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

[Olorgando]

One piece suggested that Brexit uncertainty figured into the decision to go to New Zealand, which has studios, landscape, and expertise with this type of project.

Now that's an interesting point. I vaguely recall that locations in Scotland were being mulled over. I' guessing the Scots (who voted against the Brexit anyway) are getting madder and madder at those lunatic Tories.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

We do tend to frown on politics here.

 

[Olorgando]

We do tend to frown on politics here.

Par for the course. It's just getting difficult for me to keep current politics (world-wide) separated from what clinical psychiatrists might diagnose as severe cases requiring stationary treatment, in maximum-security wards in some cases. 😨

 

[Linden]

Point of order - what are the rules for posting links to exrernal sources? I am getting a spam warning when trying to do so.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

I suggest a PM to Erestor Arcamen, our hardworking mod, about that.

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

It may depend on the site or if you're a newer member since we've had issues with spam/bot accounts posting external links in the past. Not to say that you're a spammer (you're obviously not) but that's what I would think would be the cause.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

I don't know if it's similar, but still get an occasional "Oops! We ran into problems" notice when I post. Normally, if I backbutton and try again, it works OK.

 

[Olorgando]

I just went into my most recent post in the ”What music are you listening to at this moment?” thread in the Green Dragon Inn forum, which has the link to the Deep Purple “Stormbringer” YouTube music file (no video) from my reply to Miguel’s post just above, and clicked on “edit”.

The link then shows up as text (I’m guessing the ominous “BB code), which I copy over to a Word file, to make it visible I’m substituting parentheses for the square brackets, and also leaving the original with the square brackets at the bottom to see if the link survives being copied to Word from my above-mentioned mentioned post, and then back into this post here.
(MEDIA=youtube)tNWWIKqMKr8(/MEDIA)

EDIT
OK, seems to work. Of course this is not the same as being in the source program and linking from there (or whatever it is those with fewer than ten thumbs IT-wise do).

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Here's one of the articles Linden was trying to link. Let's give it a try:

Exclusive Interview with Tom Shippey concerning LOTRonPrime

Just 20 minutes after the release of the Amazon trailer for the creative team of the Lord of the Rings series, we had the opportunity at Tolkien Thing to interview Tom Shippey, our Guest of Honour, about the trailer and the project exclusively. He is one of the 20 names presented in the video...

www.tolkiengesellschaft.de

Is that the one, Linden?

 

[Linden]

yep

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Oh, good!

 

[Olorgando]

I think I already read that interview via a link provided on one of my other JRRT sites (probably CoE), as the interview took place before I joined here.
If Shippey is right about the series starting to be aired in 2021 (20 years after PJ's "Fellowship") they still have a way to go.
I have no recollection of what kind of or how many "peeks" at the works in progress for the LoTR films were released.
Certainly the Internet was a much smaller part of daily lives back then (it would still be six years after "Fellowship's" before Apple introduced the first i-phone!).

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

I don't know if it's similar, but still get an occasional "Oops! We ran into problems" notice when I post. Normally, if I backbutton and try again, it works OK.

I get that once in a while as well. I think it's just a bug on the site possibly.

 

[Linden]

So, there are two 'provisional' names - "Tyra" (Kyra?) and "Beldor". Not much else I could dig up at the moment. I am guessing Numenorian characters and that the forging of the rings of power and the rise and fall of Numenor will figure as the main subjects. Any thoughts on the names, as in not elvish?

 

[Olorgando]

So, there are two 'provisional' names - "Tyra" (Kyra?) and "Beldor". Not much else I could dig up at the moment. I am guessing Numenorian characters and that the forging of the rings of power and the rise and fall of Númenor will figure as the main subjects. Any thoughts on the names, as in not elvish?

As for knowledge about Elvish, as per a post I found elsewhere here Galin seems to be the one to ask here.
Scouring my Guides / Companions / Lexicons yields nothing starting with either Ty or Ky.
But "Tyra" does conjure up visions of "Tauriel", the PJ-invented female warrior Elf (awfully close to a Mary Sue) in The Hobbit film series. Er ...
"Beldor" - only thing I find there is "Baldor", eldest son of the second King of Rohan and thus grandson of Eorl the Young. He ended up as the skeleton found on the Paths of the Dead under the Dwimorberg mountain of the White Mountains which Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli and the northern rangers found when they took the short-cut from Dunharrow to the south - in book certainly, in movie (EE?) maybe.
They're trolling (or trawling? I can't stop getting the two confused) for names, perhaps …

 

[CirdanLinweilin]

As for knowledge about Elvish, as per a post I found elsewhere here Galin seems to be the one to ask here.
Souring my Guides / Companions / Lexicons yields nothing starting with either Ty or Ky.
But "Tyra" does conjure up visions of "Tauriel", the PJ-invented female warrior Elf (awfully close to a Mary Sue) in The Hobbit film series. Er ...
"Beldor" - only thing I find there is "Baldor", eldest son of the second King of Rohan and thus grandson of Eorl the Young. He ended up as the skeleton found on the Paths of the Dead under the Dwimorberg mountain of the White Mountains which Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli and the northern rangers found when they took the short-cut from Dunharrow to the south - in book certainly, in movie (EE?) maybe.
They're trolling (or trawling? I can't stop getting the two confused) for names, perhaps …

It's not like elvish and Tolkien language sites are just a tap and click away....


Rich people...NO creativity.



Found this out today:

https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/lord-of-the-rings-series-amazon-cast-joseph-mawle-1203378172/






CL

 

[Olorgando]

Found this out today:

CL

Anothet GoT alum … *scratches head*

 

[Miguel]

Joseph Mawle, a villain called "Oren"?.

Orendil?, i'm confused. I think he's a nice addition.

 

[CirdanLinweilin]

Joseph Mawle, a villain called "Oren"?.

Orendil?, i'm confused. I think he's a nice addition.

Why aren't they looking up *actual* Tolkien names instead of making them up? It reeks of lazy direction.


I got the name for my fan-fic (which I WILL get back to) from just searching online, says a lot about Amazon.

CL

 

[Miguel]

Why aren't they looking up *actual* Tolkien names instead of making them up? It reeks of lazy direction.


I got the name for my fan-pic (which I WILL get back to) from just searching online, says a lot about Amazon.

CL

Requesting Shippey

Is Oren "Orendil" Isildur?. Maybe a provisional nickname?.