The Lord of the Rings - Second Age - Amazon Prime

[pogopossum]

Jeff Bezos decision to have the cast of the new LOTR each get a ring with a remote that tracks their biorythms and use of the internet seems a little extreme even for him.
As does the production or a control unit that his techies made to connect to the rings & monitor (rule?) them all.

 

[BAYLOR]

Jeff Bezos decision to have the cast of the new LOTR each get a ring with a remote that tracks their biorythms and use of the internet seems a little extreme even for him.
As does the production or a control unit that his techies made to connect to the rings & monitor (rule?) them all.

One Tech Ring to rule them all .

 

[BAYLOR]

It has possibilities.

 

[Dave]

Jeff Bezos decision to have the cast of the new LOTR each get a ring with a remote that tracks their biorythms and use of the internet seems a little extreme even for him.
As does the production or a control unit that his techies made to connect to the rings & monitor (rule?) them all.

Was this something announced last Friday by any chance? On Friday 1st April? In the morning?

 

[Vladd67]

This is the problem with news on the internet, I was briefly annoyed on Saturday to read about a Doctor Who reboot that would disregard 50 years of back story. Then I noticed the story was a day old. In a way it reminds me of the tv programme and book concerning secret plans to take scientists to a moonbase on the far side of the moon, this was obviously an April fool's joke but years later people discovered the book second hand out of context and a new conspiracy theory was born.

 

[ctg]

Exclusive First Look at the Orcs From Prime Video's The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - IGN

Check out our exclusive first look at the Orcs in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, along with an interview with one of the executive producers and head of the production department.

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orcs in the silmarillion?

 

[ctg]

while there’s still no trailer yet for the show, a handful of other noteworthy details about the series have been released since its announcement. Perhaps the most startling? That the total price tag for the first season of the show is estimated to come in at $450 million. (By comparison, a season of “Game of Thrones” was estimated to cost $90 million, or about $15 million an episode.) According to New Zealand publication Stuff, the amount was ascertained by the NZ$160 million tax credit the production will receive for filming in the country. To receive a tax credit of that amount, the budget is estimated to come in at just shy of half a billion American dollars.

‘The Lord of the Rings’: Everything You Need to Know About Amazon’s Big Money Adaptation

Amazon has kept news about "The Lord of the Rings" as quiet as possible, but IndieWire has compiled a list of the must-know details.

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In July 2018, it was announced that writing duo JD Payne and Patrick McKay would develop “The Lord of the Rings” for Amazon, serving as the series’ executive producers and showrunners. While it was a big move forward in terms of the series’ development, this particular news was a shock, especially because of the scale of the series. Prior to the news, Payne and McKay’s IMDB pages were empty, save for their uncredited writing job on “Star Trek Beyond.” But Star Trek” producer J.J. Abrams was reportedly one of a number of high-profile producers who recommended Payne and McKay for the position.

Since then, Payne and McKay have also written the screenplay for “Untitled Star Trek Sequel,” as well as an earlier draft of the “Flash Gordon” feature film, and the upcoming “Jungle Cruise” film starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. To the casual or super fan observer, there is still nothing visibly tangible under the duo’s belts. But they have written plenty of unproduced screenplays and have been writing together since their high school debate club days in 1997. While fans may not know Payne and McKay yet, people in the industry do—and Amazon found their work strong enough to be put in charge of such a major property.

J.A. Bayona (“The Orphanage,” “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom”) will serve as director for the series’ first two episodes. He’ll also be credited as an executive producer, alongside his producing partner Belén Atienza.

In addition to Payne, McKay, Bayona, and Atienza, here is the rest of the creative team behind Amazon’s “The Lord of the Rings”: executive producers Lindsey Weber (“10 Cloverfield Lane”), Bruce Richmond (“Game of Thrones”), Gene Kelly (“Boardwalk Empire”), and Amazon’s former head of genre programming Sharon Tal Yguado; writer and executive producer Gennifer Hutchison (“Breaking Bad”); writer and executive producer Jason Cahill (“The Sopranos”); writer and executive producer Justin Doble (“Stranger Things”); consulting producers Bryan Cogman (“Game of Thrones”) and Stephany Folsom (“Toy Story 4”); producer Ron Ames (“The Aviator”); writer and co-producer Helen Shang (“Hannibal”); and writing consultant Glenise Mullins.

According to Amazon Studios chief Jennifer Salke, the writers room is “working under lock and key: “They’re already generating really exciting material. They’re down in Santa Monica. You have to go through such clearance, and they have all their windows taped closed. And there’s a security guard that sits outside, and you have to have a fingerprint to get in there, because their whole board is up on a thing of the whole season.”

Man, fingerprints, blocked windows, security guards. Are they writing in a prison?

 

[Droflet]

Fair enough. Scripts have a habit of being leaked.

 

[farntfar]

A few more clues as to what's going to be included.

I was watching the teasers and noticed that, as they do on Amazon Prime Video, if you move your cursor over to the left it gives you the characters on show with a link to the actor's history.
So from the teasers we can see that some of the characters who will appear are:

Bronwyn. An female elf I think. Posibly Sindar
Arondir. A male elf
Elrond. Seems very young, but I suppose he was born at the end of the 1st age.
Prince Durin IV. Dwarfish
Galadriel. Also seems very young. She was born much earlier. So less excuse than Elrond.
High King Gil-Galad He seems rather older than Elrond???
Sadoc Burrows. A hobbit (Lenny Henry)
Disa. Female but I not sure what race
Halbrand. A man
Elanor Brandyfoot. A hobbit. (A shame they've gone for Elanor. I understand the reference, but surely Sam brought home the name from Rohan. So an anachronism.)

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

Elanor Brandyfoot. A hobbit. (A shame they've gone for Elanor. I understand the reference, but surely Sam brought home the name from Rohan. So an anachronism.)

From Lothlorien, wasn't it? Sam never went to Rohan.

 

[farntfar]

Ah. You're right Teresa. I was thinking of the flowers on the burial mounds of Rohan (*). But that was Symbelmyne or something.
I think Sam must have been there for the burial of Theoden though not before. (Probably unmentioned in the text.)

It might have been an odd thing to name your daughter after as well. Sam was never a goth.

And still an unlikely name for a hobbit in the second age. Maybe she a hobbit from Smeagol's home area, which wasn't far away from Lorien.

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

I think you are right that it would be an odd name for a second age Hobbit (or a Stoor) because even if they lived nearby I doubt interaction with Elves such as to know what they called the yellow flowers in the Sindarin language.

 

[farntfar]

No. Really I meant it would be odd to name your firstborn daughter after a flower found only on funeral mounds.
But I think your right about the other too.

Also the last name Brandyfoot is clearly meant to sound Shireish, even if actually a horrid contraction of Brandybuck and Proudfoot.

 

[HareBrain]

Also the last name Brandyfoot is clearly meant to sound Shireish, even if actually a horrid contraction of Brandybuck and Proudfoot.

It could arise naturally if they kept treading grapes for way too long.

 

[Dave]

It could arise naturally if they kept treading grapes for way too long.

Too many hairs in the wine!

 

[farntfar]

I went to see an exhibition about Michelangelo's paintings in the Sistine chapel yesterday.
Everyone he painted, except for a couple of the more petite Sibyls had colossal feet. But not hairy.

 

[Ian Fortytwo]

The trailers for this series look good. I'll certainly watch it and see what's it like.

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

Since it will be on Amazon Prime, and thus free to me as a subscriber to the service, I will certainly give the first episode or so a chance, but as time goes on and I learn more about the series I become less optimistic.

The thing about trailers and other publicity materials for something like this is that they are supposed to contain some of the best parts, the things that make you eager to see the final product, and while I've so far seen nothing to absolutely put me off, there has been nothing to make me excited about the project either. If these are the best parts, then how uninspiring will the rest be, I ask myself.

Although to be fair, I'm not sure these are the best parts. I get the impression that what we have seen so far is a mish mash of what they had at the time, sort of all thrown together. That whoever is handling the publicity is doing such an poor job of it does not bode well, but on the other hand might not be truly representative of the actual creative team.

So as I said, since I can watch it for free, I'll wait and see.

 

[farntfar]

I got the impression that we were being given a selection of the best scenery rather than the most interesting events. For instance, in this last one we seem to see a whole lot of characters of various races watching a meteor cross the sky. But I doubt that in many of the cases where Gil-Galad, or Elanor or whoever are looking up, are they actually watching the meteor. (Which is possibly the arrival of the stone of Erech or something, so probably of limited importance, unless they make it into some great sign from ERU.)

There's really very little action in the teasers, just some good locations.
PS Free is a good word in your first sentence Teresa. Even IBM salesmen of old refused to use the word. NSC they would call things like specialist modules in their operating systems. Not Separately Chargeable.

 

[paranoid marvin]

I'm really not sure who this tv series is for. It's missed the peak interest with the movies, and the clamour for fantasy in general doesn't seem to be as much as when GoT was at its height. It's also likely to be competing against the prequel to GoT. For fans of Tolkien and the age before the period in which LOTR is set, its far more likely to annoy with its inconsistences, inaccuracies and misrepresentations than it is to please them. I may be wrong on that last point, but judging by the artistic licence given to Jackson in the movies, I think I'm more likely to be right than wrong.

Personally, I would have preferred to have had a tv series set just after Frodo and Gandalf have set sail for the Grey Havens, and Sam has returned to his home. But we shall see.