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

[Nerwen]

Originally Posted by WCH

Game of Thrones (and the Martin books) are much better than that.

...Whilst still being possibly the single most over-hyped and over-rated series I can think of, off the top of my head.

As for "Lord of the Rings: The Early Years", I am very confident now that it is going to suck like the deepest, vilest slime-pool in all the Dead Marshes. For some reason I'm quite looking forward to it.

[Morthoron]

Originally Posted by Nerwen

As for "Lord of the Rings: The Early Years", I am very confident now that it is going to suck like the deepest, vilest slime-pool in all the Dead Marshes. For some reason I'm quite looking forward to it.

Putting a Game of Thrones lusty spin on things, just think of the pedophilic delight of a several hundred year-old Arwen getting the hots for barely-pubescent Aragorn. Dirty ol' Elvesses! Not to mention the menage-a-thirty between the orcs and Celebrian (with the Aredhel-like insinuation that "it is not said that she was wholly unwilling"). Face it, Elrond got pretty dull after a few millenia. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.

Why are you glaring at me like that?

[William Cloud Hicklin]

Well, they'll have to augment Tolkien's rather limited cast of female characters just to get to requisite number of boobies onscreen

[Kuruharan]

Originally Posted by William Cloud Hicklin

Well, they'll have to augment Tolkien's rather limited cast of female characters just to get to requisite number of boobies onscreen

I'm pretty sure it is a foregone conclusion that they are going to do that anyway.

[Huinesoron]

Originally Posted by Kuruharan

I'm pretty sure it is a foregone conclusion that they are going to do that anyway.

Which... isn't a bad thing?

I mean, except the titillation part. But if a 'suggested by The Lord of the Rings' TV show has to exist, then one that used only characters and events from the books (outside the actual timeline of the War of the Rings) is going to be very shallow and empty. Middle-earth is an amazingly rich tapestry of geography, history, and cultures, but Tolkien only sketched in a few actual people outside specific times.

So more people will absolutely have to be added in, and honestly I'd rather they be 'new' than the alternative of shoehorning everyone into spaces that are already there. If the story is Young Aragorn, do we really want every character in Gondor to be Baby Ioreth, Baranor Father of Beregond, the rangers Mablungsdad, Damrodsdad, and Anbornsdad...?

If they're going to do this, then I would much rather see genuinely new characters reflecting the diversity and lack thereof of Gondor, Rohan, Bree and so forth, than having them succumb to Star Wars disease (which has recently provided a story about the Stormtrooper who stunned Princess Leia at the start of the first film - he was of course a conflicted person with a rich inner life).

Obvious caveat: it would be nice if the new characters were from Middle-earth, rather than the Westeros refugees we're probably in line for...

[William Cloud Hicklin]

then one that used only characters and events from the books (outside the actual timeline of the War of the Rings) is going to be very shallow and empty.

I got news for you: It's gonna be shallow and empty no matter what.

[Morthoron]

Lord of the Schwing.

[Andsigil]

Originally Posted by William Cloud Hicklin

I got news for you: It's gonna be shallow and empty no matter what.

And filled to the brim with PC tropes to the point that it's hardly recognizable as a Tolkien work.