LOTR Prequel

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Fordim Hedgethistle

It just occured to me what the "prequel" (i.e. non-Hobbit-stuff) will be...

It will follow the adventures of Aragorn as he meets Gandalf, learns of his true heritage and rides around Middle Earth having a series of adventures (under assumed identities) in Rohan, Gondor, the Shire and elsewhere.

They'll do a "growth of the hero" thing with action and romance (remember Arwen?), and a bunch of struggling-with-father-figure stuff in relation to Elrond and Gandalf. It will be sort of like King Arthur (y'know, wizard comes for regular guy who has to learn to be a king). Guarantee you it ends with Aragorn fighting his way through unimaginable dangers in order to make it to Bree on time to meet with some Hobbits.

Oh, and I'll bet you 10 dollars right now that his faithful companion/sidekick throughout it all is Legolas.

Well, I think this might be also one good point. The only downside of this is, that according to the book Aragorn should be different ages throughout the movie, which would mean not using the same handsome actor for all the scenes... but no worry, we'll make a miniature change making all of Aragorn's adventures happen in one year, and that's it... just maybe we'll preserve at the beginning a scene making a lovely little boy speaking to Elrond, and also meeting Arwen when being this young (another little change of timeline)... well, the scheme of Anakin Skywalker in the Star Wars, if you got my point...
But seriously now. The idea of prequel to LotR might make nice connection between The Hobbit and LotR if used to describe some of the adventures Gandalf mentioned at Elrond's council (tracking Gollum to Mordor and then his escape from Thranduil - this might make a nice parallel with a scene of the Hobbit film, if there will be any, where the dwarves are at Thranduil's prison as well). But I don't think there is anything which can be done to stretch this into two hours of a movie... Without making up most of the storyline, I think it is not possible to create a coherent movie with continuous story from the things in the Chronicles.

The only thing I'm afraid of is that maybe so far they haven't thought about making the movie like this... but Fordim, what if they read your post and then they decide to realize it...