Technically, he had like 15 of them things.
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❝But they were all of them deceived, for another ring was made. In the land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron forged, in secret, a Ultra Master Ring™️ to control all others. And into this Ring he poured all his spare cruelty, his extra malice and his leftover will to dominate all life. An Extra Ring to rule them all.❞
"Now look at this hologram showing the original The One Ring. And now here's The Ultra Master Ring. You can see it's almost three times bigger than The One Ring."
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This is kind of the plot of the Shadow of War game, but that's just a non-cannon (I hope) video game, so it was fun
"Somehow, Palpatine has returned!" v2: LOTR Boogaloo
To be fair, the resistance being flabbergasted and in the dark at the return of their dead arch nemesis is actually quite reasonable. The return itself also harkens back to the prequels when Palpatine mentions Darth Plagueis.
The reason the Disney era movies are so underwhelming is a lack of soul and other writing blunders.
The movies feel like toddlers making up the story as they play with figurines.
Honestly, I'd rather them have let toddlers make up the story while playing with figurines. I was certainly coming up with better plotlines than what they shat out with the sequels when I was a kid.
Checklist movies. It becomes more important for the movie to have X element due to marketing reasons rather than plot reasons.
If the movie has more marketing elements than plot elements, it's a checklist movie.
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Oh no, it's a ring dyad!
Tolkien himself considered revisiting Middle Earth for a new "uprising", but discarded it because it didn't and probably couldn't recapture the magic. Plus it probably felt too much like reality.
IIRC, he began writing another installment set in the 4th age, but abandoned it, because now that the main evils were dealt with, all that was left to happen was the world of men betraying each other, and it very quickly became a boring, depressing tale that just didn't need to exist.
So basically he was going to write game of thrones? Although he may have actually finished it…
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"The New Shadow". He wrote about 13 pages and discarded the idea for reasons you mention.
Hollywood producers: "13 pages, you say? That's enough for a new trilogy!"
[laughs in Disney executive] “each page is enough for at least a 12 episode season of a one hour drama!”
And we can always add filler through nostalgia bait. For goodness sake, audiences still don't know where Aragorn got the boot he wore when kicking the helmet!
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"This won't work Sauron, I am all the Dunedaín !'
Probably would make more financial sense to Disney to just wait until it becomes public domain
I don't know man, the rate we're going 2044 ain't lookin too good...
They're gonna start again beginning with 1 AT
Lots of jewellery. Got to bring it all back to the old volcano. No fly zone for eagles, again. Damn.
One bracelet to rule them all. Two earrings to find them. A necklace to bind them. Maybe a fancy gold watch.
Perhaps a diadem? The ol HP-LOTR crossover?
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How is the last Rings of Power seasons? Haven't watched it yet
I'm not a Tolkien superfan, and for me it was mostly just kind of boring.
Also, this portrayal of Middle Earth seems to have very limited ontological inertia. Everything not on screen might as well not exist. Even the things that are shown feel static and shallow, like there isn't enough "stuff" to actually fill out the world and support the complex societies within.
It's a nice fan fiction with high production quality.
Story wise, it's as if trying to write the Silmarillion but only using characters from LOTR... It feels a bit flat.
They couldn't get the rights to the Silmarillion sadly. The only canon resources they're allowed to use are the appendices at the end of LOTR. I think they're doing a fantastic job with such limited material. The last two episodes are awesome.
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I’m trying to watch it in bits. I’ll watch for 20 minutes or so, then go do something interesting.
it was great. ill definitely watch the whole series again but ill probably torrent the thing because the amazon video player sucks ass.
I couldn’t make myself watch the last episode of season 1. There was a lot of eye-rolling and the story just didn’t really capture me.
The best scenes I can remember was the conversations between Elrond and the dwarf.
I feel the best advice is to simply watch it and try not to let online opinions sway you until after you've watched it.
I was dreading it, because I saw a lot of online voices saying it's genuinely the worst thing that has ever been on television. Surprisingly to me, I mostly enjoyed it, although I found season 2 to be stronger than season 1.
A few parts I didn't like, a couple of parts I mentally even groaned and thought "...why did they do that?", and some other parts I found great.
Controversial, but overall I've liked it more than parts 2 and 3 of The Hobbit without a doubt.
A lot of the "why did they do that" is explained by not having access to the Silmarillion. They only have the appendices from LOTR. For such crippling limitation I think they're doing a great job. I'm a lifelong LOTR-Silmarillion superfan, I say fuck the Tolkien estate.
The production quality? Fantastic and even better than season 1.
The story? I ended the last episode actually angry. I haven't been angry at a piece of media like this in a long time.
I really like the visuals and music. Otherwise, it's polarising to most people.
Yes, went into the first episode all giddy. That was the high point. Seemed to start dropping down after the prologue about Galadriel. I'd have to say that Bombadil is the low so far for me. Of many lows.
It does have a fascinating “how many times can this train keep wrecking” quality to it. I kind of hope the producers next turn The Room into a mini-series.
I just wish the dialogue and story-telling was better. I don't even mind (too much) the liberties they took with all the characters but it would've been more palatable if they'd done it nicely.
I'll still watch though. Although, I haven't rewatched most of the episodes.
Rewatchability is a great measure, isn't it? I've rewatched LotR and even some Hobbit scenes so many times. I don't have the desire to bother with this.
It is! I've rewatched only the first couple of episodes when the first season came out. I'm unable to rewatch anymore without getting angry at how badly they messed up most of it. LOL
S1 was alright for a LotR fanfic - so not that great. I didn't get to S2 yet but I heard it's not exactly going up in quality
Why is it so many fiction works that get expanded would do so much better if they just search out actual fanfic and pay those people for their imagination? Instead they get people who aren't invested in the world who do a halfass job that is "canon", yet so far off the mark.
Because actual fanfics are done by people that love the source material and wish to remain true to it.
Expanded works are done by people who want to: make changes for the sake of their own “artistic” originality, do what they think will make people watch it (doesn’t mean it has to be good), which are both tied to studio execs all wanting to push their pet version of whatever the product will be based on budget or ego.
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