Lord of the Rings on Prime Updates (Thanks Varking!)

[CirdanLinweilin]

Nudity May Be Featured in Amazon's 'Lord of the Rings' TV Series - Knight Edge Media

Ever since Amazon Studios announced they would be adapting The Second Age of J.R.R Tolkien's Lord of the Rings; many have wondered how much will be taken

knightedgemedia.com

Called it. I knew Amazon couldn't help their perverted selves.


CL

 

[Ealdwyn]

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

 

[Varking]

Getting back to some form of seriousness on this, Amazon has announced more of the cast...

More Amazon Middle Earth series cast announced.

Appreciate you sharing this here.

 

[CirdanLinweilin]

Getting back to some form of seriousness on this, Amazon has announced more of the cast...

More Amazon Middle Earth series cast announced.

This is looking less like Tolkien's pre-history England and more like Modern Day America....

😒😤😠🤔🤫😐😑

CL

 

[Olorgando]

This is looking less like Tolkien's pre-history England and more like Modern Day America....

😒😤😠🤔🤫😐😑

CL

Do any of the names ring a bell with you, CL?
That they don't do so for me is pretty much to be expected, since my film and TV viewing has sharply nose-dived in at least the last 20 years.

(There's a nice ironic twist to this: this is pretty much the time when we "retired" a 17-year-old tube TV set, and first had access to the burgeoning number of TV channels via cable - my mother did the same, in her case with a high-end satellite dish; the apartment building we had lived in previously - 1990s - had installed a satellite dish that only yielded 12 channels, and our ancient TV set was limited in the number of slots that could be stored. So in 1999, new. up-to-date (still tube) TV set, dozens of channels to be accessed without a decoder (hundreds with a decoder - we still don't have one!) - and my TV viewing headed for the Marianas Trench. 🤢 )

 

[CirdanLinweilin]

Do any of the names ring a bell with you, CL?

I could not name them from manners.


Only actor/actress I recognize is for "young" Galadriel.


CL

 

[Ealdwyn]

I recognise a couple of the names: Peter Mullen, Lenny Henry

But it's this bit "the television adaptation will explore new storylines preceding J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring".
I assume that new storylines means that they're going to make it all up, rather than adapt canon?

Time to post this again:

 

[CirdanLinweilin]

Guess I'll be curious what part she, and the others will play.

Southron? Easterling? If we want to go by Tolkien's universe, but I guess THAT "Cat is out of the bag" too.



I guess I'll keep my book-centric Tolkien separate from whatever this GOT wannabe is.



CL



P.S.: Yes I am a curmudgeon.

 

[Olorgando]

I guess I'll keep my book-centric Tolkien separate from whatever this GOT wannabe is.

If it really turns out to be a GoT wannabe, it'll join its true source of "inspiration" in my virtual "gave it a pass" dustbin.

I watched less than ten minutes combined of two GoT episodes, being in their I-don't-know-what re-run past midnight or even 1 AM on one of the junior channels of one of the two private, commercial-financed conglomerates. I think I recognized one character that also appeared in PJ's stuff ...

Smaug! 🦇😁

 

[Ealdwyn]

I've not done any real study of the maps on the series website, but I stumbled across this post on tumblr which goes into them in detail.
Makes for interesting reading.

 

[Varking]

Southron? Easterling? If we want to go by Tolkien's universe, but I guess THAT "Cat is out of the bag" too.



I guess I'll keep my book-centric Tolkien separate from whatever this GOT wannabe is.



CL



P.S.: Yes I am a curmudgeon.

I don’t think this is being a poor sport or anything. I separate the movies from the books. They were a directors take on the novels and not a true adaptation. That is how I’m viewing this show as well.

 

[Oromedur]

I don’t think this is being a poor sport or anything. I separate the movies from the books. They were a directors take on the novels and not a true adaptation. That is how I’m viewing this show as well.

Quite. Whatever this is, it is merely an adaptation. It takes nothing away in terms of value from the texts at all.

I am cautiously optimistic that there will large elements of this upcoming work that I can enjoy, and, anything I do not like, I will set aside.

It is also an opportunity to keep Tolkien alive in people’s minds and will turn some to the texts beyond LOTR.

I also do not care if there is some nudity and even sex in it (as long as the Eldar are not involved) as that is understandable particularly in the context of Numenor.

I hope it is a great success overall and in future I would give much to see an adaptation of the wars with Angmar and Glorfindel handing the Witch-King his bottom at Fornost.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Cecil B. DeMille realized long ago you could get away with showing all manner of naughty behavior, if it was portrayed by the "evil" side.

 

[Varking]

Just wanted to give an update: If you are interested in leaks this is the account to follow

https://twitter.com/FansFellowship

And here is his latest video where they found documents between Amazon and NZ about promoting the show with some date ranges for those interested.

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

Lord of the Rings star doesn't know when he'll get to leave New Zealand

“We’ve been here a long time,” says American actor Benjamin Walker. “It is a bit nebulous at this point."

www.stuff.co.nz

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Redirect Notice

 

[Varking]

It was updated on the original site: ComicBook.com that the surgery she was getting was not the result of any injury suffered via Lord of the Rings on Prime.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

I noticed some confusion on that point.

 

[Varking]

I noticed some confusion on that point.

There was definitely some major LotR community sites and members causing a stir online over the events up until ComicBook reached out. She took a hit on set. Nothing major. She was showing symptoms of something being “off” so they sent her to get checked out. After getting checked out it was determined that she needed emergency surgery for something other than what she went in to get checked out for. It’s terrific the gofundme type site worked and she has her surgery scheduled already though.