Looks like fun to me.
Rings of Power S3/Hunt for Gollum Anticipation and JRR Tolkien Discussion thread
So, I guess Sauron will be defeated and taken back to Numenor in chains in the final episode this season, then next season, Sauron will corrupt Ar-Pharazon, and Numenor will build its fleet and attempt to take Valinor, with the final episode of the season ending with Elendil the Tall and the Numenor refugees reaching Middle-earth as the Valar make the world round. Then, the fifth and final season is the build up to the War of the Last Alliance and its aftermath.
Sounds pretty likely to me.
Maxim Baldry is back, I wonder why he wasn't included in any of the cast lists.
Nice, the trailers and featurettes look awesome to me.
Purists will hate it again and everybody else will enjoy it just like it was since the show started.
I will very likely enjoy it, i love the epicness they show in the episodes even if it breaks or circumvents official "canon".
Purists will hate it again and everybody else will enjoy it just like it was since the show started.
I will very likely enjoy it, i love the epicness they show in the episodes even if it breaks or circumvents official "canon".
It's not that black-and-white.
I keep unfortunately falling further and further behind in my quest to finish rewatching Season 2 before the 13th of next month (yes, I know the show is releasing on the 11th, but I watch Prime Video shows on Fridays) and am not sure what to do.
It basically is, at least for me.
It comes down to if you are willing to accept that the show makes adaptations while trying to stay true to the core of Tolkien's work ( whatever it is, it seems fans even disagree on this part) or if you want a 1:1 transfer where even the leaves on the trees are the correct size and shape. I'm exaggerating of course but it's the everlasting conflict between people who won't allow even the slightest deviations vs. people who just want to be entertained by a show taking place in a familiar universe where they enjoy familiar names and events appear and see it play out in live action instead of their imagination.
This is coming next month?! I thought it wasn't coming out until next spring.
Yup. I use to be extremely black and white on adaptations. Films like Starship Troopers bothered the shit out of me. Then I had friends who studied film and encouraged me to look at adaptations more. I studied literature and made peace with not needing one to one on screen.
Sometimes in rare cases i do object though.
One of my favorite books is Noah Gordon's The Physician ( Middle Ages England born young boy discovers he has a unique gift to sense the health and impending death of people that sets him on a path to travel to Isfahan in Persia to study medicine from the world greatest doctor in a prestigious medical academy) and its movie adaptation was simply atrocious because it didn't respect the core of the story.
Then there's Villeneuve's Dune movie series, another favorite book of mine, that omits several popular scenes and also important parts of the book and changes others including characters but respects the core and the theme of the book in a way that turns these movies into faithful adaptations of the books ( can't wait to see the conclusion in December).
I do as well. But, part of that process is recognizing does that change serve the larger story, like in Dune. Other stories miss the mark but are ok in other ways, Starship Troopers.
With Rings of Power it's more a continuation of Jackson's overall ideas of Middle Earth, rather than the an exact replica of Tolkien's legendarium.
