He's pretty brave to bring such a ridiculous lawsuit against Amazon and Tolkien, because I really don't see this ending the way he wants.
Spoilers Lord of the Rings TV series
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There's nothing brave about it. Just pure hubris and stupidity.
They're always has been a fine line between bravery and stupidity.
Yeah, I was just trying to put it a little nicer. Aren't there actually pretty specific rules about what about what it takes for something to be infringement? You can't just sue because you have targtigrade in your story too or a character has a similar name or backstory, right?
The Tolkien Estate isn't American.It’s just what Americans like doing. Suing each other.
They're the ones being sued, not the ones doing the suing.
You can sue a foreign company in a US court if you believe they've broken a law in the US. In a general situation the foreign company can decide whether to show up or not (they may have no interest or footprint in the US and may ignore the lawsuit), but in this case the Tolkien estate protects the rights to LOTR worldwide, so I'm sure they would. The operation is big enough that they probably do have a legal footprint in the US even if nominally based overseas.
The writers strike will not affect the final 19 days of production on season 2.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/05/04/entertainment/amazon-rings-of-power-writers-strike/index.html
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/05/04/entertainment/amazon-rings-of-power-writers-strike/index.html
An alleged leak claims that we will be seeing...
... In season 2.
... In season 2.
Wait until Smaug shows up
I'm sure all the RoP haters will take that news with all the calmness and rationality they've shown in the past, aka they'll start whining immediately even though its something that doesn't even remotely break the original Tolkien lore.
Shelob was born in the First Age, and already lived in the mountains surrounding Mordor "Long before Sauron claimed Mordor as his own and started to build Barad-dûr around S.A. 1000".
"Sauron knew that Shelob lived in her lair, but allowed her to dwell there, because she was an excellent guard of the pass ofCirith Ungol that led to Mordor and because he could spare the Orcs that she occasionally caught. He even sometimes had prisoners driven to her hole and ordered to report to him how she played with them and referred to her as his cat."
Her appearance could be Sauron meeting her for the first time, or Isildur could meet her when he presumably pulls himself out of the wreckage he was buried in and leaves Mordor. Of all the various possible cameos or references they have/could put in this show, Shelob is one of the easiest to do that completely works with the era and doesn't contradict anything.
"Sauron knew that Shelob lived in her lair, but allowed her to dwell there, because she was an excellent guard of the pass ofCirith Ungol that led to Mordor and because he could spare the Orcs that she occasionally caught. He even sometimes had prisoners driven to her hole and ordered to report to him how she played with them and referred to her as his cat."
Her appearance could be Sauron meeting her for the first time, or Isildur could meet her when he presumably pulls himself out of the wreckage he was buried in and leaves Mordor. Of all the various possible cameos or references they have/could put in this show, Shelob is one of the easiest to do that completely works with the era and doesn't contradict anything.
I'm not sure conjectures about events that aren't described in the appendices for events in the Second Age are really spoilers. The series is already spoiled - in a different sense - well beyond redemption as far as I'm concerned. Member berry cameo appearances aren't going to save it. I'm not really a ROP hater, more indifferent to the embarrassing train wreck. I wanted the series to be good. Season one fell so far short of what I expected that I prefer to think of it as badly written fan fiction created by people who wanted to grift off Tolkien's IP. But, hey-ho, it's just a TV show. You may not like that others don't like what you like, but such is life.
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Perhaps season two will turn things around by Celeborn waking from a really disturbing fever dream about what his wife has been up to while he's been inexplicably missing for centuries.
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