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.

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• MotoAsh@piefed.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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!

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  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • MotoAsh@piefed.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • GreatWhite_Shark_EarthAndBeingsRightsPerson@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      We need that now, closer to reality now!

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• Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You’re absolutely correct.

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• JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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?

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• IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  … There is a Hunt for Gollum movie coming out?

  Wtf

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  • abbadon420@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Fuck me, you’re right.
    en.wikipedia.org/…/Middle-earth_in_motion_picture…

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• Cyberflunk@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Only if Cozycore involves public hangings, tar and featherings, stonings

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