Amazon just bought the TV rights to "Lord of the Rings"

[Nuvendil]

COKTOE said:

Nuvendil said:
Oh wonderful, it's set between LOTR and the Hobbit. Where all your fantasy writers go who want to write their own original story but don't want to put in the leg work to build up their own fantasy world. Faaaantastic. Brace yourself for more apocryphal works that are completely out of sync with the worldview and tone of the original text and may or may not drift into bad fan fiction territory.

Ha. Well put. As somebody who burnt out on the movie series with the original trilogy, I can't wait to be aware that this show exists while I rearrange my sock drawer.

The original trilogy was at least mostly faithful in spirit, teleporting elf armies and invincible undead army plotholes not withstanding.  Though they did pound some characters flat enough to fit under a door (*cough*Denethor*cough*).  But the Hobbit though was a travesty, especially the last film with it's ludicrous action set pieces that would make Michael Bay blush, shameless "let's sell toys!" creatures, plotholes galore, even more time devoted to the most forgettable love triangle in film history, nonsensical battle flow, horrific CGI, and slow motion abuse approaching early 2000s levels, all of which conspired to make a 2 hour and 24 minute film feel like a 3 hour and 30 minute slog.  

Last edited by Nuvendil - on 13 November 2017