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 5 months ago
But do it properly this time. No Wizards or Hobbits in the Second Age, thank you very much.
maegul@lemmy.ml 5 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 5 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.
maegul@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Oh yea. I loudly groaned when it happened. My partner watching with me isn’t as much of a LoTR nerd as I do I had to explain it to them I was so loud.
I’m actually still hoping that it was a bit of a fun tease and even a way to test the waters with the fan base on whether they should make it Gandalf. It’d be perfectly fine and even a little fun if it’s a “nice” wizard thing to say and think given that bodies and smells might be entirely new to maiar.
morphballganon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Uh, weren’t the blue wizards around in the 2nd age?
aleph@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Nope. Canonically, the blue wizards arrived around the same time as their more famous brothers, early in the Third Age.
morphballganon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
According to tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Blue_Wizards the later writings retconned this, and they arrived in Middle-Earth around the same time as Glorfindel.