family literally said they were 'not Lord of the Rings'
They are ok as movies but they are not true to Tolkien's works, they are just Hollywood actions movies with completely different characters from the books and a LOTR badge slapped on them
2 years ago
Anonymous
well, if you're that much of a hardcore Tolkien book fan that you think the Peter Jackson trilogy is a bad adaption and wasn't true enough to the source material, how could you have any hope at all for the Amazon LOTR adaption?
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Makes movies watchable by removing pages upon pages of shit elven poetry and moronic bumbling character that never shows up again in the story and doesn’t make sense unless you’ve read the turgid source material books
NOOOOOOOOO NOT MY PRECIOUS TOLKIENERINO
2 years ago
Anonymous
>no you see, Tolkien was actually always shit!
Thanks for proving our point, "Tolkien fan".
2 years ago
Anonymous
Fricking hell, have we reached a time where it's 'cool' to think Jackson's films are bad? As someone who grew up with the books, those fims are great. A few issues with them, sure, but overall they get the feel of the books right and respect the material. And they are universally loved, or so I thought
2 years ago
Anonymous
It's just the amazon shills who are preemptively trying to drag the trilogy down so their catastrophe of a tv show will seem less catastrophic.
Like even my fricking normie freinds are laughing about this.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>even my fricking normie freinds are laughing about this.
Imagine actually being an ESL lying to a bunch of strangers on a Korean basket weaving forum, lmaoing
2 years ago
Anonymous
I dont get paid like you so I guess it commands a little more respect.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>he does it for free
2 years ago
Anonymous
No Christopher Tolkien spoke several times about how he didn't like the films.
The films are kino, but book gays want a perfect adaptation of the source material. I think Jackson's rewriting was actually very intelligent most of the time. He only missed on a few things (no Tom Bombadil, for example)
2 years ago
Anonymous
well, if you're that much of a hardcore Tolkien book fan that you think the Peter Jackson trilogy is a bad adaption and wasn't true enough to the source material, how could you have any hope at all for the Amazon LOTR adaption?
Fricking hell, have we reached a time where it's 'cool' to think Jackson's films are bad? As someone who grew up with the books, those fims are great. A few issues with them, sure, but overall they get the feel of the books right and respect the material. And they are universally loved, or so I thought
Most Tolkien fans consider the movies to be really good action films with a touch of Tolkien, not actually faithful adaptations.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Is this a new talking point for the amazon shills? The LOTR trilogy was an amazing adventure story, especially fellowship had so many beautiful scenery shots and just a comfy feeling of travel, only someone extremely disingenuous or cynical would call it an action film, just because it happens to also have some nice action scenes.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Dude I have nothing but contempt for the Amazon shitshow, but that doesn't make the Jackson movies flawless masterpieces. I can still think that the Star Wars prequels sucked even though the Disney shit is even worse.
2 years ago
Anonymous
they aren't flawless, but they are masterpieces. I firmly believe that the original trilogy is the best LOTR adaption Hollywood at any period in time would have been capable of creating. They certainly can't make movies like that anymore.
2 years ago
Anonymous
I love the Jackson movies, but not because they are particularly great adaptations of the source material, that was the point I was trying to make. I also don't expect Hollywood to ever properly adapt Tolkiens works but that doesn't mean I have to lower my expectations below the acceptable.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Is this a new talking point
It's been a talking point for over 20 years, clearly you never spent any time reading the opinions of actual book fans
2 years ago
Anonymous
I'm sorry but I don't take the opinions of book nerds seriously if they apparently think the Jackson trilogy wasn't close enough to the source material to be anything but okayish action movies, but at the same time they can't even speak out against something as absurd and ridiculously off-source material as black elves and black hobbits.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Is this some falseflag where you pretend that people cannot dislike two things at the same time? I can take a literal shit on the Jackson movies (even though in reality I love them) and STILL hate the Amazon show, get it through your thick skull already.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Book fans care about themes, characterisation, fidelity of the events, stuff like that. Jackson radically changed many of these.
One big example, think about Tolkien the WW1 veteran who hated war so much he would spend little more than a couple of pages documenting the battles in LOTR. Then compare to Jackson who dragged these battle scenes out for over 1hour and filled it with rediculous ott Hollywood action because war and suffering is actually fun and LeGOod
2 years ago
Anonymous
>noooooooooo the movie doesn't have Tom Bombadil dancing around for 3 hours, this movie is terrible! >Finally my blackerinos are getting the representation they deserve and Galadriel is a HECKIN valid warrior body type b, now THIS is the true Tolkien spirit I remember from the books!
2 years ago
Anonymous
see
Is this some falseflag where you pretend that people cannot dislike two things at the same time? I can take a literal shit on the Jackson movies (even though in reality I love them) and STILL hate the Amazon show, get it through your thick skull already.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Most of my 'normal' friends think the lord of the rings films are really dull and slow. I wasn't aware anyone considered them action movies.
If the original LOTR trilogy were released today, you'd whine incessantly about Eowyn killing that Nazgul "by the power of being a woman" and the "obvious feminist agenda" being pushed in the movie.
I saw the LotR movies in the theatre when I was 16 and even then I was a bit miffed about how they portrayed Eowyn as a whiny homely woman instead of the steadfast valkyrie she is in the books during that moment, a living symbol of loyalty and strength while still being feminine.
because there's no way to know if a decision is agenda-driven for sure. we can only notice patterns and assume to worst because it's too often accurate.
2 years ago
Anonymous
While I agree with the point you're trying to make it has become extremely easy to spot an agenda because many people don't even hide it, there openly pronounce their hate for the source material and anyone liking it is a moronic nerd/nazi/chud/whatever, so it has to change and become more "modern". It's not a fricking conspiracy theory, they say that shit to your face nowadays.
Eowyn is a character with flaws and weaknesses >not wienery or b***hy >doesn't turn down help because she's stronk and indupendunt >no "I can do this just as well if not better" attitude >just wants to help her father to whom she has a strong affection
now compare it to women characters in large audience movies of the past decade
Eowyn is supposed so be a symbol of female loyalty and filial duty, of showing strength despite your obvious weakness in the face of evil, the love for your lord and father, overcoming societal barriers when too much is at stake. Modern "strong" women are about defying their fathers or killing 50 nazis on their own or being extremely confident in and proud of their weaknesses.
He's right you know, all the "noooo it was different back then" is pure cope. You are unable to criticize that shit without resorting to hurling racial slurs and tweeting death threats to either the staff or the actors. Smelly incel channers nerds deserve all the shitty adaptation they get for popularizing trollish attitudes Now the executives noticed the power of outrage based promotion you made your bed by popularizing troll culture now lay in it
Why do morons continue the meme that Arch began? It was never established in canon that dwarven women have beards. Tolkien played with the idea, but never implemented it. Neither did his son.
This isn't the "got em" you think it is. If they were meant to be black, Tolkien would have described them so, as it would be a stand out feature when among elves and men. This means they must be some shade of, what most would call white.
so... is this marriage interracial or are all Dwarven women black? But I think we see a picture of a Dwarven Woman in the Hobbit... so... she is a different race? Where does she come from, where are the other black dwarves?
It's still poor worldbuilding to treat dwarves (and elves) like they were just some funny looking humans and give them the earth based ethnic diversity treatment. Even if there were a good argument for this level of ethnic diversity in the world.
It's already an abomination from what little they have shown. And that is supposed to be the best they have. It only goes further down the drain from here.
>Digital makes everything look fake and cheap >Lots of CGI but never seamless, you will tell when its just someone on a set added in post >Diverse and multi ethnic races which go against lore (the mixed elf probably has Easternling parentage, maybe but the black hobbits and dwarves already ruin this) >Tacky action to keep people strung along, epic stunts and sick bow shots are Tolkien was all about after all >Creators have their own agenda which is contradictory to Tolkien's so the show will be at odds with the source material
>being such a greedy and bigoted piece of shit that you'll steal source material for money without respecting the ethnic homogenous groups the material describes >being such a sexist piece of shit that you can't stand to even acknowledge the biological superiorty men have in strength and depict inferior weak women as if they were men instead >being so delusional and self centered you attack the audience for demanding the source material is recognized and respected
They would have done better creating something original rather than trying to exploit the Lord of the Rings fan base, as the fan base expects them to honor Tolkien, which they clearly are not. Not wasting my time watching this shit.
>caring about english culture makes you racist >praising the different aspects that make men and women unique makes you sexist
You people are mentally ill.
Highly doubt it. If we've learnt anything from Disney+ so far, it's that having a strong IP alone won't guarantee a popular and successful tv show with large viewership numbers.
22 main characters for s1
Six main realms/regions - Lindon, Eregion, Khazad-dum, Rhovanian, 'Southlands', Numenor
+ Sundering Seas (not really a realm but will be regularly featured)
Main theme of s1 - why is Saurons seduction effective/why are the people of Middle-earth ready for Saurons deceit
There has been nothing said and nothing shown that indicates that this show is going to be good in any way. Every single sign is that it will be woke garbage.
- 22 main characters
- Elrond/Galadriel will be the main focus of S1
- Celeborn will be in the show at some point, and not just as an afterthought
- Feanor will be in it, but unnamed (!!)
- One of the main themes are "fear of death and the desire to live forever" and s1 will explore “why is Saurons seduction effective/why are the people of Middle-earth ready for Saurons deceit”
- Six main realms for s1 - Lindon, Eregion, Khazad-dum, Rhovanian, 'Southlands', Numenor + Sundering Seas (not really a realm but will be regularly featured)
- S2 will explore new realms
- Dwarves will have a serious storyline, not just comic relief and two Durins will be explained
- The method of time compression keeps the first millennium roughly the same then compresses the rest
- The sword in Elendil's character poster is not Narsil
- Statue on Numenor (shown in the teaser) is Earendil with Elwing in bird form
- Robert Aramayo (Elrond) is a massive Tolkien nerd
- John Howe is fully involved
- The Tolkien Estate 'have had a seat at the table throughout', and are really involved
Most of these are lies btw, I can see some hamfisted parallels in the show about how people fall for Sauron just like they do for le evil alt-right and only strong females/blacks can defy them coming up though.
>- The Tolkien Estate 'have had a seat at the table throughout', and are really involved
Really involved counting the scheckels, not very involved vetoing idiot decisions.
>The Tolkien Estate 'have had a seat at the table throughout', and are really involved >why yes my grandfather always imagined Middle-Earth full of abbos, now give me the money
>Fortunately all the High Elves are white
LMFAO DO YOU STILL THINK SHIT LIKE THAT MATTERS HAHAHAHA WHAT FRICKING YEAR DO YOU THINK IT IS HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH
Because the makers of this show don't give a shit and think the creator of the source material just threw stuff around nilly willy like it's a cheap Harry Potter novel?
Having their human characters die and age within a season was deemed too complicated to handle. Probably couldn't convince any good actors to only do one or two episodes for characters. Also they thought audience would just be confused. But really, they just have a shit writing department that couldn't handle it any other way.
That's moronic, especially of they want to turn it into a multi-season franchise. They're making the same basic error Game of Thrones did - cut out potential content.
Both Christopher and Priscilla Tolkien died in the last few years so idk what things look like now but the people in charge will be Christophers children, so Adam and Simon Tolkien.
Read a few comments from people who have seen footage and several said this scene of Gil-galad crowning Galadriel was amazing.
Not sure exactly why, some implied that they really nailed the use of music with an emotional beat
I'm guessing they will have him be Orodreth's son so they will have that family connection between the two.
First two episodes will be shown in cinemas worldwide as a standalone movie
JA Bayona has been sharing images in 2.39:1 aspect ratio, which is cinema screen format
I think we all know the answer
Depends how much of a cynics you are
>show looks like complete and total shit so far, with everyone involved showing nothing but disdain and ridicule towards Tolkien fans
>cynic
>everyone involved showing nothing but disdain and ridicule towards Tolkien fans
Not pandering to chuds is actually very Tolkienian tbh
why would you pander to a make-believe demographic?
chuds don't want anything special that panders to them, they just want the absence of woke leftoid pandering. Like the original LOTR trilogy that chuds and normies alike love and cherish as a great adaption.
>great adaption
lol
literally everyone but the most moronic of contrarians considers LOTR 1-3 to be a great adaption.
Among book fans they are generally regarded as poor adaptions.
The Tolkien family literally said they were 'not Lord of the Rings'
They are ok as movies but they are not true to Tolkien's works, they are just Hollywood actions movies with completely different characters from the books and a LOTR badge slapped on them
well, if you're that much of a hardcore Tolkien book fan that you think the Peter Jackson trilogy is a bad adaption and wasn't true enough to the source material, how could you have any hope at all for the Amazon LOTR adaption?
>Makes movies watchable by removing pages upon pages of shit elven poetry and moronic bumbling character that never shows up again in the story and doesn’t make sense unless you’ve read the turgid source material books
NOOOOOOOOO NOT MY PRECIOUS TOLKIENERINO
>no you see, Tolkien was actually always shit!
Thanks for proving our point, "Tolkien fan".
Fricking hell, have we reached a time where it's 'cool' to think Jackson's films are bad? As someone who grew up with the books, those fims are great. A few issues with them, sure, but overall they get the feel of the books right and respect the material. And they are universally loved, or so I thought
It's just the amazon shills who are preemptively trying to drag the trilogy down so their catastrophe of a tv show will seem less catastrophic.
Like even my fricking normie freinds are laughing about this.
>even my fricking normie freinds are laughing about this.
Imagine actually being an ESL lying to a bunch of strangers on a Korean basket weaving forum, lmaoing
I dont get paid like you so I guess it commands a little more respect.
>he does it for free
No Christopher Tolkien spoke several times about how he didn't like the films.
The films are kino, but book gays want a perfect adaptation of the source material. I think Jackson's rewriting was actually very intelligent most of the time. He only missed on a few things (no Tom Bombadil, for example)
Most Tolkien fans consider the movies to be really good action films with a touch of Tolkien, not actually faithful adaptations.
Is this a new talking point for the amazon shills? The LOTR trilogy was an amazing adventure story, especially fellowship had so many beautiful scenery shots and just a comfy feeling of travel, only someone extremely disingenuous or cynical would call it an action film, just because it happens to also have some nice action scenes.
Dude I have nothing but contempt for the Amazon shitshow, but that doesn't make the Jackson movies flawless masterpieces. I can still think that the Star Wars prequels sucked even though the Disney shit is even worse.
they aren't flawless, but they are masterpieces. I firmly believe that the original trilogy is the best LOTR adaption Hollywood at any period in time would have been capable of creating. They certainly can't make movies like that anymore.
I love the Jackson movies, but not because they are particularly great adaptations of the source material, that was the point I was trying to make. I also don't expect Hollywood to ever properly adapt Tolkiens works but that doesn't mean I have to lower my expectations below the acceptable.
>Is this a new talking point
It's been a talking point for over 20 years, clearly you never spent any time reading the opinions of actual book fans
I'm sorry but I don't take the opinions of book nerds seriously if they apparently think the Jackson trilogy wasn't close enough to the source material to be anything but okayish action movies, but at the same time they can't even speak out against something as absurd and ridiculously off-source material as black elves and black hobbits.
Is this some falseflag where you pretend that people cannot dislike two things at the same time? I can take a literal shit on the Jackson movies (even though in reality I love them) and STILL hate the Amazon show, get it through your thick skull already.
Book fans care about themes, characterisation, fidelity of the events, stuff like that. Jackson radically changed many of these.
One big example, think about Tolkien the WW1 veteran who hated war so much he would spend little more than a couple of pages documenting the battles in LOTR. Then compare to Jackson who dragged these battle scenes out for over 1hour and filled it with rediculous ott Hollywood action because war and suffering is actually fun and LeGOod
>noooooooooo the movie doesn't have Tom Bombadil dancing around for 3 hours, this movie is terrible!
>Finally my blackerinos are getting the representation they deserve and Galadriel is a HECKIN valid warrior body type b, now THIS is the true Tolkien spirit I remember from the books!
see
Most of my 'normal' friends think the lord of the rings films are really dull and slow. I wasn't aware anyone considered them action movies.
>politics
What politics?
If the original LOTR trilogy were released today, you'd whine incessantly about Eowyn killing that Nazgul "by the power of being a woman" and the "obvious feminist agenda" being pushed in the movie.
I saw the LotR movies in the theatre when I was 16 and even then I was a bit miffed about how they portrayed Eowyn as a whiny homely woman instead of the steadfast valkyrie she is in the books during that moment, a living symbol of loyalty and strength while still being feminine.
because there's no way to know if a decision is agenda-driven for sure. we can only notice patterns and assume to worst because it's too often accurate.
While I agree with the point you're trying to make it has become extremely easy to spot an agenda because many people don't even hide it, there openly pronounce their hate for the source material and anyone liking it is a moronic nerd/nazi/chud/whatever, so it has to change and become more "modern". It's not a fricking conspiracy theory, they say that shit to your face nowadays.
Eowyn is a character with flaws and weaknesses
>not wienery or b***hy
>doesn't turn down help because she's stronk and indupendunt
>no "I can do this just as well if not better" attitude
>just wants to help her father to whom she has a strong affection
now compare it to women characters in large audience movies of the past decade
Eowyn is supposed so be a symbol of female loyalty and filial duty, of showing strength despite your obvious weakness in the face of evil, the love for your lord and father, overcoming societal barriers when too much is at stake. Modern "strong" women are about defying their fathers or killing 50 nazis on their own or being extremely confident in and proud of their weaknesses.
He's right you know, all the "noooo it was different back then" is pure cope. You are unable to criticize that shit without resorting to hurling racial slurs and tweeting death threats to either the staff or the actors. Smelly incel channers nerds deserve all the shitty adaptation they get for popularizing trollish attitudes Now the executives noticed the power of outrage based promotion you made your bed by popularizing troll culture now lay in it
(You)
Why didn't Tolkien specifically include blacks among the many other races in his extremely detailed works? You don't have an answer to this.
>Tolkien didn't include blacks
>Mordor is the balkans
Oh no no no no
>chuds hate this
Why yes, I do hate interrelationships between Black folk and humans, how could you tell?
Those aren't humans, though.
That's what he said
i had no idea she was THAT fat
You know it's good casting when they didn't even need to give her any prosthetics
this is an 8 in muttland
where her beard?
Why do morons continue the meme that Arch began? It was never established in canon that dwarven women have beards. Tolkien played with the idea, but never implemented it. Neither did his son.
Every new angle we get of that obese turd makes it look worse and worse
Yes. It's disgusting.
There are zero black dwarves in Tolkien's Middle-Earth.
It is an Anglo-Saxon mythology.
>There are zero black dwarves
What skin colour does Tolkien say the dwarves are?
you know if you kept reading that comment a bit further you'd have your answer
This isn't the "got em" you think it is. If they were meant to be black, Tolkien would have described them so, as it would be a stand out feature when among elves and men. This means they must be some shade of, what most would call white.
She's literally just darker
so... is this marriage interracial or are all Dwarven women black? But I think we see a picture of a Dwarven Woman in the Hobbit... so... she is a different race? Where does she come from, where are the other black dwarves?
She's probably an immigrant from a different dwarven clan, like the ones that live in the east of middle earth
It's still poor worldbuilding to treat dwarves (and elves) like they were just some funny looking humans and give them the earth based ethnic diversity treatment. Even if there were a good argument for this level of ethnic diversity in the world.
that thing looks like a fat Black vulture
Very.
No clue, because I'm not going to watch that trash. I will, however, watch all the youtube vids that will be shitting all over it because its trash.
From the sick twisted mind of Tariq NaPeele
Take the ring off yo finga, Frodo
kek
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popobawa
It's already an abomination from what little they have shown. And that is supposed to be the best they have. It only goes further down the drain from here.
I will never know.
not as bad as WoT
i love that i instanly thought this was a misguided Cinemaphile thread about some gangster rap music.
The movies still look good. I wouldn't have done a remake for another decade at least.
I love blacks so I think it's going to be great. Great people!
>Digital makes everything look fake and cheap
>Lots of CGI but never seamless, you will tell when its just someone on a set added in post
>Diverse and multi ethnic races which go against lore (the mixed elf probably has Easternling parentage, maybe but the black hobbits and dwarves already ruin this)
>Tacky action to keep people strung along, epic stunts and sick bow shots are Tolkien was all about after all
>Creators have their own agenda which is contradictory to Tolkien's so the show will be at odds with the source material
not watching/10, same as Kenobi it will be too mediocre to muster more than half-assed hatred for it
Imagine a Tolkien show even worse than the Hobbit movies. It's gonna be so bad it won't even be fun to joke about, just sad.
I hope the series tanks.
>being such a greedy and bigoted piece of shit that you'll steal source material for money without respecting the ethnic homogenous groups the material describes
>being such a sexist piece of shit that you can't stand to even acknowledge the biological superiorty men have in strength and depict inferior weak women as if they were men instead
>being so delusional and self centered you attack the audience for demanding the source material is recognized and respected
They would have done better creating something original rather than trying to exploit the Lord of the Rings fan base, as the fan base expects them to honor Tolkien, which they clearly are not. Not wasting my time watching this shit.
You do realize racist and sexist describes YOUR beliefs not what you're complaining about, right?
>caring about english culture makes you racist
>praising the different aspects that make men and women unique makes you sexist
You people are mentally ill.
11/10 bad.
It will make the witcher look good by comparison.
It will make WoT look good by comparison.
My prediction? It'll be Amazon's biggest show, easily topping The Boys.
Highly doubt it. If we've learnt anything from Disney+ so far, it's that having a strong IP alone won't guarantee a popular and successful tv show with large viewership numbers.
It'll have record breaking first episode views and then some of the largest drop off in history.
It will be a massive dumpster fire, but in clownworld that means it gets 95%+ critics approval.
Some newly confirmed info
22 main characters for s1
Six main realms/regions - Lindon, Eregion, Khazad-dum, Rhovanian, 'Southlands', Numenor
+ Sundering Seas (not really a realm but will be regularly featured)
Main theme of s1 - why is Saurons seduction effective/why are the people of Middle-earth ready for Saurons deceit
all the people who hope that a chinese social credit system will be implemented in the west will love it
everyone with taste will hate it
simple as
There has been nothing said and nothing shown that indicates that this show is going to be good in any way. Every single sign is that it will be woke garbage.
Another great addition to the collection
Some new info
- 22 main characters
- Elrond/Galadriel will be the main focus of S1
- Celeborn will be in the show at some point, and not just as an afterthought
- Feanor will be in it, but unnamed (!!)
- One of the main themes are "fear of death and the desire to live forever" and s1 will explore “why is Saurons seduction effective/why are the people of Middle-earth ready for Saurons deceit”
- Six main realms for s1 - Lindon, Eregion, Khazad-dum, Rhovanian, 'Southlands', Numenor + Sundering Seas (not really a realm but will be regularly featured)
- S2 will explore new realms
- Dwarves will have a serious storyline, not just comic relief and two Durins will be explained
- The method of time compression keeps the first millennium roughly the same then compresses the rest
- The sword in Elendil's character poster is not Narsil
- Statue on Numenor (shown in the teaser) is Earendil with Elwing in bird form
- Robert Aramayo (Elrond) is a massive Tolkien nerd
- John Howe is fully involved
- The Tolkien Estate 'have had a seat at the table throughout', and are really involved
Most of these are lies btw, I can see some hamfisted parallels in the show about how people fall for Sauron just like they do for le evil alt-right and only strong females/blacks can defy them coming up though.
>- The Tolkien Estate 'have had a seat at the table throughout', and are really involved
Really involved counting the scheckels, not very involved vetoing idiot decisions.
>The Tolkien Estate 'have had a seat at the table throughout', and are really involved
>why yes my grandfather always imagined Middle-Earth full of abbos, now give me the money
>Feanor
They better cast the biggest megachad they can for the role. Fortunately all the High Elves are white, so that's not a problem.
>Fortunately all the High Elves are white
LMFAO DO YOU STILL THINK SHIT LIKE THAT MATTERS HAHAHAHA WHAT FRICKING YEAR DO YOU THINK IT IS HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH
>Fortunately all the High Elves are white
lol no
HIGH Elves. The Black person isn't one.
>t. literally the guy in that screenshot who gets BTFO every thread
>One of the main themes are "fear of death and the desire to live forever"
Some certainly do get that wish
forgot one
>Sauron won't be the centre stage for all 5 seasons
What's this about "time compression"?
Moving the ring making the end of the 2nd age so that it happens around the same time as the downfall of Numenor
Why?
So that they can introduce Elendil, Isildur, Pharazon and Tar-Miriel in s1 and not S4/5
Because the makers of this show don't give a shit and think the creator of the source material just threw stuff around nilly willy like it's a cheap Harry Potter novel?
Having their human characters die and age within a season was deemed too complicated to handle. Probably couldn't convince any good actors to only do one or two episodes for characters. Also they thought audience would just be confused. But really, they just have a shit writing department that couldn't handle it any other way.
That's moronic, especially of they want to turn it into a multi-season franchise. They're making the same basic error Game of Thrones did - cut out potential content.
Who is the "Tolkien estate" now? 20 grandchildren who give zero fricks and only want some easy millions?
Both Christopher and Priscilla Tolkien died in the last few years so idk what things look like now but the people in charge will be Christophers children, so Adam and Simon Tolkien.
I will shit on my own chest if we're getting even an ounce of that same important spirit in this shitshow.
For me, it's Maedhros
I've seen a video on his character, he had a pretty cool run
His brother is still alive, maybe they'll actually use him, since Tolkien literally forgot about him.
Read a few comments from people who have seen footage and several said this scene of Gil-galad crowning Galadriel was amazing.
Not sure exactly why, some implied that they really nailed the use of music with an emotional beat
I'm guessing they will have him be Orodreth's son so they will have that family connection between the two.
Or they actually could go with Tolkien's initial route of making him Finrod's son, either way they will have Gil-galad and Galadriel be family
>I'm guessing they will have him be Orodreth's son
Yeah, I think it makes more sense that way.
Gonna make season 8 of GOT look like a masterpiece.
Dey hea
WE
That is one of the ugliest looking non-malformed person I've seen
she just looks utterly repulsive
Idk I dont have prime
all the signs are there for a terrible show.
Still not watching your Black person show
wait this is lotr?
It will be good because diversity.
How come the character doesn't have a beard. Gimli said dwarf women have beard.
what type of fried chicken does she like?
First two episodes will be shown in cinemas worldwide as a standalone movie
JA Bayona has been sharing images in 2.39:1 aspect ratio, which is cinema screen format
I thought that already came out and was forgotten.
It's not out until September
Well I predict it will be forgotten by december.
Looks kino to me
It will have the most forgettable plot and characters imaginable.
At least visually it looks good, I give them that.
The statue at the Numenorean port is of Eärendil and Elwing (bird form)
History repeats itself
Amazon wishes they could repeat what Jackson produced.
not bad enough to stop Cinemaphile from watching it and giving it free advertisement here, despite the ~~*writers*~~ best efforts.
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LMAO