This new show is about the Second Age of Middle Earth, including the forging of the Rings of Power, the war between Sauron and the Elves of Eregion, Sauron establishing himself in Mordor, the history of Numenor (maybe???) and the War of the Last Alliance which is the opening of the Fellowship film. This is only stuff that appears in the Appendices to the LOTR books.
I believe there is some kind of agreement that the Amazon can't just do a TV remake of Jackson's LOTR or Hobbit trilogy (which would be way better than this show). So they have to do this, which is going to be 95% made up bullshit becuase the Second Age is covered in like 10 pages in Appendix A.
They've said it's gonna be accessible to kids, they may want to cover their eyes for some scary stuff but they aren't going dark and gritty. That whole vibe would be really weird for Tolkien, so thank god they at least knee to not go game of thrones on it
This new show is about the Second Age of Middle Earth, including the forging of the Rings of Power, the war between Sauron and the Elves of Eregion, Sauron establishing himself in Mordor, the history of Numenor (maybe???) and the War of the Last Alliance which is the opening of the Fellowship film. This is only stuff that appears in the Appendices to the LOTR books.
I believe there is some kind of agreement that the Amazon can't just do a TV remake of Jackson's LOTR or Hobbit trilogy (which would be way better than this show). So they have to do this, which is going to be 95% made up bullshit becuase the Second Age is covered in like 10 pages in Appendix A.
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They've said it's gonna be accessible to kids, they may want to cover their eyes for some scary stuff but they aren't going dark and gritty. That whole vibe would be really weird for Tolkien, so thank god they at least knee to not go game of thrones on it