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

[Thinlómien]

Has anyone else seen in the new Vanity Fair article with lots of pictures and details about the main characters and storylines? https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood...ies-first-look

I have to say I'm not super impressed (sounds like high budget fan fiction, some of the costumes are terrible... is that one dude wearing a t-shirt??). I'll comment more a little later after I've chewed this and read the recent discussion on this thread.

[Galadriel55]

Originally Posted by Thinlómien

Has anyone else seen in the new Vanity Fair article with lots of pictures and details about the main characters and storylines? https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood...ies-first-look

I have to say I'm not super impressed (sounds like high budget fan fiction, some of the costumes are terrible... is that one dude wearing a t-shirt??). I'll comment more a little later after I've chewed this and read the recent discussion on this thread.

Just had time to look at the first few paragraphs... Life of Gal is not what I wanna watch. I expect nothing other than fan fiction, but - there's fanfiction, and there's fanfiction.

[Huinesoron]

I've taken the liberty of starting a new thread for the Vanity Fair article, because I'm likely to go on about it at length and don't wanna swamp this one.

"The Rings of Power" Vanity Fair article

hS

[Rhun charioteer]

My read is this will be a generic fantasy show with the Tolkien label slapped onto it. This is Bezos attempt at emulating HBO's success with Game of Thrones, nothing more. An utter disaster that should never have been conceived.

[skytree]

Originally Posted by Rhun charioteer

My read is this will be a generic fantasy show with the Tolkien label slapped onto it. This is Bezos attempt at emulating HBO's success with Game of Thrones, nothing more. An utter disaster that should never have been conceived.

It won't be Tolkien or Middle Earth as he wrote or envisioned it or it's protagonist. It will simply be an attempt an immersive fantasy series branded as Tolkien because everything is about "Branding" first, as a commercial appeal to the masses while continuity and Tolkien's purpose for conceiving it all a distant second.