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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power | Amazon | September 2, 2022

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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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.

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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. 

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