No, it is based off of appendices. From the show runners: So what did Amazon buy? “We have the rights solely to The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King, the appendices, and The Hobbit,” Payne says. “And that is it. We do not have the rights to The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, The History of Middle-earth, or any of those other books.” That takes a huge chunk of lore off the table and has left Tolkien fans wondering how this duo plans to tell a Second Age story without access to those materials. “There’s a version of everything we need for the Second Age in the books we have the rights to,” McKay says. “As long as we’re painting within those lines and not egregiously contradicting something we don’t have the rights to, there’s a lot of leeway and room to dramatize and tell some of the best stories that [Tolkien] ever came up with.”
You're on tinman's @ list ... you know you're part of the clique now. It's like a bat signal for weirdos. Congrats.
Interesting. So basically rather than follow an actual canon they just got some rights and then decided they can do what ever.
That’s only because you have not accepted the Light of the Two Trees and the wisdom of the Valar in your heart. Your soul has been turned to the darkness of Morgoth!
It’s a good ****ing show the same nerds that made the overall respectable prequels Star Wars a nightmare (even for the little kid that plays a akin and now has psychotic issues) are bringing their bs in here “not invested in the characters” were 2 episodes in FFS. even the original LOTR is impossible to be invested in this early
That’s like if they got the rights to the Hakeem Olajuwon story and got Chet Holmgren to play him @Jontro
I hate how it has become "racist" or "misogynistic" to criticize a show these days because there happens to be prominent characters that are women or POC throughout. Of course there is a constituent of these fedora wearing incels who review bomb stuff for this very reason, but I don't think it is significant enough to sway the majority opinion. The show was a slow burn for me, and honestly felt like a chore to get through the first two episodes (very similar to watching the Hobbit flicks). I am not giving up on it just yet, but it feels like fan-fiction. Am I wrong for feeling this way?
I think it's too early to tell. Might take some time to really pull viewers in to the world they are creating. I think LOTR and the GoT series did a great job of that right from the opening shots. But I experienced those works fresh, without having much background knowledge about the stories.
Well it sure seems like a show not worth your time is taking up a lot of your time in this thread. Since the show is not worth your precioussss time, I'm guessing future posts from you about the show will be based upon you not having watched much of the show?
That first episode was so bad, it took me 3 rounds to watch it. The new hobbits aka the harfoots look like theme park people
