Comment on Peter Jackson Working on New ‘Lord of the Rings’ Films for Warner Bros., Targeting 2026 Debut
aleph@lemm.ee 6 months agoYeah, 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 6 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 6 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.