Bezos is a huge LOTR nerd and paid an exorbitant amount for this vanity project, I think it's was like $250 million basically just to have the LOTR name on this show. Plus given how popularthe movies were, they probably think they can make bank off of that.
Since they are boxed in by the rights issues, they are just making shit up. Like 'young' Galadriel is going to be a plucky heroine leading a rag-tag army, even though she has been alive for 15,000 years and witnessed the whole history of Belariand. And Elrond is going to be like a naive kid who becomes jaded, who again is actually a thousand years old and knew the last Sons of Feanor.
They have hinted multiple times that they were going to make the Silmarillion TV show over the last few years. I'm pretty sure they have been badgering the Tolkien Estate to sell ever since Christopher resigned from the board, but ultimately didn't get the rights and now have to make a multi-season show based on 10 pages in the Appendix.
Jesus, just let me do it. The way to make the Silmarillion as a show is to have it be a visual aspect to an audiobook. Have the actors play it all out silently and have a guy with a really awesome voice read the book.
Also just to add, Galadriel was pretty fucking old even before Beleriand was a place with a name.
If they do t have the rights to the material they're covering then why bother?
Bezos is a huge LOTR nerd and paid an exorbitant amount for this vanity project, I think it's was like $250 million basically just to have the LOTR name on this show. Plus given how popularthe movies were, they probably think they can make bank off of that.
Since they are boxed in by the rights issues, they are just making shit up. Like 'young' Galadriel is going to be a plucky heroine leading a rag-tag army, even though she has been alive for 15,000 years and witnessed the whole history of Belariand. And Elrond is going to be like a naive kid who becomes jaded, who again is actually a thousand years old and knew the last Sons of Feanor.
They have hinted multiple times that they were going to make the Silmarillion TV show over the last few years. I'm pretty sure they have been badgering the Tolkien Estate to sell ever since Christopher resigned from the board, but ultimately didn't get the rights and now have to make a multi-season show based on 10 pages in the Appendix.
Jesus, just let me do it. The way to make the Silmarillion as a show is to have it be a visual aspect to an audiobook. Have the actors play it all out silently and have a guy with a really awesome voice read the book.
Also just to add, Galadriel was pretty fucking old even before Beleriand was a place with a name.
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If he was a huge LOTR nerd he would make Tolkieny estate an offer they can't refuse, he has the money
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