TV: The Rings of Power
Mar. 13th, 2022 07:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nineveh_ukIt's hard to believe it is 21 years since the release of the film of The Fellowship of the Ring. I was so excited, reading theonering.net, buying film magazines for photos, and hoping desperately that it wouldn't be a disaster. It wasn't. There are flaws in the trilogy, particularly The Return of the King, but considered as a whole it very much delivered what I wanted, and the experience of seeing that first film in the cinema was absolutely fantastic.
I await Amazon's The Rings of Power with considerably more trepidation. I really want it to be a success, because although I've never been in Tolkien fandom very deeply, I have been a Tolkien fan since I first read the novels in middle school. There is no question but that I'll sign up to Amazon Prime for it, at least for the first series, because I can't possibly see what it is like for myself. But as for what it will be like? I feel like I have no expectations, and that in itself is a bit disappointing. It's being done by two blokes with no track record who have been handed a lot of money (one day women might get to do this, but no time soon, it seems). I think the second age could be interesting, Numenor has a lot of potential, I have mixed feelings about what sounds like massive time compression, I have no problem with actually showing Galadriel crossing the ice (is that going to be a flashback or a prologue? Because if not then they are compressing absolutely everything). It will probably be at least a decent first series. The problem is that I want it to be really good, and I can't help fearing it may lose what makes Tolkien special to me in favour of generic fantasy.
Anyway, here is the trailer.
While I'm on the subject, will anyone, ever, do a Luthien ballet? It is madness there hasn't been one, I can only assume that the estate wants more for the rights than a ballet company could ever manage.
I await Amazon's The Rings of Power with considerably more trepidation. I really want it to be a success, because although I've never been in Tolkien fandom very deeply, I have been a Tolkien fan since I first read the novels in middle school. There is no question but that I'll sign up to Amazon Prime for it, at least for the first series, because I can't possibly see what it is like for myself. But as for what it will be like? I feel like I have no expectations, and that in itself is a bit disappointing. It's being done by two blokes with no track record who have been handed a lot of money (one day women might get to do this, but no time soon, it seems). I think the second age could be interesting, Numenor has a lot of potential, I have mixed feelings about what sounds like massive time compression, I have no problem with actually showing Galadriel crossing the ice (is that going to be a flashback or a prologue? Because if not then they are compressing absolutely everything). It will probably be at least a decent first series. The problem is that I want it to be really good, and I can't help fearing it may lose what makes Tolkien special to me in favour of generic fantasy.
Anyway, here is the trailer.
While I'm on the subject, will anyone, ever, do a Luthien ballet? It is madness there hasn't been one, I can only assume that the estate wants more for the rights than a ballet company could ever manage.