Lets hope we aren't quoting you in a year or so![]()
Me too, let's hope lessons are learnt from Wheel of Time.
Lets hope we aren't quoting you in a year or so![]()
Prepping myself for something even worse than WoT.
That will be some feat.
Except she was well old by that time. It can't be Arwen as she had yet to be born.
Conversely I'm the opposite opinion - if they actually go to the trouble of making a compelling, epic with a decent story line and attention to detail. There is a ton of interesting background material for the LOTR universe.
As per someone's comment on the title reveal trailer - a show like this is either going to be a masterpiece or a train-wreck - there is little room for a middle ground.
Apparently it looks like its focusing on Isildur, from what I've read the 1st 2 episodes will be a recap type thing/events leading up to him gaining the ring.They're elves, age has no meaning to them Galadriel by the time of LOTR is already aeons old Elrond thousands
So long as they stick to material from the silmarillion etc fine - once they start pulling material out of their arses then thats the point I'll probably walk away
I wondered the same about Mel ******* Gibson doing Shakespeare, but it turned out he was very well suited to the role of Hamlet...Flipping hell, Lenny flamin Premier Inn Henry. How on Earth did he land in this?!![]()
Anything to do with Silmarillion?
I wondered the same about Mel ******* Gibson doing Shakespeare, but it turned out he was very well suited to the role of Hamlet...
I'll reserve judgement on Henry until after I see it.
Not sure I've heard of anyone else in the cast, though.
I hope not as every Tolkien fan I’ve heard mention that says it’s mind-bending lay dull and difficult to read.
True, i read it once and once only.I hope not as every Tolkien fan I’ve heard mention that says it’s mind-bending lay dull and difficult to read.
Lenny Henry seems to be getting well into fantasy, he's in the Witcher prequel series too.
The Silmarillion isn’t a story like like LotR is, it’s an overview of the history of the universe Tolkien created and all the major events that occurred in it. It’s like a bible rather than a novel. The entire Third Age where the films take place and which ends when Sauron is finally defeated is only 20 or so pages, for instance.
I personally enjoy it for what it because of the totality of the world-building and all that art that has been created over the years which references specific moments in it, but for any of it to ever work in another medium you’d have to take one story and expand it significantly like was done with Beren and Lúthien.
Surely this can't be any worse than the abysmal Hobbit trilogy? Can it? Actually, with the way things are going of late, it possibly could be
My hopes are not high, but I'll keep an eye on the reviews just in case as I'd love it to be good.