Is it time for a Middle Earth TV series?

[Morpheus 02]

ABC should continue to capitalize on Shonda Rhimes. ad create a Hobbit Sequel/ LotR prequel.

"How to Get Away with Mordor"

 

[Skywalker]

The first idea that comes to mind is a series covering Aragorn's early years and his adventures across Middle-earth between The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. But I'd rather see that done in a movie (or two).

 

[Mr Light]

If they had to do it, first of all I wouldn't try to portray an ancient golden age time of Elves or Numenoreans (budget).

I would either do A) the Dunedain versus the Witch King of Angmar in the North, or b) a post-ROTK series about King Aragorn ruling Gondor.

This got me thinking, is there any canon future history for LOTR? We know the Hobbits and Elves and Dwarves just kinda go away leaving only Men, but did JRRT ever reveal what the next major war was or anything like that?

I know he started writing an LOTR sequel about a Sauron worshiping cult of Men in Gondor but quickly abandoned it...

 

[Gaith]

ABC should continue to capitalize on Shonda Rhimes. ad create a Hobbit Sequel/ LotR prequel.

"How to Get Away with Mordor"

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[Ar-Pharazon]

How about the Middle Earth equivalent of Camelot 3000?

 

[Allyn Gibson]

This got me thinking, is there any canon future history for LOTR? We know the Hobbits and Elves and Dwarves just kinda go away leaving only Men, but did JRRT ever reveal what the next major war was or anything like that?

Short of the Tale of Years chronology in Return of the King, no, there's nothing canonical about the Fourth Age.

(Though I hesitate to use the word "canon" in connection with Tolkien's work. Even after publication he revised The Hobbit. The Silmarillion never reached any finished form. I look at Middle-Earth now, including Unfinished Tales and HoME as a collection of myths and stories in the Norse style that generally fit together but may vary in the details based on who is telling the story. Tolkien, given his academic work, would have responded positively to such an approach.)

Beyond that, I may be misremembering, but I believe that Tolkien said World War II was the end of the Seventh Age. Given that, the next major war in Middle-Earth may be something historical.

I know he started writing an LOTR sequel about a Sauron worshiping cult of Men in Gondor but quickly abandoned it...

"The New Shadow." Set during the reign of Aragorn's grandson, if memory serves. (It's been a number of years since I read it.)

 

[Set Harth]

It's Aragorn's son Eldarion, I think.

 

[Mr Light]

Funny side note; as a little kid reading LOTR... I thought "Middle Earth" meant that the stories took place inside the Earth in a vast empty cavern and their ceiling was the Earth's crust.

 

[Set Harth]

I don't think you were the only one. A long time ago I once saw a cartoon ( not Tolkien-related ) that used the term "middle-earth" to mean precisely that.

 

[Gaith]

Beyond that, I may be misremembering, but I believe that Tolkien said World War II was the end of the Seventh Age. Given that, the next major war in Middle-Earth may be something historical.

So, what you're saying is... technically... McHale's Navy was a Middle-Earth show.

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[137th Gebirg]

Funny side note; as a little kid reading LOTR... I thought "Middle Earth" meant that the stories took place inside the Earth in a vast empty cavern and their ceiling was the Earth's crust.

I thought the exact same thing. As for a series? Nah...let it rest. The tale has been told. No need to cheapen it with "Tolkien-lite" that could never hold up to the original.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Beyond that, I may be misremembering, but I believe that Tolkien said World War II was the end of the Seventh Age. Given that, the next major war in Middle-Earth may be something historical.

So, what you're saying is... technically... McHale's Navy was a Middle-Earth show.

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Hah. Very good.

And I was misremembering. Tolkien believed that there were roughly 6,000 years between the fall of Sauron and World War II, and in a 1958 letter he believed we were living at the beginning of the Seventh Age.