Dolfan in NYC Posted July 14, 2022 Share Posted July 14, 2022 Yeah, this gets its own thread. THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER Starring Robert Aramayo, Morfydd Clark, and Markella Cavanaugh -- Premieres on 9/2/22 on Prime Video Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbarrie Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 Seems like it might be taking some unwarranted liberties with the source material. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVileOne Posted July 17, 2022 Share Posted July 17, 2022 Gonna give this a shot since it's Lord of the Rings, and I love fantasy. But I will give this the same shot I did Wheel of Time. Wheel of Time totally lost me about 3-4 episodes in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuetsar Posted July 17, 2022 Share Posted July 17, 2022 Evidently they dont have the rights to the silmarillon, so. . . Yeah. I'll give it a shot, but it looks cheesy as hell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert S Posted July 17, 2022 Share Posted July 17, 2022 4 hours ago, Kuetsar said: Evidently they dont have the rights to the silmarillon, so. . . Yeah. I'll give it a shot, but it looks cheesy as hell. The trailer has got a Two Trees of Valinor scene, which I guess will be a flashback from Galadriel, so apparently they can use the material from The Silmarillion at least that way. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 Well, at least the cinematography is cool. The sweeping vistas are totally on point. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Control Posted July 21, 2022 Share Posted July 21, 2022 Elves just aren’t interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travis Sheldon Posted July 21, 2022 Share Posted July 21, 2022 2 hours ago, Control said: Elves just aren’t interesting. Until Drow elves enter the chat. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Control Posted July 21, 2022 Share Posted July 21, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, Travis Sheldon said: Until Drow elves enter the chat. If we’re talking Young Drizzt, that’s a whole other story. Edited July 21, 2022 by Control Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted July 21, 2022 Share Posted July 21, 2022 3 hours ago, Travis Sheldon said: Until Drow elves enter the chat. Which don't exist in LotR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted July 21, 2022 Share Posted July 21, 2022 14 minutes ago, AxB said: Which don't exist in LotR. Give it a couple of years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Control Posted July 21, 2022 Share Posted July 21, 2022 (edited) I mean I’d for sure watch the show if it featured Thibbledorf Pwent. Edited July 21, 2022 by Control Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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The Natural Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 16 minutes ago, JLSigman said: Cheers, @JLSigman xxx. Wasn't sure which reaction to choose, all are applicable. Also reminds me of: Eddie Brock from Ultimate Spider-Man by Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 But that’s…not Anson Boon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 There's the Comic-Con trailer. So I have to ask... this is clearly a prequel to The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings movies. Sauron hasn't forged the rings yet (although apparently they know he's evil already, which does beg the question of why they ever accepted them), and so on. But there are plenty of black characters in this, and yet there aren't any in the Peter Jackson films. Is this series going to be about how the Dwarves, Elves and Hobbits all got selectively genocided? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted July 25, 2022 Share Posted July 25, 2022 (edited) On 7/21/2022 at 7:48 PM, Matt D said: Give it a couple of years. No. Drow were fine when they were malicious behind the scenes manipulators living in a depraved society. Then Drizzt Do'Urden, the biggest D&D Mary Sue novel character since EGG's Gord the Rogue, came along and fucked up everything. After that, D&D caved into fan service and created a good Drow goddess to qualify the existence of "good" Drow society to the delight of emo neckbeards the world over because playing a good-aligned surface elf just wasn't good enough. Edited July 25, 2022 by J.T. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted July 27, 2022 Share Posted July 27, 2022 So am I the only one who thinks that this looks a way better version of Angelic Sauron than Amazon's version? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 This ended up on Page 2 and I forgot it existed. Early reviews yesterday had things over 90%. Now we're hovering around 85%. I think two episodes were released to critics and there was some sense from some people that it was slow since it's just set up, but otherwise people seem positive. The 10 year old is reading The Hobbit right now (admittedly as the bit she needs to read on her tablet every day to unlock games; she's reading the Skulduggery Pleasant series for her actual books) so I do think we're in the mood for this today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert S Posted September 2, 2022 Share Posted September 2, 2022 (edited) Has anyone here seen it yet? Some of the reviews have been, well, less than stellar. The more positive reviews were like "it looks great though not much is happening so far". Edited September 2, 2022 by Robert s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted September 2, 2022 Share Posted September 2, 2022 Let us know how much Silmarillion it steals. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVileOne Posted September 2, 2022 Share Posted September 2, 2022 1 hour ago, Curt McGirt said: Let us know how much Silmarillion it steals. It's off limits: https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/amazon-lord-of-the-rings-series/ Quote Interesting question. As we understand it so far, Amazon's rights to Tolkien's work are the same rights that producer Saul Zaentz bought in the 1970s, leading both to Ralph Bakshi's animated Lord Of the Rings and eventually to Peter Jackson's films. These rights only include material from The Lord Of The Rings and The Hobbit. So anything that's mentioned in those books (including Lord Of the Rings' lengthy appendices) is fair game, but anything exclusive to The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, or Christopher Tolkien's 12-volume History of Middle Earth, is off limits. So the Amazon series probably can't touch The Fall of Gondolin, for example. But Númenor is fine. However, some recent reports suggest that the relationship between the new production and the Tolkien estate has been good enough that the latter have allowed some leeway. So we may see some encroachment on the strict letter of The Silmarillion after all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted September 2, 2022 Share Posted September 2, 2022 Ooooooh yeah, somebody already posted that here awhile ago. Thanks for the reminder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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