It would be little more then a cosmetic skin though...
Dunstan Send a noteboard - 09/03/2019 07:34:47 AM
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"oh, but Sauron's rise to power" and all that. Only... That's basically it as far as canon goes. He "rose to power" and such... Things are just kind of quickly summarized as "having happened". Meaning that any show based on that time are basically going to end up as 95% fanfic, with 5% Tolkien garnish.
Enough happened in those years that we have the outline for those 3000 years. So we then have enough to infill. And it will probably end up being glorious.
I mean, a lot of the vague outline of events in question, happened over the course of decades from each other.
This isn't no fudging how long Frodo had the Ring. This is the Second Age being a few hundred years long, simply so a series would actually have more then one or two "canon" things to even DO.
It's not that it is impossible for the series to be good. It's just... With them basically having to start from the ground up as far as the story goes, I wouldn't get your hopes too high.
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- 08/03/2019 08:29:09 PM
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It would be little more then a cosmetic skin though...
- 09/03/2019 07:34:47 AM
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That isn't close to true, if you've read beyond LotR
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Maybe he/she/they haven't read The Silmarilion or Unfinished Tales
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- 09/03/2019 07:08:45 AM
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Yet... It is though.
- 09/03/2019 06:52:45 AM
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Most of it takes place in only one generation, though.
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- 09/03/2019 11:28:28 AM
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Re: At the least they could reverse the character assassination of Isildur
- 11/03/2019 04:07:27 AM
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This is the correct take.