it's something else that this show is done by jeff bezos company that works its employees like orcs in the mines of mordor...
Shitter exploded today when it revealed that Amazon wokefied it.
Looks like stereotypical 202X fantasy tv show #1589. Disappointed.
We all knew it wasn't going to be faithful to Tolkien and be bad.
That's pretty much true of every corporation today. The T-shirt you wear, the iPhone or video game console you use, the chocolate in desert you eat, the diamond on your ring, etc, all made by indentured servants, slaves, and sweatshop labor.
The casting looks horrible all around. Those elves make me shudder.
The absolute state of Warcraft lore in 2021:
Kyrians: We need to keep chucking people into the Maw because it's our job.
Also Kyrians: Why is the Maw growing stronger despite all our efforts?
wtf these 'moose hunters'
https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/...-rings-011.jpg
Why don't they wear the horns on their backs, one behind the other, like a backpack?
Why instead the horns stand out from their sides like giant mickey mouse ears? to "look cool"? looks moronic...makes me think of that giant extinct deer that had enormous horns that got stuck constantly in the forests which led to their extinction...and what if there is bad weather, are those hunters gonna used those moose horns as sails to fly away?
ah, here it is
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_elk
those horns a bit cumbersome if you need to run away or hide from orcs, no?? Orcs may wonder why that rock has moose horns sticking out from its sides...
i had to look to see what these guys were, hunters, my first thought was that it was the blue wizards then that would have made somewhat sense, if they have other means for hasty retreats..but NO.
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Same, I had optimistic hopes but, just like WoT, that hope was misplaced and dashed.
Sad, too, because I absolutely love Middle Earth and Tolkien's work, and want to see more of it. But I'm not going to support the bastardization of Tolkien's constructed lore for the sake of - whatever the fuck the latest buzzword is for Amazon to try to swindle in more views.
And others have said - I'm fine with dwarves being dark skinned - but the fact that she's a female dwarf with no beard (when even The Witcher kept true to that trope) is beyond stupid. And I'm not even touching the Elf thing with a ten foot pole, I don't agree with it, I don't like it, and it's not something I'm even going to bother discussing with the people who support it.
The show looks like's going to be turned into just another fantasy drama - and I'm willing to make the safe bet that much like WoT, there's going to be gratuitous amounts of sex and violence because "Game of Thrones".
Can't be the Blue Wizards because they went to the far East, where either they abandoned their mission or they were raising a rebellion in secret, and none of Tolkien's stories take place that far East.
But given the sheer levels of bastardization this show is already engaging in, I suppose the producers might just throw in the Blue Wizards just because.
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That's not a bet, that's a fact. Last year we heard that there was going to be a sex scene coordinator.
"Je vous répondrai par la bouche de mes canons!"
I actually like that elf (Arondir?). I believe that costume is quite fitting for a sylvan elf. Let's not forget that this is the Second Age. The sylvan elves are not lead by Galadriel (Noldo) or Thranduil (Sinda) yet. They are Eldar or maybe even Avari who did not go to Valinor. They are far less advanced than the Noldor or the Sindar. So that armor with the "leaf-face" seems appropriate to me.
"Je vous répondrai par la bouche de mes canons!"
Uh, that boy is elrond? Looks like a mouse shapeshifted into a human...
Doesn't sound like a lot of nude sex scenes;So will there be Westerosi levels of violence and sex in Amazon’s Middle-earth? In short, no. McKay says the goal was “to make a show for everyone, for kids who are 11, 12, and 13, even though sometimes they might have to pull the blanket up over their eyes if it’s a little too scary. We talked about the tone in Tolkien’s books. This is material that is sometimes scary—and sometimes very intense, sometimes quite political, sometimes quite sophisticated—but it’s also heartwarming and life-affirming and optimistic. It’s about friendship and it’s about brotherhood and underdogs overcoming great darkness.”
A ruddy dwarf from a place where forges and furnaces are a constant...works better for me.
Found the article:
https://www.nme.com/news/tv/the-lord...ontent-2774846
in regards to sex scenes I dont think Lord of the Rings really needs it.
Firstly not every fantasy show has to copy in the footsteps of Game of Thrones.
And its not in a nose in the air way but theres enough to explore within the lore where you dont really need to focus in on taverns and realism etc.