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

[Mannahnin]

I would argue that it wasn’t so much that he wasn’t good at it, but rather that he didn’t view it as the important part of his stories and thus deliberately chose not to emphasize it.

Indeed. The places where he does focus on battle are stirring and great.

 

[Hriston]

Amazon should have just gotten the licence to the Forgotten Realms, instead of ultra rigid Middle Earth.

Want brown dwarves? Gold Dwarves! Brown Elves? Green & Wood Elves! Female warriors? In Paladin, Fighter, Rogue, Ranger, Monk, Barbarian flavours. Most FR eras have Halflings. FR has orders of magnitude more flexibility then Middle Earth, is better suited to action and humour and romance, horror, etc...

And soooo much more.

Just checked the Rings of Power trailer it's getting ratioed all to hell, roughly 445,000 dislikes to 75,000 likes. Should have gone with FR.

I wonder how FR books' sales figures match up with Tolkien's. Not very well I'd imagine.

 

[Mannahnin]

I wonder how FR books' sales figures match up with Tolkien's. Not very well I'd imagine.

One blogger I've found who analyzes this kind of stuff estimates that Dragonlance and FR together have sold around 100mm copies since the lines began in '84 and '87 respectively. And that Tolkien's works in total are around 600mm.

Leaving Money on the Table: Why is There No New D&D Fiction Being Published?

A shelf of books from the Forgotten Realms line. 292 books in the setting have been published between 1987 and 2020. Dungeons and ...

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J.R.R. Tolkien novel sales pass 600 million

HarperCollins has released updated sales figures for J.R.R. Tolkien's books, acquired by Tolkien fansite TheOneRing. These sales figures ha...

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[Horwath]

Yes, I’m sure nobody is going to watch it.

Lots of people will watch it, I will watch it, but I am going in with level of optimism that I had after watching GoT season 8...

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I would argue that it wasn’t so much that he wasn’t good at it, but rather that he didn’t view it as the important part of his stories and thus deliberately chose not to emphasize it.

Maybe the reason he was reluctant to emphasise it is because he lived through it?

 

[trappedslider]

Not sure about Michelle Rodriguez as a barbarian, maybe Gwendoline Christie would be a better cast, but maybe she wanted to get away from warrior roles for a while...

I hope Michelle will remember that her character name is Holga and not Letty.
"we are not an adventuring party, we are family"

But how long will she live?

 

[trappedslider]

Lots of people will watch it, I will watch it, but I am going in with level of optimism that I had after watching GoT season 8...

I saw yesterday an interview with RR martin in which he says he was out of the loop long before the end of the show
here it is

George R.R. Martin Reveals He Was “Out of the Loop” Long Before the Hated 'Game of Thrones' Finale

Martin has reportedly been much more hands-on for the upcoming 'House of the Dragon' prequel series.

www.gq.com

 

[ART!]

I loved, loved, loved Blanchett's Galadriel performance, but yes, the CGI & voice effects on her biggest dramatic moment were overdone.

Agreed. It looks like it was all done in post-production, like they just turned on a fan and said, "eh, we'll figure it out later".

Just checked the Rings of Power trailer it's getting ratioed all to hell, roughly 445,000 dislikes to 75,000 likes. Should have gone with FR.

Trolls gonna troll, bots gonna bot.

 

[Rune]

Maybe the reason he was reluctant to emphasise it is because he lived through it?

And his friends didn’t.

 

[Ryujin]

Agreed. It looks like it was all done in post-production, like they just turned on a fan and said, "eh, we'll figure it out later".

Trolls gonna troll, bots gonna bot.

Given that Galadriel bore one of the Elven Rings, I thought that the way she was portrayed when exhibiting her power was pretty good.