Amazon's THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER (2022) 5 5

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[Cat]

I just hope we don't have the candy, overly-CGIed look of the Hobbit films. I'll never get over the scene with the one in the barrel, and his arms and legs break through, and we begin watching a literal cartoon. 

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[fantastic_four]

On 2/12/2022 at 6:49 AM, Bosco685 said:

Wow, didn't realize Tormund Giantsbane was in this.  

[fantastic_four]

Or wait, is that dwarf supposed to be a young Balin?

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[bentbryan]

On 2/14/2022 at 10:04 AM, fantastic_four said:

Or wait, is that dwarf supposed to be a young Balin?

I had thought the same thing and checked IMDB but couldn’t find an answer there as most of cast members don’t have character names listed yet. I’m leaning towards ‘no’ as I think it’s set farther back than dwarves live and Elrond looks really young in trailer/ pic. 

Edited February 14, 2022 by bentbryan

[Bosco685]

Trailer looks sharp

[chrisco37]

The trailer during the Super Bowl looked great.  

[ThothAmon]

Looking forward to seeing this. Tolkien’s middle earth of the second age was certainly a more diverse place than Bilbo’s middle earth. 

[kimik]

The trailer looked great. The only comment from my kids was that they hope it has better CGI than the Hobbit.  

 that the series is at the same level of production quality of what Amazon has done with other series. 

[media_junkie]

On 2/14/2022 at 10:09 AM, bentbryan said:

I had thought the same thing and checked IMDB but couldn’t find an answer there as most of cast members don’t have character names listed yet. I’m leaning towards ‘no’ as I think it’s set farther back than dwarves live and Elrond looks really young in trailer/ pic. 

Yeah Tolkien dwarves live roughly 250 years, no way that is Balin if this is set " thousands of years" before the fellowship.

[fantastic_four]

On 2/14/2022 at 1:46 PM, media_junkie said:

Yeah Tolkien dwarves live roughly 250 years, no way that is Balin if this is set " thousands of years" before the fellowship.

I hypothesized that realizing I didn't know when this is set nor how long dwarves live, but you answered both so thanks.    All I knew was he looked familiar, so I guess it IS Tormund.  

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[AnthonyTheAbyss]

There's no reason for me to be worried about how good this show will be but the Hobbit trilogy and Game Of Thrones season 8 makes me doubt everything.  Having said that, the trailer looks fantastic.  I really do enjoy Tolkien's stories that took place before the hobbits.

 

***Please tell the story of the Blue Wizards

[theCapraAegagrus]

I don't want Amazon Prime.

[kagenish]

On 2/12/2022 at 8:45 AM, Mecha_Fantastic said:

I just hope we don't have the candy, overly-CGIed look of the Hobbit films. I'll never get over the scene with the one in the barrel, and his arms and legs break through, and we begin watching a literal cartoon. 

Yeah, blame most of it to WB for not given Peter Jackson time after losing del Toro. I still think we would have gotten 3 movies but they would have been a whole lot better movies than those CGI heavy movies. 

[RickSp]

Not sure if this has been answered already but is this series meant to exist in the same world as Jackson’s trilogy? So even though it’s set thousands of years earlier are they linked in any way?