Cornwell has a gift for blending fiction and fact in his historicals that works. And is up front when he makes changes for the sake of drama (Though usually in an afterward. )
I know what their various inspirations are, I just find them (the Rohirrim) exceedingly dull. The Two Towers is my least favourite part of the Lotr because we spend such a long period among them. I'm just not as much of a fan of migration period Anglo-Saxons as Tolkien was. So no, I'm not interested in a movie about them, just like I'm not interested in a Beowulf movie. BTW, the original point of the whole Rohan "adventure" in TTT in earlier drafts of the Lotr was to provide Aragorn with a queen (Eowyn) but even that fell through after Arwen was introduced.
It makes more sense for Aragorn to hook up with Arwen to add the tension of her having to choose mortality like her uncle Elros. She and Aragorn also both have Beren and Luthien as distant enough ancestors to not seem icky. I agree that a series about the Rohirrim sounds dull, but I'd give it a chance. It can't be any worse than The Rings of Power surely.
The Rohirrim are probably my favorite kingdom, after Dol Amroth in the books so I would welcome it. And Numenor, thanks to Rings of Power, which look and felt so real. It was gorgeous.
Oh I agree that Arwen was a better love interest than Eowyn, just saying it left the Rohirrim with no point at all in the finished narrative (imo). It was kind of this weird dress rehearsal for the actual war in Gondor. Yeah, I won't. Like as I said, Rohan is probably my least favourite element of Middle Earth :-P There probably won't even be any Elves or Dwarves or anything in it. At most they're probably gonna slay a dragon or some Grendel-inspired monster/troll/Orc lord.
I enjoyed Robert Zemeckis's adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary's interpretation of Beowulf. It turned the traditional interpretation of the story on its head. However, I would hate the orcs of Middle Earth to be cast in a sympathetic light. That would be against the spirit of Tolkien (who might well have disapproved of Zemeckis's movie given Tolkien's academic association with creating a new and praiseworthy translation of the original literary work).
Set on fire during season 2 filming. https://twitter.com/FellowshipFans/status/1642899509159030785?s=20
Yikes, that looks pretty serious. No reports of anyone being hurt but I wonder how much they may have lost.
How sad to have all that set design artistry destroyed in a matter of minutes. I hope the hurt count stays at zero.
That is the important thing. For whatever reason, this reminds me of the time one of Star Trek III's sets caught on fire and William Shatner, who was nearby filming TJ Hooker, joined the fire crews in trying to put the fire out.
Yep - the same thing entered my mind too! Thankfully, I don't think there were any injuries with that one either, but IIRC, the refit bridge would never be the same because of it - suffered major fire and water damage, leaving only a smaller portion of it film-ready. It always pains me to see all that hard work of so many talented artists get destroyed.
According to EW.com, it was an electrical fire warehouse oin a warehouse on the perimeter of the backlot, and filming only paused for an hour as a precaution, and resumed once it was dealt with. So it sounds like it wasn't too bad, which is a relief.
Heh. It would seem that Amazon and the Tolkien estate are being sued by a fanfiction writer who doesn't understand how copyright laws work. https://www.ign.com/articles/lord-o...-estate-and-amazon-for-copyright-infringement I'm reminded of the guy who sued CBS because Star Trek Discovery included tardigrades in their story.