[+] The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - SPOILERS ALLOWED

[Warpiglet-7]

I will watch just to see how it all turn out.

 

[Sepulchrave II]

I'm actually quite optimistic that the show will be good.

I'm not optimistic about toxic elements within the fandom looking to sink it before it's even given a chance.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

I'm not optimistic about toxic elements within the fandom looking to sink it before it's even given a chance.

Yep, every property that has a long term, hardcore, fandom, will have that extremely toxic element that wants no changes ever. Whether it is this or Ghostbusters or the early days of the MCU when Nick Fury was first played by Samuel L Jackson, or the changes made between editions, or half editions, of D&D. We can see plenty of that in various D&D threads here.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Yep, every property that has a long term, hardcore, fandom, will have that extremely toxic element that wants no changes ever.

Man, Christopher Tolkien is dead; it's uncool to speak of him this way.

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(Only 50% tongue in cheek; CT was pretty narrow-minded in access to the material even as he pumped up the publishing of unfinished works.)

 

[billd91]

Man, Christopher Tolkien is dead; it's uncool to speak of him this way.

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(Only 50% tongue in cheek; CT was pretty narrow-minded in access to the material even as he pumped up the publishing of unfinished works.)

The difference here is he actually was entitled to exercise control over the IP as his father's literary executor and chair of Tolkien Estate, Ltd.

 

[Gadget]

I'm uncertain. Given Amazon's track record of adaptations with The Wheel of Time and the fact that there is not really much of a narrative story to adapt, my expectations are very low. I'm expecting a CW-esque, Shannara Chronicles level of show. I hope to be pleasantly surprised.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I'm expecting a CW-esque, Shannara Chronicles level of show.

It might be bad, but I very much doubt is will be bad in anything like that way. Shannara was low budget and juvenile, this show is big budget and (probably) ponderous.

 

[Gadget]

It might be bad, but I very much doubt is will be bad in anything like that way. Shannara was low budget and juvenile, this show is big budget and (probably) ponderous.

Perhaps, but The Wheel of Time was supposedly Big Budget as well, though I'm sure this one has an even larger budget. In retrospect, I think that show's problems where more in the writing, direction and acting than the budget, though that aspect didn't exactly shine.

On another note, this is a whole different set of people making this show, so its probably best not to read too much into it. I don't really have a problem with the trailer, though I think this actress's voice over does not compare favorably with Cate Blanchett's opening narration for the movies. That is perhaps unfair, but I can't see how the producers weren't inviting (or trying to evoke that opening narration) the inevitable comparison.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

Well, this got a ton of character posters released today, none of which show any faces, but still interesting. What is sad though is one of them shows a sword with a horse head pommel and the ignorant masses are all screaming Rohan, without knowing that Rohan did not exist until the 3rd Age.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

The other thing is that some of the hands, based on the sizes of the things they're holding, are decidedly hobbity. When hobbits, likewise, didn't play that much of a part of things during the Second Age, if at all.

All that being said, I get that Amazon would want to make the world more closely resemble the world of the movies. Hopefully they don't wander too far astray.

Well, this got a ton of character posters released today, none of which show any faces, but still interesting. What is sad though is one of them shows a sword with a horse head pommel and the ignorant masses are all screaming Rohan, without knowing that Rohan did not exist until the 3rd Age.