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ORIGINAL: estebanana

It’s an odd situation, the Tolkien estate and living heirs retained the rights to the Silmarillion, the book which outlines the ages of Middle Earth before the popular LOTR films. But the Amazon series consulted with the Tolkien estate and heirs for R of P, and it’s based on other collections of stories about ME and parts of the Silmarillion.

I like it, and I have read the books, but I’ve also heard very hardcore opinions against it. The analogy I would make of these opinions is that Amazon ruined Tolkien intent with the same level of destruction Rosalia brings to dissing flamenco. I’m not so critical of the Amazon production, but framing it for comparison with the much heavier cultural damage to flamenco with Rosalia making a mockery of cante, you get a feeling for the scope of how much some Tolkien aficionados hate it.

I’m looking forward to next weeks episode.

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Imagine that when you look at Cate Blanchett next time.

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Although Bombadil was a massive oversight and an important part of the story line.

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The nerds may or may not be correct on the Ishtar being Gandalf. There are five wizards in total and two of them are sent to middle earth during this time in the second age. I wouldn’t put a pin in it that it’s the Big G just yet.

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These hard foot folk are obvious precursors to the hobbits. I assume they are also a new invention outside of the Tolkien books?

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Before the crossing of the [Misty] mountains the Hobbits had already become divided into three somewhat different breeds: Harfoots, Stoors, and Fallohides. The Harfoots were browner of skin [hence the opportunity for diversity in casting], smaller, and shorter, and they were beardless and bootless [etc.]

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This moth was drawn to land near me. In whispers I told her to summon the eagles to the kremlin and claw out Sauron’s eyes and liver.

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нехай так і буде!

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ORIGINAL: RobF

Is it necessary to watch The Hobbit in order to appreciate the Rings of Power? I sat through the first hobbit movie last night in preparation but I honestly don’t know if I could subject myself to six more hours. Probably faster if I read The Hobbit instead. But is it even necessary for the storyline? If not I’ll skip The Hobbit and move right into the series.

P.S. I have seen The Lord of the Ring movies, and I think I read about halfway through the books when I was younger, but it was so long ago I don’t have any recollection of many details. In that respect, it probably doesn’t matter that much what I do.

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It’s not necessary to read the Hobbit to get into the ROP.

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Knowing that the Sauron Eye was invented for the film version of LOTR …

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Down a long flight of steps the Lady went into a deep green hollow, through which ran murmuring the silver stream that issued from the fountain on the hill. At the bottom, upon a low pedestal carved like a branching tree, stood a basin of silver, and beside it stood a silver ewer.

With water from the stream Galadriel filled the basin to the brim, and breathed on it, and when the water was still again she spoke. ‘Here is the Mirror of Galadriel,’ she said. ‘I have brought you here so that you may look in it, if you will.’

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But suddenly the Mirror went altogether dark, as dark as if a hole had opened in the world of sight, and Frodo looked into emptiness. In the black Abyss there appeared a single Eye that slowly grew, until it filled nearly all the Mirror. So terrible was it that Frodo stood rooted, unable to cry out or to withdraw his gaze. The Eye was rimmed with fire, but was itself glazed, yellow as a cat’s, watchful and intent, and the black slit of its pupil open on a pit, a window into nothing.

Then the Eye began to rove, searching this way and that; and Frodo knew with certainty and horror that among the many things that it sought he himself was one.

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ORIGINAL: estebanana



My question then is, without revealing spoilers:
Rings of Power, interesting non Tolkien sequenced extension of his tale telling, or crappy abomination?