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

[Tonguez]

They could be orc(the same as Adar) spellcasters.

members of the Cult of Melkor? and more corrupted Elfs?

 

[RuinousPowers]

Yeah at this point its pretty clear that Rings of Power is big budget LotR Fanfic, using the basic timeline as inspiration but filling in their own details

They kind of have to. To tell the story they want would need an unreasonable number of time shifts otherwise.

 

[Hriston]

So, they have some leeway to do stuff but not a lot.

That's quite a different assertion than saying that all material for the show must be derived from the appendices.

 

[trappedslider]

not worth it

 

[Hriston]

Yeah at this point its pretty clear that Rings of Power is big budget LotR Fanfic, using the basic timeline as inspiration but filling in their own details

They’re not really even using the timeline. I mean, they’ve taken some series of events they want to use from the appendices — basically any events they want to use that happened before The Hobbit — and they’re having them all happen at the same time along with a bunch of other stuff that’s been made up out of whole cloth. The effect is more of a Tolkienesque show with bizarre cameos by a few characters from Tolkien’s actual works.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

They kind of have to. To tell the story they want would need an unreasonable number of time shifts otherwise.

House of the Dragon is trying that, with mostly successful results. It's not hard to imagine another version of Rings of Power where each season is one era and then the next season jumps several centuries. We have dwarves and elves who could be constants throughout.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

They’re not really even using the timeline. I mean, they’ve taken some series of events they want to use from the appendices — basically any events they want to use that happened before The Hobbit — and they’re having them all happen at the same time along with a bunch of other stuff that’s been made up out of whole cloth. The effect is more of a Tolkienesque show with bizarre cameos by actual characters from Tolkien’s works.

Think of it as an expensive actual play of someone's The One Ring campaign, few of which will adhere strictly to canon.

 

[Tonguez]

House of the Dragon is trying that, with mostly successful results. It's not hard to imagine another version of Rings of Power where each season is one era and then the next season jumps several centuries. We have dwarves and elves who could be constants throughout.

Not really, Tolkiens dwarfs live maybe 400 yrs whereas Elfs live Thousands. Theyll be skipping a couple of Dwarf generations and 8 or so humans each time shift, imagine trying to keep track of all those. At least with HotD its the same character just at different ages

 

[Maxperson]

Not really, Tolkiens dwarfs live maybe 400 yrs whereas Elfs live Thousands. Theyll be skipping a couple of Dwarf generations and 8 or so humans each time shift, imagine trying to keep track of all those. At least with HotD its the same character just at different ages

The elves are immortal. They don't age or die unless they are killed by violence or lose the will to live on, which is very rare.

 

[John R Davis]

Yeah and the 1st HOTD time skip was confusing for a while