This would be impossible without Amazon's new approach, and as revenue-driven as the initial decision to deviate from Tolkien's text might be, fans will ultimately be better off for it. It has to be enjoyable, watchable, and – above all – tell a cohesive story. Expectations aside, Amazon is a business, and The Rings of Power is a product.
#My story isn t over yet ring series
Amazon's goal isn't to make a dry series that keeps a few dozen Silmarillion traditionalists happy - they want to make a LOTR series that rivals Game of Thronesand makes the Middle-Earth IP a profitable franchise again. It's more a textbook than a story, and despite what some staunch advocates of Tolkien purity believe, it wouldn't make for good viewing.Īmazon's approach might hone in, deviate, and then build upon The Silmarillion and Tolkien's appendices in ways portions of the fanbase find hard to swallow, but it's for a good reason.
There's a reason the book has gained a reputation as being nigh-impenetrable by all but the most devout Tolkien scholars.
Amazon could make a direct adaptation of The Silmarillion, but it would be boring – bordering on unwatchable.
#My story isn t over yet ring movie
Because of Peter Jackson's skill as a movie director, on-screen Tolkien adaptations have to be good movies or shows in their own right. Faithfulness to the source material is only one side of the coin now. Jackson's six movies were well-received overall, but they also meant that LOTR fans have even greater expectations in the 2020s. Amazon is without a doubt taking a gamble – the LOTR fandom is one of the world's oldest and already had diehard purists decades before Jackson was even born, let alone when The Fellowship of the Ring was released in 2001. Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is taking a completely different approach than Peter Jackson in how it's adapting J.R.R. The Rings of Power is, in all truth, adapting only a tiny fraction of The Silmarillion, but it's expanding that tiny fraction into a fully fleshed out and almost completely new story, similar to 300's approach with the real-life Battle of Thermopylae. The Rings of Power's trailers show that Amazon has added much to Middle-Earth's canon where its characters are concerned, with a very different Galadriel now dubbed "Commander of the Northern Armies" and a host of new faces such as Halbrand, Disa, and Arondir. He also didn't mention many individuals beyond Kings, Queens, and commanders of armies. Tolkien had provided them with the dates, times, and events, but little was known about who characters like Isildur, Elrond, and Galadriel are as people. Tolkien doesn't cover Middle-earth's Second Age in anywhere near the same minute detail as The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, so while Peter Jackson had a detailed blueprint to work from, Amazon had more of an uphill challenge. That's especially true considering the volume of new material The Rings of Power is conjuring up. Tolkien’s writing, including the infamously difficult-to-read Silmarillion. Here’s everything you need to know about how Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power as adapting J.R.R. This is all set to change with Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power though, which will for the first time show the rise and fall of Sauron in the Second Age from the perspective of the people of Middle-Earth, rather than as a deep-yet-detached synopsis of historical events. Tolkien has written in broad strokes about these events and how they fit into the Middle-Earth chronology, but never before has Middle-Earth’s Second Age been explored with the same level of personal character-driven intimacy as the events of the Third (i.e The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings). As the title suggests, Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power tells the story of Sauron’s ascendency to the Dark Lord of Mordor, forging the rings of power, and (most importantly) the creation of The One Ring.
This period has been glimpsed on-screen before, in the Lord of the Rings flashback scenes depicting the final battle between Sauron and the alliance of Men and Elves. The Rings of Power shall cover the ending of the Second Age of Middle-Earth. Related: Who Is Speaking In The Rings Of Power Teaser Trailer
0 kommentar(er)
