ShouldIBeHere Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 (edited) These are two tweets by Sharon Tal Yguado who is head of event series at Amazon: Ask your Echo “who is Aragorn?” #LordOfTheRings Ask your echo “Which character is not affected by the power of the one ring?” #LordOfTheRings Could all be some meaningless teasing... but it might also hint at the possibility of the series being about Aragorn's adventures as a younger ranger (which led him through huge parts of Middle-earth). As he was also guarding Eriador such a series could very well feature Tom Bombadil whom the second tweet is probably referring to. Edited November 16, 2017 by ShouldIBeHere 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted November 17, 2017 Share Posted November 17, 2017 With Christopher Tolkien stepping down now, how fast do you guys think The Silmarillion rights will be sold? Considering reports surfacing that The Estate-Amazon thing is a follow up of Christopher deciding to quit, I bet the Estate will sell the rights in less than a year. If they asked 250m for the television rights to LOTR (apparently what WB had was only the movie rights; Tolkien never sold the TV rights), I am sure they will ask for another enormous amount of money and I bet any studio in Hollywood would be happy to oblige, since they can get a 10 movie series from that book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elessar Posted November 17, 2017 Share Posted November 17, 2017 On 15.11.2017 at 6:24 PM, Ozymandias said: Christopher Tolkien has stepped down as head of the Tolkien Estate [...] It all makes sense now. Christopher was very reluctant of selling rights, the new leadership... not so much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fancyarcher Posted November 18, 2017 Share Posted November 18, 2017 I'm not sure a Silmarillion adaptation would be easy though. It's a complicated incomplete piece of writing. You're gonna need a real genius to pull it off anyway (hopefully the series has just that). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elessar Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 On 18.11.2017 at 1:08 AM, Fancyarcher said: I'm not sure a Silmarillion adaptation would be easy though. It's a complicated incomplete piece of writing. You're gonna need a real genius to pull it off anyway (hopefully the series has just that). Incomplete and very broad. So, much of it would have been "fan fiction" anyway, to fill in the blanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fancyarcher Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 2 hours ago, Elessar said: Incomplete and very broad. So, much of it would have been "fan fiction" anyway, to fill in the blanks. Hence the "not sure" bit. It's gonna have to be a real "uphill" adaptation in order to 100% adapt. If they do adapt it, I'm curious how they will. Hopefully it's good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dementeleus Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 The Silmarillion Expanded Universe. Not even joking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4815162342 Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 Basically you can adapt various pieces of it and fill in time gaps with exposition as to the backstory. Most of the really big stuff to adapt pretty much begins with the Dagor Bragollach and the duel of Fingolfin vs. Morgoth. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Panda Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 Yeah, you could make Silmarillion movies by pretty much saying "(Insert Title): A Middle Earth Story" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShouldIBeHere Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 (edited) There are at least three stories that would make amazing movies or series out of the older tales set in Middle-earth: Beren and Luthien The Children of Hurin The Downfall of Numenor Unfortunately only "The Downfall of Numenor" would at least mostly be covered by the rights Amazon has. They are all really a mixture of fantasy and Greek or Shakespearean tragedies. Very dark fantasy with some battles that are bigger than anything in the War of the Ring - and often with a bad outcome for the "good side" (a good side that is often much less "good" in these tales, including the three kinslayings of the Elves). Just saying: Balrogs riding dragons. Edited November 21, 2017 by ShouldIBeHere Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozymandias Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 10 hours ago, ShouldIBeHere said: There are at least three stories that would make amazing movies or series out of the older tales set in Middle-earth: Beren and Luthien The Children of Hurin The Downfall of Numenor Unfortunately only "The Downfall of Numenor" would at least mostly be covered by the rights Amazon has. They are all really a mixture of fantasy and Greek or Shakespearean tragedies. Very dark fantasy with some battles that are bigger than anything in the War of the Ring - and often with a bad outcome for the "good side" (a good side that is often much less "good" in these tales, including the three kinslayings of the Elves). Just saying: Balrogs riding dragons. The Downfall of Numenor would be great. Sauron turning a divine and incredibly powerful race of men into Aztec-like human sacrificing devil Melkor worshippers would be awesome. You'd actually get to see him as a character as well. Children of Hurin is what I want to see most though. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4815162342 Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 A Gondolin-centric story would be cool too. It'd tie in with a Hurin story as well as anything else that stems from the Battle of Unnumbered Tears so it could be a little tricky to integrate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incarnadine Posted November 29, 2017 Share Posted November 29, 2017 Emma looks like she'd fit right in (these are actually from Maniac) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omario Posted December 17, 2017 Share Posted December 17, 2017 The rise and downfall of Numenor has the potential to rival game of thrones. It is without a doubt the most epic tale in the whole Tolkien universe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MovieMan89 Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 So excited for this now that it’s a prequel to the films and not a remake of lotr. There’s just zero need to mess with PJs perfection and redo that saga. This has so much more potential. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted February 16, 2019 Share Posted February 16, 2019 The official account for the series just posted this map. It extends way more in the east than the official Middle Earth maps have in the past. People theorize that the forests and mountains from the far east are where the Elves are said to have awakened. So second to third age events. Maybe we will get the last aliance or smth like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elessar Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 21 hours ago, James said: So second to third age events. Maybe we will get the last aliance or smth like that. Wasn't it confirmed it's taking place between Hobbit and LOTR? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elessar Posted March 7, 2019 Share Posted March 7, 2019 On 2/17/2019 at 11:50 AM, Elessar said: Wasn't it confirmed it's taking place between Hobbit and LOTR? Guess it was wrong... Welcome to the Second Age: https://t.co/Tamd0oRgTw — The Lord of the Rings on Prime (@LOTRonPrime) 7 March 2019 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Porthos Posted July 27, 2019 Share Posted July 27, 2019 This looks to be very very promising. 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
