Lord of the Rings TV series gets multi-season order at Amazon

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Originally Posted by Rhun charioteer

Looking at the casting, the majority of characters are OCs. I am absolutely convinced this will be nothing close to Tolkien’s work in either theme or story.

My guess is it will be a generic fantasy esque show perhaps with Galadriel as the main heroine.

It seems that once Christopher Tolkien died, the estate sold out for a quarter of a billion dollars.

Yeah that's about right. There is little to no canon characters for the period being covered so it's clearly going to have OCs. not sure what anyone expected with this other than a high-budget fanfic.