The Rings of Power’s, hopefully
Comment on Peter Jackson Working on New ‘Lord of the Rings’ Films for Warner Bros., Targeting 2026 Debut
Blaze@reddthat.com 6 months ago
Wait, which timeframe are they going to cover?
MelastSB@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
aleph@lemm.ee 6 months ago
But do it properly this time. No Wizards or Hobbits in the Second Age, thank you very much.
maegul@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
I was ok with the wizard, just don’t make it Gandalf for nostalgia, stick to the blue wizards as that’s actually canon and interesting and expansive to the law.
I’m pretty sure the rings of power writers thought they could easily get away with combining the blue wizards with Gandalf, but I think it’s just too confusing for regular fans and too wrong for nerds.
A new wizard though, one mentioned by Gandalf in films? That can work!
aleph@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Yeah, same. The blue wizards would have been doable from a lore perspective, and would have been a nice addition seeing as they have so little known about them. But no, the RoP writers had to had to have their Gandalf + Hobbit to fill their nostalgia quota, of course.
When they had the “always followed your nose” “reveal” , that was the final nail in the RoP coffin for me.
morphballganon@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Uh, weren’t the blue wizards around in the 2nd age?
aleph@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Nope. Canonically, the blue wizards arrived around the same time as their more famous brothers, early in the Third Age.
maegul@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
That’s kinda what I’d heard as a rumour elsewhere, that this is in part being pushed by Amazon doing the rings of power.
Who owns what rights though?
If Warner Bros own rights to the Silmarillion, then this gets interesting and they’ve got my attention.
Sure the hobbit was money grabbing trash, but the Silmarillion is fantasy in the end (so yay) and not something easily stretched out into garbage as it poses the opposite challenge like LotR. Could work out.
aleph@lemm.ee 6 months ago
The project is named The Hunt for Gollum, which implies it will be in the Third Age, between the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
In the books, Gandalf mentioned that he and Aragorn tracked Gollum after he escaped captivity from the elves of Mirkwood and that they pursued him for quite some time.