Considering they’re taking that long, I’m surprised they didn’t make it September 22nd. Would have seemed appropriate being Bilbo’s & Frodo’s birthday.
The article says:
The Lord of the Rings TV series will be released on Friday 2nd September 2022 – which just so happens to be the birthday of hobbits Frodo and Bilbo Baggins aka Hobbit Day.
I would assume it’s a typo and it should be Sep 22 (although Sep 22, 2022 is a Thursday and Sep 2 is a Friday).
I saw the September 2, 2022 in another article, so maybe this author made a mistake? Not sure. It’s minor, but I hope it is September 22.
I saw that date (the 2nd) on three different sites. I thought I heard the 22nd on a video, but I couldn’t find it again to double-check.
An Australian comedian summarizes LOTR; maybe they’ll draw on his observations (which are NSFW) in developing the prequel series:
The series title has been revealed. It is Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
This seems to tell us a lot about which part of the 2nd age is going to be emphasized.
Here is the 1:00 video on Twitter:
One Show to rule them all, One Show to find them,
One Show to bring them all and to in the dorkness bind them
On the Stream of Bezos where the Dollars lie.
Wiki’s got a pretty long article already: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - Wikipedia
They certainly do. They reveal some significant re-castings among lead roles after filming of several episodes had completed, presumably requiring some re-shooting of some scenes in those episodes. I don’t know if that’s good news or not. It can certainly eat up a budget.
23 character posters of Rings of Power have been released, mostly focused on hands and what the hands are holding (some aren’t holding anything). You can see them here.
For some reason I am pleased to see that a few of the characters displayed appear to be farmers or something similar, with dirt on their hands and holding something other than a weapon. No real clue (except for the last one) who the exact characters are.
The upper left and center look to be Dwarves to me. Shouldn’t Nenya be in Galadriel’s hand, I think she has been it’s only bearer.
Brian
Very cool! Thanks for posting that.
Vanity Fair has a big article out today, with pictures, character names, and plot points.
I’m skeptical. I’ll watch it, of course, but I think they went charging off in the wrong direction. If I was show-runner I’d spend a few hundred million just on telling the story of Numenor, with Elendil as the hero and Ar-Pharazon as the villain, climaxing in the Downfall and the bending of the world.
So Elrond has “political ambitions” now…
I have a really bad feeling about this…
I like the cut of your jib, jsc!
Which hand/ring is Nenya in that ? I think Celebrimbor had it to start, but not for long?
Just read the article - very interesting, and some great pics. Thanks, jsc. Not sure about casting people of color in the show, given the time and setting of Tolkien’s mythos, but I hope they do well in their roles. I’ll also admit I’d never heard of these before: Intimacy coordinator - Wikipedia
I wonder if we’ll meet whoever was buried in the mound where Tom Bombadil rescued the hobbits. Because the occupant was a long-vanquished foe of the WK whose long knife Merry used to sorely injure the Witch-King.
For that matter, will we see the simultaneous rise and fall of The Nine as they conquer their foes while becoming slaves of Sauron? Is the WK’s original name known? Or anything other than he was the king of Angmar?
I did raise an eyebrow momentarily. But it’s like having a black Santa Claus: sure, that’s not how we picture him…but on the other hand: why not? Tolkien never described anyone’s skin color explicitly anyway, other than that the elves were “fair”. Could just mean they’re good looking.
Note that they have a female dwarf - with no beard.
And don’t we know this will overwhelm everything else about the show in the twittersphere and such places.
Elrond and Galadriel seem very different personalities than the ones we met in LotR, but I’m okay with that when I remember how almost impossibly old they are by then. They must have grown and changed and matured during those thousands of years.
I have to say, though, that the photo of the two of them meeting again in Lindon is oddly erotic, considering that she is (or will be) his mother-in-law.