They decided to do a live-action version of the Rankin-Bass animated Tolkien features, not a remake the Peter Jackson ones.
Where there's a whip, there's a way...
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
Amazon Making a LOTR Universe Show (Prequel)
- 13/11/2017 08:17:44 PM
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Sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.
- 13/11/2017 08:51:39 PM
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What would you have them make instead?
- 13/11/2017 11:47:34 PM
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Uh, nothing, I guess? They've made movies of everything they could, and way too soon for remakes. *NM*
- 14/11/2017 06:37:41 PM
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This is illogical.
- 14/11/2017 06:43:11 PM
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Quotes from the best episode of stargate
- 14/11/2017 06:57:10 PM
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Apparently I am ruled less by fear than either of you.
- 14/11/2017 06:59:29 PM
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But that's how I see it. *NM*
So not looking forward to this
- 13/11/2017 09:11:32 PM
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It's a business. And businesses are inherently conservative about gambling.
- 13/11/2017 11:49:01 PM
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Yes there is some logic to it.
- 13/11/2017 11:57:04 PM
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Chances are good.
- 14/11/2017 12:23:08 PM
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The GOT tv show will still be there in a decade or so
- 14/11/2017 05:29:43 PM
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But by then you will be spoiled on how it ends.
- 14/11/2017 05:33:15 PM
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I didn't think it would end this way. / End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another
- 14/11/2017 06:49:38 PM
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You're starting to become Joel-like in the length of your replies.
- 14/11/2017 07:01:24 PM
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Sorry I get quotey when I get sentimental
- 14/11/2017 07:26:03 PM
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Nothing wrong with sentiment.
- 14/11/2017 07:35:01 PM
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Threadjacks in order to produce flexibility. American Gods 2017 next? Or should I wait and watch
- 14/11/2017 07:44:04 PM
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Oh gods. I had to stop watching that.
- 14/11/2017 08:28:39 PM
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I pulled a damookster. 
- 14/11/2017 08:28:40 PM
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- 14/11/2017 08:28:40 PM
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*NM*
Clips your Mookie card, only 7 more Mookies till you get a free Sub Sandwhich
- 14/11/2017 10:02:39 PM
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A Mook sandwich would be tastier.
- 14/11/2017 10:05:24 PM
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*NM*
Shame
- 14/11/2017 07:34:25 PM
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Literatedog likes it too.
- 14/11/2017 07:36:49 PM
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Evan Rachel Wood gets even better the further into the story you get
- 14/11/2017 07:41:31 PM
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I'm worried that they said Frodo is coming back
- 13/11/2017 09:37:49 PM
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I haven't seen anything about Frodo.
- 13/11/2017 11:49:50 PM
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The first paragraph of the article you linked
- 14/11/2017 02:04:13 AM
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Yeah, I see that now. Sloppy journalism.
- 14/11/2017 12:20:32 PM
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I was assuming they will ignore the Peter Jackson story line and cast
- 14/11/2017 03:30:12 PM
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Nooo
- 14/11/2017 06:26:01 PM
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there really isn't a scenario that doesn't have high a likelyhood of sucking
- 15/11/2017 03:14:46 AM
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You could go with Turin Turamber, And Beren and Luthien. *NM*
- 15/11/2017 02:34:16 PM
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Beren and Luthien would be great
- 15/11/2017 04:31:33 PM
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Also, if the network wants to go wild with Trump stand-ins they could do Numenor 
*NM*
- 15/11/2017 02:44:58 PM
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*NM*
- 15/11/2017 02:44:58 PM
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In related news, I shouted at the movie screen when a Black Panther preview came on
- 13/11/2017 11:57:58 PM
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possible theme music
- 14/11/2017 07:34:26 PM
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I feel I should know this.
- 14/11/2017 10:06:09 PM
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You got it
- 14/11/2017 11:39:46 PM
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Whether you're a goblin or whether you're a hobbit you're tired of the rings, tired of the rings *NM*
- 15/11/2017 04:27:12 AM
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I heard it was going to be a musical
- 14/11/2017 10:28:28 PM
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I really do love that version of ROTK.
- 14/11/2017 10:53:50 PM
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It's a guilty pleasure, isn't it?
- 15/11/2017 04:25:23 AM
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I have no guilt. I'm done with guilt over what I do like and don't like!
- 15/11/2017 01:12:50 PM
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I have to admit to being worried.
- 15/11/2017 08:46:57 AM
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I think we all are. We have been with these characters for decades.
- 15/11/2017 01:15:12 PM
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Everything I hgave seen says a LOTR not a Hobbit prequel so I don't think you will get any first age
- 15/11/2017 02:42:50 PM
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Well, The Hobbit is a prequel.
- 15/11/2017 04:33:03 PM
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It's not really a prequel if it was written before the thing it's a prequel to, is it? *NM*
- 17/11/2017 04:19:35 AM
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I wish they'd make a Pern series instead.
- 15/11/2017 03:33:46 PM
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A Temeraire series would seem easier to sell then "the main enemy is mindless space fungus". *NM*
- 16/11/2017 06:28:12 AM
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