The second age is weird, there's like two epic wars that could conclude this series. Is this show ending on the first one with the fall of Numenor? Or the 2nd one, where Gil-Galad and Elendil get YOU DIED Elden Ring style by Sauron on the slopes of Mt. Doom? Would like to hope it's limited to 3 seasons and you get the downfall of Numenor this year and the final season depicts the established peace afterwards, founding of Arnor and Gondor and then the final battle in Morder...
And then can we get a proper showrunner for the First Age and Fall of Gondolin? Or just make the latter into a sick 3 hour standalone film?
Also now I really want FromSoft to make a game that takes place in Middle Earth.
― octobeard, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 23:17 (four months ago) link
All I want is a 12 episode Children of Hurin.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 00:02 (four months ago) link
Dare to dream
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 01:18 (four months ago) link
I’m not that invested in LotR so mostly wasn’t bothered by whatever bothered everyone about the first season. Except the last episode, which was really really bad.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 01:57 (four months ago) link
“No, REALLY.” https://gizmodo.com/lotr-rings-of-power-season-2-behind-the-scenes-trailer-1851482298
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 17 May 2024 01:44 (four months ago) link
So...it's come to this:
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/tom-bombadil-the-rings-of-power-first-look
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 14:52 (three months ago) link
least laughable fan theory to feature on-screen at last
― mark s, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 15:00 (three months ago) link
They seem to be operating with the assumption that Bombadil has to be one of the good guys.
― jmm, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 16:05 (three months ago) link
no! NO!!
― mark s, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 16:15 (three months ago) link
hearing the showrunners have hired lin-manuel miranda to adapt tom bombadil’s songs for the screen
― katy perry (prison service) (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 17:18 (three months ago) link
counterpoint:
TOM BOMBADIL: Old Tom Bombadil is a merry...[THE BEASTIE BOYS: FELLOW]Bright blue his [JACKET] isand his [BOOTS] are [YELLOW]— 📻 King Boy T #OXO 🇵🇸 (@nailheadparty) August 13, 2021
― mark s, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 17:36 (three months ago) link
If they leaned in hard to this, it would automatically become the greatest adaptation yet, but.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 17:37 (three months ago) link
I appreciate the article's inclusion of Tolkien's statements over time being exasperated that fans refused to accept that Tom Bombadil was just this guy
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 18:51 (three months ago) link
just this guy (oldest, fatherless)
― mark s, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 18:57 (three months ago) link
Basically, this is him
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yC_dkbowus
Even Gandalf says if he was given the ring he'd probably just eat it or something although personally I think he'd just give it to Sauron either because he's the rightful owner, or maybe just to see what would happen.
― Overtoun House windows (aldo), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 19:06 (three months ago) link
Even Elrond's like, "Oh yeah, that weird fuckin' guy."
― jmm, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 20:22 (three months ago) link
The amount of sheer waffle in this new piece. Also this image is Hannibal for straight people or something:
https://static1.colliderimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/rings-of-power-season-2-sam-hazeldine-morfydd-clark.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 July 2024 14:55 (two months ago) link
"Yes yes I know you pleaded your case to me in the barn and I showed I was bent on genocide because of my husband I haven't been looking for and then you showed you were an asshole with the Rube Goldberg sword but let's have a fine little meal here. Love the drapery!"
Galadriel made some pretty questionable choices in Season 1 and really empowered the Dark Lord to really rise from nothing on the raft to the point where he could, as Patrick said, have access to some of the big power players in Middle-earth. She's got to deal with that in Season 2. Her friends might look at her differently and not trust her as much, and then she has to really come to terms with that.
― omar little, Tuesday, 9 July 2024 15:03 (two months ago) link
It's such a "showrunner" quote to refer to some of the characters Tolkien created as "some of the big power players in Middle-earth."
― omar little, Tuesday, 9 July 2024 15:04 (two months ago) link
"Sauron is going to be like, "Hey I'm just spitballing here but what if we made one ring for me?" We're going to circle back to that concept this season as he really embraces his role as the Big Bad."
― omar little, Tuesday, 9 July 2024 15:06 (two months ago) link
The whole thing is a metaphor for the writers' room they're trying to bulldoze. Season 1 they presented themselves as the good guys, their fiendish plans were exposed when everyone who watched this retched, and now they're in for evil.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 July 2024 15:18 (two months ago) link
Many more links to all kinds of set visits here.
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 9 July 2024 18:48 (two months ago) link
nothing i read or hear makes me regret avoiding this completely
― tuah dé danann (darraghmac), Tuesday, 9 July 2024 18:56 (two months ago) link
This wisdom.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 July 2024 19:00 (two months ago) link
the kind of discipline which makes me feel sure i could have passed on the one ring if offered
― tuah dé danann (darraghmac), Tuesday, 9 July 2024 19:08 (two months ago) link
i wish i could unwatch s1
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 9 July 2024 19:23 (two months ago) link
so do all who live in such times
― tuah dé danann (darraghmac), Tuesday, 9 July 2024 19:34 (two months ago) link
Amazing...ly WTF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzJDzIDv0mo
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 26 July 2024 22:28 (one month ago) link
lol wut
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 27 July 2024 01:13 (one month ago) link
I thought it said “New season 1 August 29” and I was like “huh, they actually walked back the first season, eh? Good idea.”
― It was on a accident (hardcore dilettante), Saturday, 27 July 2024 04:41 (one month ago) link
God if only. Have one of the characters pull off the “I had the strangest dream” gambit.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 27 July 2024 12:20 (one month ago) link
very funny to me how very much i chattered away on this thread yet how very little i can actually recall of s1 (there was a boat? there was a key?)
― mark s, Saturday, 27 July 2024 13:39 (one month ago) link
"Every soul in Middle-earth is in peril. Will you abandon them to their doom?"
Good old Tom Bombadil.
― jmm, Saturday, 27 July 2024 14:02 (one month ago) link
Sounds just like the jolly old Tom I remember from the books!
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Saturday, 27 July 2024 14:09 (one month ago) link
I like how the Wikipedia article for S2 puts the Jackson films and the Soviet version Khraniteli on an equal level.
The season also features the whimsical character Tom Bombadil and the wraith-like Barrow-wight creatures from The Lord of the Rings. Both were omitted from Jackson's films but were previously adapted in the Soviet television miniseries Khraniteli (1991).[17][52][53]
― jmm, Saturday, 27 July 2024 14:31 (one month ago) link
wait its all coming back to me: "is it my time to FUCK SAURON? he is NO MAN"
also nice to see catweazel back on-screen after so many years
― mark s, Saturday, 27 July 2024 14:32 (one month ago) link
gotta say i do wanna see tom bombadil-o dance like a merry old fellow
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Saturday, 27 July 2024 15:32 (one month ago) link
idc about the rest of the season tho
tolkien: his boots are beastie boys: YELLOW
― mark s, Saturday, 27 July 2024 15:57 (one month ago) link
all your old friends are back Galadriel, Tom Bombadil, Sauron, that eagle that Gandalf rode, the metal dude in the mask, lots of guys with beards, wee
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 27 July 2024 16:35 (one month ago) link
I'm rereading lotr for the first time in about 35 years. It's quite easy to read, maybe because it's familiar. Stoked to hate the madness next month. I did try to like the first one but the finale did everything I hoped it wouldn't do
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 27 July 2024 16:39 (one month ago) link
im stoked for the ENTWIVES, tolkien could never
― mark s, Saturday, 27 July 2024 16:44 (one month ago) link
it’s “we have Tolkien at home” executed with a bafflingly huge budget to create something no one asked for the cybertruck of fantasy television, if you will.
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 27 July 2024 16:46 (one month ago) link
I still haven't watched S1, despite rereading The Silmarillion in prep for it.
But I'm also just not into TV shows very much.
― jmm, Saturday, 27 July 2024 16:51 (one month ago) link
a list of things that will not prepare you for watching the lord of the rings: the rings of power s1
1: reading the silmarillion
― mark s, Saturday, 27 July 2024 16:55 (one month ago) link
lol otm
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 27 July 2024 17:15 (one month ago) link
All these truths!
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 27 July 2024 21:30 (one month ago) link
Anyway one last bit of literally flaming nonsense:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9fsBy45YTQ
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 August 2024 16:10 (one month ago) link
"Sauron""Sauron""Sauron""Sauron"
― jmm, Wednesday, 14 August 2024 16:59 (one month ago) link