PatAg said:
powerbelly said:
Easy, Rod said:
Yeah, no thanks to this garbage:
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Amazon's series will also broaden the notion of who shares the world of Middle-earth. One original story line centers on a silvan elf named Arondir, played by Ismael Cruz Crdova, who will be the first person of color to play an elf onscreen in a Tolkien project. He is involved in a forbidden relationship with Bronwyn, a human village healer played by Nazanin Boniadi, a British actor of Iranian heritage.
On the other hand, I am very curious what Moria and Lindon look like. Numenor too. Might be best to watch with the sound off and fast forwarding to geographic scenes.
I don't really care about Jeff Bezos financing Middle Earth fan fiction, which is exactly what this is.
So much source material already there and we get a dumbass rom-com story line.
I'm thinking that whatever they bought the rights to doesnt include all of the Silmarilion, or large parts of it were excluded.
If you have a twitter, give Fellowshipoffans (@fansfellowship) a follow.
I'm involved in the group on the backend, so I'm privy to a number of details that haven't been released yet. If you ever watch one of his livestreams of podcasts, I'm the jackass called penguin.
We've broken a number of scoops about the show: directors, castings, roles, etc. Unlike a group like theonering.net, we're not on Amazons distribution list so we're not privy to official PR type stuff.
Anyways, one of the things we were able to do was track down and identify a rejected show runner who had pitched his concept of the second age to Bezos and other members of Amazons leadership. We were able to interview him and put it up on YouTube, before Amazon sent out a cease and desist letter to take it down. At the time, the only rights that they thought they could access we're LOTR (plus appendices), and The Hobbit, so they constructed the outline of their narrative from those materials.
This was in the fall of last year. However, we've known since about early 2019 that Amazon had contracted directly with the Tolkien Estate, who still held onto the television rights to LOTR and The Hobbit, as well as the rights to all other materials. The working assumption of everyone paying attention is that Amazon must have paid for some of these materials as well.
I'm still taking these reports that they're exclusively drawing from the Appendices with a grain of salt. For one, they're already working with the Estate. Secondly, we know that they have filmed something to do with the two trees in Valinor, as well as relating the crossing of the helcraxe. Third, it probably keeps the general audience calmer by claiming to pull from the Appendices rather than primarily sourcing Unfinished Tales. Most of the general audience hasn't read the books, so for all they know this material may be in there. But creating a narrative out of "Unfinished Tales"? That's how you create angst and anxiety.
We'll see.
