knapplc Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 This debuts in September, but here's a teaser trailer. This is what I'm Tolkien about! 1 Quote Link to comment
Cdog923 Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 Whelp, looks like I've gotta read the Silmarillion again. Quote Link to comment
Lorewarn Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 This seems like it's entirely boom or bust. I can't really see a middle ground for a show like this, and I'm starting skeptical but hoping to be surprised. Amazon has done a fantastic job with The Boys and one or two other IPs, but the added weight and attention of LOTR brings the added temptation to chase a buck. Quote Link to comment
knapplc Posted February 10, 2022 Author Share Posted February 10, 2022 Amazon’s Lord of the Rings Series Rises: Inside The Rings of Power Galadriel’s world is a raging sea. Far from the wise, ethereal elven queen that Cate Blanchett brought to Peter Jackson’s acclaimed films, the Galadriel played by Morfydd Clark in Amazon’s upcoming series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is thousands of years younger, as angry and brash as she is clever, and certain that evil is looming closer than anyone realizes. By episode two, her warnings set her adrift, literally and figuratively, until she’s struggling for survival on a raft in the storm-swept Sundering Seas alongside a mortal castaway named Halbrand (Charlie Vickers), who is a new character introduced in the show. Galadriel is fighting for the future; Halbrand is running from the past. Their entwined destinies are just two of the stories woven together for a TV series that, if it works, could become a global phenomenon. If it falls short, it could become a cautionary tale for anyone who, to quote J.R.R. Tolkien, delves too greedily and too deep. Amazon’s show, which debuts on Prime Video on September 2, is based not on a Tolkien novel per se but on the vast backstory he laid out in the appendices to the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Five seasons will likely cost the studio well over $1 billion. That kind of budget might decimate most other studios, but Tolkien, like space travel, is a personal obsession for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who’s among the richest people in the world. This is a big-ticket business venture that will allow him to create the most expensive, elaborate TV series ever made. While Jackson is not connected to the project, his movies, as well as their spiritual successor Game of Thrones, proved that there’s a massive audience for immersive fantasy. Of course, many have tried to capture that same audience, and few have survived or thrived. Galadriel, Commander of the Northern Armies Durin IV, prince of Khazad-dûm Quote Link to comment
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