Amazon Is Making a Lord of the Rings Prequel Series

Amazon Is Making a Lord of the Rings Prequel Series

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Amazon announced today that it is making a Lord of the Rings TV series. Although the company’s own press release says the series will “adapt” J.R.R. Tolkien’s novels, that turns out not to be quite the case. Rather, the series, for which Amazon has acquired a “multi-season” commitment from the Tolkien estate and HarperCollins, “will explore new storylines preceding J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring”—and presumably not the same storylines preceding The Fellowship of the Ring that have already been explored in The Hobbit.

Simarillion? As a whole, I don't think it could be a comprehensible series, but portions of it (Beren and Luthien, for example) could make for a nice discrete storyline.

Or, will we just end up with more mindless CGI epic battles with no meaningful character development or plot to connect them?

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