The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power series

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BOMBADIL - THE EARLY YEARS

LOT RON PRIME

L. Ron Prime.

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LOT, UP THE I(RON)S PRIME

BOMBADILSTHETICS: The Modern Science of Dancing and Singing merrily in Primeval Forests

New news...sorta, kinda, maybe.

https://www.theonering.net/torwp/2020/12/03/109157-amazon-studios-announces-wave-2-of-casting-for-lord-of-the-rings-tv-show/

I admit I didn't expect to see Lenny Henry in this cast but here we are.

(There is still NO formal word about who is playing what role in this thing, and the only one that has been more or less confirmed elsewhere is Morfydd Clark as Galadriel.)

I had somehow forgotten that Galadriel was Arwen's grandma. Is their relationship ever discussed in more depth in The SimilarMarillion?

There's more of it in Unfinished Tales but it's never quite delved into. Celebrian being such a shadowy character didn't help.

into return of the king now with my 9-y-o. i had completely forgotten about “prince imrahil”! he feels very...... unnecessary

He kinda rules, I love Tolkien's random side digressions like that.

so mysterious that he is given no identifying features

like at one point tolkien just refers to "the prince" and we're like "who he"

I guess Tolkien needed a Gondorian lord to lead the beginning of the battle, given how all of the others are indisposed in way or another.

ok i can see that but.. aragorn gets there pretty quick (in the end). god the black sails moment gets me. "CORSAIRS!!"

the eowyn / merry moment is fucking glorious too. gandalf's like 'meriadoc you should have been borne into the city in glory!' and i'm like yes someone gets it

into return of the king now with my 9-y-o.

this sounds amazing <3

Eowyn vs. the Witch King was absolutely thrilling at that age.

imrahil was cool, tho i agree it was weird that he spent so much time emphasizing that gondor had no king without mentioning that they do have a lord who calls himself prince

That's...a lot.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/amazons-lord-of-the-rings-cost-465-million-one-season

I don't understand the economics of streaming but stuff like this and the Knives Out thing feel like there's something fishy going on

As @JamesHibberd notes in the story, the average season of "Game of Thrones" came in around $100 million. Holy cow. https://t.co/8RwZheLrAv

— Rick Porter (@rickporter) April 16, 2021

amazon is making 20+ billion in profits, annually, these days. weird thinking that they can totally pay off this show in a couple weeks

Just learned that WandaVision cost $225 million and the other Disney+ Marvel shows will also cost around $25m per episode

Some thoughts

NOTE FOR THE NEW LOTR: There's no reason why all characters in fantasy shows have to just have different types of British accents. They're not speaking English. Give all the dwarves really thick Bronx accents and make the elves Canadian.

— Ben Jenkins (@bencjenkins) April 19, 2021

Give Saruman the Snagglepuss voice, Tolkien's dead, he can't hurt you.

— Ben Jenkins (@bencjenkins) April 19, 2021

And all the guards should come in pairs, one of whom is named Jeremy and hates his job, and one who is enthusiastic and optimistic. I see where this is going.

— James Radvan (@jamesradvan) April 19, 2021

There is a further suggestion to have Saruman voiced by Joe Pasquale

Sauron's let himself go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2CGryAkxkM

Some actual info!

EXCLUSIVE: Official final contract signed between Amazon studios, GSR Production and New Zealand Film Commission for #LOTRonPrime . The post Covid agreements and marketing/ production plans for the entirety of season 1 up until release.

1/7 pic.twitter.com/qrDs5Lp2Sq

— Fellowship of Fans (@FansFellowship) June 12, 2021

Okay a lot going on here

https://www.theonering.net/torwp/2021/07/20/110907-spy-report-incredible-details-from-amazons-lord-of-the-rings-characters-sexless-nudity-halflings/

sexless-nudity-halflings

Oh great, another Tolkien-themed band.

The stuff about a fake decoy production to distract attention from the actual filming is just nuts, can that really be true?

I was wondering about that too. Sounds pretty expensive.

Then again, Amazon, money to burn, etc.

sexless-nudity-halflings

I'm so conflicted.

Please don't fuck up The Fall of Gondolin.

Rather. But we're still getting Second Age stuff in essence, unless concrete flashbacks happen.

am i a bad person because i sort of want this to be terrible?

Yes and now I curse you like Morgoth did to Hurin

oh dear.

forks i'm sorry but you have been cursed by Ned, you may have made a big mistake here

brb going on a quest

Well well

Here’s your first look at Amazon’s #TheLordOfTheRings series which finally has a premiere date. https://t.co/2zma3Sv0qX pic.twitter.com/wUzGtjaZgm

— Variety (@Variety) August 2, 2021

Spoiler alert.

Why dmac they'll be closer to you now. Your duty calls.

https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/lord-of-the-rings-amazon-series-season-2-new-zealand-uk-1235040645/

Hm!

https://deadline.com/2021/09/the-lord-of-the-rings-composer-howard-shore-score-amazon-tv-series-middle-earth-jrr-tolkien-1234839274/

I hope it happens! I wonder if he’d need to do it ‘shop’ style? It’s bound to be a pretty furious pace. I mean obviously he is renowned for composing on a vast scale but he’s always had the luxury of time.

News to delight dmac's heart! Or not.

https://tvline.com/2022/01/19/lord-of-the-rings-series-title-the-rings-of-power-amazon-teaser-video/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhqGCPMfkNM

The key info as such, which is in line with everything else we've heard:

“This is a title that we imagine could live on the spine of a book next to J.R.R. Tolkien’s other classics,” showrunners J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay said in a statement. “Up until now, audiences have only seen on-screen the story of the One Ring — but before there was one, there were many… and we’re excited to share the epic story of them all.”

Per Payne and McKay, the series “unites all major stories of Middle-earth’s Second Age,” including the forging of the Rings of Power, the rise of the Dark Lord Sauron, the epic tale of Númenor (the island of men from which Aragorn is descended) and the Last Alliance of Elves and Men (chronicled in the prologue of Peter Jackson’s Fellowship of the Ring)....

Rings of Power, which premieres Friday, Sept. 2 with new episodes released weekly, takes place in the Second Age — thousands of years before the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings — and follows an ensemble of familiar and new characters as they “confront the long-feared re-emergence of evil to Middle-earth,” aka Sauron.

And we're into character poster time -- sort of. Just closeups like these but no actors' faces shown nor identity given. But read through the thread.

pic.twitter.com/K4CWKXospb

— The Lord of the Rings on Prime (@LOTRonPrime) February 3, 2022

Or rather the feed, looks like it's a bunch of mini-threads.

What’s the latest on a composer? Anything to the Shore rumors?

No further word on that yet.

Cue the Annie L. photo spreads. Maybe.

We hear Middle-earth is quite nice this time of year. Big news tomorrow, 8 AM ET. ⚔️

— VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) February 10, 2022