All must be unified, if you try to avoid unity of belief, your mind will end up like a broken record. Realize all these series you're watching are reflections of the writers, the authors world and lives, of the real world, and they are thus all related at a fundamental level with many levels of connection. Your attempt to keep them disconnected and trying to label the lessons in them as nonsense, is merely a simple psychological defense to protect the integrity of your ego. But the world and the community around you is being assimilated, as are all communities at a global level. So unless you're going to be living in a cabin in the woods separate from humans, you too will be assimilated into the global truth that is starting to envelop the world.
These works have lot of resonance, and same internal logic, they connect to each other via the meaning they convey.
The estate are current people, if this is filled with political ideology of their liking they could praise it to high heaven. Though there is a chance there is no modern day politics in this work(I'd be very surprised considering academia has become politicized to the brim including the arts where artists and writers learn.).The Tolkien Estate is promoting this. They NEVER would do that with any of Jackson's movies.
Yeah they totally didn't tweet out the Jackson trilogy, in 2001-3, several years before Twitter lolThe Tolkien Estate is promoting this. They NEVER would do that with any of Jackson's movies.
looks dope.
I don't get it; Christopher allowed the movies he then despised.. so what would the difference be?
He didn't allow the movies. JRR sold the rights in the 60s because he need some cash, and because he didn't think a studio would actually be able to pull it off.
They famously hated and distanced themselves from Jackson's movies (IIRC they even tried to stop them from being made). And Twitter existed when The Hobbit movies we released. Doesn't change the reality that they turned their backs on the movies entirely but are fully supporting this because Amazon allowed them to have full control in exchange for being able to use everything in The Silmarillion and Lost Tales.
Christopher only spoke once publically about the movies, in 2012, and all he said is “They eviscerated the book by making it an action movie for young people 15 to 25", which is a fair assessment. For someone who was his father's primary audience, editor and literary executor, that's very charitable.
If they hated those movies, some of the best movies ever made, that makes me way less excited for this.
So there probably won't be a lot of action in the show.
There isn't in the books.
But we weren't talking about the Hobbit movies, which were garbage.
I mean, obviously it'll be significantly less, but I just would never trust anyone opinions about movies if they don't think LOTR are good movies.
The ship he took had a COVID outbreak. They are being quarantined in the Undying Lands so they probably won't be in the series.
I think it is more like, "Hopefully people still pay for Prime because we need to walk back this 2 day delivery shit". I don't get 2 day deliveries anymore from Prime. I have been a member since it first came out but will be dropping it after WoT and picking it back up for season 2 of WoT and LoTR, so this strategy is 100% working for me.So are we betting Amazon will use this as a way to split Prime Video from Prime sub? Or the opposite - people will massively sign up for Prime to watch LotR and then say “huh, got a year of free deliveries, might as well order more on Amazon”?
That Amazon stock bought in the middle of March 2020 is looking better and better
)? Some elves, or at least known half-elves, could be of a different ethnicity than the rest for this reason as well.
weird, where are you at? if anything Prime has improved for us in DFW. we now get same day delivery options on many things, and one day has become the standard for 90% of prime shipped things
Good call IDKFA.
For a LOTR adaptation I think there should be a more....conventional and literal casting with virtually all traditional european actors other than the handful needed to represent Southrons or whatever.
But for this, depending on exactly what stories they are adapting, it could be more cosmopolitan and global so long as they put in the effort to demonstrate that global nature. A Hobbit from the northern part of M-E that hasn't left their little Shire for 20 generations ought to be a lighter skinned person IMHO. But if there is a Hobbit from another land introduced who is asian, I'm ok with that, who is to say that humans and hobbits can't intermingle anyway (I've seen videos
Numenorians could have folks that come in from across the known world, though again I feel like the core "native" population ought to be fairly homogenous within themselves and of course since they were prohibited from heading West, there shouldn't be any NA or latinos cast. Though you might make the argument that ELVES, coming from Aman/the Undying Lands as proxy for the Americas, could be NA?
I still want at least a few eps of this show to depict a flat planet and the weird effects that would have on distance perception, then when the world is made spherical it could go to normal.
Actually it has gotten a lot better since I made that post.
They have to stick to LotR canon.
Is this version based on any books set 'thousands of years' before the LORT trilogy and books?
I'm not big on the lore but I believe so, yes.
Yes, it describes the events in the Silmarillion which for me is the best of Tolkien books.
