Lord of the Rings

by 2050, reflecting the continuing evolution of the IP and a need to make clear to younger fans why they should bother watching them, the original Jackson series will have been rebranded "The Scouring of the Shire: Origins"

Lord of the Rings: The Snyder Cut

Its the ewok crossover will really tear it

The Gondolorian

.. a series about Aragorn’s life as a Strider would probably rock actually

a videogame as well

the thing that people don't yet know about aragorn/Strider is that he often travels via a chain that he throws diagonally up and forward, swinging across any obstacle like tarzan or harry pitfall over the alligators

Isn’t that Bionic Commando!?

Nope, it’s my idea!

Listen, I didn’t have a sega genesis!!

i think it should be a Mega Man clone called Dúne Dain.

shit why didn't I go with Dúna Dan

And here I thought you were making a deep-cut reference to actual NES game Strider.

2 towers 2 furious

I know that once you start on the LOTR tumblrs you can spend your life there - but this is lovely

https://prismatic-bell.tumblr.com/post/189586763336/ekjohnston-kyraneko-kittyknowsthings

i mean, honestly it’s amazing the Elves had as many languages and dialects as they did, considering Galadriel (for example) is over seven thousand years old.

english would probably have changed less since Chaucer’s time, if a lot of our cultural leaders from the thirteenth century were still alive and running things.

(and other less couth things)

That's pretty cool, will have to share that.

Another team of Tolkien podcasters -- more well-known than us! -- bagged a pretty good interview with Ralph Bakshi about his film version

https://luke-shelton.com/2021/05/28/tep-32-ralph-bakshi/

Anyway as for our own podcast, latest episode is live!

https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/27

Meanwhile, not inaccurate

Canonically, the Lord of the Rings is a memoir by hobbits, which has several detailed descriptions of meals throughout, so maybe the whole saga is just one of those recipe blogs where they have to tell you a whole epic story before getting to the food.

— Sean Kelly (@StorySlug) June 3, 2021

lol otm

this applies a lot to A Song of Ice and Fire (and gets worse with each book with multi page descriptions of various meals)

i just purchased the first wheel of time book. i guess i will soon be learning about the cuisine of the time world

Eat, Love, Destroy The Ring

So, yes, news and a half here:

https://deadline.com/2021/06/lord-of-the-rings-anime-film-the-war-of-the-rohirrim-new-line-1234773024/

A lot to chew over in terms of what this means vis-a-vis future projects, the exact rights split between Amazon and WB, where the MGM purchase might come into play, etc. etc.

But it's a great story to focus on and I'm damn intrigued at what could result. Will note that I do know one of the producers and I have faith in his ability to see it through, so hopefully everyone else is at that level.

The horn of Helm Hammerhand will sound in the Deep once more!

New episode! Basically, blood and death.

https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/28

New episode later this week -- meantime, have a read:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/07/24/soviet-union-tolkien-art-dissidents/

A new episode? Why yes! Eagles eagles eagles.

https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/29

well, yeah

look carefully at the background of the image!

Amazon says its (as yet untitled) Lord of the Rings series will make its debut on Sept 2, 2022: pic.twitter.com/AJb9YRBTYX

— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) August 2, 2021

They've also shared this first image from the series: pic.twitter.com/9pyvZGiaMg

— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) August 2, 2021

I thought this was good, fucken long but early on a good quarter of it is about Bakshi's history, once he gets into the technical shit it's golden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr_rb_pitHk

Yeah one of my cohosts posted about this this morning. I was just thinking it would be good to have a 'making-of' book here but efforts like this help flesh it out for sure.

at first i thought that might be the scandalous x-rated tale of tom bombadil

would watch

As it happens, my other cohost did this the other day. (But in truth, the joke was mine.)

Dom Bombadil pic.twitter.com/tg7QN14kb7

— Jared Pechacek (@vandroidhelsing) August 16, 2021

"Who is Dom Bombadil, lady?" "He is." *pause* "He is zaddy."

would DEFINITELY watch

Our new episode is up! Gondolin, it falls.

https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/30

Also currently about halfway through The Nature of Middle-earth. There's quite a bit of math.

more pictures from Tove Jansson's Hobbit are at https://lithub.com/take-a-look-at-tove-janssons-illustrations-for-a-swedish-edition-of-the-hobbit/

moomin.com says in 2017 "Finnish publisher WSOY has released a new edition of the book in Finnish. The book Hobitti eli Sinne ja takaisin is illustrated by Tove Jansson."

New episode on Monday. In the meantime, enjoy.

In the Silmarillion Elwing appeared to the mariner Eärendil as a bird and helped him sail to Valinor and petition the Valar to save Middle-Earth.

— Baltimore Orioles (@Orioles) October 1, 2021

the orioles twitter account has been on fire lately

So we talked about the new book:

https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/31

It's twenty years of...this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1dU1HZ_73M

Our new episode on said first film will be out shortly.

And it is out! Enjoy!

https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/33

Meantime, the things you learn

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/lord-of-the-rings-oral-history-fellowship-b1975180.html

was just thinking, not apropos of the 20th anniversary - rather because I am watching the hobbit trilogy for the first time, they will surely do another cinematic adaptation of lord of the rings at some stage. maybe in another 10 or 20 years though?

Don't see why not, especially if the TV show gets any traction

Maybe a bilbo origin story

The exact state of rights is mysterious, but it seems like Warner Bros is holding on to their option, given the anime in the works that'll be set in Rohan during the time of Helm Hammerhand and is explicitly said to be in continuity with the Jackson films (so likely the same design for Helm's Deep etc.). There's absolutely room for a new version and doing it as a full adaptation via streaming could certainly work, but doubtful that Amazon's going to get the chance any time soon. Again, though, the rights state is ultimately mysterious, since there are four players -- the estate, Middle Earth Enterprises (aka Saul Zaentz's holding company for Hobbit/LOTR rights in specific), WB and Amazon -- and there's no public clarity on who is doing what.

Primes wheel of time adaptation suggests theyre not exactly flinging money around it looks like shit

I do wonder. Well, we'll find out in September.