Comment on Peter Jackson Working on New ‘Lord of the Rings’ Films for Warner Bros., Targeting 2026 Debut
maegul@lemmy.ml 5 months agoI 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.
aleph@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Yeah, the potential is there for another audience fakeout, but I think it’s highly unlikely. Their target demographic is a mass audience who enjoyed the Jackson movies but aren’t necessarily hardcore fans of the books. To these fans, as you said, a blue wizard would be too much of a head-scratcher.