New Lord of the Rings movie in the works centered around Tom Bombadil

Parmandur · 2026-03-26T00:32:00+0000

Older Beholder said:
Colbert is as passionate and knowledgeable about LotR as anyone, so I'm interested to see how this turns out.

I kinda skimmed the article, does it mention that Peter Jackson is directing, I assume because he was part of the announcement that that was the case, but didn't see it confirmed.

I thought I saw somewhere that Colbert may be directing??

Older Beholder · 2026-03-26T00:35:57+0000

Parmandur said:
I thought I saw somewhere that Colbert may be directing??

I might have to go through and read some of these articles, from what I've seen, I've only heard about him writing.

doctorbadwolf · 2026-03-26T00:51:42+0000

MarkB said:
What, setting an original story within that framework in general, or just that specific premise?

Heck, I ran a campaign about 20 years ago about another group investigating goings-on in southern Mirkwood concurrently with the events of The Hobbit, was I peeing on Tolkien's grave?

I had to sit with this for like 20 minutes to process the idea that it isnt obvious what is wrong with telling a story like Rogue One in Middle Earth. Lord of The Rings is not the place for the "everyone dies and most of them aren't even good people anyway" story. I love playing assassins, i wiuld even play one in a The One Ring game, but i would never put that out under the legit licensed umbrella of Lord of The Rings.

And dnd campaigns are fan fic. It doesnt matter.

MarkB · 2026-03-26T03:30:14+0000

doctorbadwolf said:
I had to sit with this for like 20 minutes to process the idea that it isnt obvious what is wrong with telling a story like Rogue One in Middle Earth. Lord of The Rings is not the place for the "everyone dies and most of them aren't even good people anyway" story. I love playing assassins, i wiuld even play one in a The One Ring game, but i would never put that out under the legit licensed umbrella of Lord of The Rings.

And dnd campaigns are fan fic. It doesnt matter.

Okay, so it's the very specific premise of that story that you had an issue with. I took the mention of that title to be more an indicator of where it would sit narratively, i.e. and expansion on the existing course of events that focuses on other characters, rather than a suggestion to clone the entire plot into a new setting.

Not sure I entirely share your objections, but I can see where you're coming from now.

doctorbadwolf · 2026-03-26T03:39:25+0000

MarkB said:
Okay, so it's the very specific premise of that story that you had an issue with. I took the mention of that title to be more an indicator of where it would sit narratively, i.e. and expansion on the existing course of events that focuses on other characters, rather than a suggestion to clone the entire plot into a new setting.

Not sure I entirely share your objections, but I can see where you're coming from now.

Well, that story or one like it. Its not like grim stories like that have only one form. But yeah, close enough.

GreyLord · 2026-03-26T12:40:38+0000

Whizbang Dustyboots said:
The Hobbit trilogy was a disaster, but it still made a ton of money. I think it'd be hard to do worse than those movies, given people definitely know the Hobbit much better than either the hunt for Gollum story (well, story elements) or the chapters of the Fellowship of the Ring that will be in this movie.

The difference could be the difference between Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War Middle Earth Games...

and the Gollum Middle Earth game.

People just are not as excited about a slimy whiny villain as they are about heroic characters on a epic quest.

I think the movie Gollum may be just as hard of a sell as the video game was. It's doable, but it's going to be an uphill battle.

trappedslider · 2026-03-26T15:34:18+0000

And the memes from have started

Zaukrie · 2026-03-26T16:14:21+0000

I didn't like the Hobbit movies.... But a lot of people did. I'm not going to say they or the movie makers are wrong, bad, evil. Different people like different things. Role players are the last people who should do this.....

ART! · 2026-03-26T16:59:42+0000

MarkB said:
The fact that they're adapting the relevant chapters of Fellowship of the Ring as part of it suggests that there will be flashbacks, and those would logically feature Frodo.

If the flashbacks are to events that happened during the LOTR movie but were not shown in them, then yes, Frodo could be in those flashbacks, in which case they would need modem, older Elijah Wood. Given the info we have, that is a possibility. If that does happen, let's just hope we're surprised by the advances in de-age-ing software.

Whizbang Dustyboots · 2026-03-26T17:00:44+0000

GreyLord said:
The difference could be the difference between Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War Middle Earth Games...

and the Gollum Middle Earth game.

People just are not as excited about a slimy whiny villain as they are about heroic characters on a epic quest.

I think the movie Gollum may be just as hard of a sell as the video game was. It's doable, but it's going to be an uphill battle.

Aragorn and Gandalf are the ones hunting for Gollum. I'm pretty sure people are excited to see both of them on the big screen again.

I will take more of McKellan's Gandalf for as long as he's able to give us those performances.