Amazon's LotR series.
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- Akagiyama
https://www.thewrap.com/lord-of-…
“The new epic drama brings to screens for the very first time J.R.R. Tolkien’s fabled Second Age of Middle-earth’s history. Beginning in a time of relative peace, thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’ and ‘The Lord of the Rings’ books, the series follows an ensemble cast of characters, both familiar and new, as they confront the long-feared re-emergence of evil to Middle-earth.”
- loool4
always will be watching things like these, no matter how many they make...
- grafician-5
That looks beautiful!
What's the tree in the long distance?
- part of the forestutopian
- The two trees Telperion and Laurelincannonball1978
- @cannon makes sense, thanks!grafician
- grafician-5
- They nearly made the series in Edinburgh, but ended up going back to NZ. Will give it a go. The Hobbit was shite but still love LOTRPhanLo
- Hobbit was more...calmer?
But yes, can't wait for this!grafician - The Hobbit book is calmer, but that movie series was garbage. My primary school teacher would read us the Hobbit / LOTR everyday at the end of lessons.PhanLo
- monospaced0
I believe this is going to be The Silmarillion
- If so, that tree might be one of the Two Trees of Valinormonospaced
- It’s not but will have some elements from it (according to my coworker’s wife who built the pitch deck)scarabin
- I mean it’s not straight up silmarillion; not about the tree bit. That could be truescarabin
- Gotcha. I can’t imagine it would be the same Lord of the Rings, that’s all. Silmarillion makes sense. It’s the only part that isn’t a movie yet.monospaced
- The Silmarillion is a plotless notebook really, just lore cobbled together. This show is written by Star Trek Beyond creators. My hopes are not very high...MrT
- Yeah. But I’ll still watch it eventually.monospaced
- Me too, I live for dashed hopesMrT
- nb2
That period at the end is going to come back to haunt you
- Bennn0
I'll watch this
- AQUTE6
Never saw any LOTR
- w00tAQUTE
- That's like saying that you never been with a one legged, toothless tranny hooker named Indigo.utopian
- surely the name was InyougoMrT
- I think I have seen one of the films. Lots of people looking perplexed and embarrassed, wearing rags, some horses and flying things.face_melter
- I mean, fantasy and dragons and wizards an' shit have never ever been my bag.face_melter
- I've sort of watched it with a corner of my eye on terrestial TV, understood nothingdrgs
- same, fell asleep. Lord of the Borings if you ask me, just sayin...whatthefunk
- ^I fell asleep a couple of times too. Legolas did a Jack Sparrow running on a circular drum thing twice.PhanLo
- babydick3
The fuck is up with those black folks in this Anglo-Saxon joint, ya feel me?
- cannonball19782
*Whiny whispery kid voice*
“Haven't you ever wondered what else is out there?”
No. Fuck off. Hopefully some orc maces to smash your stupid faces in.
Jesus is this going to be a simpering mess of feel good garbage.
- scarabin1
Folks are calling it “woke lotr” because black hobbits
- White Nationalists Are Using Clowns To Spread HatredPioneerDJ303
- etiquette has a such a good way of mocking all of internets moransinteliboy
- One of my pandemic lockdown chores was finally reading all of this shit because my best friend is a huge Tolkien head.garbage
- And anyone complaining about "black hobbits" is just looking for something to whine about because (pushes glasses up)..garbage
- This series covers the Second Age, and the rare hobbits you would come across were the Harfoots, and they were did have darker skin.garbage
- The hobbits you see in the movies are Fallohides for the most part, and just typing this makes me feel like I've regained my v-card.garbage
- Consider the reverse: If the hobbits were black in the book, but were played by white actors -- I claim lotr boys would protest too.drgs
- I watched them last night and thought they were dope. They've suspended ratings because a bunch of insecure racist types have their panties in a wad..garbage
- ..and are review-bombing without even watching.garbage
- grafician-2
"We come to serve you...Lord Sauron"