Please dont mess this up
Please dont mess this up
i cant stomach a gandlaf played by other than Ian
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
What? The Hobbit changed and cut a fuck ton of things. Just for starters:
Spider and Warg speech. Eagles society. Legolas, Tauriel, etc.
The Lord of the Rings had 12 hours to fit a story of nearly half a million words. The Hobbit is 95,000 words long.
I've read and loved pretty much all of Tolkien's work including everything to do with Middle Earth. The Lord of the Rings was a very well done adaptation which while it did cut quite a lot of details, still managed to do the books justice. The Hobbit movies are just bad.
Speciation Is Gradual
I'm dreading the inevitable "diversity" agenda's affect on the casting of this series because Tolkien's universe is ethnocentric to northwestern Europe. There are people of color mentioned in Tolkien's works but they live far to the East and the South and Tolkien never wrote stories for them. His stories pertained primarily to the Men of the West, i.e. white people. He set out to write a new mythology for the English people because he had grown quite bored with the prominence of Arthurian legend, so the casting of the series is going to have to respect that unless they're going to take some serious liberties with the lore. The only way I could see a "diversity hire" working is if they base the series on the Second Age, of which little is actually known, and the token black character would have to be a mercenary from the South or something. I'm a huge Idris Elba fan but I don't want to see him playing Aragorn any more than I want to see Mads Mikkelsen playing Shaka Zulu. I know it will probably happen, but I really hope they keep the identity politics out of this series and stay true to the source material.
Last edited by Wolfman31; 2018-05-15 at 09:16 PM.
"He who lives without discipline dies without honor" - Viking proverb
Because just look at it that thing is glorious! How could is possibly be done any better?
In seriousness I do like the cartoon better but that’s only because I really dislike the live action movie in pretty much every way. Hopefully the show will be better as I like the world just can’t stand the movies.
It depends on how they decide authorship since it was sort of 'co-written' by two other people. If it is deemed to be written by JRR Tolkien then it enters the public domain in either 2028 or 2044 depending on which copywrite act is used, otherwise it'll be atleast another 70 years.
Speciation Is Gradual
Sounds like the first season will be about a young Aragorn.
https://www.bleedingcool.com/2018/05...young-aragorn/
So it's a spin off thing. Not LotR.
I find it ridiculous that they paid 250 million for franchise that doesn't even have much source material. Then they are only doing spin offs of the original story because everyone knows it already.
Why didn't they just pick some other great fantasy series which 99% of population has never read and make a great epic series of that.
Would save probably like 249 million dollars, too.