You’re absolutely correct.
The Lord of the Rings spinoff the world needs right now isn’t Rings of Power or the Hunt for Gollum—it’s a film-length version of the Scouring of the Shire.
Submitted 2 months ago by AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world 2 months ago
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 2 months ago
A Netflix mini-series, perhaps?
Also, did they wind up adapting the major stories out of the Silmarillion, such as Beren & Luthien and Turin’s tragedy, etc? Those would seem to be the best candidates to me, following on the Jackson movies.
Instead they did… a forging of the rings series, I think?
papalonian@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Nobody is allowed to make content based off the Silmarillion. The Tolkien Estate has exclusive publishing rights for everything 1st and 2nd Age. That’s why Rings of Power is so bad, they’re basically trying to rewrite the lore to tell the same story and set everything up the way it already is without being and to use any source material.
It’s like, just tell a different story at that point bro.
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 2 months ago
Okay, I see, but… is there some reason they wouldn’t be open to the idea of doing Silmarillion stories?
IWW4@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
… There is a Hunt for Gollum movie coming out?
Wtf
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Fuck me, you’re right.
en.wikipedia.org/…/Middle-earth_in_motion_picture…papalonian@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Viggo is playing Aragorn!
Viggo is now older than Ian McKellen was when he first played gandalf…!
Cyberflunk@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Only if Cozycore involves public hangings, tar and featherings, stonings
MotoAsh@piefed.social 2 months ago
As someone who’s not familiar with the breadth of stories told outside of visual media… what’s so great about that part of the story? I do thoroughly enjoy the universe, I’m just not much of a fiction reader any more!
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 2 months ago
In the books, Saruman and Wormtongue escape from Isengard and set up shop in the Shire while the hobbits are still busy wrapping things up in Gondor and Rivendell. They turn the Shire into an industrial dystopia, destroying the environment and corrupting the local hobbits with promises of power before betraying them. When Frodo & co. return, they organize an underground resistance movement that leads to a revolution.
MotoAsh@piefed.social 2 months ago
Holy shit, that sounds like an epic story to leave out of the trilogy movies! lol Though of course I understand why they wanted a nice clean happy ending to that tale. Not like Peter et. al. knew it’d blow up so huge and they’d end up able to do far more eventually.
GreatWhite_Shark_EarthAndBeingsRightsPerson@piefed.social 2 months ago
We need that now, closer to reality now!