Parmandur
Book-Friend, he/him
But not impossible, since it has been done already in recent licensed media.
[+] The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - SPOILERS ALLOWED
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Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
Yes and no. For better or worse, the Peter Jackson movies are vastly better known and consumed than the novels are, similar to the relationship between the MCU films and Marvel Comics. I think the adapters are probably making the wise commercial decision to go with what makes the movie audience happy, when they have to choose, rather than the book audience.
And most of the book people are still going to watch, much like my friend who sits beside me at every MCU movie and gripes about all the continuity errors from the comics, and not listening to me tell him it's a parallel universe every. single. time.
That kind of decision is inevitably going to frustrate many of the book fans, in both cases, but when you've got corporations and billionaires looking over your shoulder, not doing the commercially best thing would be very hard.
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
People have had trouble keeping track of 20 years of stuff happening in a single season of House of the Dragon. If only the elves were consistent presences from episode to episode of Rings of Power, I think most of the audience would throw up their hands and give up.
Maxperson
Morkus from Orkus
Pharazon yes, Miriel not as much. It is said that she was swept away by a wave while trying to reach the peak of Meneltarma, but no one could have seen it to say for sure. She could have just as easily flew away on a Fel Beast wearing one of the nine rings. Pharazon led his people to Aman and landed. Witnesses that are still alive saw it and he was buried there by Eru. It's a bit tougher to change his fate into being one of the Nazgul.
Maxperson
Morkus from Orkus
I'm not sure I'd call 35 years ago recent, but yeah, it was done.
Bolares
Legend
Maybe he had a hand in giving the guy the sword hilt to unlock the dam?
How did they reconcile it? What's their explanation for how Pharazon got out of the Caves of the Forgotten and crossed back to Middle-Earth after being imprisoned by Eru himself?
If the answer is "They don't explain it," then they didn't reconcile anything with canon; they just goofed. (Or changed canon intentionally.)
Maxperson
Morkus from Orkus
Unfortunately I lost my Lords of Middle Earth Volume II or I would look it up.
Was I dreaming when I understood the scene where the elf we're intended to think is Galandriel chase him to take back to hilt from him as occurring right after he got his sword, put blood on it, gave it to the guy, then took a small hatchet and ran, so the protagonist would chase him and not the real hilt? I got distracted at this moment but I really understood the scene as meant to be understood like that.
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Parmandur
Book-Friend, he/him
Shadows Over Mordor is like 6-7 years old.I'm not sure I'd call 35 years ago recent, but yeah, it was done.
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