Octopus Overlords

NickAragua wrote: ↑Mon Nov 13, 2017 4:29 pm Ugh, prequels. Pass.

Jolor wrote: ↑Mon Nov 13, 2017 4:33 pm Oh. Great.

Hobbit sex.

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Mon Nov 13, 2017 4:41 pm

NickAragua wrote: ↑Mon Nov 13, 2017 4:29 pm Ugh, prequels. Pass.

You want to see what dystopia that the Fourth Age, the Age of Man, issues in?

Moliere wrote: ↑Mon Nov 13, 2017 5:09 pm Amazon is paying $200 Million just for the rights. Add another $100 Million or more per season for production. Good luck!

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Mon Nov 13, 2017 9:39 pm If they can somehow cast Gilbert Gottfried as Tom Bombadil, I'm totally down.

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 13, 2017 11:09 pm The prequel to the LOTR is the Hobbit.
Is this going to a prequel to this too?

Christopher Tolkien, son and literary heir of J.R.R. Tolkien, resigned from the Tolkien Estate. And his departure changes everything.

Christopher is 93 and just this year edited and published one of his father’s works “Beren and Luthien,” which as even casual Tolkienites know, refers to his parents with the names of those characters adorning their tombstones.
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The settlement between Warner Bros. and the Tolkien Estate settled an $80 million lawsuit July 3. Part of the statement the studio released at the time was unusually upbeat for an entity that just paid out big money:

“The parties are pleased that they have amicably resolved this matter and look forward to working together in the future.”

The future mentioned in that statement is this week and beyond, and it was obviously in the works then. According to a U.K. government website, Christopher resigned on Aug. 31. One would expect formal resignations of this nature take time to manage legally, so it also was in the works for some time I suspect. What I wouldn’t give to have been in the room for that passing of the torch.

So in quick fashion, after the seismic change, the estate has sold the television rights for book “The Lord of the Rings.” Warners paid the court dispute so there would be a relationship moving forward and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos rewarded both entities handsomely.
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The new leadership of the estate seem much more willing to deal Tolkien properties than Christopher was and this confirms my well placed sources.

This opens up Tolkien and Middle-earth as possible franchises in the same way that Harry Potter’s world is a place you can visit at Universal Studios or that Disney will soon have a Star Wars area. There are few properties in the world that can be talked about in the same way as Middle-earth. Warner Bros. see the value and so does Amazon.

Dwarves!
The Númenóreans.
The Elves (specifically the Noldor).
The creation of the Rings of Power.
The Nazgûl origin story.
The Fall of Númenór.
The Last Alliance of Elves and Men.
When the Dwarves in Moria finally delve “too deep”—and rouse the Balrog.
The Witch-King of Angmar.
Almost anything involving the Easterlings and the Haradrim.
Elrond’s romance with Celebrían.
The adventures of the Istari!
Círdan the goddamned Shipwright!
Young Aragorn meeting Gandalf, and their adventures together.
Two words: Tom Bombadil.

Carpet_pissr wrote: ↑Wed Nov 22, 2017 4:04 am The arousal of the Balrog?! Yes, please.

rshetts2 wrote:

Carpet_pissr wrote: ↑Wed Nov 22, 2017 4:04 am The arousal of the Balrog?! Yes, please.

Balrog porn? No thanks!

Pyperkub wrote: ↑Tue Nov 21, 2017 3:21 pm I just hope they change the look up. I'm really tired of Peter Jackson LOtR.

rshetts2 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 22, 2017 9:26 am

Carpet_pissr wrote: ↑Wed Nov 22, 2017 4:04 am The arousal of the Balrog?! Yes, please.

Balrog porn? No thanks!

We already know that Amazon bought a new Lord of the Rings series for a quarter-billion dollars. We also know that the production itself will end up costing a cool $1 billion.

The first season won't be all about Hobbits and orcs, though—it will definitely be about Aragorn, aka Strider, played by Viggo Mortensen in the movies.

Holman wrote: ↑Fri Feb 15, 2019 7:15 pm What am I missing about that map?

More questions than answers, so far, but one sharp-eyed fan already noted that the “map shows Middle-earth post-War of Wrath since Beleriand isn’t on it, meaning the show takes place in the Second of Third Age.” That geo-political logic of that observation seems sound to us. (It’s the equivalent of noting a European map that shows the Soviet Union is most likely of a 1922-1991 vintage…)

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Fri Feb 15, 2019 7:25 pm

Holman wrote: ↑Fri Feb 15, 2019 7:15 pm What am I missing about that map?

Gotta use that nerd brain to puzzle it out.

More questions than answers, so far, but one sharp-eyed fan already noted that the “map shows Middle-earth post-War of Wrath since Beleriand isn’t on it, meaning the show takes place in the Second of Third Age.” That geo-political logic of that observation seems sound to us. (It’s the equivalent of noting a European map that shows the Soviet Union is most likely of a 1922-1991 vintage…)

Amazon confirmed that the Lord of the Rings series will be set during the Second Age of Middle-earth, which is the era when the Rings of Power were first created and the evil Sauron first rose to power. But what does the Isle of Numenor have to do with that?

The Isle of Numenor is a mythic lost civilization (J.R.R. Tolkien intended it as an allusion to Atlantis) from whom the great men of Gondor are descended. Separated by the Great Sea from the continent known as Middle-earth, Numenor housed the apotheosis of the human race: they were physically perfect and lived three times as long as the average human. Aragorn, who is at the ripe age of 87 during the events of Lord of the Rings in the Third Age, is descended from one of the great kings of Numenor and is one of the few that retain pure Numenorean blood.

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Thu Mar 07, 2019 6:09 pm Takes place during the Second Age:

Amazon confirmed that the Lord of the Rings series will be set during the Second Age of Middle-earth, which is the era when the Rings of Power were first created and the evil Sauron first rose to power. But what does the Isle of Numenor have to do with that?

The Isle of Numenor is a mythic lost civilization (J.R.R. Tolkien intended it as an allusion to Atlantis) from whom the great men of Gondor are descended. Separated by the Great Sea from the continent known as Middle-earth, Numenor housed the apotheosis of the human race: they were physically perfect and lived three times as long as the average human. Aragorn, who is at the ripe age of 87 during the events of Lord of the Rings in the Third Age, is descended from one of the great kings of Numenor and is one of the few that retain pure Numenorean blood.

Variety has learned from multiple sources that Markella Kavenagh is in talks for a role in the upcoming epic fantasy series. Details of Kavenagh’s characters are being kept under wraps, but sources say she would be playing a character named Tyra.

Kavenagh is known for having previously starred in the sequel series to the Australian film “Romper Stomper” as well as for roles in the shows “Picnic at Hanging Rock” and “The Cry.” She is repped by Silver Lining Entertainment.

Numenor housed the apotheosis of the human race: they were physically perfect and lived three times as long as the average human

Amazon Studios’ forthcoming series brings to screens for the very first time the heroic legends of the fabled Second Age of Middle-earth’s history. This epic drama is set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and will take viewers back to an era in which great powers were forged, kingdoms rose to glory and fell to ruin, unlikely heroes were tested, hope hung by the finest of threads, and the greatest villain that ever flowed from Tolkien’s pen threatened to cover all the world in darkness. Beginning in a time of relative peace, the series follows an ensemble cast of characters, both familiar and new, as they confront the long-feared re-emergence of evil to Middle-earth. From the darkest depths of the Misty Mountains, to the majestic forests of the elf-capital of Lindon, to the breathtaking island kingdom of Númenor, to the furthest reaches of the map, these kingdoms and characters will carve out legacies that live on long after they are gone.