Yo! one rahng ta rule dem all
one rahng ta fahnd dem
one rahng ta brahng dem all a'
ahn da darkness bahnd dem
WORD!
Posted on 02/11/2022 2:21:17 PM PST by Drew68
In a first-look profile of Amazon’s eagerly anticipated The Lord of the Rings TV series, The Rings of Power, the project’s creative team had some words about online trolls who have been outraged that the show will feature a far more diverse cast than Peter Jackson’s trilogy of films.
“It felt only natural to us that an adaptation of [author J.R.R.] Tolkien’s work would reflect what the world actually looks like,” executive producer Lindsey Weber told Vanity Fair, which also published several new photos from the series. “Tolkien is for everyone. His stories are about his fictional races doing their best work when they leave the isolation of their own cultures and come together.”
Added Tolkien scholar Mariana Rios Maldonado, “Who are these people that feel so threatened or disgusted by the idea that an elf is Black or Latino or Asian?”
The story follows the Second Age of Middle-earth’s history and includes storylines about an elf named Arondir, played by Ismael Cruz Córdova — the first person of color to play a Tolkien elf onscreen — and a dwarven princess named Disa, played by Sophia Nomvete — the franchise’s first female dwarf, as well as the first Black woman to play a LOTR dwarf. In addition, there are familiar characters such as younger versions of elven favorites Galadriel (Morfydd Clark) and Elrond (Robert Aramayo).
Two types of beloved characters have been restricted from the series, however: Wizards and hobbits, “who weren’t major players in the Second Age.” The production will still have hobbits, of a sort, by including hobbit ancestors called harfoots, but they will have a peripheral story “in the margins of the bigger quests.”
Major settings in the show include the dwarf mines of the Misty Mountains (at the height of its glory before it fell into darkness and ruin), the elven kingdom of Lindon, and the island of Númenor. There are more new details about the series in the VF profile.
The news comes as Amazon prepares to unleash its teaser trailer for The Rings of Power during Sunday’s telecast of Super Bowl LVI.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power follows the forging of the original rings of power that allowed the Dark Lord Sauron to spread darkness across Middle-earth.
According to Amazon, the show “brings to screens for the very first time the heroic legends of the fabled Second Age of Middle-earth’s history. This epic drama is set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings and will take viewers back to an era in which great powers were forged, kingdoms rose to glory and fell to ruin, unlikely heroes were tested, hope hung by the finest of threads, and the greatest villain that ever flowed from Tolkien’s pen threatened to cover all the world in darkness. Beginning in a time of relative peace, the series follows an ensemble cast of characters, both familiar and new, as they confront the long-feared reemergence of evil to Middle-earth. From the darkest depths of the Misty Mountains, to the majestic forests of the elf-capital of Lindon, to the breathtaking island kingdom of Númenor, to the furthest reaches of the map, these kingdoms and characters will carve out legacies that live on long after they are gone.”
The production was mainly filmed in New Zealand. Then last fall, it was announced production was moving to the U.K.
The ensemble cast includes Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Robert Aramayo, Owain Arthur, Maxim Baldry, Nazanin Boniadi, Morfydd Clark, Ismael Cruz Córdova, Charles Edwards, Trystan Gravelle, Sir Lenny Henry, Ema Horvath, Markella Kavenagh, Joseph Mawle, Tyroe Muhafidin, Sophia Nomvete, Lloyd Owen, Megan Richards, Dylan Smith, Charlie Vickers, Leon Wadham, Benjamin Walker, Daniel Weyman and Sara Zwangobani.
The debut season of LOTR will premiere Friday, Sept. 2, on Prime Video and will air in 240 territories around the world. New episodes will be rolled out on a weekly basis.
Amazon is already stinging from he rocky start of their multi-hundred million dollar "A Wheel of Time" series that was supposed to carry the streaming network as their flagship program for the next seven season. Not only is it woke but worse than that, it's dull and looks cheap.
There's a fear that their LOTR will suffer the same fate; too woke, too dull, ignorant of the source material, and contemptuous towards Tolkien fans.
what the world actually looks like
The world, in this case is Middle Earth...it was pretty much described in the books...
It’s like all those movies and TV shows the commies used to broadcast behind the old Iron Curtain. Nothing but state agitprop. Nobody enjoyed them, not even the party hardliners.
They all knew that real entertainment came from the Free World, before it became saturated with “woke” virtue signaling.
Now I find more entertainment watching shows from foreign countries that don’t preach to me. They just present humanity the way it is and unbridled comedy the way it should be.
If I wanted what the world looks like, I’d stick my head out the window. (I don’t.)
Ping
“Who are these people that feel so threatened or disgusted by the idea that an elf is Black or Latino or Asian?”
They’re called fans.
Yo! one rahng ta rule dem all
one rahng ta fahnd dem
one rahng ta brahng dem all a'
ahn da darkness bahnd dem
WORD!
I quit Wheel of Time about Ep 5. It was long on CGI and short on plot and characters of any interest.
LOTR. I tried to watch one of the movies, but lost interest. I read The Hobbit decades ago, but never read the LOTR series.
It’s only natural to remain true to the story line in the book and not co-opt it to try to skim a profit off the work.
I hope they lose their shirts on this.
So groups of slaves in Civil War-era movies should include asian and white people? Okay, sure.
Sounds like its guaranteed to have lots of homos and lesbians - will it include bestiality also? Inquiring minds and all.
Women will, of course, take hardened warriors down like flies, killed in seconds by the dozen. Especially the midget women. Everyone wants to look ‘up’ to midget women as heroines .... sure.
“contemptuous towards Tolkien fans” and Tolkien. The story takes place 10s of thousands of years ago, so why would it reflect modern races and cultures? It will bomb big time. Amazon should tremble and shake with fear - we had it with the woke crap.
Mess with the best, get messed up.
I’m sure Tolkien would be down for some Hip-Hop graffiti artists in Middle Earth.
There hasn’t been any good unique movies or TV shows that have come out since at least 2005.
What made LOTR create fans was it’s adherence to the original novels. Deviate from that and this will fail.
Amazon to the viewing public: You will eat your crap sandwich and LIKE IT.
Can’t wait to see how they address the black speech.
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Don’t forget the immortal :
Dindunuffin
Snot me, I wernt there.
Iz telln the truff
Dennis Prager said it best: the left ruins everything it touches.
I got through ep 4 and quit. Same as you. Dull and woke as hell.
Don’t they though. I can’t watch football, the Olympics, NASCAR, etc.....
But yet, Amazon is wiling to part ways with US$1 billion on such a project. Why? Becuase that’s a monetary rounding error for a company of that size.
4chan's memesmiths have already gone to work.
Right. I remember how loudly the usual suspects bitched when they decided the Orks looked too black.
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