The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power series

That goodkind factoid is super weird
Though tbh I️ too have pretended like his fantasies were never published

He may have deleted it, but conservative columnist John Podhoretz‏ had some tweet asking why the Tolkien estate was so greedy to ask so much money

you'd think the conservative ideal of charging whatever price the market would bear would have occurred to him. sheesh.

I think it's clearly spelling out new stories?

― eeshTrip (darraghmac), Tuesday, November 14, 2017 4:20 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hard pass

Goodkind apparently identifies as an Objectivist according to wiki.
Also who is worse: Terry Goodkind or Terry Brooks?

i suspect amazon wd rather come up with new stories set in the same universe than try to adapt a bunch of mostly unfinished myths and narratives from a 12-volume set anyway.

if there are no sexy elves in the first episode i'll be very frustrated.

it would be a bummer cause there are dozens of filmable stories from the Tolkien legendarium, in the appendices and the unfinished tales or wherever, that they would just create their own stories with Hobbits or Elves or whatever and call it Lord of the Rings.

ian otm

The Erotic Confessions of the Witch-King of Angmar

imo the whole Tolkien canon is overrated and the films were well-made if overwrought

having a really pulpy tv drama would be a good reflection on it

it should also invert the racism/sexism/perceptions of same in the original work to really piss off the purists

I guess I mean the Lord of the Rings ones, the whole Hobbit thing I kind of paid half-attention to on television and couldn't figure out why this fun reasonable-sized story was burdened by all this crap that was grafted on to it by all the later books

it's about this short dude and his buddies who go on a quest to defeat a dragon, not sure why it needed more than one movie

^^ hint: it didn't.

the first hobbit was fine, the other two unwatchable

most gripping dishwashing scene since scarface

Goodkind worse than brooks bc at least brooks was one of the first to the ripoff post

Okay, finally, an explanation as to why this is happening -- not too surprising in the end but here we go:

http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2017/11/15/104426-in-historic-move-christopher-tolkien-resigns-as-director-of-tolkien-estate/

his successor: azog the defiler

How dare you say that about his sister and his wife. :-D

retiring on those super amazon dollars

bring on the hobbit sex I guess

Christopher Tolkien has been the Dúnadan thanklessly guarding us from gratuitous hobbit sex all these years.

as much as I think the LOTR movies are great, I wouldn't be averse to someone else doing them as a longer tv series, after some consideration. You could potentially have 12 hour long examinations of each book then and really do them justice but break them up in a way that isn't a horrible slog.

Well it won't be this crew, per the original note.

Christopher Tolkien has been mining his dad's notes for flabby bullshit pseudo-scholarly volumes of tedium for decades. Amazon will just be doing a different kind of unnecessary exploitation.

Tsk.

i think it's p ungenerous to characterize a guy who dedicated decades of his life to preserving his dad's work (and i doubt any of those books, bar maybe the silmarillion, made much money) as engaging in any kind of "exploitation."

obviously i want a full-length douglas gordon version of PJ's hobbit slowed down to two frames a second

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a31q2ZQcETw

xp loving suffocation is the correct term iirc

would be amusing if they did unfinished tales and didn't resolve anything, or did a whole year of beren and luthien but restarted it every episode, kept changing the names, and never completing the story

I saw 24 Hour Psycho! well, like, 15 minutes of it. That was cool

"Christopher Tolkien has been mining his dad's notes for flabby bullshit pseudo-scholarly volumes of tedium for decades" that's a bit harsh but it is amusing to look at all those volumes and assume that he thought somewhere someone was really poring over every detail in them at Oxford or something. cuz no one is.

loving suffocation is the correct term iirc

And I own them all! (Even the ones he didn't do, did I mention I got the critical edition of A Secret Vice in the mail the other day and etc.)

They should use this to explore the magical ring angle a bit more

the children of hurin book did pretty well iirc, prob cause that one actually told a story and wasn't just a collection of unfinished ephemera

did anyone here read tolkien's version of beowulf? kept meaning to pick that one up.

Recently got it and mean to give it a read -- my understanding is that it was never a formal translation, more of a kind of notes for himself for lectures and for reference.

Neeson is i think the right age for Theoden, he's a solid 10 years older than Bernard Hill was when he filmed his role. though Neeson doesn't look it. i think if you beard him up he'd look the part.

― omar little, Monday, 13 November 2017 19:07 (three weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Literally over the hill

― eeshTrip (darraghmac), Monday, 13 November 2017 19:08 (three weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

And at least twice as big as an underhill

― eeshTrip (darraghmac), Monday, 13 November 2017 19:09 (three weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That were good that

You're hired.

The Curse of Feanor Parts 1-13

Something of an update:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/how-lord-rings-tv-series-landed-at-amazon-not-netflix-1099213

Key bits:

* Five season commitment
* Amazon must be in production within two years
* "Amazon may use material from the films" so Warners/New Line are involved, per mentions up above
* Jackson's involvement would be his choice; his lawyer "recently helped start a dialogue between Jackson and Amazon"
* Theoretically the Weinsteins could still try and get some cash. They are, however, strangely occupied at present.

* Five season commitment

uh-oh

I hope that jackson will only 'choose' to get involved if he feels passionately motivated by the material, since we have learned to our woe what garbage ensues when he isn't really feeling it

I...would not mind this.

I just want to say, as someone who rereads Lord of the Rings every two years, has seen all the films dozens of times, and once wrote a college term paper in Elvish, I would give a lung to run this show. Maybe even one of mine. @Netflix https://t.co/umKFr96jXE

— J. Michael Straczynski (@straczynski) April 8, 2018

I have no idea whether Straczynski's mid 80s run on Spider-Man was good or not but I grew up with it so he is near to my heart.

Wasn't he behind crappy show HEROES?

Heroes was Tim Kring and Jeph Loeb.

Given JMS's best known for doing what was basically LOTR In Space, he does seem like the logical choice. Declaring his interest on Twitter does seem a bit of a "play" though, as it's bound to garner enough positive fan response that he can say "Ahh, you have to give me the gig now as all these people think it's a good idea."

I have no idea whether Straczynski's mid 80s run on Spider-Man was good or not but I grew up with it so he is near to my heart.

typo? He didn't write Spider-Man til the '00s

and it was not good

also he tagged Netflix instead of Amazon in that tweet

I can sense deems's utter delight from here:

Decisions are being made by Peter Jackson and his NZ crew:

Return to Middle-earth with Amazon, or play in the DC Universe? pic.twitter.com/tjF7B0PSAX

— TheOneRing.net (@theoneringnet) May 9, 2018

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