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The Law and novella
Conspiracy Theorist:
That would be the history of Middle Earth published posthumously in about 10 volumes and edited by Christopher Tolkien. They are very very heavy reading.
Dina:
I liked the Silmarillion, but apparently the series is not based in it. I do not if it is based in Tolkien's son works. And I've never read any of them.
Conspiracy Theorist:
I have, it is basically an editing of JRR’s extremely extensive research notes by his son, effectively the show runners bible. It lacks any of the characterisation or narrative drama of the Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings.
To a large extent it will be dependent upon the skill of the writers to inject that into the source material, turning a history into a novel. JRR had it, Christopher didn’t.
vincentric:
The new series is covering the period after the Fifth Battle through Sauron's rise to power. Done well it could be epic, as we'd get the rise and fall of Numenor, the corruption of the Nazgul and to a lesser extent, the Dwarves, and perhaps even the last battle in Mordor with all the heroic sacrifices.
But what I've seen of the preview material looks pretty but came off as bad Tolkien fan-fic. I'll watch in hope of being wrong but I don't have much expectation for this. Until Hollywood learns to respect thje source material, we won't get any more LotR level movies or GoT level miniseries.
Mira:
--- Quote from: vincentric on May 11, 2022, 03:47:33 PM ---The new series is covering the period after the Fifth Battle through Sauron's rise to power. Done well it could be epic, as we'd get the rise and fall of Numenor, the corruption of the Nazgul and to a lesser extent, the Dwarves, and perhaps even the last battle in Mordor with all the heroic sacrifices.
But what I've seen of the preview material looks pretty but came off as bad Tolkien fan-fic. I'll watch in hope of being wrong but I don't have much expectation for this. Until Hollywood learns to respect thje source material, we won't get any more LotR level movies or GoT level miniseries.
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That is why I preferred the extended version of the movies, there were more moments from the books that I loved.
Unfortunately they really blew the last two or three seasons of GoTs.
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