Lord of the Rings TV Series in Development - How could this POSSIBLY go wrong...

[PenguinSuitAlice]

Jokes Aside, here is the cast list on IMDB.
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I don't know much about these actors, so I don't really have an idea who will play Annatar. I don't seen Ar-Pharazôn either. The second highest-billed is an OC so that's not a good sign.

I also just noticed their hobbit character has a 3rd Age Hobbit last name and an elvish first name. The name "Elanor" was the name that Sam gave one of his daughters, naming her after an elvish word for a flower due to his reverence for the elves and also in that her hair was golden like the flower. The last name "Brandyfoot" looks like something someone got out of a Hobbit name generator and while I'm not brushed up on my language lore I'm certain it's anachronistic. Such a lazy name.

 

[Newman's Lovechild]

He also turns the Númenoreans into a Satanic death-cult that basically tries to invade heaven, which ends with that form being destroyed when God sinks Númenor underwater with him on it.

I quoted a few snippets here, if anyone's interested in mild spoilers.

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/yabookgate.55664/post-9210406

I've noticed there's this weird tumblr-esque subset of the fandom that's full of fujoshis and the like when looking for images related to characters from the Silmarillion.

Satanic death-cult or satanic? sex-cult, take your pick.

Jokes Aside, here is the cast list on IMDB.
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I don't know much about these actors, so I don't really have an idea who will play Annatar. I don't seen Ar-Pharazôn either. The second highest-billed is an OC so that's not a good sign.

Oh, Celebrimbor is in it. Celebrimbor and sea elves: two out of a couple hundred ain't bad.

 

[PenguinSuitAlice]

Oh, Celebrimbor is in it. Celebrimbor and sea elves: two out of a couple hundred ain't bad.

Well it is called Rings of Power and is set in the Second Age. And he starred in that fanfic videogame series. These writers have read a dozen wiki articles. A Dozen!

 

[Screamer]

So is Sauron in this and is he a giant eyeball?

He lives in a giant tower with his name in bold letters on it. The interior is furnished with gold. He gathers supporters by saying, "Let's make Middle Earth Great Again."

 

[PenguinSuitAlice]

He lives in a giant tower with his name in bold letters on it. The interior is furnished with gold. He gathers supporters by saying, "Let's make Middle Earth Great Again."

I've said it before but if they do a Trump stand-in it will be Ar-Pharazôn the Golden: An aging, proud, nationalistic and warlike man who leads an insurrection the legitimate rulership of Númenor that was going to move it back to being less xenophobic and imperialist. He later becomes a puppet to Sauron and leads his country to ruin. Only the members of the non-bigoted minority survive this cataclysm and later defeat Sauron by bringing all the races together to bring him down.

The opportunity is too juicy for any liberal writer to pass up. Sauron will be Putin not Trump.

 

[Puddleduck]

I've said it before but if they do a Trump stand-in it will be Ar-Pharazôn the Golden: An aging, proud, nationalistic and warlike man who leads an insurrection the legitimate rulership of Númenor that was going to move it back to being less xenophobic and imperialist. He later becomes a puppet to Sauron and leads his country to ruin. Only the members of the non-bigoted minority survive this cataclysm and later defeat Sauron by bringing all the races together to bring him down.

The opportunity is too juicy for any liberal writer to pass up.

That depends on the show's writers having any knowledge of the lore...

 

[Power Glove]

Morfydd Clark in her Galadriel armour has such a "go home Ciri, you're drunk in the wrong universe" vibe it's uncanny for me. I wonder how long Amazon is gonna fund this after season 1, which is probably gonna tank hard after the initial curiosity subsides.

 

[PenguinSuitAlice]

Jokes Aside, here is the cast list on IMDB.
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I don't know much about these actors, so I don't really have an idea who will play Annatar. I don't seen Ar-Pharazôn either. The second highest-billed is an OC so that's not a good sign.

I also noticed that Durin IV, who should be King of the Dwarves at this time is titled "Prince" instead of King. This is weird since a reborn Durin shouldn't be the son of the previous Durin. I'm betting that this is setting up that black dwarf lady will be the real leader of Khazad-dûm or whatever. I wouldn't be surprised if she is credited with helping create the 3 Elven Rings of Power or something.

 

[Airbrushed Van Art]

Oh so John Howe is involved? Okay visually, at least, it won’t be a complete dumpster fire.

Edit: I’m genuinely surprised that they kept him involved. You’d think that they’d fire his old cis-white ass in favor of some non-binary scar-tissue freak tumblr artist who “illustrates” gender-bent, racially-ambiguous characters with fat koala noses.

 

[KEKMUHLORD]

Some new images..... And holyshit It looks worse than a CW show

Amazon paid how much for this trashfire again?

 

[PenguinSuitAlice]

Some new images..... And holyshit It looks worse than a CW show

Amazon paid how much for this trashfire again?

Variety claims that Amazon's expensive “The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power” is costing them a little over $58 million per episode for the first season which has eight episodes ($465 million total)

Nearly half a billion USD, and that's not counting the cost of advertisements.
Well, at least Amazon's definitely not going to profit from this.

 

[TheHarbinger]

If you think even half of the reported costs of this abomination went into production then you are naive. A handful of 'producers' and executives likely are pocketing a good eight or nine figures for themselves on this project. This reeks of Hollywood accounting. But the purpose of this show is not to make money. It is to bastardize Tolkien's works by inserting niggers and other nonsense to ruin his legacy out of the spite that kikes have for White culture and history.

People who hate Tolkien and hate Whites and Anglo history now control not only all of Tolkien's properties but also control the history books, wikipedia, documentaries, and all portrayals of White mythology. We are seeing niggers in the new Pinocchio adaptation. And niggers as Achilles.

But you can guarantee that the same retards that slobbered over the Hobbit films and praised the LOTR films will praise this trash and apologize for it and attack everyone who dislikes it. We saw the same after the LOTR movies where the new fandom emerged with those movies and thought that they were something that Tolkien would like. Then it happened with the Hobbit. It will happen again.

 

[Miller]

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Some new images..... And holyshit It looks worse than a CW show

Amazon paid how much for this trashfire again?

>black hobbit
>black queen dwarf with golden Doritos
Soulless.

 

[PenguinSuitAlice]

>black hobbit
>black queen dwarf with golden Doritos
Soulless.

We've know about both for a while now. The justification for that hobbit being black is due to him being a Harfoot, even though the Harfoots (and possibly hobbits in general) didn't exist in the 2nd Age and they weren't black (We had a long discussion about why they aren't a while ago). The armored women is Galadriel, who is a warrior in this for reasons. I assume the man next to the Dwarf woman is Durin IV. I'd expect a reincarnation of Durin the Deathless would look less like some lame schmuck.

 

[Hugbox Kommissar]

You know you're in for a good time when edgy Galadriel of Westeros is the least cringy cover.

 

[Moths]

Why do all the marketing materials for this look like the cover of a pirated chinese bootleg dvd

 

[Mr. Zed da Robot Poon Fed]

Nearly half a billion USD, and that's not counting the cost of advertisements.
Well, at least Amazon's definitely not going to profit from this.

It honestly shouldn’t cost that much to make an episode of anything, really, unless dialogue was put in the back burner in favor of spectacle, which I think is gonna happen here. Much like it shouldn’t cost $30 million for an episode of Stranger Things. $58 million is more than three seasons of Babylon 5, if you didn’t adjust for inflation. Around two seasons with inflation.

 

[Miller]

 

[A Sentient Cloud]

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Some new images..... And holyshit It looks worse than a CW show

Amazon paid how much for this trashfire again?

Those foot elongating prosthetics on the Hobbits are ridiculously bad, you can clearly see where their real feet end.

Also, I'm sorry, but the dwarf queen is ugly. I'm not speaking in a "lol black person" or even a "lol fat person" sense. She's just not pleasant, interesting, or entertaining to look at. Her face has no character and the hair and make-up aren't helping.

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

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Pictured: White Hobbit plantation owners and their slave. Dated 2nd Age a few years before the great ethnic cleansing of the shire, that removed all non-white Hobbits.

Joking aside, the black hobbit looks like that monkey from Lion King, just drives home how shit this is.