The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power series

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

http://i.imgur.com/GoRGDoE.gif

hi ned i knew this would be u and me

"We're not that different, you and I."

If anyone itt has not seen that set of video essays (which eventually blossoms into a full-on doc) on why the Hobbit movies sucked and the corporate fuckery surrounding their production, they're really worth your time. Goes from a less unsavory RLM type deal to something very different.

Yeah, it's really great. I'd recommend the third part even to those who don't care much about LOTR.

links?

Simon H., searching YT gives me two multi-part series on The Hobbit movies, one by Lindsay Ellis and one by The Nigerian Prince. Is it one of those?

Lindsay Ellis, and it's three parts (for obvious joke reasons)

I'm watching these now instead of working and it's great

Yeah that was pretty entertaining/informative, Callen's a good catch for it. (Kind of the perfect guy, really, since he's the oldest of all that group of actors and clearly into a DGAF mode in general.) Only thing I'm not sure about is that she didn't seem to tie in the delays due to MGM's debt fuckup as supposedly stretching things out so much that that factored into del Toro's departure; the case she makes treats the two as wholly separate when my understanding is otherwise. Beyond that, great work.

We got news

[BREAKING] We have confirmed from multiple sources that @AmazonStudios new billion-dollar #LOTR series will open its first season centered on a young Aragorn.

Let's discuss whats available and how this opens up Tolkien's Legendarium. A thread. #Tolkien
/1 pic.twitter.com/mfbkf4jyX6

— TheOneRing.net (@theoneringnet) May 16, 2018

This essentially means a move to the initially mooted plan for The Hobbit where that was going to be one film and the second film would have been this era.

they should cast stuart townsend as aragorn

Better yet, Arathorn, and have him die in the first ten minutes.

cool that they picked the least interesting angle

You were preferring a first season discussing how Old Toby came by the plant instead.

didn't ever think they'd go full Silmarillion

young smeagol or gtfo

yung smeagol is my elvish rap name

yung smeagol is my elvish rap name

was hoping for a show where a grizzled old detective has to settle petty grievances between hobbits

meanwhile The Ringer just described Aragorn as "the Jon Snow of Tolkien's fantasy saga" and I want to die