“Rings of Power” - "Lord of the Rings" television adaptation

[krtek a houby]

Lord of the Rings to get TV adaptation

Not a huge amount of info. Could be interesting but the headline is misleading as it will be set before the trilogy.

I'm more interested in the forthcoming His Dark Materials and Watchmen adaptations but still; Tolkien, eh?

 

[kabbes]

It's not Tolkien if it isn't a story Tolkien has written. It's just generic swords and dwarves.

 

[krtek a houby]

Not sure yet if it's based on his works. For now; it's Tolkienesque.

 

[hot air baboon]

I presumed it was Silmarillion based stuff - I can't see the estate agreeing to them just making shit up. Wondering to waht extent the makers can represent the dark & ill-starred legendry of the Sil. cycle although I suppose GoT was much closer in tone to that than Peter Jackson's disneyfied shite

Ultimately the key issue really boils down to has it got balrogs ?

 

[chilango]

There's enough in the appendices of LOTR to pad out some stuff.

Appendices

 

[Crispy]

Hoping for some of that Game of Thrones hype I guess.

Trouble with Tolkein is it's ramrod straight through and through with the stuffy tropes that GoT subverted.

 

[TruXta]

There's enough in the appendices of LOTR to pad out some stuff.

Appendices

And in Unfinished Tales, plus all the History of Middle Earth stuff.

 

[hot air baboon]

There's enough in the appendices of LOTR to pad out some stuff.

Appendices

I thought that was how they inflated the Hobbit up to 3 films ?

 

[chilango]

I thought that was how they inflated the Hobbit up to 3 films ?

There was no dwarf-elf love story in the appendices.

 

[mrs quoad]

It's not Tolkien if it isn't a story Tolkien has written. It's just generic swords and dwarves.

Though if you hypothesised that you could have infinite Tolkiens with infinite typewriters in infinite rooms, then isn’t everything really Tolkien?

 

[mrs quoad]

There was no dwarf-elf love story in the appendices.

Would that be a dwelf or an earf?

 

[kabbes]

Christ, God help them if they plan on filming the Silmarillion. Not even Tolkien figured that was ready in its current form for a wider audience. And the appendices? Aka the way Jackson managed to turn a fun short story into a turgid 3 film snoozefest.

I agree that GoT has already taken all this to its next level. I'm not excited for TV pseudo-Tolkien.

 

[Orang Utan]

They should do Father Giles Of Ham

 

[chilango]

Strictly Tom Bombadil

 

[TruXta]

Maybe one episode where Sauron chooses the ring-wraiths Apprentice-style?

 

[chilango]

Hobbiton's Got Talent

 

[rekil]

Neighborcs.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Some Morders do Ave Em

 

[chilango]

Real Housewives of Rivendell

 

[chilango]

Gollumbox

Smeagol sits on a rock in Mordor watching events across Middle Earth unfold in a palantir shouting "my precious" a lot.

 

[DotCommunist]

I'm Celeborn Get Me Out Of Here


Anyway they should do Children of Hurin cos its fuck-dull and maybe some visuals would spice things up

 

[chilango]

Antiques Roadshow with Elrond & Gandalf

"One may guess that your trolls had plundered, other plunderers, or come on the remnants of old robberies in some hole in the mountains of old. I have heard that there are still forgotten treasures to be found in the deserted caverns of the mines of Moria, since the dwarf and goblin war."

Each week a bunch of dwarves and hobbits rock up to Rivendell with magic rings, glowing swords and the like and Elrond and Gandalf ponder whether they come from the sack of Gondolin or not.

 

[hot air baboon]

Kevin McLeod pulls up in his Land Rover Discovery in a muddy driveway at the front of Barad-Dur -

"So.....its now the 360th year of the Second Age and they still haven't got the roof on yet. There seem to be alot of orcs still working on the site & I'm now wondering if Sauron might be beginning to regret his decision to project manage this himself...lets go in & see if I can get a cup of tea..."

Christ, God help them if they plan on filming the Silmarillion. Not even Tolkien figured that was ready in its current form for a wider audience.
I agree that GoT has already taken all this to its next level. I'm not excited for TV pseudo-Tolkien.

its a pretty bad idea generally - the whole ME back story really functions as an elaborate way to add a sort of heft or historic ballast that adds something special & unique to the LOTR - like the way designer cloths have hours of pain-staking labour intensive detial that no-one ever looks at but its just nice having it there

 

[DotCommunist]

Beorn in the USA

the shape shifter visits america to meet real bears, along the way teaching americans how to be better to their wildlife

 

[JimW]

Weather Hills 90210

 

[chilango]

Ent & Deck's Saturday Night Takeaway

Treebeard sits on a ship looking morosely at the wooden deck beneath him wondering which long lost relative it's made out of.

 

[chilango]

Saruman vs Food

"Sharkey" tours the Shire and its environs eating as many second breakfasts as he can in The Green Dragon, The Prancing Pony and so on.

 

[chilango]

Uruk High

Also known as Educating Isengard, we visit the White Hand Academy to follow the everyday trials and tribulations of a half-orc training school.

 

[DotCommunist]

Last Homely House Hunters

various elven chiefs search for somewhere to live

 

[JimW]

Bree - following the adventures of a multi-racial choir from the Prancing Pony.